Fate/Zero
Anime Like Psycho-Pass if You’re Looking for Something Similar
Is there truly a way to save the world? Can one save a person without doing wrong by another? Can good be done without making sacrifices? These and many more questions are posited by Urobuchi in Fate/Zero, a prequel to the popular Fate/Stay Night series that tells the story of the preceding Holy Grail War. Offering the victor the chance to make any one wish a reality, it draws in competitors of all backgrounds and ambitions, each determined to do whatever they must to win. This, of course, opens up the flood gates for all manner of dirty dealings. Starting with occult rituals that leave their subjects crippled and deranged and building from there, the series only goes further off the rails with each new encounter between all powerful heroes of old and their masters, clashing with steel just as often as they do with their philosophies. It’s dark in tone and steeped in moral shades of gray, but it’s the kind of series you can’t help walking away from with something to think about.
