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''Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia'' is a 21-episode anime based on the "Babylonia" chapter from the mobile game ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. It is produced by [=CloverWorks=], former sub-studio of Creator/A1Pictures (''Literature/FateApocrypha''), and began airing on October 5, 2019. Episode 0, a prologue to the main story, premiered on August 4, 2019 via the ''Fate/Grand Order'' game app in Japan. Aniplex licensed the episode for North American territories through [[https://www.funimationnow.com/ FunimationNow]], and for Australia and New Zealand through [[https://www.animelab.com/shows/fategrand-order---absolute-demonic-front-babylonia AnimeLab]].

** Surprisingly, the fact that Fujimaru can't use other Servant characters aside from Mash. In-story, the Age of Gods is difficult for Chaldea to observe, let alone operate, which is why Servants can't Rayshift to fight alongside Mash.

* PhysicalHell: This is the Age of Gods so places like TheUnderworld, domain of the goddess Ereshkigal, exist on Earth and can be reached without the usual method of dying. [[spoiler:Fujimaru ends up in the Underworld after taking a wrong turn in the abandoned town of Kutha, and has to be bailed out by Fou and the First Hassan.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: In general the anime cuts out the various inconsequential fights against the smaller Demonic Beasts the players had to do in the singularity for the story to flow better.

* BoobsOfSteel:
** [[spoiler:Gorgon]] has one of the biggest busts in the game and in the franchise and is a goddess of untold power.
** [[spoiler:The real Tiamat]] has an enormous bust and is the strongest god in the show.

* CruelToBeKind: What [[spoiler: Gorgon pulls on Fujimaru and Mash when she reappears to fight Tiamat, claiming in a ContraltoOfDanger pitch that they're in her way and she wasn't doing it for them. She rightly berates both Mash for barely being able to lift her shield up and Fujimaru's body nearly breaking down due to using so much of his mana, and so tells them to leave. Mash is disappointed, but Fujimaru understands that Gorgon--Ana--didn't want them to see her current form, later indicated by her more gentler voice and bidding them farewell.]]

''Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia'' is a 21-episode anime based on the "Babylonia" chapter from the mobile game ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. It is produced by [=CloverWorks=], former sub-studio of Creator/A1Pictures (''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''), and began airing on October 5, 2019. Episode 0, a prologue to the main story, premiered on August 4, 2019 via the ''Fate/Grand Order'' game app in Japan. Aniplex licensed the episode for North American territories through [[https://www.funimationnow.com/ FunimationNow]], and for Australia and New Zealand through [[https://www.animelab.com/shows/fategrand-order---absolute-demonic-front-babylonia AnimeLab]].

** The anime shows Enkidu's death from ''Fate'''s take on ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', which the ''Grand Order'' game didn't do.[[note]]''VideoGame/FateExtraCCC'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero'' both showed Enkidu's death, albeit contradictory accounts of it, but ''Grand Order'' never did so it still counts as AdaptationExpansion.[[/note]]

** In ''LightNovel/FateZero,'' when Aŋra Mainiiu asks Gilgamesh "who will bear the burden of all the world's evils," Gilgamesh answers as king, it is his duty to bear the burden of the world. [[spoiler:Ereshkigal has similar sentiments, saying that it is the gods' duty to bear the blame for humanity's suffering. She cannot accept that Gilgamesh encouraged the separation of the mortal and divine, leaving the gods and Ereshkigal herself behind as humanity continues progressing.]]

*** His arrogance/sense of superiority: In [[LightNovel/FateZero previous]] [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight appearances]], Gilgamesh is quite unbearably proud and in-your-face in demonstrating his superiority. Here, he lets his actions and capabilities speak for himself. Furthermore, whereas he always goes into a fight expecting to win/be superior, here he fights about as good as his opponents deserve--commenting only on whether they are useful or not.

** Episode 8 features [[spoiler:Kingu saying the Chaos Tide is also known as the mud of the Holy Grail, referring to the corrupted Holy Grail that existed in Fuyuki during ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero''.]]

** [[spoiler:First Hassan giving Tiamat a concept of death in episode 20 is shown as the lines of death being grafted on her body.]] Calling back to the wider Nasuverse where the [[spoiler:lines of death]] are a big part of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Much like [[LightNovel/FateZero Iskandar]] shown before him (and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation unlike in-game]]), Leonidas is shown to summon wraith-like versions of his 300 Spartan compatriots in Thermopylae. They could, as a collective, throw spears to damage the opponent (albeit Leonidas's is the strongest throw), and is the key component of ''Thermopylae Enomotia'': rendering their 300+ shields as a curtain-wall of defense that, depending on the opponent, can function much like [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rho Aias]].

* BenevolentMageRuler: Downplayed. Gilgamesh is specced as a Caster in this story, but his use of "magic" consists of pulling magical wands and artifacts out of the Gate of Babylon. Even still, he's the highly capable and benevolent ruler of Uruk who has kept it standing for the past six months and enjoys a HundredPercentAdorationRating among his subjects.

* AnAxeToGrind:
** Gilgamesh pulls out a giant golden axe when [[spoiler:battling "Enkidu" in Episode 5]]. In addition to be an all-around powerful weapon that he swings around with ease and skill despite being a Caster, it also possesses homing properties that let him fling it at anything he desires before having it return to him.
** The Axe of Marduk is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the axe used by Marduk]] to slay Tiamat in the frachise version of the myth. As a result, Gilgamesh enlists Chaldea to retrieve it in order to use it against [[spoiler:Tiamat-Gorgon.]] But there are two issues with this plan: [[spoiler:First, it's as large as an entire temple, making it impossible for one person to carry. Second, it's smack dab in the middle of Quetzalcoatl's territory, forcing the heroes to confront her to get to it.]]

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* CryCute: Ishtar when she's forced to reveal [[spoiler:she lost Gugalanna]].

** [[spoiler: When the First Hassan shows up in the game, he not only shatters Tiamat's wings and forcibly imposes the concept of death on her, he enters the fray against a swarm of Lahmu, who have likely been a constant threat to the player's side in one-on-one fights throughout the second half of the Singularity, and goes through them like a buzzsaw. In the anime, he not only can't fight Tiamat either, but struggles fighting a much smaller number of Lahmu, even being disarmed and forced to dispatch one with his teeth.]]

** Jaguar Warrior is by and far away the silliest character in the story thanks to possessing the wacky personality of Taiga Fujimura cranked UpToEleven. But she's absolutely a FightingClown who easily defeats Mash and Ana and forces them to retreat. She also declares her interest in devouring the entrails of heroes while sending the common folk to be worked to death.

* FightingClown: Jaguarman or Jaguar Warrior in NA is a Divine Spirit strong enough to easily fight and defeat both Mash and Ana which Merlin outright says the current party can't hope to defeat without a god or goddess on their side. Jaguarman is also Fujimura Taiga, with her silliness UpToEleven (she just flat-out ignores gravity for several seconds until she retrieves her weapon), in a silly cat costume.