Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel Film and Fate/stay night details announced

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For a while now, it's been known that ufotable will begin broadcasting their own anime adaptation of Type-Moon's visual novel&nbsp;<em>Fate/stay night</em>&nbsp;this October, following on from the success of their 2011 adaptation of Gen Urobuchi's&nbsp;<em>Fate/Zero</em>&nbsp;light novel prequel series. At an event in Tokyo earlier today, the staff behind the series confirmed a few details about the upcoming series:

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<li>This new series&nbsp;will follow the&nbsp;<em>Unlimited Blade Works</em>&nbsp;route of the original game, which was also adapted into a theatrical feature by Studio DEEN in 2010.</li>
<li>The series will begin broadcasting on 4th October 2014 and like&nbsp;<em>Fate/Zero</em>, will be split into two halves. The second half will begin in April 2015.</li>
<li>The opening theme will be "ideal white" by Mashiro Ayano, while the ending theme will be performed by Kalafina.</li>
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Aniplex have also updated a brand new trailer for the series to their YouTube channel:



They also revealed that a theatrical feature based on <em>Fate/stay night</em>'s "Heaven's Feel" route has also been green-lit. The Heaven's Feel route focuses on Sakura Matoi, who despite not being supposed to enter the Holy Grail War, finds herself being a key player when a relationship with Shiro causes her inner passion and mental restraints to go berserk. A trailer for&nbsp;<em>Fate stay night: Heaven's Feel</em>&nbsp;was also released:



MVM Entertainment released both the original&nbsp;<em>Fate/stay night</em>&nbsp;anime and&nbsp;<em>Fate/Zero</em>&nbsp;in the United Kingdom, while MangaUK released the original&nbsp;<em>Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works</em>&nbsp;movie.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork
 
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I get so excited for anything Fate related.

Time for all the 'I am the bone of my sword' memes to kick into gear again, I suppose...
 
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Two routes getting covered is excellent! I don't think I would have been unhappy either way but I would have liked to follow Saber's route, but that's just because I adore her. The trailers look amazing, I seriously cannot wait for these >.< Also, yay Kalafina :D
 
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PandoraHane said:
Two routes getting covered is excellent! I don't think I would have been unhappy either way but I would have liked to follow Saber's route, but that's just because I adore her. The trailers look amazing, I seriously cannot wait for these >.< Also, yay Kalafina :D
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I'd suspect they had a tricky time on their hands picking a route

Of the three UBW definitely offers the most balanced amount of screen time for the various servants. If they'd gone Fate we'd get very little Archer and basically no Caster and lancer really only gets to shine in UBW.

But skipping HF would of meant missing the overall truth aswell as a few characters unique to that arc, so a movie in addition to the series sounds good.
 
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Dont know how HF will work out unless its a dissapearence of haruhi length though...

But such worries are minor, i'm still squeeing the $£€¥ out over UBW.
 
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@Rosencrantz I definitely agree it was the best decision. I would have hated to have to choose! UBW is the perfect middle ground to show the character's potential. I also think it leads on from Fate/Zero quite nicely, it helped me fill in a few gaps in my knowledge about Rin, and she's a very strong character to follow. I know my sister is delighted with the news :D
 
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PandoraHane said:
@Rosencrantz I definitely agree it was the best decision. I would have hated to have to choose! UBW is the perfect middle ground to show the character's potential. I also think it leads on from Fate/Zero quite nicely, it helped me fill in a few gaps in my knowledge about Rin, and she's a very strong character to follow. I know my sister is delighted with the news :D
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Yes it's a hard choice, especially as it needs to now follow on from Fate/Zero.

Any given route has issues of skipping some characters, and I'd argue they are really meant to be done in order - e.g. a major part of the resolution of HF arc relies on player knowledge of how something works that is explained in UBW but not explained itself in HF.

Though funnily enough Rin actually is the one constant in all the arcs (that's why UBW arc doesn't really feel like her arc per se, as she gets tons of screen time in all VN routes).

Ultimately there's no ideal route, and no route alas that has a good ending for all important characters. That's kinda why I hoped they might do an original arc.
 
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I actually think picking a route was irrelevant (minor argument for specifically not wanting to cover the same ground as the original TV series) - people who care already know, people who don't care will still be able to enjoy it because ufotable are so top tier.
 
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ilmaestro said:
I actually think picking a route was irrelevant (minor argument for specifically not wanting to cover the same ground as the original TV series) - people who care already know, people who don't care will still be able to enjoy it because ufotable are so top tier.
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I'd probably agree if we were starting fresh but there will be a decent % of people who have seen Fate Zero set but not looked into the VN.

If I were approaching it from that angle I'd be asking why Kirei Kotomine featured heavily in Zero but has quite a low level of presence in UBW. It's going to take that HF movie to properly tie up loose ends that Zero has pointed out to people.
 
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Actually I hadn't fully considered the general appeal of Zero outside the pre-existing Fate fanbase, it's a fair point.

But hey, I'm not sure those fangirls care so much about the story anyway. ;)
 
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ilmaestro said:
But hey, I'm not sure those fangirls care so much about the story anyway. ;)
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Well high % of Archer in UBW, should keep them happy. Maybe this is why they finally got round to releasing the figma of him announced 4 years ago.
 
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My introduction to the Fate franchise actually came from Fate/Zero, which I absolutely loved. It was after that that I picked up the original F/SN anime and am intending to look into the original visual novel.
 
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