Fate/stay night

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Synonyms: Fate - Stay Night
Japanese: Fate/stay night
English: Fate/stay night
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Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 7, 2006 to Jun 17, 2006
Premiered: Winter 2006
Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:30 (JST)
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Visual novel
Genres: ActionAction, FantasyFantasy, RomanceRomance
Theme: Urban FantasyUrban Fantasy
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.271 (scored by 534122534,122 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #30112
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #186
Members: 978,684
Favorites: 7,458

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Synopsis

After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice.

One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber. The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself.

Fate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. Will the boy become a hero like his foster father, or die trying?

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Background

Fate/stay night is based on the first route of Type-Moon's visual novel of the same title, with elements from the second and third route combined in. Originally released in 2004 for Microsoft Windows, the visual novel later received an enhanced port―titled Fate/stay night: Réalta Nua―for the PS2 in 2007, the PS Vita in 2012, and Android and iOS in 2015.

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1: "disillusion" by Tainaka Sachi (eps 1-14)
2: "Kirameku Namida wa Hoshi ni (きらめく涙は星に)" by Tainaka Sachi (eps 15-23)
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Ending Theme

1: "Anata ga Ita Mori (あなたがいた森)" by Jyukai (eps 1-13,15-23)
2: "Hikari (ヒカリ)" by Jyukai (eps 14)
3: "Kimi to no Ashita (君との明日)" by Tainaka Sachi (eps 24)

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May 28, 2025
This is not bad, but it still pisses me off that Anime Only's will never get the true experience of the Fate/Saber route. It does a better job with the tender and funny moments than the Ufotable stuff does, but the action parts have moments that are so embarrassing that it's no wonder people say not to watch this adaptation. If you've already had the original experience of the visual novel, those parts will just make you laugh, but I imagine with no original context you'll just think "This is the masterpiece everyone talks about?? What are these motherfuckers smoking???".

Regardless, if you HAVE read ...
May 11, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Average as an anime, shit as an adaptation. If you wanna experience the Fate Series just go play Grand Order or read the Visual Novel, this latter option being a 10/10.

I dont think that watching this, you will sense even a 20% of what Stay Night's Fate Route truly is.

Besides, Gilgamesh ind this adaptation is trash and the use of Kirei in the animation and story is just trash, i dont either recommend watching this if you want a philosophy anime or an fighting anime, you will be dissappointed.

The visual novel engages themes like philosophy and psicology hardly, so if you like those themes, ...
Dec 31, 2024
I took the chronological order to watch and saw it right after fate zero. I liked some things like the final episode and the romance of the protagonists but keep in mind that it is a much inferior anime compared to the other routes, where in addition to the animation being rotten, a lot of rules seem to be invented and they are rules that break the logical sense of those that had already been established. I kept thinking while watching the route after this "Umlimeted Blade works" that this had served for me to already have a certain connection with the character, but the ...

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