Winter 2025 Preview: Fate/Strange Fake

Summary

  • A Fate/weird spoof anime to debut on Crunchyroll with an alternate future set in the Fate/Stay Night universe.
  • The series originated as an April Fool's joke and turned into a best-selling 9-volume light novel by Narita.
  • Anime staff includes A-1 Pictures animation, Enokida and Sakazume directing, and Ohigashi as lead writer.



Fate fans are usually impatiently waiting for the New Year's Eve surprises that TYPE-MOON prepares for them. This year they will get the first part of a new anime series, Fate/strange forgerywhich is already confirmed for international streaming on Crunchyroll.

Aniplex already premiered the English-dubbed episode during the Fate 20th Anniversary Showcase in Hollywood in November 2024. The episode was also available for a limited time on Crunchyroll's YouTube channel. for now the length of the series has not yet been announced, but more information will likely be released during New Year's Eve. Before the traditional ones New Year's Eve special fate event, Fate/Stay Nocturnal Heaven's Feel trilogy will begin streaming on Crunchyroll and Hulu starting December 19. This movie takes place in a different timeline than Weird fakebut it's always good to have more Fate content officially available.


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Fate/Strange Fake has the potential to be the best Fate yet

With the first episode officially set for release at the end of the year, we look ahead to the next big story from the Fate Series.

An April Fool's prank that turned into an official series

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What would happen later Fate/Strange Fake he actually was April's prank published on Ryogo Narita (Durarara and Baccano! creator) website in 2008, originally named Fate/States Night (a pun on “stay the night” and “United States”). As the name suggests, it was a parody, featuring a Fate game project that would take place in the USA.

After April 1, the post was withdrawn. But TYPE-MOON enjoyed the joke and later published it as a novel. In 2015, he became Fate/strange forgery light novel series, 9 volumes so far. The story is written by Narita and the illustrations are by Moria Shizuki.

Plot Summary: Alternate Fate/Stay the Night


It started as a joke, but what is this series about? The American organization gathered information during the Third Holy Grail War that happened in 1939 fate/stay the night'with the chronology and then began working on a way to reproduce it.

In 2009, they tried this in a town called Snowfield (but it didn't go as well as planned, allowing the weird challenges to start happening). In this scenario, the (London) Mage's Association sends Langal and Faldeus to investigate Snowfield and this war, but Faldeus is actually a spy from an American organization. The timelines can be confusing, but it's basically the future of the “what if” part. Fate/night stay story.

Fate/Strange Fake Anime Staff


The anime series features a returning cast of Fate/Strange Forge: Whispers of Dawn film. A-1 Pictures animates it again (usually Fate series are animated by Ufotable, but this one is different), p Shun Enokido and Takahito Sakazuma as directors.

For those who haven't seen the movie, Enokido previously directed a music video titled Floral rhapsody and was the animation director on several Fate/Apocrypha episodes. Sakazume made his directorial debut with this series, but had previously worked on series such as Black Clover, Fate/Apocrypha and Fate/Grand Order. Apocrypha is some kind of Weird fake prototype, so it's important that both directors have worked on it and are working hard on it.

Daisuke Ohigashi is a lead writer and his portfolio includes Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 (script and scenario) a Noblesse (script). Legendary composer Hiroyuki Sawano is in charge of the music (Sawan's portfolio is vast, but his latest works include Solo leveling).


Whispers of Dawn Prologue

This year, a prologue with the title Whisper of dawn was televised (in Japan) and streamed (in Japan and internationally). It was supposed to air during the 2023 New Year's Eve event, but was eventually pushed back to July. It was well received by niche audiences and even people who are usually into Fate series.

This prologue probably won't be a must for those who only want to watch the anime series, but it can be a good introduction to the franchise. It is available on Crunchyroll.

Fate/strange forgery
Episode 1 will air on December 31, 2024 in Japan, but fans were able to watch the English dub in November. It will be streaming on Crunchyroll.

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    Fate/Strange Fake

  • Fate/Strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn


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