The latest animated addition to the multimedia Type-Moon series, Fate. Fate/Apocrypha is an adaptation of the light novel written by Yuuichirou Higashide, which was supervised by Fate/stay night's author, Kinoko Nasu. You don't really need any prior knowledge other than the premise of Servants and Masters, as it is its own story. An important difference compared to previous Fate anime, Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works, is that studio Ufotable isn't working on this one. Fate/Apocrypha is animated by A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Granblue Fantasy The Animation), but at the very least, you should expect cool fights between ancient heroes once again.
Staff:
Director: Yoshiyuki Asai
Character designer: Yukei Yamada
Action director: Shun Enokido, Takahito Sakazume
Theme Song Performance (OP): EGOIST
Synopsis from the Type-Moon wiki:
The setting of Fate/Apocrypha is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the group that plundered the Grail, Yggdmillennia, openly declares their secession from the Mage's Association and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.
This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, featuring two different factions, the Black Faction, whose members are part of Yggdramillennia, and the Red Faction, whose members were sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the Church. The Grail itself also summons Ruler to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War.
Important Characters:
Sieg
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Kaneki Ken in Tokyo Ghoul, Takumi Aldini in Food Wars)
Ruler, Jeanne d'Arc
Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (Shinobu in the Monogatari Series, Motoko in Ghost in the Shell: Arise)
Saber of Red, Mordred
Voiced by: Miyuki Kawashiro (Suruga in the Monogatari Series, Rita in Rage of Bahamut)
Rider of Black, Astolfo
Voiced by: Rumi Ookubo (Nona in Death Parade, Chinatsu in Yuru Yuri)
And many more...
The series airs Sundays at 00:00 (JST) on Japan and it's 25 episodes. The streaming rights belong to Netflix and its policy is to release a series after its broadcast, so people outside of Japan will likely have to wait for a few months in order to watch Fate/Apocrypha legally.
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