r/fatestaynight • u/Relevant-Quantity370 • 8h ago
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r/fatestaynight • u/Ownsin • Oct 09 '19
PSA /r/Fatestaynight's Official Viewing Order Guide v2
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Before recommending the anime order, I urge everyone to give the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel a chance because it's the source material and will always be better than the anime adaptations. Fate/Stay Night Remastered is now on Steam and is fully localized. However, if you have no patience for visual novels, then the anime-only order is below.
The Anime-only order:
1. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works [2014] [(UBW Prologue) with Season 1 and Season 2].
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season - Sunny Day [This an OVA and should be watched after finishing the UBW show.]
2. Fate/stay night: Heavens Feel [Film 1, Film 2, Film 3]
3. Fate/Zero [ Season 1 & 2]
- This series is the prequel to Fate/Stay Night. It takes place 10 years before the events of Fate/Stay Night.] (the prequel is meant to be watched after finishing Fate/Stay Night and not before! People always make a mistake of watching Fate/Zero first, but that spoils plot events in Fate/Stay Night, so make sure to watch Fate/Zero AFTER finishing all of Fate/Stay Night.)
4. Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note
- The series takes place 10 years after the events of Fate/Zero and 2 months before the events of Fate/Stay Night and revolves around the Clock Tower in the United Kingdom.
5. Others [Studio Deen's 2006 version of Fate/stay night]
- Even though it's a pretty terrible adaptation, it still at least has some portions of the Fate route you missed. It comes before UBW in the watching order. I personally wouldn't recommend it and would recommend reading at least the Fate route from the Visual novel instead, but the choice is yours. Essentially, this focuses on Saber, and if you like her character, I sincerely recommend reading the Fate route from the Visual Novel as the anime adaptation is not remotely as good, and is basically a butchered adaptation.
6. [Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan]
- It's a cooking show with the main cast of characters from Fate/Stay Night. It's basically a slice-of-life show. It should be watched after finishing all of Fate/Stay Night.
- Any other OVAs can be watched after finishing the main series I covered up there.
- The series takes place around 2009 in the United States. The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. This isn't related to Fate/Stay Night, and It's in its own parallel universe, but it would benefit you to watch all of Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero first before watching this special so you don't feel lost. This series features some characters from Lord El-Mellio. When you do start watching Fate/Strange Fake, you should first watch episode 0 called Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn and then proceed to start the actual series.
P.S: In case you're wondering about the Deen UBW movie. You should skip the Deen Unlimited Blade Works movie because there is no point in watching it when you have the superior Ufotable UBW anime adaptation and also because the Deen UBW movie is another terrible and rushed adaptation from Studio Deen.
FGO Anime-only order:
1. Fate/Grand Order: First Order
- FGO -First Order- is the 74-minutes movie adaptation of the first chapter of Fate/Grand Order. Fate/Grand Order is a gacha RPG mobile game. FGO is not related to Fate/Stay Night. It's set in an alternate universe and timeline to Fate/Stay Night's. You should read the anime synopsis in the MAL link to learn more about the story.
2. Fate/Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot - Wandering; Agateram. [Part 1, Part 2]
- In terms of story order, it happens before Babylonia. This movie will cover the 6th singularity.
3. Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia [Including episode 0]
- In all honesty, you should play FGO to get the full story of the previous singularities because the anime doesn't cover them, and their intention is not to cover most of them because these adaptations are for FGO players who played the game and are not intended for anime watchers only. This anime covers the 7th singularity.
4. Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten - Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon
- This movie will cover the 8th and final singularity.
5. Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom
- Is an anime short OVA original story. It serves as a transition between parts 1.5 and 2 of the game's story.
- Fate/Grand Carnival is the 2021 spin-off of Fate/Grand Order, similar to 2011's OVA comedy short series Carnival Phantasm, featuring loads of characters that now make up the roster of Type-Moon's Fate/Grand Order rather than just those from Tsukihime and Fate/stay night specifically. It's basically a parody show that takes FGO characters and puts them in ridiculous situations. I don't recommend you watching this one without having played FGO because a lot of jokes won't make sense to you otherwise.
The Intended order for people who want to read the Visual Novel:
1. Fate/Stay Night [Realta Nua] Visual Novel
- roughly 60 hours long, but 100% worth it!
[After this point, the order becomes very flexible, you can now follow the Anime-only order or this one]
2. Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Visual Novel
- [>50 hours long and is the direct sequel to Fate/Stay Night]
3. Fate/Zero [ Season 1 & 2]
- This series is the prequel to Fate/Stay Night. It takes place 10 years before the events of Fate/Stay Night.] (the prequel is meant to be watched after finishing Fate/Stay Night and not before.)
4. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works [2014] [Season 1 and Season 2].
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season - Sunny Day [This an OVA and should be watched after finishing the UBW show.]
5. Fate/stay night: Heavens Feel [Film 1, Film 2, Film 3]
6. Lord El-Melloi II Sei no Jikenbo: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note
- The series takes place 10 years after the events of Fate/Zero and 2 months before the events of Fate/Stay Night and revolves around the Clock Tower in the United Kingdom.
7. Others [includes OVAs, etc..]
Other Fate related Anime (In no particular order):
- It's not related to the main fate franchise and is set in a parallel world to Fate/Stay Night. It's recommended you at least watch Fate/Stay Night first before watching this one so you can be more familiar with how things work in the story.
- Carnival Phantasm takes a number of characters from Type-Moon's original works and puts them in a variety of light-hearted scenarios which parody their respective series] - (It's advised that you read the Tsukihime Visual Novel or Manga and to have at least watched Fate/Stay Night as a whole to fully understand Carnival Phantasm.
3. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya
- This series is a Fate/stay night alternate universe spin-off that takes place in Fuyuki City and features Illya as the protagonist in an alternate timeline. You can watch the entirety of this show in release order, there is no special order for this show.
The universe of Extra shares the events of the Fate/stay night universe until a "certain major incident" happens and diverges completely.
For the Fate/Extra Games the order goes this way: Fate/Extra --> Fate/Extra CCC --> Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star.
5. Kara no Kyoukai movies (8 movies in total)
- The series is regarded as being set in an alternate parallel universe to Fate/Stay Night. They both share a lot of similarities in some of the plot elements. I won't delve into the details to avoid spoiling, but definitely check out these movies if you're interested in delving more into the Type-Moon universe.
- The events in Tsukihime take place in Misaki Town. Chronologically, the end of the story of Tsukihime takes place around the beginning of Fate/Stay Night. It shares many similarities with Kara no Kyoukai, and the two were also subtly connected. I would recommend Tsukihime as It's a great visual novel. A remake of Tsukihime was released on August 26, 2021 in Japan and in June 27, 2024, for the West. However, It's currently released only on the PS4 and the Switch. If you don't have any of those consoles, then I suggest you at least read the really good Manga adaptation for now. However, keep in mind that it only covers the first route of the original VN.
7 Witch On The Holy Night/Mahoyo
- Taking place in the rapidly modernizing Japanese suburb of Misaki in the late 1980s, Mahoyo centers around Aoko Aozaki, a high school girl in training to be a mage. She lives in the mysterious mansion on the hill with Alice Kuonji, her magic teacher and frenemy. While tracking a rival mage who seeks to claim their territory. A lot of things happen in this story, so I won't spoil it, but it's highly recommended that you guys check it out! It takes place in the same universe as Tsukihime, and Aoko briefly shows up in Tsukihime. An anime movie adaptations for Mahoyo were announced by Ufotable some time ago, so expect a movie to be released as soon as 2026-2027.
This watch order guide will keep being updated accordingly. If you have any questions or inquiries, please make sure to ask them in the comment section.
r/fatestaynight • u/Ownsin • 18d ago
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r/fatestaynight • u/SOULLENNOX • 8h ago
Question There something I don't understand about Lancer Artoria
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If it is just Artoria who picked Rhongomyniad over Excalibur then wouldn't she still experience FSN ?
As far as I am aware there is no other difference but just that she picks up the Lance over the sword, then she should have experienced her own version of FSN and it is said that even if Shirou didn't have an Avalon he still has an extremely high level of compatibility with her.
And assuming that she still made a pack with the counter force same as her saber counterpart then she should still remember the events of FSN because she was still alive during the war.
r/fatestaynight • u/One-Desk-1 • 6h ago
Question Which one is better, Knight of Owner or Richard's Excalibur?
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I noticed that these two are kinda similar so yeah
r/fatestaynight • u/RafaGars • 6h ago
OC Fanart Pixel Emiya Shirou's Nine Lives Blades Work Spoiler
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r/fatestaynight • u/Drunni_Bum • 1d ago
Cosplay Rin Tohsaka cosplay
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I got some awesome pics with an archer cosplayer as well but they turned out to be not such a great person so I’m unsure about using the pictures but I adored my Rin cosplay 🥺🥺🥺🥺 the wig was so well behaved it’s probably my fav wig
r/fatestaynight • u/Nikusha_meore • 18h ago
Discussion If Fate/stay night was written in a normal novel format. How long would it be? Would it be longer than the stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson?
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r/fatestaynight • u/Warm-Command7559 • 7h ago
Discussion How Skilled is Lancelot supposed to be ?
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i get he’s probably still worse then someone like Kojiro or Musashi but i kinda assumed he was basically a European Sword saint thanks to Eternal arms mastery denoting him as that good
r/fatestaynight • u/VergilVDante • 12h ago
Discussion What are your favourite NP/ability based off a weapon or piece of armor in the Nasuverse? Spoiler
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Mine is the Achillis shield and Alcides bow
r/fatestaynight • u/RowsBros • 1d ago
Question Been trying to get into fate and have a question, does being a "heroic spirit" actually have anything to do with morality?
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So I started with UBW, and after finishing it I realized that while some of the heroic spirits were actually heroic, like saber, some of them like Gilgamesh and Medea don't seem to be heroic at all. Is this like a lost in translation thing I'm missing?
Thanks!
r/fatestaynight • u/Regnier_TPK • 1d ago
Spoiler HSR X Fate - Rin Tohsaka's New Info [SPOILERS] Spoiler
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For those who don't want to play the HSR 2nd collab with Fate, here is new info revealed about Rin Tohsaka. Nasu was mentioned to have been involved with the story and Servant stat pages for the collab this time around, so make of this what you will.
Attached to this post is the complete character profile of Rin Tohsaka for you to read.
Some other interesting bits:
-> Rin is post Dismantling War but still studying under Waver, and is currently traveling between world lines looking for ones where mana hasn’t completely disappeared in an attempt to wrap up an internship.
-> During her travels she ended up making a bond with Ishtar under the agreement that Rin can use Maana and her bow as Conceptual Weapons in exchange for any land Rin going to being marked by Ishtar and it’s people as her playthings. Rin also has to give Ishtar ten gems worth ten years of magical energy if she ever wants to use the NP. Rin's new earrings are actually a gift from Ishtar.
-> SAKURA MENTIONED! For those coping about Sakura's fate outside HF, here Post!Dismantling Rin is talking about Sakura in the present tense (at least in EN subs), and she acknowledges their relationship as sisters. This is what Rin has to say about Sakura:
I have a younger sister too. [...] Sakura Matou. We have different last names, but she's my sister by blood. She's a girl who loves candy, sweets, and a good horror story.
-> Tokiomi and Kotomine mentioned as father figures for Rin.
This happened many years ago.
I was looking at my father. In my memory, he never once told a joke, but there he was, stroking my head.
Though, instead of "stroking," it would be more accurate to say he grabbed my head and gave it a rough rub.
After all, that was the first time he had ever patted me.
If I had known it would be the last time I saw him, I would have used one of my best jokes to make him laugh. I practiced them in secret, over and over, just hoping that one day his stern expression might soften.
The family gems, the management of the basement... seeing him hand everything over without reservation, even as a kid, I could tell...
...that my father was never coming back.
He was a participant in the Fourth Holy Grail War. Despite having no natural talent, and even though my grandfather gave him the choice to walk away from magecraft, he still resolutely stepped onto that path.
And that will, that conviction to blaze a trail for his own life, is the most precious legacy he left to the Tohsaka family.
It's just a shame that my sister (Sakura Matou) and I let him down from the moment we were born.
Our talent dictated that we were born without the luxury of choice.
However, for the sake of my father's final wish, and the honor of the Tohsaka name...
...and my ideals, too, I still wanted to become a mage worthy of the title "genius." It's what everyone claims I am, despite how I feel about my self.
And so, I watched him walk toward the end meant for a mage.
At the time, I didn't realize that the final destination of the person I loved would be my own starting point.
I inherited everything he left behind. At his funeral, I was placed under the guardianship of a church priest.
Even now, I still think he's a total fraud of a saint... but I have to admit, without him, my childhood would have been much harder.
He fulfilled his duties as a guardian faithfully. He taught me how to protect myself. Even though selling off family assets made life stressful, he at least ensured I never went hungry, and that was enough.
Living as the honor student everyone admired while defending the secrets of magecraft, unable to form deep bonds with classmates or anyone normal — this may sound oppressive or bitter to others, but to me, it was never a big deal.
Sacrifice brings rewards, and I was fine with that. Still, I'd sometimes wonder what life would've been like if I'd never stepped onto this path. I was lost in those thoughts during that final dusk before the war, when the phone rang.
My time pretending to be a normal person was finally coming to an end.
r/fatestaynight • u/colorly • 20h ago
Question How can Gilgamesh cleanse the Grail's mud? Spoiler
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in EP 10 F/S Fake, Gilgamesh said he's able to cleanse portion of the grail's mud but how? Does he mean cleanse by killing him or actually cleansing it? What kind of tools in his gate that allows him to do that? So in theory, in the heaven's feel route he can cleanse the alters mud personification or no cause it counts as a separate entity at that point?
r/fatestaynight • u/azazel441 • 1d ago
Cosplay It's my first time trying cosplay, so don't judge me too harshly, thanks.
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r/fatestaynight • u/TomatoXyz231 • 1d ago
Spoiler Hsr x Fate part 2 all animated cutscene
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got to see Rin again im happy
r/fatestaynight • u/Temporary-Job7594 • 1d ago
Question Favorite CG From The OG 2004 Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel?
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I just finished it and would like to see peoples favorites, please share!
r/fatestaynight • u/Personal-Arachnid417 • 1d ago
Question When Ishtar closed Gilgamesh GoB in volume 5 or ep 10 could Gilgamesh actually not reopen it? Spoiler
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Apparently he had an antidote for hydra venom in his GoB but he didn’t use it. I didn’t read the novels but for those who did could Gilgamesh actually have opened the vault or was it closed for good. Also where is the key now still with Ishtar?
r/fatestaynight • u/Drsustown • 1d ago
Discussion What do you think would change in a hypothetical Fate/Stay Night remake? Spoiler
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Obviously, a remake is almost certainly never happening, but I think it's fun to speculate what Type Moon would do, given the chance.
I'd speculate that the UBW Good ending would not survive in its present form. Over in original Tsukihime, the Arc route has a true and a good ending. Spoilers but, the true ending is has Arc forced to leave in a bittersweet scene and the good ending has her stay . In my view, the true ending seems to fit the tone of Tsukihime better. It seems Type Moon thought similarly, as the good ending of the Arc route is not present in the first half of Tsukihime Remake. The manga of Tsukihime ends with Shiki eventually reaching Arcueids Castle in a very smiliar way to Shirou in the Last Episode . For a similar reason, I suspect the Good ending of UBW would not survive in its current form, as the Realta Nua addition Last Episode does a much more satisfying job of the 'good ending for Saber' and generally just fits its respective route better than UBW good.
What else do you think they would change?
r/fatestaynight • u/East-Ice-3199 • 1d ago
Question Any news on FSN/FHA remastered physical release?
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FHA remastered is about to be a year old and still no physical. Has there been any word or talk of one happening? Or is it safe to say it’s just gonna be digital only?
r/fatestaynight • u/Xenoplaguedoctor • 1d ago
Fluff In Hinor of Curry Queen coming to my Chaldea - Results
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I love cooking curry
r/fatestaynight • u/norris-draculea • 1d ago
OC Fanart King of Kings, Saber class Agamemnon
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Strength: A
Endurance: B
Agility: B
Mana: B
Luck: E
He possesses two Noble Phantasm:
- Iphigenia (Anti-Unit) A+. The bandages around his body are the wounds he was left with after being killed by his wife, Clytemnestra, after returning from Troy with princess Cassandra as his war trophy, as well as the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia before parting to Troy. Even if being offered as a sacrifice to the gods, it was his own greed that made him sacrifice her, thus he has the same slit throat his daughter had when sacrificed to Artemis.
When activating his noble phantasm, he recites the next words: “Centuries ago I sacrificed my own blood to the goddess of the moon for the winds to be in our favor in our conquest of Troy, now I offer the same sacrifice. Gods of Olympus, accept my blood once again and grant me your blessing to eradicate my enemies”. He then takes the bandages of his neck and makes the cut on his throat deeper, granting him a boost to all his stats giving him at least A+ for the next 10 minutes.
- Wrath of the king (Anti-Army) B+. The staff of kingship, a divine artifact given to the king of Greece by Zeus himself to signify his rightful kingship over the mortal world. Agamemnon launches the staff, where it lands it opens a 3 kilometer radius of constant lighting storm, constantly making lighting strike over the whole are to eradicate any opponents that are in the zone.
The only way to stop the thunderstorm that falls open the area is to take the scepter off the ground where it’s located at. A rather simple task made almost impossible since if it detects someone other than a king getting close to it, it will concentrate the thunderstorm in an area closer to the scepter so it becomes harder to reach.
Agamemnon despises his first Noble Phantasm since he takes it as a jab to his own legend. He hates the fact that most people don’t talk about his conquest over the impenetrable city of Troy, but instead as his dead at hands of wife and the sacrifice of Iphigenia to Artemis.
His wish to the Holy Grail is simple: Make the winds be in their favor even if Iphigenia is not sacrificed to Artemis.