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Fate/Zero

Also known as Fate/Zero.

Studio: Aniplex , ufotable , Nitroplus , Aniplex of America , Seikaisha , Notes , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

With the promise of granting any wish, the omnipotent Holy Grail triggered three wars in the past, each too cruel and fierce to leave a victor. In spite of that, the wealthy Einzbern family is confident that the Fourth Holy Grail War will be different; namely, with a vessel of the Holy Grail now in their grasp. Solely for this reason, the much hated "Magus Killer" Kiritsugu Emiya is hired by the Einzberns, with marriage to their only daughter Irisviel as binding contract.

Kiritsugu now stands at the center of a cutthroat game of survival, facing off against six other participants, each armed with an ancient familiar, and fueled by unique desires and ideals. Accompanied by his own familiar, Saber, the notorious mercenary soon finds his greatest opponent in Kirei Kotomine, a priest who seeks salvation from the emptiness within himself in pursuit of Kiritsugu.

Based on the light novel written by Gen Urobuchi, Fate/Zero depicts the events of the Fourth Holy Grail War—10 years prior to Fate/stay night. Witness a battle royale in which no one is guaranteed to survive.



Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Battle Royale , Magic , Mythology , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Death Game , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , War , Religion , Assassins , Urban , Gore , Swordplay , Spearplay , Espionage , CGI , Dissociative Identities

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works

Also known as Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works.

Studio: ufotable , Aniplex , Aniplex of America , Notes , Studio Mausu , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

Fuyuki City - a city surrounded by the sea and mountains becomes the setting for an ancient ritual. Seven masters are given control of heroic spirits in order to realize the mythical Holy Grail, which is said to grant its owner any wish. These heroic spirits or servants represent legendary heroes of various classes: "Saber," "Lancer," "Archer," "Rider," "Caster," "Assassin," and "Berserker." Each master will enter into a contract with their chosen servant and battle the others to the death until only one pair remains... This is the "Holy Grail War."

The young and capable mage, Rin Tohsaka, prepares for her long-awaited Fifth Holy Grail War to begin... With her servant Archer, Rin enters the Holy Grail War as the sole heir to the prestigious Tohsaka family after her father's death. But when Shirou Emiya, a boy from Rin's school, unwittingly becomes a Master and is fatally wounded in battle, she has no choice but to save him. With Shirou and his servant Saber, Rin sets out to strike down the conspiracies surrounding the Holy Grail War. Will the Holy Grail bless Rin and Shirou's path toward victory or will they be cursed with defeat?



Notes:
Includes Prologue.
The first, second and last episodes aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.
Based on the second route from TYPE-MOON's visual novel, Fate/stay night.

Tags: Magic , Battle Royale , Death Game , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Mythology , Spearplay , Swordplay , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Philosophy , Urban , Witch , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , War , Archery , School , Revenge , CGI , Time Manipulation , Tanned Skin , Assassins , Kuudere , Tomboy , Samurai , Skeleton , Adoption , Bullying

Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] I. presage flower

Also known as Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] I. presage flower.

Studio: ufotable , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , Notes , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Psychological , Supernatural

10 years after the Holy Grail War—a battle waged by Masters and Servants over the wish-granting container, the Holy Grail—another war breaks out in Fuyuki City. Shirou Emiya—the adopted son of Kiritsugu Emiya, a participant of the previous Holy Grail War—is leading a peaceful life with people dear to him. Especially close to him is his underclassman Sakura Matou, who brings kindness into his otherwise lonely life. But once the Holy Grail War starts, Shirou’s peaceful life is sundered.



Note: Based on the third route from TYPE-MOON's visual novel, Fate/stay night.

Tags: Battle Royale , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Assassins , Mythology , Necromancy , Orphan , Swordplay , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Demons , Male Protagonist , Gore , School , CGI , Super Power , Cosmic Horror , Found Family , Archery , War , Zombie , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Kuudere , Witch , Food , Heterosexual , Spearplay , Religion , Tsundere , Tanned Skin

Boogiepop wa Warawanai

Also known as Boogiepop and Others.

Studio: MADHOUSE , KADOKAWA , Sound Team Don Juan
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they may be suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Denpa , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Crime , Super Power , Conspiracy , Dissociative Identities , Agender , Body Swapping , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Suicide , Gore , Aliens , Drugs , School , Kaiju , Archery

Shingetsutan Tsukihime

Also known as Lunar Legend Tsukihime.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , TBS , Movic , Geneon Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household—his father—dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins.



Tags: Vampire , Super Power , Adoption , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , Gore , Nun , Maids , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Reincarnation , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Twins , Kuudere

Fate/stay night

Also known as Fate/stay night.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Studio DEEN , Frontier Works , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , Notes , CREi
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Raised by a mysterious sorcerer after the death of his parents in a catastrophic fire, Shirou Emiya has only just begun to learn small tidbits of magic. When he is caught in a battle between two powerful Magi, however, he ends up performing a spell above his expected ability, accidentally summoning a beautiful woman knight to protect him.

Shirou is thus unwillingly thrust into the competition known as the Holy Grail War where Seven Magi called Masters, together with their spirit partners called Servants, fight to acquire a powerful artifact said to grant every wish.

Note: Based on the first route from TYPE-MOON's visual novel of the same name, while incorporating elements of both the second and third routes.

Tags: Magic , Battle Royale , Death Game , Urban Fantasy , Mythology , Heterosexual , Spearplay , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Super Power , Witch , Urban , Cohabitation , School , Tsundere , Orphan , Medieval , Assassins , Kuudere , CGI , Tragedy , Asexual

Denpa Teki na Kanojo

Also known as Electromagnetic Girlfriend.

Studio: Brain's Base , Zack Promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Thriller

Juuzawa Juu is a delinquent high school boy who just wants to be left alone. One day, he is approached by Ochibana Ame, who claims that she knew him in a previous life, and now wants to serve him as his "knight". At first Juu wants nothing to do with Ame, but after a classmate is murdered, he accepts her help as he looks for the killer.



Tags: Denpa , Chuunibyou , Tragedy , Crime , Urban , Yandere , Primarily Teen Cast , Revenge , Male Protagonist , School , Detective , Bullying , Gore , Kuudere , Suicide , Primarily Female Cast , Disability , Philosophy , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Torture , Unrequited Love

Fate/strange Fake

Also known as Fate/strange Fake.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Notes , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Contents Seed
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

In a Holy Grail War, Mages (Masters) and their Heroic Spirits (Servants) fight for the control of the Holy Grail—an omnipotent wish-granting device said to fulfill any desire. Years have passed since the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan. Now, signs portend the emergence of a new Holy Grail in the western American city of Snowfield. Sure enough, Masters and Servants begin to gather...

A missing Servant class...
Impossible Servant summonings...
A nation shrouded in secrecy...
And a city created as a battleground.

In the face of such irregularities, the Holy Grail War is twisted and driven into the depth of madness. Let the curtain rise on a masquerade of humans and heroes, made to dance upon the stage of a false Holy Grail. This is a Holy Grail War covered in lies.



Notes:
• Special premiere of Episode 1 in its English Dub occurred in Los Angeles at the Fate 20th Anniversary Showcase event and as well through Crunchyroll’s YouTube Channel on November 23, 2024 before the Japanese television premiere.
• The Japanese advanced premiere occurred during the "Fate New Year's Eve TV Special 2024" on December 31, 2024.

Tags: Urban , Mythology , Magic , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Conspiracy , Dissociative Identities , Gods , War , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Anachronism , Police , Memory Manipulation , Religion , Death Game , Vampire , Guns , Swordplay , Demons , Assassins , Tragedy , Gore , Gender Bending , Cyborg , Archery , Shapeshifting , Chimera , Body Swapping , Nun , Medieval , Skeleton , Curses , Werewolf , Animals , Desert , Gambling , Necromancy , Terrorism

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Note: Only the first 12 episodes were broadcast on television; the remaining three episodes were distributed on the anime's website between November 3, 2009, and June 25, 2010.

Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Vampire , Primarily Female Cast , Ghost , Satire , Meta , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Dissociative Identities , Psychosexual , Gore , Curses , Exorcism , Monster Girl , Mixed Media , Rotoscoping , Gods , Love Triangle , Yandere , Parody , Tomboy , Nudity , Unrequited Love , Nekomimi , Female Harem , Tsundere , CGI , Seinen , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation

Fate/Zero 2nd Season

Also known as Fate/Zero Season 2.

Studio: Aniplex , ufotable , Nitroplus , Aniplex of America , Seikaisha , Notes , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

As the Fourth Holy Grail War rages on with no clear victor in sight, the remaining Servants and their Masters are called upon by Church supervisor Risei Kotomine, in order to band together and confront an impending threat that could unravel the Grail War and bring about the destruction of Fuyuki City. The uneasy truce soon collapses as Masters demonstrate that they will do anything in their power, no matter how despicable, to win.

Seeds of doubt are sown between Kiritsugu Emiya and Saber, his Servant, as their conflicting ideologies on heroism and chivalry clash. Meanwhile, an ominous bond forms between Kirei Kotomine, who still seeks to find his purpose in life, and one of the remaining Servants. As the countdown to the end of the war reaches zero, the cost of winning begins to blur the line between victory and defeat.



Tags: Battle Royale , Tragedy , Magic , Mythology , Death Game , Urban Fantasy , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Spearplay , Religion , Body Horror , Swordplay , Gore , Guns , CGI , Vampire , Motorcycles , Zombie