Fate/stay night

07/01/2006 7.3 0 R

Synopsis

After a mysterious fire kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him about magic and justice. Years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school when he gets caught in a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. During his escape, he is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish him off. 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 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?

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.