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Fate/Apocrypha TV Anime Airs July 2017 – Visual, Cast & Promotional Video Revealed

The official website of the anime adaptation of Yuichiro Higashide and Ototsugu Konoe’s Fate/Apocrypha light novel series has revealed that the upcoming series will air this July throughout the Summer 2017 anime season. In addition, the site has also revealed a new visual, the cast and the second promotional video.

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The main cast of the anime has been revealed and stars:

  • Kouki Uchiyama (Seiya Kanie from Amagi Brilliant Park) will voice Shirou Kotomine
  • Maaya Sakamoto (Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell) as Ruler
  • Natsuki Hanae (Inaho Kaizuka from Aldnoah.Zero) is going to voice Sieg
  • Ai Nonaka (Kyouko Sakura in Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) voices Berserker of Black
  • Junichi Suwabe (Archer from Fate/stay/night) as Saber of Black
  • Kei Shindou (Gentoku Ryuubi from Ikkitousen) is going to voice Assassin of Red
  • Kouji Yusa (Kyousuke Hyoubu from Zettai Karen Children) will be voicing Lancer of Red
  • Makoto Furukawa (Saitama from One Punch-Man) voicing the role of Rider of Red
  • Mitsuru Miyamoto (Maiza Avaro in Baccano!) is going to voice Caster of Black
  • Miyuki Sawashiro (Celty Sturluson from Durarara!!) voices Saber of Red
  • Rumi Ookubo (Tsumiki Miniwa in Acchi Kocchi) as Rider of Black
  • Ryotaro Okiayu (Kunimitsu Tezuka in Prince of Tennis) voices Lancer of Black
  • Sakura Tange (Saber from Carnival Phantasm) will be voicing the role of Assassin of Black
  • Saori Hayami (Yukino Yukinoshita from Oregairu) is going to voice Archer of Red
  • Satoshi Tsuruoka (Caster in Fate/Zero) will star as Berserker of Red
  • Shunsuke Takeuchi (Producer from The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) as Archer of Red
  • Tetsu Inada (Ira Gamagoori from Kill la Kill) plays the role of Caster of Red

The second promotional video for the Fate/Apocrypha anime has been released, which introduces to us the main characters and servants:

Here is the first promotional video for the anime:

The leading members of the Fate/Apocrypha production staff were revealed and consists of:

  • Director: Yoshiyuki Asai (Charlotte)
  • Series Composition: Yuichiro Higashide
  • Anime Character Designer: Yuukei Yamada (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and Madoka★Magica Movie: Rebellion Animation Director)
  • Music Composer: Masaru Yokoyama (Plastic Memories, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso )
  • Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Boku dake ga Inai Machi)

Fate/Apocrypha is a light novel series written by Yuichiro Higashide (Judgement Overman – Houkago no Kessha) and illustrated by Ototsugu Konoe. The series is a spin-off of Type-Moon’s Fate/stay night franchise set in an alternative universe where the events of the visual novel and the prequel Fate/Zero did not occur. The novels ran for a total of 5 compiled volumes, ending in December 2014. A manga adaptation of the novels started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten’s Comp Ace magazine in April 2016.

Fate/stay night is a visual novel released by Type-Moon for the PC in 2004, and is the first in their Fate series. The visual novel was very successful and claimed the title of highest selling visual novel in that year. 2006 saw two adaptations of the game, a manga by Datto Nishiwaki and an anime series by Studio Deen. Additionally in that year, a prequel light novel series titled Fate/Zero was written by Gen Urobuchi. An anime and manga adaptation of Fate/Zero were created, with the manga written by Urobuchi himself in 2011 and the anime being animated by ufotable. A second season of Fate/Zero was also produced. ufotable produced a new Fate/stay night anime based on the Unlimited Blade Works route and is producing a Fate/stay night trilogy based on the Heaven’s Feel Route.

Here is a synopsis of Fate/Apocrypha novels from MAL:

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 and 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.

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The TV anime adaptation of Fate/Apocrypha will broadcast this July during the Summer 2017 anime season. Further details about the series will be revealed at a later date.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://fate-apocrypha.com/
And follow their twitter here: @FateApocryphaTV

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