Fate/stay night is a Japanese visual novel game developed by Type-Moon for Windows on January 30, 2004. Fate/stay night Réalta Nua, was released on April 19, 2007, for the PlayStation 2, which replaced the sexual content with alternate scenes, added an extended ending scene to the Fate storyline, and featured voice actors from the 2006 anime series. It was later ported to Windows in 2011, PlayStation Vita in 2012, and Android and iOS in 2015. A remastered version of Réalta Nua was released for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in 2024, marking the first time the game was made available outside Japan. The plot focuses on a young mage named Shirou Emiya who becomes a warrior in a battle between "Servants" known as the Holy Grail War. Shirou bonds with a heroine through each route and confronts different adversaries participating in the war. The author, Kinoko Nasu, summarised Fate/stay night as:
...the story about legendary heroes and "a boy meets a girl."... The main theme is "conquering oneself." There are three story lines in Fate, each has a different themes. The first one is the "oneself as an ideal." The second one is "struggling with oneself as an ideal." The third one is "the friction with real and ideal." This game is describing the growth of the main character Emiya Shirou. The first storyline shows his slanted mind, the next storyline shows his resolve, and the last storyline gives another resolution for him as a human. All three storylines are essentially equal, but they have different forms.
John Gremillion is an American stage and voice actor. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games; notable credits include Gentle Criminal from My Hero Academia, Dracule Mihawk from One Piece, Roland Chappelle from Food Wars, Arthur Randall from Black Butler, Go Mutsugi from Area 88, Yamato Hotsuin from Devil Survivor 2: The Animation, Nobuteru Irihata from Haikyū!!, Hakuoro from Utawarerumono, and Takeshi Hirokawa from Parasyte.
OLM, Inc.,, is a Japanese animation and film studio headquartered in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, founded on October 3, 1990, by former Studio Gallop and OB Planning employees. They are best known for producing the Pokémon and Berserk anime series.
Fate/Zero is a Japanese light novel written by Gen Urobuchi, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi, and is a prequel to all routes in Type-Moon's visual novel, Fate/stay night.
Nitroplus Co., Ltd., currently styled as NITRO PLUS, formerly stylized as nitro+, and formerly known as "OKStyle", is a Japanese visual novel video game developer that has developed a number of visual novels, including eroge. They have also collaborated with developer Type-Moon to create the light novel series Fate/Zero. Their works usually have dark themes such as reanimation of the dead, rape, and murder. They also have a branch of the company called Nitro+chiral, which focuses on boys' love visual novels. Writers aligned with the company, such as Gen Urobuchi, have also contributed to various manga, anime, novels, and television works.
Takaya Kuroda is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Axlone, and was formerly with Mausu Promotion and 81 Produce.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, also known simply as Madoka Magica, is a Japanese anime television series created by Magica Quartet; and animated by Shaft. The story follows a group of middle school girls, led by protagonist Madoka Kaname, who make supernatural contracts to become magical girls. In battling surreal enemies known as "witches", they learn of the anguish and peril associated with their new roles. The first ten episodes of the series aired on TBS and MBS between January and March 2011, while the final two episodes were delayed until April of the same year due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist, visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter, as well as the writer of the 2003 visual novel Saya no Uta, the 2012 anime Psycho-Pass, the light novel and anime Fate/Zero, and the 2013–2014 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Gaim. He currently works at Nitroplus and Nitro+chiral. Anime written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Awards have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011, Fate/Zero in 2012 and Psycho-Pass: The Movie in 2015.
Expelled from Paradise is a 2014 Japanese anime science fiction film. The film is directed by Seiji Mizushima, with a screenplay written by Gen Urobuchi. The film was produced by Toei Animation and animated by Graphinica, and was distributed by T-Joy.
Seraph of the End is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto, with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. The series is set in a world that allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-made" virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children under the age of thirteen untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old horrors of the dark thought only to be myth. A young man named Yūichirō Hyakuya joins a vampire extermination unit to avenge the deaths of his orphaned family and reclaim his childhood best friend Mikaela Hyakuya from the vampires. It started publishing in Shueisha's Jump SQ in September 2012.
Studio Chizu is a Japanese animation studio based in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. It was co-founded by Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito in 2011. Studio Chizu has won three Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year awards. The image in their logo is a reference to Makoto Konno, the main character of the Hosoda-directed 2006 film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Akari Kitō is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Raccoon Dog. She starred in her first main role for the series Time Bokan 24, and has since received more major and leading roles. Her nickname is Akarin. She made her debut as a solo singer under Pony Canyon in October 2019.
Noriko Takaya is a fictional character from the Gunbuster franchise, created by Gainax. She is the franchise's most developed character and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Noriko is the daughter of deceased space captain Yuzo Takaya. When she was young, she wanted to follow her father. Years later, she joins the Okinawa Girls' Space Pilot High School to learn to pilot a mecha. She goes with "big sister" Kazumi Amano to space to defend Earth against extraterrestrials known as space monsters. By the end of the story, she grows to be a master pilot.
Bubble is a 2022 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic film produced by Wit Studio. It is directed by Tetsurō Araki and written by Gen Urobuchi with character designs by Takeshi Obata and music composed by Hiroyuki Sawano. The film had early screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2022. It was followed by its worldwide release on Netflix on April 28, 2022, before it was released theatrically in Japan in May. A manga adaptation of the film by Erubo Hijihara was serialized in Shōnen Jump+ from April 22 to May 23, 2022.
Nina the Starry Bride is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rikachi. The series began serialization in Be Love in October 2019. As of November 2024, the series has been collected into fifteen tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Signal.MD premiered in October 2024. It was Signal.MD's final anime production.
Smile of the Arsnotoria is a Japanese mobile game created by Nitroplus. Developed by NextNinja and published by Good Smile Company, the game was released on iOS and Android in March 2021. A manga adaptation by Masaki Hattori was serialized in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age from June 2022 to May 2023, with its chapters collected into two tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films aired from July to September 2022.
Megaton Musashi is a Japanese multimedia franchise by Level-5. An action role-playing video game was released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, in November 2021. A Free-to-play version, Megaton Musashi X was released on December 1, 2022, and the third version of the game, Megaton Musashi W(Wired), was released for the Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows on April 25, 2024. An anime adaptation produced by OLM, Inc. aired from October 2021 to March 2023.
Dungeon & Fighter, sometimes abbreviated to DNF, is a series of video games created by Neople, a subsidiary of Nexon. While early games were only developed and published by Neople, Nexon began to publish other entries in the series as well as outsource the development to other companies.
Revenger is a 2023 Japanese original anime television series animated by Ajia-do Animation Works and produced by Nitroplus and Shochiku. Set in Japan, the series follows a samurai named Raizo Kurima who crosses paths with hitmen known as Revengers after being betrayed by his superiors. It aired from January to March 2023.
In the video game industry, 2025 will see the release of Nintendo's next-gen Nintendo Switch 2 console and many new video games.
