Manga adaptation of TYPE MOON’s Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works by Daisuke Moriyama released the 1st volume along with a special PV to commemorate the occasion. As the manga is adapting Rin Tohsaka’s route, the trailer is narrated by Kana Ueda who voiced Rin in both the visual novels and the anime adaptations.
Daisuke Moriyama, the author behind the adaptation, is best known for Chrono Crusade. The Unlimited Blade Works manga started serialization in 2021 in Kadokawa’s Dengeki Daioh monthly magazine. The cover for the first volume has also been revealed:
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works is an anime series animated by studio ufotable. It mainly adapted the Unlimited Blade Works route from the visual novel and served as a retelling of the events in the original Fate/stay night. It premiered in 2014 and ran for two consecutive cours, for a total of 26 episodes. The series is commonly abbreviated as UBW.
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime and describes the plot as:
Fuyuki City—a city surrounded by the ocean and the mountains becomes the setting for an age-old ritual. To realize the mythical Holy Grail, which is said to grant any wish from its possessor, seven masters are given seven heroic spirits chosen by the Grail… Each master will enter into a contract with their assigned servants and battle the other masters and servants to the death until only one pair remains… This is the “Holy Grail War.”
Source: Amazon Listing, Kadokawa’s YouTube Channel
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