Fate/Apocrypha, the new anime in the hit Fate/Stay Night , has received updated information on its website . In addition to a new promotional video, the series will premiere on July 1st of this year, while Netflix will premiere on July 3rd.
Fate/Apocrypha is based on a light novel series set in an alternate timeline to Fate/stay Night, written by Yūichirō Higashide and illustrated by Ototsugu Konoe.
The series is animated by A-1 Pictures, the same studio that produced Sword Art Online, with a script by Yūichirō Higashide. The series is directed by Yoshiyuki Asai (Charlotte), and the character designs are by Yūkei Yamada.
The saga of the new Fate/Apocrypha anime:
The plot is set during the Holy Grail War fought by seven Mages and Heroic Spirits in a city called Fuyuki. However, a certain mage took advantage of the chaos of World War II to steal a Holy Grail. Several decades passed, and the Yggdmillennia family, which had adopted the Holy Grail as its symbol, defected from the Mage Association and declared its independence. Furious, the Association sent a force to deal with the Yggdmillennia, but they were defeated by the summoned Servants. With the Holy Grail War system changed, a seven-on-seven war began on an unprecedented scale.
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