Crunchyroll has begun streaming the dubbed first episode of Fate/strange Fake on its YouTube channel. The subbed version will be released on its streaming service on December 31 (in Japan, the episode will be unveiled as part of the Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special 2024 broadcast).
The dubbed episode will be up for one week and is region-locked. The episode preview, embedded below, is more freely available.
Additionally, a character visual for Saber and Ayaka has been released. There are also new staff credit reveals, among them:
• Sub-character designer: Masaaki Takiyama (Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos character designer)
• Sub-character designer: Ko Aine (“Nekokaburi-na” character designer, Whispers of Dawn co-animation director)
• Sub-character designer: Yurie Hama (Whispers of Dawn co-animation director, Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon chief animation director)
• Sub-character designer: Oka Okazaki (Black Butler: Public School Arc ending storyboard artist and unit director)
• Monster designer: Hiroto Kajino (Fate/Grand Order “Gekisou! Kawanakajima 24-ji Gudaguda Chou Goryoukaku Koroshi no Sign wa M51” TVCM key animator)
• Monster designer: Shinpei Wada (Whispers of Dawn co-animation director)
• Image board artist: Keigo Arihara (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! co-visual board artist)
• Noble Phantasm direction designer: Hakuyu Go (Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 41 co-storyboard artist and director)
Fate/strange Fake adapts the Dengeki Bunko light novels written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Shizuki Morii. The Type-Moon wiki describes the light novel series, one of the many titles in the massive Fate multimedia franchise, as:
Fate/strange Fake takes place around 2009. The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States that has magi separate from the London-based Mage Association as members took data from Fuyuki’s Grail War and planned their own ritual. After seventy years, they used the city Snowfield as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which led to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of “hero” being blurred.
The light novels began publication in 2015 and have nine volumes as of March 2024. Fate/strange Fake co-director Takahito Sakazume previously storyboarded and unit directed a TV commercial for the books.
A TV special titled Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- premiered at Anime Expo 2023, Crunchyroll, and Japanese television after missing its original premiere as part of the Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special. The TV anime was announced last July.
Staff (reprising their roles from the Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- TV special unless stated otherwise)
• Director: Shun Enokido
• Director: Takahito Sakazume
• Character designer: Yukei Yamada
• Series composer: Daisuke Ohigashi
• Art director: Kusanagi’s Ayu Kawamoto (Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning)
• Compositing director: Youhei Miyawaki
• Color designer: Takahiro Mogi
• CG director: Graphinica’s Shinichi Miyakaze (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury)
• Music composer: Hiroyuki Sawano
• Sound director: Masanori Tsuchiya
• Sound effects: Yasumasa Koyama
• Animation production: A-1 Pictures
Cast
• Kana Hanazawa as Ayaka Sajyou
• Yuki Ono as Saber
• Sumire Morohoshi as Tiné Chelc
• Tomokazu Seki as Archer
• Yu Kobayashi as Lancer
• Lynn as Assassin
• Tatsumaru Tachibana as Jester Karture
• Kenyu Horiuchi as Berserker
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Flat Escardos
• Daisuke Namikawa as Lord El-Melloi II
• Shotaro Morikubo as Caster
• Wataru Hatano as Orlando Reeve
• Maya Uchida as Francesca Prelati
Source: @FateSF_Anime_EN
