During the AnimeJapan 2025 panel event for Fate/strange Fake, two new character visuals were revealed, along with the announcement that voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara is joining the voice cast as Sigma. The TV anime series will premiere in 2025, with the first episode already being released online in November 2024 and on Japanese TV on December 31, 2024.
The new visuals highlight the characters Sigma and Flat Escardos and the Servant Berserker (who appears on Flat’s wrist).
Kajiwara joins the series’ main voice cast that includes:
- • 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
- • Maaya Uchida as Francesca Prelati
The main production staff, some of whom are reprising their roles from the Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- TV special, consist of Shun Enokido and Takahito Sakazume as directors, Yukei Yamada as character designer, Daisuke Ohigashi as series screenwriter, Kusanagi’s Ayu Kawamoto (Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning) as art director, and Hiroyuki Sawano as music composer. A-1 Pictures is handling the animation production.
Other staff consist of Yohei Miyawaki as compositing director, Takahiro Mogi as color designer, Graphinica’s Shinichi Miyakaze (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury) as CG director, and Masanori Tsuchiya as sound director. Yasumasa Koyama is handling the anime’s sound effects.
Fate/strange Fake is based on the light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Shizuki Morii. The light novel series began publication under ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko imprint on January 10, 2015 and has released nine volumes as of March 2024. A manga adaptation drawn by Morii was also launched in January 2015.
The series previously received a TV commercial storyboarded and unit directed by the TV series’ co-director Takahito Sakazume.
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 an earlier Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special. The TV anime series was first announced in July 2023.
Crunchyroll previously streamed the dubbed version of the first Fate/strange Fake episode on its YouTube channel for one week. It streamed the first episode of Fate/strange Fake and describes the main premise as:
In a Holy Grail War, Mages (Masters) and their Heroic Spirits (Servants) fight for the control of the Holy Grail — an omnipotent wish-granting device said to fulfill any desire. Years have passed since the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan. Now, signs portend the emergence of a new Holy Grail in the western American city of Snowfield.
Source: Fate/strange Fake Official Twitter, Official Anime Website
