Fate/Strange Fake Is Finally Getting An Anime

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Fate is no stranger to all kinds of creative minds lending their talents to the brand in all manner of short stories, novels, and screenplays, just like Gen Urobuchi wrote Fate/Zero. But of the myriad stories, Fate/Strange Fake, from Baccano and Durarara author Ryogo Narita, is one spoken of very highly, that fans have been craving an anime adaptation of for ages.

Funnily enough, the story began as an April Fools' joke titled "Fate/States Night" in reference to the story taking place in the United States but became a novel and manga series starting in 2014. Since then, there have been seven novels and the series is still going on, chronicling the war in Snowfield, Nevada.

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Like all fate stories, it involves a holy grail capable of granting wishes, and seven Masters each summoning a heroic spirit to fight in the name of claiming it to grant their wish. However, this war is a complete fabrication, a duplication of the usual ritual, all performed by an American splinter group of mages.

Strange Fake has been compared to Fate/Apocrypha as both stories' concepts stem from the events of the Third Holy Grail War and its effect on current events. They are also both stories depicting two separate sides of a larger Grail War. In Apocrypha, it was the Masters and Servants of Black vs the Masters and Servants of Red.

In Strange Fake, the imperfect recreation of the grail war has created an even more chaotic battlefield, where the battle lines are not clearly drawn. There are the participants of the Fake Grail War and those fighting in the True Grail War. This war seemingly has more politics and competing motivations wrapped up in it than any other Fate story.

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