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Fate/stay night

“Orphaned Shirou enters deadly Holy Grail War with summoned knight Saber, testing his heroic ideals against brutal reality.”

Fate/stay night

7.28
3,500 rank · 1,006,708 viewers · 7,686 favorites
Action Fantasy Romance Urban Fantasy
24 episodes · 24 min per ep min · Winter 2006 · Studio Deen · R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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Synopsis

Orphaned Shirou enters deadly Holy Grail War with summoned knight Saber, testing his heroic ideals against brutal reality.

After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice. One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber. The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself. Fate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. Will the boy become a hero like his foster father, or die trying?

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7.0 /10

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81% recommend
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median 7 mode 7 σ 2.20
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σ 2.20 · split reception

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5.2 pts

Recommenders 8.4 · others 3.1

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Running avg · Jul 2007 → Apr 2026

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A Tv Production · Winter 2006

Studio Deen.
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Frontier Works · TBS

  • Format 24 × 24′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 9h 36m all episodes
  • Aired Jan 2006 – Jun 2006 Winter 2006
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
  • Ref. BS-0333 catalog

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