For veteran anime fans, the Fate series, known as the "Japanese Queen Ant IP", has a supreme position in their hearts. As the latest genuine mobile game in the Fate series, "Fate/Grand Order" (referred to as "FGO") was personally supervised and written by the "father of Fate" Nasu Mushroom, and was first launched in Japan at the end of July, achieving great success. It has been ranked among the top 10 best-selling list of App Store for a long time, with downloads exceeding 4 million. Recently, bilibili announced that it had obtained the exclusive agency rights of the national server of "Fate/Grand Order" and announced the Chinese name "Fate-Crown Designation". The game is expected to be officially launched in Q1 next year.

bilibili exclusive agent Fate/Grand Order

"Japanese Ant-level IP" "Past and present" of the Fate series

In January 2004, a game company called Notes released a text adventure game - "Fate/stay night" on the PC platform. Notes' predecessor was a fan club called TYPE-MOON. After transforming into a commercial game company, its first original work "Fate/stay night" was released immediately, gaining great popularity and attention, and laying a solid position in the hearts of fans. By 2006, the TV animation of the same name adapted from one of the main plots of the game was launched,According to the data, the number of clicks on the entire Chinese network reached hundreds of thousands of times per episode.

Fate/Grand Order promotional footage

The story setting for the Fate series has a clear main line, namely, fighting for the Holy Grail. Seven magicians (masters) summon seven heroes (servants) in mythological history, fighting for the only holy grail and fulfilling their wishes. What is very interesting in this setting is that the heroic spirit will not reveal his true body in the early stage, so guessing which character he (she) is and what kind of treasure he or she is using becomes a thing that makes people enjoy it. The rigorous and well-subtitled worldview setting, the plot that blends hope and despair, the characters that restore mythological image and have novel meanings... All kinds of factors have led to the success of the Fate series, and therefore have gathered a large number of loyal fans.

The creation of the entire Fate series has been going on for more than 10 years in the battle for the Holy Grail, and has successively launched a number of derivative games, comics, novels, TV animations, and theater animations. In the Fate series, in addition to the above mentioned "Fate/Stay Night", the most well-known domestic two-dimensional users, there are two animation works "Fate/Zero" and "Fate/stay night [UBW]". Among them, "Fate/Zero" is a prequel to "Fate/Stay Night", and the main characters who appeared in "Fate/Stay Night" also appeared in this work. "Fate/Zero" first appeared in the form of an out-of-the-line light novel, and was then adapted into a TV version of the animation in the form of two seasons in October 2011 and April 2012, respectively, and was screened in Japan. In addition, in the New Type Anime Award in July 2012, "Fate/Zero" also won the first place in multiple awards such as the Work Award, Sound Effect Award, CM Award, Male Character Award (Rider), Male Voice Actor Award (Akio Otsuka), Studio Award (ufotable).

For "Fate/ stay night [UBW]", it must be mentioned about its connection with "Fate/ stay night". As mentioned above, the plot of the animated version of "Fate/ Stay Night" is one of the three routes of the original game; "Fate/ Stay Night [UBW]" is the animated version of "Unlimited Blade Works", the second route in the original work. The animation "Fate/stay night [UBW]" is produced by ufotable. The game was broadcast in Japan from October 2014 and April 2015 respectively. According to the bilibili website, each episode of the game has received over one million views. As a famous Japanese deputyThe real super popular ACG works can reveal the influence of the entire Fate series in the 2D field based on the performance of the above three works.

It is worth mentioning here that the Fate series has always been one of the most popular anime IPs in bilibili. To this day, many UP hosts and hardcore fans of Fate continue to launch homemade Fate themed videos on bilibili, and bilibili has gradually become one of the most concentrated gathering places for Fate fans.

"Fate's Father" personally participated in the production of "FGO"

It has been more than 10 years since the game "Fate/ Stay Night" was released. The R&D team invited the original author, Fate related writers and many popular illustrators to join to jointly create the new sequel to the Fate series "FGO". The unprecedented luxury R&D lineup has enabled the work to gain close attention from fans at home and abroad before it was released.

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"FGO" is written by TYPE-MOON's leading author and known as the "Fate Father" Nasu Mushroom, who is known as the "Father of Fate", and has written a new story along the main line of the Holy Grail War worldview. The character design and artistic director is also led by Tsushi Takeuchi, a painter who has always been in charge of the Fate series. More than 40 popular painters including huke, Hirokazu Koyama and others participated, not only ensure the authenticity of the game, but also a new character image appeared in the game. In terms of voice actors, Ayako Kawasuma (Saber of Fate/stay night), Maaya Sakamoto (Luna Maria Hawke in "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY), Shunichi Suwabe (Fate/stay/stay) (Saber of Voice Agent Kawasuma (Saber of Fate/stay)), Maaya Sakamoto (Saed DESTINY Luna Maria Hawke), and Shunichi Suwabe (Saday/stay) (Saber of Fate/stay) (Saber of Sakuramoto (Saber of Mobile Suit Gundam), Luna Maria Hawke in "Seed DESTINY"), and Shunichi Suwabe (Saday/stay) (Saber of Fate/stay) (Saber of Sakuramoto (Saber of Mobile Suits Gundam), Luna Maria Hawke in "Seed DESTINY"), and Shunichi Suwabe (Saday/stay) (Saber of Fate/stay) (Saber of Sakuramoto (Saber of Mobile Suits Gundam), Luna Maria Hawke in "Seed DESTINY"), and Shunichi Suwabe (Sabby) (Saber of Fate/stay) (Saber of Many popular Japanese voice actors including Archer) and Nodo Amiko (Mebis Vivia Milio of Fairy Tail) have joined the franchise to provide sufficient benefits for the voice actors of the second dimension.

As the biggest highlight of the "FGO" game, the crazy and cool Gilgamesh, the heroic Alexander, and the Joan of Arc who experienced a cruel fate... Many characters appear in the Fate series will appear in "FGO"; in addition, a brand new mysterious protagonist will also appear this time, and the story plot of up to 1 million words connects these new and old characters well to build a new story. For Fate fans, "FGO" is a fantastic and popular character who acted on the same stage.

With the announcement of bilibili's agent "FGO", how to localize "FGO" to create it so that it not only meets the preferences of original fans, but also fits the tastes of domestic two-dimensional players. The surprise is worth looking forward to~

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