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Fate/Zero

TV anime2011–2012

2 seasons25 episodes

Original: light novel虚淵玄

Looking for the manga? This page follows the light novel; the manga adaptation has its own volume numbers.

Explore Fate/Zero's finished anime scopes and source-book editions. Read each route note to see whether a precise handoff is known, a restart is safer, or the story is complete.

The Fourth Holy Grail War has begun, and seven mages must summon heroes from history to battle each other to the death. Only one mage-and-hero pair will remain to claim the Grail and have their wishes granted! Kiritsugu Emiya was once an assassin but now fights in this war to save the world from those who would destroy it with the Grail’s power.

Book languageJapanese
Edition星海社

Season 1

13 episodesOct 2011 – Dec 2011

Anime ends at
Ep 13

After Fate/Zero Season 1, the exact prose handoff is unconfirmed. For a no-skip reading path, begin the original Fate/Zero novel from the start; its Japanese Seikaisha paperback edition has a different six-book division. Season 2 continues the TV story.

Also in manga:
1 side entrySPno effect on where to continue
  1. Fate/Zero: Please! Einzbern Counseling RoomSP6 episodesMar 2012 – Sep 2012The six Einzbern Counseling Room shorts are companion material, not a separate adaptation endpoint in the original Fate/Zero novel. Follow the TV main story for its ending, or read the novel from its beginning.

Season 2

12 episodesApr 2012 – Jun 2012

Anime ends at
Ep 12

Fate/Zero Season 2 closes the main story of the original four-volume novel. There is no later Fate/Zero prose volume to continue with; start the novel from its beginning to read the source, and treat Fate/stay night as a different work.

All volumes

星海社The Japanese edition is at Vol. 6.

  • Fate/Zero (Manga)

    Adaptationmanga

    A separate, 14-volume manga adaptation of the original novel by Shinjiro.

    • Season 2: Fate/Zero Season 2 closes the main story. The Shinjiro manga is a completed adaptation of that story, with no later same-work continuation volume; begin at manga Volume 1 to compare its telling.
    • Fate/Zero: Please! Einzbern Counseling Room: The six Einzbern Counseling Room shorts are companion material, not a separate handoff into the Shinjiro manga. Follow the TV main story for its ending, or read the manga from Volume 1.
    Buy Vol. 1 on Amazon · Japanese

Before you read

The 1 side entry listed here have no separate reading start in the main work. Follow the reading route of the season each is grouped with; their individual notes explain the connection.

Fate/Zero: Please! Einzbern Counseling Room (SP)

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