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Gen Urobuchi's Fate/Zero Novels Get Musical Stage Play in 2025
posted on by Joanna Cayanan & Rafael Antonio Pineda
A website opened on Tuesday and revealed that Gen Urobuchi's Fate/Zero prequel light novel series will get a musical stage play adaptation titled Musical Fate/Zero. The stage play will run from January to February next year in Tokyo and Osaka.
Hideyuki Nishimori (Danganronpa, My Hero Academia, Persona 5 stage plays, Moriarty the Patriot, Romeo and the Black Brothers musicals) is writing the screenplay, directing the musical, and is writing the lyrics. Urobuchi is supervising the script.
Fate/Zero is a prequel novel series to Type-Moon's Fate/stay night visual novel game, centering on the Fourth Holy Grail War and its cast of characters, the dramatic events of which lead directly to the Fifth Holy Grail War in Fate/stay night. The narrative mostly centers on Kiritsugu Emiya, a specialist "mage killer" assigned by a prominent mage family to be a competing Master in the Holy Grail War, as he is torn between his pragmatic utilitarianism, his love for his wife and daughter, and the sacrifices he must make to win.
Nitroplus writer Gen Urobuchi first collaborated with Type-Moon as a guest writer on the Fate/hollow ataraxia fan disc. Fate/Zero came after discussion with Type-Moon writer Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi, and was initially sold as a four-book dōjin work under Type-Moon from Comiket 71 to 73 (December 2006 to December 2007). Star Seas Company later offered the novels commercially in a six-book bunkoban edition in January to June 2011.
The novels later inspired both a television anime and a manga adaptation. The TV anime ran from October 2011 to June 2012, and was the first time that ufotable would produce an anime in Type-Moon's Fate franchise, leading to later collaborations. The anime streamed on Neon Alley with an English dub, and the series streamed on Crunchyroll as it aired. Shinjirō launched the manga in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine in 2011, and ended it in May 2017. Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga in 2014.
Source: Fate/Zero stage play website, Comic Natalie
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