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Last Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel Anime Film's Title, Spring 2020 Date Revealed

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly, the second film in the Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel anime film trilogy, opened on Saturday, and it ended with a teaser for the third and final film. The teaser revealed that the third film, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. spring song, will open in the spring of 2020.

The second film opened in Japan in 131 theaters, after Tokyo's Shinjuku Wald 9 theater and Tokushima's ufotable Cinema screened the film early on January 9. The film was originally slated to premiere in Japan last year. Aniplex of America will screen the film in the United States later this year.

The first film, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower, opened at #1 at the Japanese box office by both attendance and box office earnings in October 2017. The film sold a total of 980,000 tickets to earn 1.5 billion yen (about US$13.5 million).

The film held its United States premiere at The Theater At Ace Hotel in Los Angeles in November 2017. More theaters began screening the film through mid-December 2017. The film screened in Canada on January 14, 2018. The English dub of the first film debuted in theaters in the United States on June 5 and June 7. Aniplex of America released the film on Blu-ray Disc on November 20.

Tomonori Sudō (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Fate/Zero animation director) is directing the films, and ufotable is animating the work. Yuki Kajiura (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works theme song composer, Fate/Zero music and theme song composer) is composing the music. Takahiro Miura is providing the storyboards. Aimer performed the first film's theme song.

"Heaven's Feel" is a route from the original Fate/stay night visual novel. A manga adaptation of the route launched in May 2015.

The television anime adaptation of Fate/stay night's 'Unlimited Blade Works' route premiered in October 2014. The initial Fate/stay night anime premiered in 2005.

Source: Film screening