Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (series)

Fate/stay night:Unlimited Blade Works
Original Title	フェイトステイナイトアンリミテッドブレイドワークス (Feito/sutei naito Anrimiteddo Bureido Wākusu)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Voice Director	Tony Oliver
Translation & Adaptation	Joel McDonald Michael McConnohie Tony Oliver
Recorded	2015
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	26
Year	2014-2015
Chronology
Predecessor	Fate/Zero

Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (フェイトステイナイトアンリミテッドブレイドワークス Feito/sutei naito Anrimiteddo Bureido Wākusu) is an anime series produced by Ufotable. It is based on the visual novel Fate/stay night produced by Type-Moon.

Synopsis Shirō Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by a sorcerer by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya. Although he was full of admiration for his adopted father and yearns to become an ally of justice, Shirou has limited powers and was unable to become a strong sorcerer like his father. That is until one fateful day, he was drawn into the Holy Grail War and had to summon a female "Servant" known as Saber in order to protect himself. It turns out that the Holy Grail War involves a series of battles among powerful sorcerers to fight for the possession of a relic that will grant one's wishes, the Holy Grail. There are altogether seven "Masters" who can summon their respective "Servants" from different classes known as Saber, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Lancer, Caster and Assassin. These "Servants" have to hide their names in order not to reveal their weaknesses to the enemies. The story revolves around Shirō and his entanglement in the Holy Grail War.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Season
Magi
	Shirō Emiya	Noriaki Sugiyama	Bryce Papenbrook	1ª-2ª
		Junko Noda (child)	Mona Marshall
	Rin Tōsaka	Kana Ueda	Mela Lee	1ª-2ª
	Shinji Matō	Hiroshi Kamiya	Kyle McCarley	1ª-2ª
	Kirei Kotomine	Jōji Nakata	Crispin Freeman	1ª-2ª
	Illyasviel "Illya" von Einzbern	Mai Kadowaki	Stephanie Sheh	1ª-2ª
	Soichiro Kuzuki	Masaki Terasoma	Lex Lang	1ª-2ª
Servants
	Saber (Arturia Pendragon)	Ayako Kawasumi	Kari Wahlgren	1ª-2ª
	Archer (EMIYA)	Junichi Suwabe	Kaiji Tang	1ª-2ª
	Archer (Gilgamesh)	Tomokazu Seki	David Vincent	1ª-2ª
	Lancer (Cú Chulainn)	Nobutoshi Hayashi	Tony Oliver	1ª-2ª
	Rider (Medusa)	Yū Asakawa	Melissa Fahn	1ª-2ª
	Caster (Medea)	Atsuko Tanaka	Megan Hollingshead	1ª-2ª
	Assassin (Sasaki Kojirō)	Shinichirō Miki	Todd Haberkorn	1ª-2ª
	Berserker (Hercules)	Tadahisa Saizen	N/A	1ª-2ª
Others
	Sakura Matō	Noriko Shitaya	Cristina Valenzuela	1ª
	Kiritsugu Emiya	Rikiya Koyama	Matthew Mercer	1ª
	Taiga Fujimura	Miki Itō	Julie Ann Taylor	1ª-2ª
	Issei Ryudo	Mitsuaki Madono	Robbie Daymond	1ª-2ª
	Ayako Mitsuzuri	Fumie Mizusawa	Brina Palencia	1ª-2ª
	Yukika Saegusa	Eri Nakao	Jessica DiCicco	1ª

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Kaede Makidera	Michiru Yuimoto	Erica Lindbeck	01
	Kane Himuro	Rie Nakagawa	Dorothy Elias-Fahn
	Sella	Haruhi Terada	Rachael Lillis	4, 16, 17
	Leysritt	Miho Miyagawa	Brianna Knickerbocker	4, 16, 17
	Atrum Galliasta	Jun Fukushima	Robbie Daymond	14
	Lord El-Melloi II / Waver Velvet	Daisuke Namikawa	Lucien Dodge	26
	Luviagelita Edelfelt	Shizuka Itō	Lauren Landa

Additional Voices

• Ryan Bartley
• Jessica DiCicco
• Dorothy Elias-Fahn
• Melissa Fahn
• Crispin Freeman
• Bridget Hoffman
• Lex Lang
• Stephanie Sheh

Notes

• Unlike the original "Fate/stay night" series and film, the producers felt that the story took a different approach compared to the previous series, and Tony Oliver served as the show's voice director replacing Kristi Reed. Because of this, almost all of the voices from the original show are recast entirely, with some of the voice actors such as Kari Wahlgren, Crispin Freeman, Cristina Valenzuela and Matthew Mercer being carried over from the dub of Fate/Zero.
  • However, Mela Lee, Stephanie Sheh, Tony Oliver and Julie Ann Taylor did reprise their roles from the original Fate/stay night as Rin Tōsaka, Illyasviel "Illya" von Einzbern, Lancer, and Taiga Fujimura respectively.
  • One of the voice actors from the original anime, Lex Lang, does appear in the Unlimited Blade Works series, but he appears as Soichiro Kuzuki instead, replacing Patrick Seitz. Robbie Daymond replaced Lang as Issei Ryudo, whilst Seitz would appear in the Heaven's Feel trilogy and Camelot films as True Assassin.
    • Similarity, Megan Hollingshead was in the original Fate/stay night anime as well, but she appears as Caster instead, replacing Tara Platt. The character Hollingshead voiced in the original anime, Bedivere, doesn't appear in Unlimited Blade Works.
• Megan Hollingshead's first new anime role for five years since Durarara!! in 2011.
• Rachael Lillis's first new anime role for eight years since Dinosaur King, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn & Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I as well her first debut role in LA.
• Aside from "Fate/Zero", this is the third and only English dub production of a Fate/stay night series to be unionized due to the appearance of Crispin Freeman, Kari Wahlgren, and Jessica DiCicco.
• As this dub was recorded in Los Angeles, three characters that made their anime debut in Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya had to be recast:
  • Lauren Landa replaced Shelley Calene-Black as Luviagelita Edelfelt
  • Rachael Lillis replaced Beth Lazarou as Sella
  • Brianna Knickerbocker replaced Meaghan Avocato as Leysritt

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2025	AXS TV	United States

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Aniplex of America	2015-2016		The Complete Series	1 NTSC	United States
			2 Volumes
			The Complete Series	A DVB-T
			2 Volumes

External Links

• Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works at the Internet Movie Database
• Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia