Fate/stay night
English title: Fate/stay night
Japanese title: Fate/stay night
Alternative titles: Fate - Stay Night
Type: TV
Source: Visual novel
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 7, 2006 to Jun 17, 2006
Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:30 (JST)
Duration: 24 min per ep
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Studios: Studio Deen
Producers: Frontier Works, TBS, KlockWorx, Notes, Geneon Entertainment
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks, Geneon Entertainment USA
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Themes: Urban Fantasy

After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice.

One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber. The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself.

Fate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. Will the boy become a hero like his foster father, or die trying?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Fate/stay night is based on the first route of Type-Moon's visual novel of the same title, with elements from the second and third route combined in. Originally released in 2004 for Microsoft Windows, the visual novel later received an enhanced port―titled Fate/stay night: Réalta Nua―for the PS2 in 2007, the PS Vita in 2012, and Android and iOS in 2015.