Fate/stay night

Amateur mage Shirou Emiya gets involved in a fight between mages using mythological heroes.

2006 HD 25min TV-14 Japan Japanese

Ayako Kawasumi Noriaki Sugiyama Kana Ueda

Action Adventure

anime magic super power holy grail based on visual novel

S1E1 - The First Day 2006-01-07

Ten years ago in Fuyuki City, a young boy was caught in a massive inferno that incinerated his parents and consumed a large portion of the city; as he was dying, a man saves him. Now this boy, Shirou Emiya, is an amateur mechanic who attends school at Homurabara Gakuen. Shirou also seems to be quite a bit of a magician but his abilities are no where near the level of his late fathers. Meanwhile, the city is beginning to be plagued by gas spills and homicides and with Shirous sense of justice starts to kick in, what could someone like him possibly do?

S1E2 - Fateful Night 2006-01-14

Rin seems to have problem with the servant she has and the fact that she wasnt powerful enough to call forth a more powerful servant. Back at school, Shirou has been asked by Ayako to keep an eye on Sakuras brother Shinji Matou, whos been fooling about in archery club. In the end Shinji takes advantage of Shirous helpful nature and makes him take care of the archery clubs dojo. However while Shirous cleaning head goes out to inspect a noise, only to witness a fight between two servants.

S1E3 - Opening Act 2006-01-21

Shirou is still lost and incredibly confused, after seeing an elegant warrior with the name Saber appear before him and choosing him as her Master. Shirou isnt even given a chance to get to grips of the situation before Saber continues her fight with Lancer, but before things get too serious Lancer walks off. Saber then chooses to pick a fight with Rin and her servant, but Saber reluctantly accepts Shirous order to stop. Shirou then learns of the Holy Grail War, which he has gotten himself into.

S1E4 - The Strongest Enemy 2006-01-28

After the meeting with Kirei Kotomine Shirou and Rin leave the church only to run into another Master that goes by the name of, Illyasviel von Einzbern. Saber is forced to go into combat against an incomprehensibly stronger servant, called Beserker. With Sabers previous injury still causing major problems and reducing her fighting capacity, is there even a chance of her winning?

S1E5 - Two Magi (1) 2006-02-04

Shirou introduces Saber to Sakura and the one teacher saying she is a distant relative. The teacher tests Sabers skills to be able to defend Shirou rather pathetically, she allows her to stay at the house with him.Rin and Archer are talking he asks her why she doesnt go after Shirou, an easy target to kill. She says if he were to show up in front of her without being aware of it, she would kill him.At school some girls are missing from school for the second day in a row. After school, Shirou has stayed to investigate these disappearance when he runs into Rin. Rin confronts Shirou calling him an idiot for idly walking around without his Servant and she attacks him. Shirou runs from her and locks himself in a classroom. Shirou does the only magic he knows and fortifies a desk to protect against an attack from Rin. The whole school is being lit by this happenings, all this being watched by a mysterious character in the trees and the episode ends.

S1E6 - Two Magi (2) 2006-02-11

A fleeing Shirō is eventually cornered by Rin, who offers to spare his life if he gives her his Command Seals. However, he refuses, prompting Rin to try and kill him. Both are then distracted by a scream downstairs and he and Rin find an unconscious girl. As Rin attempts to heal her, a dagger flies through an open door, aimed for Rin, but Shirō blocks it with his arm, wounding himself in the process. He runs outside to find the female Servant, which is of the Rider class, and repels an attack by her. Shirō considers summoning Saber via Command Seal, but decides it is too risky to get her involved and resolves to confront Rider himself. Rider resumes her assault, and Shirō is nearly killed by her until Rin rescues him. At Rins home, Shirō and Rin decide to form a temporary truce to find Riders Master.

S1E7 - Despicable Act 2006-02-18

Saber yelled at Shirou for not summoning her when he was in danger. Saber starts to go to school with Shirou. When Rin appears and says she will walk with Shirou to school, Saber allowing this after Rin talked to her. She explained that this way enemies may think its a trap to not see Saber with him so they are less likely to attack.Rin explains that there should be spell marks around the school and if they destroy those it will delay the activation of the force field but not destroy it, and most likely force the master out of hiding. After school Shirou and Rin work to find spell marks and destroy them. They end up destroying a good amount of them and call it a night.On the way home, before Shirou gets anywhere but after Rin leaves he feels something really strong. He goes to investigate it and feels its coming from the archery club.

S1E8 - Discordant Melody 2006-02-25

Shinji says things like how he has no intention of fighting and he was just dragged into this war. He asks to make an alliance with Shirou to go after Rin but Shirou refuses. Shinji says because he doesnt know magic other Masters cant detect him so that means Shinji isnt the other Master Rin was detecting, meaning there is a fourth one at the school. Before Shirou leaves Shinji tells Shirou about how one of the Masters has set up base at a temple.Shirou gets home and is yelled at by Saber and Rin, Rin having come over after Shirou didnt come home. Shirou tells them about Shinji and the Master at the temple.Shirou and Rin both agree, against Sabers judgment, that they should not attack the temple yet as they dont know what Servant and it may be a trap.Saber brings up again with Shirou the temple but Shirou insists that they wont be going.

S1E9 - Elegance in the Moonlight 2006-03-04

Saber is eager to go to the temple but Shirō has insisted that they wont be going because it seems too dangerous. Nonetheless, as soon as Shirō falls asleep, Saber heads off by herself to the temple, not only to be confronted by the servant identified as Assassin. Unlike any other servant, Assassin actually reveals his true identity to Saber, as Sasaki Kojirou. Although the talking ends here and the fighting begins but while this is going on Rider sneaks past them and enters the temple to fight some woman. Who is this mysterious woman and was Shinji planning this all along?

S1E10 - The Calm Interlude 2006-03-11

Saber and Shirou practice for a bit, Saber completely dominating over Shirou and not training how some would think but just a straight out attack between the two of them where Shirou keeps getting hit and slammed to the floor multiple times. Saber comments on how Shirou is doing fairly good and she is amazed by his zeal and things. Thy take a break and Shirou asks Saber what wish she wants granted if she got the Holy Grail.Shirou heads out to buy things for lunch and he runs into Ilya. They talk for a bit about their past and Ilya says where she came from. Shirou tells her that he inherited something precious from him. He says how he didnt receive his fathers Magic Mark but says he is still a master, just a half-assed magician.Shirou gets home, he talks with Rin who says at school Shinji asked her to team up with him. Rin says she rejected him though, saying she was already partnered with Shirou and she trusts him a lot more.Archer says how much of a failure Shirou is and that he would never be able to defeat a Servant. He does however seem to give him some advice saying that, If you cannot defeat someone, imagine something in your head you can defeat them with, for that is all you will be able to do.

S1E11 - Temple of Blood 2006-03-18

After a mornings training session with Saber, Shirou is then straightaway dragged off by Rin for some more training of her own. While this is going on Shirou receives a phone call from Shinji, asking Shirou to meet him at the school. Because it seemed urgent Shirou heads of to school and is greatly shocked by what he sees. Shinji shows his true colors and says how he wanted to show Rin how he was superior to Shirou and that he would defeat him here. What will happen to Shirou and does he have the will to fight off a Master and his Servant, alone?

S1E12 - Splitting The Sky 2006-03-25

Shirou is very worried about the well being of the students, staff, and of the school after yesterdays events, hes especially worried about Taiga who seems to be recovering well. Shirou is now determined to put an end to this and plans to go after Shinji before he can make another force field and with Sabers support they head out. However before that, Shirou has some important information to disclose to Rin about Shinjis Servant, Rider about the Noble Phantasm she used.

S1E13 - Winter Castle 2006-04-01

Shirou falls asleep and sees a dream of a flashback of Sabers past. We see Saber in plain olden time cloths walking up to a sword in a stone.Saber wakes up and notices Shirou is gone. She talks to Rin and despite Archers objection they go looking for him, suspecting he has been kidnapped by an enemy.Shirou wakes up in Ilyas house as her captive. Ilya says how she wants Shirou to become hers.

S1E14 - The End of the Ideal 2006-04-08

Rin, Saber and Archer just outside of Ilyas mansion. They see Ilya walk out so they soon head inside to rescue Shirou.Rin asks Archer to slow Berserker down by himself while the rest of them escape. Archer says fine but asks if its ok to kick Berserkers ass while doing so. Rin kind of smiles and they run off, leaving Archer to fight Berserker. Before they leave Archer yells out Emiya Shirou. Shirou stops and Archer tells him, Get this straight: You are not one who fights. Youre nothing more than one who creates. Throw irrelevant thoughts away. Theres only one thing you can do. Master that one thing! Archer then causes part of the ceiling to fall separating them so that Shirou will run away.The fight between Archer and Berserker commences.

S1E15 - The Twelve Trials 2006-04-15

Archer has been defeated by the unbeatable Beserker and now Shirou, Saber and Rin are trying their best to escape the same fate. They are able to find shelter to bide some time, because Shirou has to find a way to replenish Sabers mana while Ilya looks for them. With Archers sacrifice, Rin is that much more determined to get out of this alive and comes up with an elaborate plan. The beginning of a fight between Saber and Berserker commences.

S1E16 - The Sword of the Promised Victory 2006-04-22

The battle is at the turning point, where Rin is about to be squashed by Beserker and Saber is unable to save her. As a last resort Saber decides to use her Noble Phantasm to defeat Beserker, no matter how it would affect her. Realizing that Saber could disappear from this, Shirou forces her to stop and decides to take matters into his own hands.The advancement of Shirous character as we find what he is really able to do.

S1E17 - Mark of the Witch 2006-04-29

Shirou wakes up after having yet another dream of Sabers past and is clearly shaken up by what happened. That morning, during breakfast, Ilya is introduced by Rin as another person to be staying there for a while and Taiga seems to accept it well. Meanwhile there have been news on even more gas leaks, meaning that the Master at Ryudouji seems to be escalating his plans. While Shirou, Rin and Saber are planning what to do about this, Ilya enters the room with a great deal of information on this topic.

S1E18 - Decisive Battle 2006-05-06

Shirou, Saber and Rin are at the steps to the temple.Assassin appears, he lets Shirou and Rin go past and fights Saber. Shirou and Rin head past Assassin and past him they see Sakura, in rather odd cloths who is in what seems to be pain as she is glowing red. She is in a pit arena area and as they prepare to go down there they are attacked from behind which Shirou notices and blocks the attack with Archers swords. Souichirou appears and Shirou tells Rin to go ahead as he fights Souichirou and she goes to rescue Sakura. Meanwhile Saber and Assassin fight continues on. They compliment each other on being one of the best swordsmen they have ever faced and Assassin tells Saber that his identity, Sasaki Kojirou doesnt really exist. He is fabricated from peoples minds of being a great swordsman so he is a fictional heroic soul. He says he has no desire for the Holy Grail therefore; his true desire is this, a fight with a worthy opponent.We find out more on the past of Rin & Sakura and how they once were bestfriends. Caster is watching this smiling says she just needs one magician for the sacrifice. Everything seems to be going as she had planned.

S1E19 - The Golden King 2006-05-13

Sabers fight with Assassin and Shirous fight with Souichirou reaches its climax. Souichirou shatters Shirous blades again, sending him flying down to where Rin and Sakura are and it is upto Saber to defeat Assassin and make it down in time to save everyone. With Saber still affected by Casters Noble Phantasm Rule Breaker, she isnt able to defeat Caster when all of a sudden their fight is interrupted by an unknown Servant. It seems that Saber is familiar with this Servant, but it turns out hes the eighth Servant in this Holy Grail War.In light of the appearance of the eighth Servant, Saber finally reveals to Shirou the shocking events of the previous Holy Grail War.

S1E20 - Distant Trace of a Dream 2006-05-20

Shirou takes Saber out on a date to try and convince her not to use the Grail and go back to her own time, but to stay in this time instead.

S1E21 - The Star of Creation That Divided Heaven and Earth 2006-05-27

With the appearance of the mysterious Archer-class Servant, Saber tells Shirou to escape while keeps him occupied. However Shirou, knowning that Saber couldnt defeat him before, foolishly tries to attack him head on and with the snap of his fingers Shirou is quickly defeated. Will Saber have the strength to defeat him, esepecially now knowing his true identity; owner of all the worlds treasures, the King of Heroes of ancient Uruk, Gilgamesh.Kirei Kotomine also seems to play a major part in the Holy Grail War and its not because hes the mediator.

S1E22 - Result of a Wish 2006-06-03

Saber cant seem to get Shirou of her mind but that is short lived when she finds out from Rin that Ilya has a terrible fever and may not last long. Meanwhile Shirou is still missing, having not returned from the night before and Saber knows that theres only one place he could be, the church. It doesnt take long for Saber to notice the wounded Shirou on the floor but shes unable to do anything because shes greeted by Lancer. Saber must decide whether she truly desires the Holy Grail as shes given a means in acquiring it.Kirei Kotomine reveals what really happened at the end of the last Holy Grail War and what will Shirou and Saber do knowing the true meaning of the Holy Grail?

S1E23 - The Holy Grail 2006-06-10

After the incident at the church, Saber and Shirou return home only to find Rin on the floor and badly injured. It turns out that Kirei Kotomine attacked her, while Shirou and Saber were occupied and thats not all because he has also taken Ilya and plans to make her the sacrifice for the Holy Grail. Aided with Rins final advice, they both head to Ryudouji where Kirei is going to summon the Holy Grail. Saber will battle again with Gilgamesh and Shirou will have to leave her and deal with Kirei, who obviously has some sort of personal vendetta against Shirou.The final fight has just begun.

S1E24 - The All Too Distant Utopia 2006-06-17

Shirou has found himself trapped in the same place Kirei Kotomine trapped Shirous father. Surrounded by death Shirou must escape this place through will power alone, if he wants to end this Holy Grail War once and for all. Saber is also having trouble defeating the somewhat unbeatable Gilgamesh yet there is hope, with the power of "Avalon" The Ever-Distant Utopia.What will truly come about from destroying the Holy Grail? Will things be able to go back to normal?

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