While this series is not considered canon, certain references are made to their respective canonical series.įate/Strange Fake is a short fan-made non-canon light novel written by Ryougo Narita, the writer of Baccano! It was was first released online as an April Fools' Day joke with no illustrations, but was later inserted into Vol. It mostly revolves around inside jokes about Type-Moon and characters from other Type-Moon series, who end up meeting each other in the same universe for one reason or another. The Carnival Phantasm anime series was adapted from a gag-dojin manga called Take-Moon, published in Type-Moon Ace magazine and authored and illustrated by Eri Takenashi, who did Kannagi. It tells the "what-if" story of what would happen if Illya became a magical girl and had to capture Servants as cards.
This so-called " Nasuverse" is a term used to describe the Type-Moon universe that Nasu Kinoku the main series writer, and Takeuchi Takeshi, the main series character designer, have created.įate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya started out as more of a gag-dojin manga serialized in Comp-Ace. It pushes some fun concepts and new servants and is for the most part considered a canonical part of the Nasuverse. It's really half story-canon and half fandisk.įate/Extra takes places a long time after Fate/Stay Night, but in a parallel universe. The latter revolves around Emiya Shirou and his involvement with the 5th Holy Grail War.įate/Hollow Ataraxia is considered the sequel to Fate/Stay Night, taking place 6 months later. The former revolves around Kiritsugu Emiya and his involvement in the 4th Holy Grail War. It originally consisted of 4 light novels written by Gen Urobuchi with the story set by Kinoko Nasu, who wrote the original visual novel.
Fate/Zero is the prequel to Fate/Stay Night, taking place 10 years before the latter.