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The Fate series

Release order puts the prequel first, and the prequel spoils the reveals that the main story is built around.

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Where to start with The Fate series

Start with the 2014 ufotable series Unlimited Blade Works, not with Fate/Zero. Zero came out first and is set first, and watching it first hands you the answers to the questions Fate/stay night spends its whole run asking.

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    Unlimited Blade Works, season 1 Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works

    The cleanest entry point in the franchise. It explains the Holy Grail War from scratch, and its central mystery only lands if you do not already know who Kotomine Kirei is.

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    Unlimited Blade Works, season 2 Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works

    Finishes the route. Do not stop after season 1, which ends in the middle of an arc rather than at a resolution.

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    Fate/Zero Fate/Zero

    The prequel, ten years earlier. Now that you know the fifth war, Zero reads as tragedy instead of exposition, and its ending no longer gives anything away.

Then what? Then watch the Heaven's Feel film trilogy in order, presage flower, lost butterfly and spring song. It is the third route and it assumes you have already seen the other two. The 2006 Studio Deen series covers the Fate route and is worth watching if you want the whole visual novel, but it is optional and it is not the version to start with. Everything in the Separate continuities group is a different world and can be watched in any order, or not at all.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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