History Webcomic / FateTypeRedline

''Fate/type Redline'' is a 2019 web manga by Ryouji Hirano, running as part of the ''Franchise/{{Fate series}}'' in Creator/TypeMoon's official online manga magazine ''Type-MOON Comic Ace'' ([[https://web-ace.jp/tmca/contents/2000014/ here]]). It's a DarkerAndEdgier retelling of the 'Imperial Capital Holy Grail Strange Story', a Holy Grail War that started out as a gag scenario from the ''Type-MOON Ace'' serial ''[[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Koha-Ace]]'', where Kohaku from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and several other Nasuverse characters pretended to create their own Holy Grail War starring mostly Japanese (and one Chinese and one fictional concept from a Scottish mathematician) historical figures. Running under the name ''Fate/Koha-Ace'' (though collected under the name ''Koha-Ace GO''), this self-spoofing story arc was popularized thanks to its OriginalGeneration characters appearing in comedic side materials and drama [=CDs=]. With their notoriety skyrocketing due to their antics in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s "GUDAGUDA" mini-series, Type-MOON thus saw fit to re-imagine the Imperial Holy Grail War... only this time, much like [[Literature/FateStrangeFake a certain April Fools prank turned real]], they're treating it like a proper Holy Grail War.

''Fate/type Redline'' is a 2019 web manga by Ryouji Hirano, running as part of the ''Franchise/{{Fate series}}'' in Type-MOON's official online manga magazine ''Type-MOON Comic Ace'' ([[https://web-ace.jp/tmca/contents/2000014/ here]]). It's a DarkerAndEdgier retelling of the 'Imperial Capital Holy Grail Strange Story', a Holy Grail War that started out as a gag scenario from the ''Type-MOON Ace'' serial ''[[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Koha-Ace]]'', where Kohaku from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and several other Nasuverse characters pretended to create their own Holy Grail War starring mostly Japanese (and one Chinese and one fictional concept from a Scottish mathematician) historical figures. Running under the name ''Fate/Koha-Ace'' (though collected under the name ''Koha-Ace GO''), this self-spoofing story arc was popularized thanks to its OriginalGeneration characters appearing in comedic side materials and drama [=CDs=]. With their notoriety skyrocketing due to their antics in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s "GUDAGUDA" mini-series, Type-MOON thus saw fit to re-imagine the Imperial Holy Grail War... only this time, much like [[Literature/FateStrangeFake a certain April Fools prank turned real]], they're treating it like a proper Holy Grail War.

* '''Rider''': '''''Sakamoto Ryouma''''', the legendary mediator that paved the way to the UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration. Accompanying him is a humanoid dragon spirit named similarly to his wife, Oryou.

** The glossary notes that ''type Redline'' is its own unique continuity without any (direct) connection to any other Fate series.

* MathematiciansAnswer: When Tsukumo and Kanata ask Oryou if she's a servant, she sayd not to lump her with servants because "Oryou-san is Oryou-san". Cue [[VisibleSilence visible]] [[ConfusedQuestionMark confusion]].

* FirstEpisodeTwist: Kanata, a 21st century Reiwa era boy, gets mixed up in a Holy Grail War, except he's thrown into one that happened in the ''past'' of the 20th century Shōwa era.

* WarIsHell: An emerging theme and concern inside the narrative, especially as they are [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific in the middle of the biggest one]].

** Nobunaga's Master Kaname is a fair haired young woman under the Imperial Armed Forces' employ, making her a stand-in for (an alternate) Artoria. Her military cap and sailor suit are also directly lifted from that Artoria's garb. [[spoiler:Her backstory also technically counts, as being a half-Japanese, she mirrors Artoria's own birth circumstances (i.e. being born from Uther Pendragon's BedTrick with another man's wife).

** Kanata comes from a world where a massive explosion in Tokyo seventy-five years ago killed two hundred thousand people. This event was never mentioned in previous ''Fate'' material. Once he gets taken back in time, more differences become apparent: The Grail War is taking place in Tokyo, with none of the three founding families involved, and the course of World War II is changed (at least in small ways) by the intervention of Servants.
*** Chapter 12 has Kanata explain to Saber that Tokyo was destroyed in a way that the land was gouged so much that the sea filled in to make a gulf.

** Nobunaga's Master Kaname is a fair haired young woman under the Imperial Armed Forces' employ, making her a stand-in for (an alternate) Artoria. Her military cap and sailor suit are also directly lifted from that Artoria's garb.

* EasilyOverheadConversation: In chapter 12, Kanata reveals to Saber important information about himself and the future with Rider overhearing.

*** Chapter 12 has Kanata explain to Saber that Tokyo was destroyed in a way that the land was gouged so much that the sea filled in to make a bay.

* RealityEnsues: While most of ''Fate's'' {{Everyman}} protagonists adjust from peacetime to fighting quite well, Kanata [[ThousandYardStare does not]]. He's completely unprepared for the horrors of war and spends the entire first fight crouched terrified against a wall, traumatized by the fighting, corpses, and threat to his life.

** The key visual is a hotblooded recreation of the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/e/e2/FateKA.jpg tankoubon art]] for ''Fate/Koha Ace''.

** Chapter 11.1 and 11.2 add a new scene where Rider and Oryou tries to form sn alliance with Saber to take down Archer before their fight against Berserker.

** Chapter 11 reveals through Kanata's memory from around 2005 A.D. in his original timeline, that even after 60 years that Japan is still in postwar restoration.