History Webcomic / FateTypeRedline

* OutsideContextProblem: Downplayed. As while Kanata is from the future, he's not so much of a problem to other enemy Servants being an ordinary boy and all. However, the [[spoiler: cellphone]] he throws at Assassin to save Tsukumo buys time as since its a device from the future, Assassin has no knowledge of it at all and hesitates due to being unsure what it is and why it's being thrown so slow because of Katana's own power.

* SadisticChoice: Okada Izo captures Tsukumo and threatens to kill her unless Kanata uses his Command Spells to make Okita commit suicide. Tsukumo tries to tell them to forget about her, so Okada angrily stabs her.

* SillinessSwitch: During the extra pages at the end of chapters, the Servants are allowed to act a bit like their ''Koha-Ace'' or ''GUDAGUDA'' selves while bringing some of its compatriots there (such as Oda Nobukatsu or Akechi Mitsuhide), contrasting to the serious main story.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While ''LightNovel/FateStrangeFake'' needed only mild retooling to become a proper story, ''Redline'' has far greater changes in order to work due to the original being a gag story:

** In the original, Okada Izo spends most of the story pretending to be Sakamoto Ryouma, with the real Sakamoto only appearing near the end. This is dropped in favour of presenting the two as separate characters from the start, as fans are already generally aware of who they are and to allow Sakamoto to play a proper role in the story, though Izou still uses Sakamoto's name as an alias.

* RippleEffectIndicator: In 5.1, [[spoiler:the text of the remaining pages of the light novel Kanata had starts to blur and change itself to reflect Tsukumo's likely death, rewriting the story from it's original text]].

* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Subverted. The light novel that Kanata inadvertently used as a catalyst to summon Saber seems to be a fictionalized version of the events of this Holy Grail War. Unfortunately, he hadn't gone too far in the book, and the summon and Archer's attack damaged it, leaving only the damaged first half. Furthermore, the story describes a timeline where Tsukumo became the Master of Saber, and it's not immune to being rewritten by the effects of Kanata's presence in the War.

* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Subverted. The light novel that Kanata inadvertently used as a catalyst to summon Saber seems to be a fictionalized version of the events of this Holy Grail War. Unfortunately, he hadn't gone too far in the book, and the summon and Archer's attack damaged it, leaving only the damaged first half.

* RetGone: Kanata fears that this could happen to him if Tsukumo, the past single teen version of his grandma, dies.

** More specifically towards ''Koha-Ace'': Okada Izo originally used Sakamoto Ryouma's name as an alias, before Ryōma actually showed up near the end. Here, both are shown as separate characters from the get-go, though Izo still uses Ryouma's name as an alias.

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

* '''Assassin''': '''''Okada Izou''''', one of the most famous hitokiri/manslayers during the Bakumatsu era, taking jobs assassinating several political figures.

** More specifically towards ''Koha-Ace'': Okada Izou originally used Sakamoto Ryōma's name as an alias, before Ryōma actually showed up near the end. Here, both are shown as separate characters from the get-go, though Izou still uses Ryōma's name as an alias.

* AlternateTimeline: 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.

* DesperateObjectCatch: Kanata does this in chapter 1 for the hourglass mystic code he found in his grandmother's estate which he accidentally dropped when he answered his smartphone. (Un)luckily enough he also use his slowdown magecraft to slow its fall but it also activates its effect.

** More specifically towards ''Koha-Ace'': Okada Izou originally used Sakamoto Ryoma's name as an alias, before Ryouma actually showed up near the end. Here, both are shown as separate characters from the get-go.

* RecessiveSuperGenes: Kanata and his grandmother have magical powers, but his father doesn't.

And suddenly, he meets a young girl, Tsukumo Fujimiya, being hounded by an armored lancer. Tsukumo prepares her trump card: She will summon a Servant with the strongest class, Saber, and have that Servant fight off against the enemy. Kanata, driven by instinct, interrupts the ritual when Tsukumo is in danger, but in the process, he throws his light novel into the summoning circle, and the Saber is summoned... and it's Kanata who receives the Command Spell as the Master of Saber instead of Tsukumo, which infuriates her. And then Kanata discovers that he was transported to the time period of the light novel he was reading... Showa Era Year 20.

* {{Retgone}}: Kanata fears that this could happen to him if Tsukumo, the past single teen version of his grandma, dies.

* EvilVersusEvil: The Holy Grail War is primarily being fought between the Third Reich and UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. The Imperials come off slightly better (even with the especially assholish Major Magatsu) since at least they're not literal Nazis, but it's still made clear that either group winning would be absolutely horrible for the world. Tsukumo was sent by the Church in the hopes of acting as a spoiler, and Kanata became a SpannerInTheWorks even for that plan.

* WeirdHistoricalWar: The Holy Grail War takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo in Japan's Imperial Capital.

* EvilVersusEvil: The Holy Grail War is primarily being fought between the Third Reich and Imperial Japan. The Imperials come off slightly better (even with the especially assholish Major Magatsu) since at least they're not literal Nazis, but it's still made clear that either group winning would be absolutely horrible for the world. Tsukumo was sent by the Church in the hopes of acting as a spoiler, and Kanata became a SpannerInTheWorks even for that plan.

* AlternateTimeline: Kanata comes from a world where a massive explosion in Kyoto 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 Kyoto, 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.

''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'',[[note]]though collected under the name ''Koha-Ace GO''[[/note]] 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.

* AscendedExtra: The whole series. ''Koha-Ace'' was a GagSeries not meant to be taken seriously, and even in the scope of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', the GUDAGUDA series was self-contained, never interfering with Singularities, ''Epic of Remnant'' Pseudo-Singularities, or Lostbelts, with their only appearance being the final Singularity (because they were part of the 'Event Servants'). However, thanks to the overwhelming popularity of the main faces (Okita and Nobunaga), now the whole series gets raised into the same bar as every other ''Fate'' series out there.

* CapitalOffensive: In chapter 3, there was a squadron of bombers and their escort fighters en route to firebomb the Imperial Capital but Archer shot them down.
* DarkerAndEdgier: It's basically the gag story that would become the basis of GUDAGUDA taken dead seriously. Even in her debut, Nobunaga is much more terrifying than her fourth wall-breaking original self; imagine the multiple 'more serious' Nobunagas seen in the 3rd GUDAGUDA, only this time add up SlasherSmile aplenty.

** Major Magatsu, being an ass of a Master who is part of the Imperial Armed Forces, stands in for Major Matou.[[note]]Major Matou himself was an expy of Shinji, but since the Three Families aren't participating in the war in this version, he had to be changed.[[/note]]

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Servant identities are more or less already known to the readers, since they were added to ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' with their identities revealed.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: A member of the Church asked Tsukumo what she would wish for on the Holy Grail. When she said she would wish for a bright future, the man burst into laughter and called her naive.
* SurpriseIncest: Kanata and Tsukumo were somewhat attracted to each other, then Kanata realizes she's his grandmother.
* TakeThatUs: The bit about Tsukumo planning to summon Artoria via Avalon feels like it might be a joking potshot at how often The King of Knights appears across Fate works.

** Kanata subsequently asks Tsukumo if the Grail could send him into the future. She shuts him down hard, pissed he'd want a "silly fantasy" like that as his wish.