History Anime / FatePrototype

A [[https://web-ace.jp/tmca/contents/2000060/episode/2476/ manga adaptation]] started on July 25th, 2023.

A LightNovel series, titled ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'', began serialization in Comptiq magazine starting in August 2013, with Volume 1 released in September 2014, Volume 2 released in October 2014, Volume 3 released in March 2015, Volume 4 released in March 2016, and Volume 5 released in April 2017. The series is written by [[VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock Hikaru]] [[VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth Sakurai]] and illustrated by Nakahara. The story is about the First Holy Grail War that occurred in Ayaka's childhood, essentially making it ''Prototype'''s answer to ''Literature/FateZero''. A [[https://web-ace.jp/tmca/contents/2000060/episode/2476/ manga adaptation]] started on July 25th, 2023.

A LightNovel series, titled ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'', began serialization in Comptiq magazine starting in August 2013, with Volume 1 released in September 2014, Volume 2 released in October 2014, Volume 3 released in March 2015, Volume 4 released in March 2016, and Volume 5 released in April 2017. The series is written by [[VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock Hikaru]] [[VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth Sakurai]] and illustrated by Nakahara. The story is about the First Holy Grail War that occurred in Ayaka's childhood, essentially making it ''Prototype'''s answer to ''Literature/FateZero''.

A LightNovel series, titled ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'', began serialization in Comptiq magazine starting in August 2013, with Volume 1 released in September 2014, Volume 2 released in October 2014, Volume 3 released in March 2015, Volume 4 released in March 2016, and Volume 5 released in April 2017. The series is written by [[VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock Hikaru]] [[VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth Sakurai]] and illustrated by Nakahara. The story is about the First Holy Grail War that occurred in Ayaka's childhood, essentially making it ''Prototype'''s answer to ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

* {{Yandere}}: A flashback in ''Fragments'' reveals that Proto-Mordred was even more ''extremely'' obsessed over his father Arthur than [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha the Mordred of Artoria's timeline]]. To the point he wanted to destroy everything Arthur cared about until he only had Mordred to focus his attention on.

* AllThereInTheManual: Long before the OVA, Ayaka and the male Saber were introduced in a ''TYPE-MOON'' art book called "Character Material". ''Prototype'' itself came with an art book of it's own, further expanding on the characters and story.

** The prequel also introduces the likes of [[UsefulNotes/PersianMythology Arash]], [[Literature/TheSagaOfTheVolsungs Brynhildr]], [[LegacyCharacter one of the nineteen]] [[UsefulNotes/TheHashshashin Hassan-I-Sabbah]], [[UsefulNotes/RamsesII Ramesses II/Ozymandias]], and even [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]].

* AllMythsAreTrue: Beings such as Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus, and Heracles]] are all summoned in the modern day for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. And with [[Literature/TheBible the Beast of Revelation]] being the ultimate threat to everything in the setting.
** The prequel also introduces the likes of [[UsefulNotes/PersianMythology Arash]], [[Literature/TheSagaOfTheVolsungs Brynhildr]], [[LegacyCharacter one of the nineteen]] [[UsefulNotes/TheHashshashin Hassan-I-Sabbah]], [[UsefulNotes/RamsesII Ramesses II/Ozymandias]], and even [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]].

* CrossoverCosmology: Figures from legend and prophecy around the globe coexist here. Of course, [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny not for long]].

* AllMythsAreTrue: Beings such as Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus, and Heracles]], are all summoned in the modern day for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. And with [[Literature/TheBible the Beast of Revelation]] being the ultimate threat to everything in the setting.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Beings such as Myth/KingArthur, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus and Heracles]], [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]] are all summoned in the modern day for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. And with [[Literature/TheBible the Beast of Revelation]] being the ultimate threat to everything in the setting.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Beings such as KingArthur, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus and Heracles]], [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]] are all summoned in the modern day for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. And with [[Literature/TheBible the Beast of Revelation]] being the ultimate threat to everything in the setting.

* GenderFlip: Inverted. Shirou Emiya of ''Fate/stay night'' is a gender flip of ''Prototype'''s protagonist Ayaka Sajyou (although Ayaka also has a ''lot'' in common with Rin Tohsaka, being the mage daughter of a respected mage who died in a previous Holy Grail War). Same goes with Saber, since she is also a gender flip of Ayaka's Saber-class Servant [[spoiler:and by extension, also a gender flip of KingArthur]]. The Fragments Drama CD makes it very clear Saber of Red [[spoiler:is a gender flip of the male Mordred from the Prototype timeline]]. PlayedStraight in case of Prototypes incarnation of Merlin, who is a male-to-female genderflip of ''Fate/Stay Night'' Merlin.

* GenderFlip: Inverted. Shirou Emiya of ''Fate/stay night'' is a gender flip of ''Prototype'''s protagonist Ayaka Sajyou (although Ayaka also has a ''lot'' in common with Rin Tohsaka, being the mage daughter of a respected mage who died in a previous Holy Grail War). Same goes with Saber, since she is also a gender flip of Ayaka's Saber-class Servant [[spoiler:and by extension, also a gender flip of KingArthur]]. The Fragments Drama CD makes it very clear Saber of Red [[spoiler:is a gender flip of the male Mordred from the Prototype timeline]]. PlayedStraight in case of Prototypes incarnation of Merlin, who is a male-to-female genderflip of ''Fate/Grand Order'' Merlin.

* GenderFlip: Inverted. Shirou Emiya of ''Fate/stay night'' is a gender flip of ''Prototype'''s protagonist Ayaka Sajyou (although Ayaka also has a ''lot'' in common with Rin Tohsaka, being the mage daughter of a respected mage who died in a previous Holy Grail War). Same goes with Saber, since she is also a gender flip of Ayaka's Saber-class Servant [[spoiler:and by extension, also a gender flip of KingArthur]]. The Fragments Drama CD makes it very clear Saber of Red [[spoiler:is a gender flip of the male Mordred from the Prototype timeline]].

* AncientConspiracy: The Holy Grail War. Though in comparison to the FSN timeline, the Grail War is relatively new in the Protoverse.

** The Noble Phantasms are ''significantly'' more destructive at full power than in ''F/SN'' as published, or indeed other ''Fate'' works. Arthur's Excalibur, for example, can devastate a good bit of the Tokyo metro area in just one swing.
*** Especially notable on this front is Proto-Gilgamesh's true NP, Enki: Sword of the End - which replicates the Flood of Utnapishtim, covering the world in water. Small wonder that it wasn't kept considering that it be pretty hard to hide a secret war when one of the participants floods the city and the other takes out said flood with one incredibly powerful blast of energy. [[note]]''Fate/Grand Order'', in particular, would later go on to explicitly state that ''no'' Noble Phantasm from a normal Servant has the power to destroy the entire planet completely due to the World's interference (although a few singularities of ''Epic of Remnant'' are devoted to either getting around this little restriction via the creative use of metaphysics or discussing parts of the multiverse where it isn't as true because they've ''already'' been pruned). And even if one did, attempting to invoke it would likely kill the user (and his/her Master if they have one) stone dead before it could fire unless they have a viable source of mana. Said [=NPs=] capable of planetary destruction are also classified as ''Anti-Planet/Anti-Star'' (depending on the translation) rather than "Anti-World". Which makes sense to a degree thanks to the differing connotations that the word ''world'' can imply.[[/note]]

* PowerTattoo: The command seals (or as they're called here, Master Degrees).
** Also, the prototype Gates of Babylon, Bab-ilu: Key of the King's Law, which in this is a tattoo on Archer's face.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Grail granting wishes making it inherently evil is due to the wishes and desires of most humans [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters are typically selfish and not noble]]. This is partly due to the idea the Grail can grant wishes is based on the Celtic myth of Dagda's Cauldron, the Dundry, which eventually got equated with the Holy Grail due to the miracles it performs. Most people don't realize it's true nature due to no one ever using one before to grant a wish.

In October 2017, Type-Moon released the first CD in a Drama CD adaptation of the ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' novels, which covers the entirety of the events, but in a linear chronicle fashion.

In October 2017, Type-Moon released the first CD in a Drama CD series titled "Fate/Prototype Fragments of Sky Silver", which covers the entirety of the events in the ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' novels, but in a linear chronicle fashion.

In October 2017, Type-Moon released the first drama cd in a Drama CD series titled "Fate/Prototype Fragments of Sky Silver", which covers the entirety of the events in the ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'' novels, but in a linear chronicle fashion.

* {{Expy}}: Inverted. ''Prototype'''s characters aren't based on the ''Fate/stay night'' cast, the ''Fate/stay night'' cast is based on ''them''. Precise examples of who propagated who can be found on the character page.

* GenderFlip: Inverted. Shirou Emiya of ''Fate/stay night'' is a gender flip of ''Prototype'''s protagonist Ayaka Sajyou (although Ayaka also has a ''lot'' in common with Rin Tohsaka, being the mage daughter of a respected mage who died in a previous Holy Grail War). Same goes with Saber, since she is also a gender flip of Ayaka's Saber-class Servant [[spoiler:and by extension, also a gender flip of KingArthur]].

* {{Yandere}}: A flashback in ''Fragments'' reveals that Proto-Mordred was apparently even more ''extremely'' obsessed over Arthur than [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha the Mordred of Artoria's timeline]]. To the point ''they''[[note]]Proto-Mordred's gender hasn't actually been revealed yet.[[/note]] wanted to destroy everything Arthur cared about until he only had Mordred to focus his attention on.

* GenderFlip: Inverted. Shirou Emiya of ''Fate/stay night'' is a gender flip of ''Prototype'''s protagonist Ayaka Sajyou (although Ayaka also has a ''lot'' in common with Rin Tohsaka). Same goes with Saber, since she is also a gender flip of Ayaka's Saber-class Servant [[spoiler:and by extension, also a gender flip of KingArthur]].