9.026 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestFrancesca and the others descend into a dream realm filled with chaos.
In a Holy Grail War, Mages (Masters) and their Heroic Spirits (Servants) fight for the control of the Holy Grail—an omnipotent wish-granting device said to fulfill any desire. Years have passed since the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan. Now, signs portend the emergence of a new Holy Grail in the western American city of Snowfield. Sure enough, Masters and Servants begin to gather... A missing Servant class... Impossible Servant summonings... A nation shrouded in secrecy... And a city created as a battleground. In the face of such irregularities, the Holy Grail War is twisted and driven into the depth of madness. Let the curtain rise on a masquerade of humans and heroes, made to dance upon the stage of a false Holy Grail.
Direction
A-1 Pictures flexing with absolutely unhinged setpieces
Writing
Narita Ryohgo's signature 'too many characters, all bangers' energy
Score
Hiroyuki Sawano doing Sawano things—horn section of the gods
Creators
Maki Sato, Atsuhiro Iwakami, Takashi Takeuchi, Hiroshi Hagawa, Norikazu Otsuka
Kana Hanazawa
Ayaka Sajyou (voice)
Yuki Ono
Saber (voice)
Wataru Hatano
Orlando Reeve (voice)
Showtaro Morikubo
Caster (voice)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Flat Escardos (voice)
Lynn
Assassin (voice)
Maaya Uchida
Francesca Prelati (voice)
Junya Enoki
Faldeus Dioland (voice)
Shunsuke Sakuya
Langal (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Lord El-Melloi II (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts a light novel started in 2015 as an April Fools' joke that became too popular to kill. Peak Nasuverse energy.
Snowfield is essentially 'what if America did a Grail War'—complete with police militarization, celebrity culture, and fake urban development as metaphor.
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