The Japanese visual novel video game Fate/Stay Night by Type-Moon was adapted into three separate manga adaptations, with each adapting one of the three routes of Fate/stay night—Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel.[1] The manga series covering the Fate route was serialized in Type-Moon's Comic Ace web magazine and Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine from December 26, 2005,[2][3] to November 17, 2012, with its chapters being collected into twenty tankōbon volumes.[4][5] In December 2007, it was licensed for an English language release in North America by Tokyopop.[6] Tokyopop announced that they were shutting down their North American manga publishing division in April 2011, halting the serialization of manga's volumes. In 2014, Viz Media's Viz Select imprint would later re-issue the first ten volumes of the Fate/stay night manga digitally.[1]
The cover of the first volume of the Fateroute manga, released by Kadokawa Shoten on May 26, 2006, in Japan
The second manga, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel (フェイトステイナイトヘブンズ フィール, Feito/sutei naito: Hebunzu Fīru), was written by Taskohna and had begun serialization in May 2015 in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine.[7] It focuses on the relationship between Sakura Matou and Shirou Emiya, who abandons his heroic aspirations to protect Sakura and the corruption of the Holy Grail War.[8]
The third manga series, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (フェイトステイナイトアンリミテッドブレードワークス, Feito/sutei naito: Anrimiteddoburēdowākusu), was written by Daisuke Moriyama and serialized in Kadokawa's Dengeki Daioh magazine.[9][10] The story focuses on the relationship between Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya, as they fight in the fifth Holy Grail War.[11]
Rider and Shinji Matou are up to no good again, this time everyone is bound to suffer. As Shirou Emiya wrestles with his feelings of the dramatic changes in Shinji, he attempts to bring his friend back to reality, believing there's still good in him. Shirou struggles to reconcile the gradual complications in his relationship with Saber.
The 2006 Fate/Stay Night manga based on the Fate route of the visual novel had ranked at number 18 in Anime News Network's Japanese Comic Ranking with a total of 37,314 copies in the week of April 23-29, 2012.[33] In August 2012, it had a total of 27,593 weekly copies in circulation.[34] By November 2012, the manga had 40,413 total copies in circulation.[35]
