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Gen Urobuchi's Fate/Zero Novels Get Musical Stage Play in 2025
posted on by Joanna Cayanan & Rafael Antonio Pineda
A website opened on Tuesday and revealed that Fate/Zero prequel light novel series will get a musical stage play adaptation titled Musical Fate/Zero. The stage play will run from January to February next year in Tokyo and Osaka.
Romeo and the Black Brothers musicals) is writing the screenplay, directing the musical, and is writing the lyrics. Urobuchi is supervising the script.
Fate/Zero is a prequel novel series to Fate/stay night visual novel game, centering on the Fourth Holy Grail War and its cast of characters, the dramatic events of which lead directly to the Fifth Holy Grail War in Fate/stay night. The narrative mostly centers on Kiritsugu Emiya, a specialist "mage killer" assigned by a prominent mage family to be a competing Master in the Holy Grail War, as he is torn between his pragmatic utilitarianism, his love for his wife and daughter, and the sacrifices he must make to win.
Star Seas Company later offered the novels commercially in a six-book bunkoban edition in January to June 2011.
The novels later licensed the manga in 2014.
Source: Fate/Zero stage play website, Comic Natalie
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