Sentai Acquires Fate/stay night Movie

Sentai Filmworks has acquired the domestic distribution rights to the 2010 Fate/Stay night: Unlimited Blade Works motion picture. Sentai will distribute the film digitally and on DVD & Blu-ray later this year. The staff and primary cast of the 2005 Fate/stay night anime television series reunited for the film, which adapts an alternate play-through route from Type-Moon’s original 2004 visual novel game.

Geneon & FUNimation have distributed the Fate/stay night TV series on domestic DVD, although it’s out of print now. Sentai Filmworks presently distributes the Tsukihime anime TV series which is set within the same universe as Fate/stay night.

This feels like an odd acquisition because despite the movie being technically impressive, bloody, and action-oriented, it’s also nearly incomprehensible for anyone unfamiliar with the original game or, at least, the earlier TV anime.