I am the bone of my sword...

The recently announced Fate/Stay Night movie has been confirmed to follow the second path of the original Type-Moon Visual novel. The movie is titled: Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works and is set to be released on January 23 2010 in Japanese Theatres.

The movie is not a continuation of the 2006 Anime series but, an alternative setting of the Holy Grail War. The only common thing between the paths is the first two or three days and then from that the plot dramatically changes. Even though it is not a continuation I would strongly suggest watching the anime or playing the visual novel beforehand seeing how they will cut a lot of character development.

Though I will be looking forward to be able to see this I am questioning how effective this movie will be, considering the length of the visual novel. The Unlimited Blade Works path alone took me about 24 hours of game play to finish. Can they really sum this up in a movie successfully? The TV adaptation of the first path was 26 episodes long and still struggled to fit in all that was contained in the Fate path. All though the dojo episodes could have run a lot shorter and another fact is they added an extra arc to include Assassin and Caster and in this extra arc used some scenes from the other paths: Unlimited Blade works and Heaven’s Feel. I would prefer if they made Unlimited Blade Works a full anime series and not just a movie.

The anime series was beautifully animated and I hope we can look forward to the same quality because Unlimited Blade Works has some awesome fight scenes that had me at the edge of my seat. I am not going to spoil much but for those who have not played the visual novel you will have an awnser to the biggest question the original series left us with “Who is Archer?”