Otaku's Blogger!: Anime :- Fate Zero

Type : TV
Episodes : Season 1 - 13 Episodes , Episodes 2 - 12 Episodes
Status : Season 1 Finished Airing, Season 2 currently airing
Aired : Season 1 - Oct 2, 2011 to Dec 25, 2011. Season 2 - April 6, 2012 to ?
Producers : Aniplex, Ufotable, Nitroplus, Aniplex of America, Seikasiha, Notes
Genres : Action, Fantasy, Supernatural
Duration : 24 min. per episodes
Rating : R- 17+ (violence & profanity)

Synopsis : Fate Zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate Stay Night, detailing the events of the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to complete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail," which grants a miracle. After three incoclusive wars for the elusive Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences.

Founded by the Einzbern, Makiri, and Tohsaka families centuries ago, the Einzbern family is determined to achieve success after three succesive failures, no matter the cost. As a result, they have selected to bring the hated magmus killer, Kiritsugu Emiya, into their ranks, despite his methods and reputationas s skilled mercenary and a hitman who employs whatever he can use to accomplish his goals. Though Kiritsugu had once wanted to become a hero who could save everyone, he has a long since abandoned this ideal upon realizing that saving one person can comes at the cost of another's life. For the sake of humanity, he will ruthlessly destroy anything and anyone who threatens the peace of others.

However, Kiritsuge finds himself deeply torn between the love he has found for his new family - his wife Irisviel and their daughter Illya - and what he must do to obtain the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, Kiritsugu's greatest opponent appears in the form of Kirei Kotomine, a priest who cannot find any sense of fulfillment in his life and sets his sights on Kiritsugu as the possible answer to the emptiness he feels.