Aniplex of America Announces Fate/EXTRA Last Encore Complete Blu-ray Box Set Release in October

SANTA MONICA, CA (JULY 30, 2019) – Aniplex of America is pleased to announce the Fate/Extra Last Encore Complete Blu-ray Box Set release on October 22nd. The series brings together esteemed director Akiyuki Shimbou and celebrated animation studio SHAFT, widely lauded for such huge hits such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the Monogatari series, Nisekoi, and March comes in like a lion. The box set features all thirteen episodes with both an English dub and Japanese audio with English subtitles within three Blu-ray discs, along with a collection of promotional videos and commercials as well as textless opening and ending. Housed in a rigid box, the Fate/Extra Last Encore Complete Blu-ray Box Set will also come with a deluxe booklet featuring an exclusive interview with TYPE-MOON's Kinoko Nasu, who handled the series composition in addition to creating the original story, along with an interview with director Akiyuki Shimbou and numerous pages of character materials. Pre-orders are available now at online retailer, Right Stuf Anime (www.righstufanime.com), with the box set being available in the U.S. and Canada only.

Based on the Fate/Extra video game, the series transports viewers to a Holy Grail War of the Moon featuring the protagonist Hakuno Kishinami, voiced by Atsushi Abe (Yowamushi Pedal, A Certain Magical Index) and his Servant, the charismatic Saber, also known as the Emperor of Roses, voiced by Sakura Tange (Fate/Apocrypha, Card Captor Sakura). The English dub stars Cassandra Morris (Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica) and Billy Kametz (Cells at Work!, Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu) under the English ADR direction of Fate series veteran Tony Oliver, who's work includes Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], Fate/Zero, Fate/Apocyrpha, Fate/Grand Order: First Order, and the Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] films. The series also reunites both the Japanese and English dub cast of Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] who play an alternate version of their original characters including Kana Ueda and Mela Lee as Rin Tohsaka, Hiroshi Kamiya and Kyle McCarley as Shinji Matou, as well as Noriko Shitaya and Cristina Vee as Sakura Matou.

The Monogatari series' Satoru Kōsaki of MONACA was tasked to handle the music for the series, which also featured an opening theme “Bright Burning Shout” by popular Japanese artist Takanori Nishikawa, who is well known by his stage name T.M. Revolution.

Fate/Extra Last Encore Complete Blu-ray Box Set includes:
<Disc Specs>

• Spoken Languages: Japanese and English
  
• Subtitles: English
  
• Aspect ratio: 16:9 widescreen
  
• Episodes: 13 Episodes
  
• Number of Discs: 3 Blu-ray Discs
  
• Total Run Time: approx. 339 min.
  
• Rating: 13 UP
  

< Bonus Contents>

• Japanese & English Audio
  
• English Subtitles
  
• PV & CM Collections
  
• Textless Opening and Ending
  * Bonus contents subject to change.
  

< Bonus Materials & Special Package>

• Deluxe Booklet
  
• Rigid Box with exclusive Illustration
  * Bonus materials subject to change.
  

About Fate/Extra Last Encore:
It was the forgotten EXTRA.

This is a story of EXTRA that will unfold on a forgotten moon.
The Mooncell Automaton, a spiritron computer that exists on the moon, grants any and all wishes.
A virtual spiritron world created within the Mooncell is SE.RA.PH. With the "Holy Grail" on the line,
Mages and Servants must now wage a brand new Holy Grail War of the Moon.

For more details on Fate/Extra Last Encore, please visit: https://fate-extraleusa.com/

STAFF
Original Story: Kinoko Nasu, TYPE-MOON / Marvelous
Series Composition: Kinoko Nasu
Original Character Concept: WADARCO
Chief Director: Akiyuki Shimbou
Series Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Character Design & Chief Animation Directors: Masaaki Takiyama, Hiroki Yamamura
Action Director: Kazuhiro Miwa
Art Director: Takuma Mochizuki
Color Setting: Hitoshi Hibino
CG Director: Shin'ya Takano
Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu
Editing: Rie Matsubara
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
Music: Satoru Kōsaki (MONACA)
Animation Production: SHAFT

CAST (Japanese / English)
Hakuno Kishinami: Atsushi Abe / Billy Kametz
Saber: Sakura Tange / Cassandra Morris
Rin Tohsaka: Kana Ueda / Mela Lee
Shinji Matou: Hiroshi Kamiya / Kyle McCarley
Sakura Matou: Noriko Shitaya / Cristina Vee
Misao Amari: Ayaka Imamura / Cherami Leigh
Archer: Kōsuke Toriumi / Vic Mignogna
Rider: Urara Takano / Jessica Gee George
Caster: Ai Nonaka / Xanthe Huynh
Berserker: Kunihiko Yasui / Chris Hackney
Gawain: Takahiro Mizushima / Chris Patton

About Aniplex of America Inc.
Aniplex of America, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex, Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a division of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc., and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. The company's ever-growing lineup of shows includes: Sword Art Online, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], Fate/Zero, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, March comes in like a lion, Blue Exorcist, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Monogatari series, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day-, Cells at Work!, The Promised Neverland, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. In 2017, the company made its first foray into mobile gaming with the launch of the English version of the popular mobile game, Fate/Grand Order, followed by the release of the mobile game Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story's English version in the U.S. and Canada in June 2019.

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