Summer 2015 schedule for Prisma☆Illya Season 3 confirmed!

A tweet from the official Prisma☆Illya Twitter page reveals that the next season of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, titled "2wei! Herz" (2wei, a play on the German word for 'two'; and Herz meaning 'Heart') is all set for Summer of 2015, and even better sporting an awesome new key visual on the website:

It roughly translates to "[Announcement!] Happy New Year! The 2015 summer broadcasting schedule for "Prisma Ilya Zwei Hertz!" is ready! I also put up a new visual to the official website! http://anime.prisma-illya.jp/ Thank you, and give lots more love to Illya this year! #prisma_illya"

The new key visual, sporting our beloved characters Chloe, Miyu and Illya on the beach

 In September of this year, the broadcast of the final episode of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei! ended with an announcement that production on a sequel has been green-lit for next year. Hiroshi Hiroyama's original Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya manga re-imagines the Fate/stay night character Illyasviel von Einzbern in an alternate universe as a magical girl. A manga adaptation of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya ran in Comp Ace (a monthly Japanese game and manga magazine) from 2007 to 2008. Hiroyama then launched several sequel manga series. I loved the other two seasons, so I'm really hyped up for this. I've grown a special place for Illya and Magical Ruby in my heart, and it's nice to know that she's not going anywhere anytime soon.

More Fate/stay night for 2015? Yes, please.

With Fate/stay night's 12th episode airing last week came the 30 second preview for the series' 2nd season.

If you ask me though, 30 seconds is just enough to get this hype train started. It has everything from Lancer and Archer's showdown, to Saber in a wedding dress (wink wink), and even Illya drenched in blood (wink wink WINK). The awesome factor is pushed to 10 when the visage of Unlimited Blade Works towers over Archer. Hopefully he'll get the screen time he deserves, lol

And don't forget, an animated film of Heaven's Feel is right on it's heels. Here's hoping it'll get the Kara no Kyoukai treatment and get multiple installments.

Prepare to never look at worms the same way again.

Saber to appear in upcoming Nitro+ fighter

With all the announcements of upcoming fighters Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V - what about the doujin fighters? Surely they don't expect me to be satisfied with Person 4 Ultimax and Guilty Gear Xrd? Well, yeah...it did.


Anyways, this week's Famitsu revealed that game developer Examu (Arcana Heart, AquaPazza: Aquaplus Dream Match) is working on a new fighting game starring the heroines of Nitro+ ( a Japanese visual novel computer software company), and joining the roster is none other than Fate's Saber!

Titled Nitro+ Blasters: HEROINE INFINITE DUEL, other characters include Ein from Phantom of Inferno, Dragon from Dra+KoI, Mora from Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia, Natsumi Aibara from "Hello, world.", Sansei Muramasa from Soukou Akki Muramasa, Spica from Sumaga, Aino Heart from the Arcana Heart series and even Super Sonico, the mascot of Nitroplus’ annual music festival, makes her official fighting debut! SUPER-FREAKING-SONICO!

Looks like aerial combat is going to be awesome.

The game seems to have a support character system in which the partner protects and/or attacks alongside the main fighter. Looks like you can choose up to two.

I can definitely see Nico as a grappler-type fighter.

Looks like it's the same Saber from Fate/Zero, but we'll see.

A Japanese arcade release is slated for 2015. As a Nitro+ fan, here's hoping it'll come stateside! I also want to see characters from their previous Nitro+ fighter, Nitro Royale: Heroine's Duel. Saya, anyone?

Another Fate/stay night character ad - this time featuring Saber!

Yesterday, the fourth character ad for ufotable's upcoming anime adaptation of Fate / stay night began airing, this time focusing on Saber. With this, the hype level is at an all-time high, and increasing as we get closer to October 4th.

"I have arrived due to your summon. Master, your orders."

The animation is as beautiful as always, with amazing detail put into every frame. October 4th just can not get here quick enough. Here's hoping they keep the ads coming!

New Character Ad for 2014's Fate/stay Night TV Anime highlights Shirō Emiya

A new character ad for Ufotable's upcoming Anime adaptation of Fate/stay night began airing last Saturday. The focus this time is Shirō Emiya, "the boy who seeks to become a Superhero."

If you ask me, 15 seconds of Shirō is nowhere near enough Shirō, but it does an excellent job of showing his resolve (especially his last line "If you're telling me that the reason behind the fire ten years ago was the Holy Grail War, I can't let that kind of thing happen ever again."), and getting me fired up for the premiere.

The ad features the song "ideal white" by Mashiro Ayano, which will be the opening theme song (Kalafina will perform the ending song).


The new anime will follow the visual novel's 'Unlimited Blade Works' route, and is scheduled to air on October 4, 2014 at midnight. It will be split up into two seasons, the latter half of the anime scheduled to premier in April 2015.


The staff roll includes:

Original character designs: Takashi Takeuchi
Director: Takahiro Miura
Character Design: Tomonori Sudou, Hisayuki Tabata, Atsushi Ikariya
Color Key: Emi Chiba, Mika Matsuoka
Art Director: Koji Eto
Director of Photography: Yuichi Terao
3D Director: Kōjirō Shishido
Music: Hideyuki Fukasawa
Animation Production: ufotable

Summer Updates

It’s been a busy summer for Type-Moon content, but now as Autumn rolls in, Sakura’s Labyrinth is back.

This season for anime includes the second season of Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, a magical girl take of Fate, which I’ve been pretty impressed with so far. Sakura’s Labyrinth will be doing an in depth review of it after it finishes airing.

As for the hype, Ufotable has announced that they will be animating both the Unlimited Blade Works route and the Heaven’s Feel route for Fate/Stay Night. Unlimited Blade Works is a TV series that will air on October 4th 2014. The Heaven’s Feel route will be adapted as a film, though personally I’m hoping for a film series. Promotional videos have been released announcing both, as well as character previews for both Rin Tohsaka and Archer, important characters in the Unlimited Blade Works route.

Type-Moon has also announced two games for IOS and Android: Fate/Grand Order and an IOS port of the Fate route of the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel. Grand Order is a reboot of sorts for the canceled RPG that became the Light Novel series Fate/Apocrypha. The Fate route port will be free to download.

In other news I’m a new writer for this blog and I’ll be helping out Kuro Sakura. I’m super hyped for this fall. Feel free to leave your comments below.

Heaven’s Feel Promotional Video

Rin Tohsaka Promotional Video

Fate/Grand Order Video

Unlimited Blade Works Promotional Video

Archer Promotional Video

Fate/Stay Night ufotable Promotional Video 2

A second preview for the new Fate/Stay Night anime, previously presented at AnimeJapan, is now online!

It seems like there's no real spoilers here, as all of the scenes depicted take place before the visual novel's route is chosen (the "Day Before"). The video have a little bit of a hype factor, though not as much as the first in my opinion. Maybe I expected more? I recommend everyone to check out the visual novel before this anime's release, as it's just that good.

For those who don't know, ufotable is the studio that adapted Fate/zero, a light novel taking place before Fate/stay Night. I'm expecting good things, as ufotable has done nothing but excellent work in the past (Tales of Symphonia: The Animation, Coyote Ragtime Show, Gods Eater Burst and Toriko to name a few). What do you guys think?

As always more news as it surfaces.

Sakura's Labyrinth is back online!

After almost a month of downtime, I've finally gathered enough energy to remerge! Between school life and well, regular life, I didn't really know what direction I wanted to take this blog in. I've done reviews and such, but now I want to finish a project that I've been working on: a light novel. I'll still be posting two to three times a week (maybe more as interesting things present themselves), but I'll also be putting up my work progress as well, if anyone's interested. So expect lots of reviews, news, galleries and more!

~ Kuro Sakura

Fate/stay Night 2014 News

In January of 2006, Studio Deen animated an adaptation of Type-Moon's first commercial work, Fate/stay Night, based on the Fate scenario.

In January 2010, Studio Deen produced a Fate/stay Night Movie, based on the Unlimited Blade Works route.

In October 2011, an adaptation of Fate/Zero (the prequel to Fate/stay night) aired, produced by Ufotable.

Fate/EXTRA CCC Localization Petition

On November 1, 2011, Type-Moon released Fate/Extra in the US. It was an awesome addition to the Fate/Stay franchise, and the game that reminded me what I love about Type-Moon, but I'll get into that another time. Then the Spring of 2012, a sequel and companion game to Fate/Extra was announced for release in Japan under the name Fate/Extra CCC. The game was later pushed to Winter 2012 and then given a firm release date for February 21, 2013. The release date was ultimately pushed back to March 28, 2013.

Access Granted. Welcome to the Labyrinth.

Well, I'm finally starting my first blog. I've been wanting to make one of these for a while, but up until now, I've never had the time. The main reason I've started this was to share my opinions on many topics, like Anime, Video Games, Visual Novels, J-Music, stuff like that, but I've pretty much decided on reviews and video games for the time being.

Hopefully, you enjoy my humor. I tend to rant a lot and can sometime be really critical about things. So stick around and have fun. You may learn something.