Earlier today, Aniplex of America announced that they will give Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE II. lost butterfly a theatrical run in the United States. The film will receive two screenings: a premiere event in Los Angeles, and a wider national release.
The premiere will be held at the Regal L.A. Live theater on February 23, 2019. The national screening will be held on March 14, with two showings planned: one at 11:00AM local time, one at 2:30PM local time.
The feature first hit Japanese theaters on January 12.
The Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] films will adapt the “Heaven’s Feel” branch of the Fate/stay night visual novel. Tomonori Sudou (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works) will helm the project at ufotable, with Takahiro Miura providing storyboards. Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madlax) will score the films’ soundtracks.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Shirou Emiya: Noriaki Sugiyama
- Sakura Matou: Shitaya Noriko
- Shinji Matou: Hiroshi Kamiya
- Saber Alter: Ayako Kawasumi
- Rin Tohsaka: Kana Ueda
- Taiga Fujimura: Miki Ito
- Kirei Kotomine: Jouji Nakata
- Zouken Matou : Masane Tsukayama
- Kiritsugu Emiya: Rikiya Koyama
- Gilgamesh: Tomokazu Seki
- Rider: Yu Asakawa
- True Assassin: Tetsu Inada
- Archer: Junichi Suwabe
- Illyasviel von Einzbern: Mai Kadowaki
Aniplex describes Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE II. lost butterfly as:
“The opponent I must fight still remains in this town.”
The boy made a decision to keep fighting and to protect the girl.
The Holy Grail War, where Masters and Servants fight to claim the Holy Grail. A new war has started again in Fuyuki City, 10 years after the previous Grail War. However, due to the participation of Zouken Matou, the patriarch of one of the Founding Three Families in the Holy Grail War, things begin distorting, twisting, and growing worse.
Zouken summons the Servant, True Assassin.
An unknown shadow covers the city, killing Masters and Servants one by one.
Shirou Emiya, who has been fighting as a Master in the war, gets injured, losing his Servant, Saber. With his firm decision to protect Sakura Matou, Shirou refuses to leave the battle. While Sakura worries about Shirou, she also gets entangled in her own fate as a mage.
“I promise. I’ll – “
He decided he wouldn’t betray her.
However, their fervent wishes are about to be crushed by the black shadow soon…
Source: Aniplex of America (Press Release)
Aniplex of America to Give Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II Theatrical Run In the USA – Samantha Ferreira
