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2nd Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel Anime Film Reveals January 12 Opening, New Visual
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The official website for the Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel anime film trilogy announced on Saturday that the second film in the trilogy, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly, will open in Japan on January 12, 2019 in 131 theaters. The film was originally slated to premiere in Japan this year.
The site also revealed a new visual.
Aniplex of America will screen the film in the United States in 2019.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower opened at #1 at the Japanese box office by both attendance and box office earnings last October. The film sold a total of 980,000 tickets to earn 1.5 billion yen (about US$13.5 million).
The film held its United States premiere at The Theater At Ace Hotel in Los Angeles last November. More theaters began screening the film on November 17, with screenings running into mid-December. The film screened in Canada on January 14. The English dub of the first film debuted in theaters in the United States on June 5 and June 7. Aniplex of America will release the film on Blu-ray Disc on November 20.
Tomonori Sudō (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Fate/Zero animation director) is directing the films, and ufotable is animating the work. Yuki Kajiura (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works theme song composer, Fate/Zero music and theme song composer) is composing the music. Takahiro Miura is providing the storyboards. Aimer performed the first film's theme song.
"Heaven's Feel" is a route from the original Fate/stay night visual novel. A manga adaptation of the route launched in May 2015.
The television anime adaptation of Fate/stay night's 'Unlimited Blade Works' route premiered in October 2014. The initial Fate/stay night anime premiered in 2005.
Sources: Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel film trilogy's website, Animate Times
