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New Fate/Apocrypha Project to Be a Novel

posted on 2011-12-03 23:56 EST by Jennifer Sherman

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The light novel author Yūichirō Higashide announced on Saturday that he is writing Fate/Apocrypha as a novel. The Fate/Apocrypha project was once anounced as an online game set during the story's Holy Grail War.

Vol. 7 of Kadokawa Shoten's Type-Moon Ace publication will launch Fate/Apocrypha on December 15. The volume will also include a demo version of Type-Moon's upcoming Mahō Tsukai no Yoru visual novel and a mascot figure.

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