Fate/Prototype is a digest version of Kinoko Nasu's original version of Fate/stay night.
There raise not the dead.
There cannot recover lost things, never again.
Even the greatest miracle can only affect the living—
— Opening Narration
Once upon a time, Kinoko Nasu thought of a story where various legendary figures were summoned by wizards and made to fight each other for the Holy Grail. That story would eventually become Fate/stay night, following the protagonists Shirou Emiya and the female knight Saber....
But before that there was this story, where the protagonists were Ayaka Sajyou and the male knight Saber.
Fate/Prototype is a twelve-minute OVA released with Season 3 of Carnival Phantasm, acting as a digest version of the original concept of Fate/stay night. It also encompasses a number of material books and the like, including character designs and story excerpts. The basic idea is the same as Fate/stay night, but the difference is in the details.
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