Sakura Matou

Sakura Matou (間桐 桜, Matō Sakura^?) is one of three main heroines of Fate/stay night and the "true" Master of Rider in Fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail War. She is also the Master of Avenger, Saber Alter, and the Blackened Berserker in the Heaven's Feel route.

Sakura is the younger, adopted sister of Shinji Matou and biological sister of Rin Tohsaka. She has a long-standing and obvious crush on Shirou Emiya, who sees her as family. After Shirou's confrontation with Shinji, Sakura would often visit Shirou's home to help him with his daily chores.

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Who are the other Servants that Sakura Matou is the Master of, besides Rider?

The following is AI-generated garbage. Sakura Matou, in addition to being the Master of Rider, is also the Master of Assassin Sasaki Kojirou, an Assassin-class Servant. Rider initially served Sakura, but Shinji Matou assumed control when Sakura relinquished her Master's rights.

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What is the relationship between Sakura Matou and Shirou Emiya?

Sakura Matou harbors a deep affection for Shirou Emiya, often assisting him with daily tasks. Their relationship began when Shirou first visited the Matou residence. Sakura's frequent interactions with Shirou at his residence led to her becoming more cheerful and lively.

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What is the significance of 'Dark Sakura' in the Fate series?

In the Fate series, Sakura Matou transforms into Dark Sakura when she becomes the Holy Grail. This transformation triggers the appearance of the Black Shadow, Angra Mainyu, around Fuyuki. Dark Sakura's personality becomes destructive, and she loses touch with her feelings and recent memories. She also gains new abilities, such as perceiving through the Black Shadow. The transformation is signified by a Command Spell on her body.

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Who are Sakura Matou's biological and adopted siblings?

Born as Sakura Tohsaka, Sakura Matou is the biological sibling of Rin Tohsaka, with parents Tokiomi Tohsaka and Aoi Zenjou. She was adopted by Zouken Matou of the Matou family to continue their Magi lineage. Her adopted brother is Shinji Matou, Byakuya Matou's son.

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How does Sakura's role change in the Heaven's Feel route?

In Heaven's Feel, Sakura Matou's role evolves significantly. Shirou Emiya's feelings for her, developed before the Holy Grail War, become a major plot point, causing him to abandon his Hero of Justice aspirations. Zouken Matou's training transforms Sakura into the Black Grail of the Makiri, a Lesser Grail. Kirei Kotomine uses her connection to the Grail's dark being to complete the Holy Grail and birth Angra Mainyu.

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Background[]

Born as Sakura Tohsaka (遠坂 桜, Tōsaka Sakura^?), she is the biological younger sister of Rin Tohsaka and daughter of Tokiomi Tohsaka and Aoi Zenjou. Like most magi, her father chose only one daughter to carry on his family's tradition as he believed raising an additional child would introduce competition. Zouken Matou, an ancient ally of the Tohsaka House, offered to adopt Sakura with the intention of training her as the successor of the Matous' magecraft as his own heir, Shinji Matou, was incapable of magecraft.

As a result of her natural abilities, Zouken sought to use Sakura as one of his future vessels, empowered by the Angra Mainyu. Having to endure the cruel training under Zouken and Byakuya Matou, Sakura became an empty and emotionless shell resigned to her fate. When Kariya Matou, Sakura's adopted uncle and her mother's childhood friend, learned of Zouken's intentions, Kariya attempted to win the Fourth Holy Grail War in hopes of liberating her. Unfortunately, Kariya died in his attempt and Sakura was unable to understand Kariya's motivation for trying to rescue her. His death demoralizes her, and she convinces herself that she should not attempt to fight against Zouken.

After gathering the tainted fragments of the shattered grail from that war, Zouken hybridized the collected black ichor with several of his Crest Worm Familiars. He implanted these parasitic worms into Sakura's body, which drain her magical energy but feed on her carnal impulses.^[5] Sometime later, Sakura met her new brother Shinji (who was studying abroad at the time of the Fourth Holy Grail War) when he returned to the Matou house. Though he later came to love and accept his new sister, he bullied her. This ended the day Shinji found out that Sakura had become the heir to the Matou family instead of him and he became harsh with her, just like everyone else in the Matou house. Because Sakura was apologetic and expressed pity toward him, Shinji took that as Sakura submitting herself to him since she displayed no emotion. Sometime after the death of Byakuya, Shinji began raping her.

Although castigated and humiliated on a daily basis, Sakura maintained her bearings with great stoicism. For the eleven years after her adoption, Sakura grew to resent Zouken for his cruelty, Tokiomi for sending her away, and finally Rin, for never coming to save her. However, she still kept the ribbon Rin gave her. Sakura drew her strength to endure such hardships from Shirou, whom she admired for his dedication. The inspiration she found came from watching him persistently attempt to jump a bar during a track-and-field practice session.

She joined the Archery club in order to be closer to Shirou watching him from afar.^[6] Two years before the events of Fate/stay night, after Shirou was injured in an accident, Sakura gathered enough courage to approach and help him; she has visited him ever since to assist with daily activities.

Appearance[]

Sakura is a young girl with a soothing smile and long, lustrous violet hair, which she styles with a red-pink ribbon on the left side, and violet eyes. The ribbon she wears in her hair was given to her by Rin when they were children and is the first ribbon Rin ever made. Physically, Sakura is described as having a (secretly) dynamite body,^[7] and noted to have very "large breasts", with Taiga revealing she is an E-cup and had grown 13 cm since last year in an attempt to tease Shirou.^[8] During school, she wears the standard Homurahara Academy uniform. Her casual clothing consists of a pink cardigan, a white top, and a long cream-colored skirt. In ufotables' movie adaptation of Heaven's Feel, Sakura is seen wearing a long white dress with short sleeves and a black sash, and white sandals. She sometimes wears a pink cardigan or puffer jacket over top.

Before Sakura was adopted into the Matou family, she resembled her sister, having had short black-brown hair with pigtails and teal eyes. Shortly after her adoption, at most a year after, her hair and eyes took on their violet color, which is a direct result of Zouken's torturous training changing Sakura's body. Her renaissance outfit is a purple dress, purple socks and black Mary Jane^WP shoes.

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Personality[]

While Sakura is outwardly shy, soft-spoken and eager to please, she possesses a great inner strength. As noted by Shirou, she can also be openly stubborn at times. However, she is also prone to feelings of resentment towards others.

Despite the cruelty she endures living with the Matou family, she is given a brief reprieve in Kariya, her adoptive uncle and the only person who genuinely loved her. When he dies in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Sakura mistakes Kariya's last attempt to free her from the Matou house as a warning from Zouken as the fate of those who disobey him. The incident cements Sakura's despair and resignation towards her own suffering. However, her own resolve is strengthened after she falls in love with Shirou Emiya and becomes closer to him by helping him with domestic tasks to express how she cares about him. During Fate/stay-night, she begins to feel isolated when she believes that Shirou is beyond her reach.

Her strong feelings for Shirou are the most evident throughout the series compared to the other heroines; and are the main reason as to how they had little friction in desiring each other. Her inferiority complex makes her believe she is not fit for him, but after being chosen by Shirou as a love interest her feelings for him also come with strong jealousy whenever he compliments or spends time with other women, because she doesn't want to lose him. Prior to the strengthened influence of the Crest Worms inside her (which amplified her arousal), she would express either dismay or anger towards Shirou when he would bring up other women in conversations and in her low self-esteem, she would misunderstand his words towards other women as confessions of attraction instead of platonic liking (such as when Shirou admits that Rider is beautiful while explaining his thoughts about her). Her jealousy sometimes comes out in other routes but has been a recurring theme in her own route as being chosen by Shirou makes her mental fortitude unstable.

Role[]

Fate/Zero[]

« I do not have anyone to call my mom or sister... Grandfather said I should think that they never existed. »

(Sakura speaking to Kariya before the Fourth Holy Grail War - Fate/Zero, Episode 1)

In Fate/Zero, Sakura is adopted into the Matou family one year before the Fourth Holy Grail War begins. Sakura is described as soft-spoken and often in the shadow of her more energetic sister, and her adoption has deeply affected both Aoi and Rin, who both try not to express their unhappiness openly. Kariya arrives in Fuyuki City three days after her adoption, which he learns from Aoi. Having been a childhood friend of Aoi, he had become well-acquainted with Sakura and her sister, who were both fond of his company.

After confronting Zouken, Kariya makes a deal with Zouken to win the Holy Grail in exchange for Sakura's freedom to return to the Tohsaka family. Kariya was the only member of the Matou family to love Sakura, who became resigned and emotionally withdrawn from the torture she endures from training under Zouken and Kariya's older brother, Byakuya.

Unfortunately, Kariya is defeated during the Fourth Grail War and failed to obtain the Holy Grail. With the last of his strength, Kariya returned to the Matou mansion to return Sakura to Aoi and Rin, but he died in the process. Sakura, who was standing in front of Kariya, interpreted Kariya's death as a warning that those who defy Zouken will die. She remained with the Matou family, demoralized and unwillingly to fight against Zouken. In the anime, she coldly watches as Kariya is eaten by the Crest Worms and condemns him as a fool for opposing to Zouken.

Fate/stay night[]

Fate[]

« Ah, yes. Good morning, Senpai. »

(Sakura waking up Shirou - Fate, Day 1)

Sakura plays a minor role, as Shirou's shy underclassman who often visits him at home. While Shirou is attracted to her, he feels guilty about it, because she's his friend's sister. After Shinji reveals to be a participant in the Holy Grail War, Shirou becomes worried Sakura might be involved. Shinji claims she has been kept in the dark regarding magecraft as in a traditional magus household only the successor will be taught any magecraft.

Like everyone else at school, she becomes a victim of Rider's Blood Fort Andromeda, though her injuries only result in her staying at home. She becomes good friends with Illyasviel von Einzbern in the epilogue after the latter made her get over her depression about Shinji's "disappearance". Sakura is also made vice-captain of the Archery club.

In Studio DEEN's Fate/stay night, her role is expanded slightly. After the defeat of Berserker, Sakura is captured by Caster to use as a sacrifice in order to summon the Holy Grail and is held at Mount Enzo, Caster's stronghold. Shirou, Rin, and Saber attempt to rescue Sakura and to stop the Holy Grail from being summoned, during which Shirou and Saber are forced to fight against Souichirou Kuzuki and Assassin respectively. Rin confronts Caster, who manipulates Sakura to fight against Rin. During the fight, Sakura is revealed to be Rin's sister and that she actually comes from the Tohsaka family. In order to save her sister, Sakura allows Rin to stab her so Rin will be able to sever Sakura's Magic Circuit and prevent Caster's plans from being completed. Following Caster's defeat, Sakura recovers at Shirou's house and ultimately survives the Fifth Holy Grail War.

Unlimited Blade Works[]

« It's disappointing, but it'll all go back to normal if I endure it for just a short while. »

(Sakura explaining to Shirou that they won't see each other for a while - Unlimited Blade Works, Day 6)

Similar to the Fate scenario, she often visits Shirou at his house. Days later, she receives orders from her household not to go outside due to the dangers in the city because of the Holy Grail War. While Sakura is sad about not being able to see Shirou, she's reassured that she can still see him during Archery class. This results in Shirou spending more time with Saber and Rin.

After Shinji survives his experience as a vessel for the Holy Grail, he's hospitalized, and Sakura takes care of him. With the Holy Grail War over, he returns to his more tolerable old self and is getting along with her again. In the anime, she feeds him some peeled apples, which he accepts begrudgingly.

Heaven's Feel[]

« No Senpai. I'll probably end up hurting you...I'm going to hurt you, Senpai, but...I want to stay like this. »

(Sakura to Shirou, after he decides to abandon his hero ideals to protect her - Heaven's Feel, Day 9)

Sakura is the principal Master of Rider, who was summoned several days prior to the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War. However, under pressure from Shinji and the desire not to fight either Shirou or Rin, Sakura yielded her master's right to him, although Sakura retains her original Command Spell. As Rin and Shirou became closer, Sakura began to feel contempt for her sister, which was intensified by the fact that Rin took no action to help Sakura.

Zouken, disgusted at the ineptitude of Shinji as a Master, begins a genocide against the other Servants with help from True Assassin and the contents of the Holy Grail given form by Sakura's subconscious, referred to as "the shadow". Berserker, Lancer, Saber, and Archer are all absorbed or terminated by this unholy trinity, and Sakura regurgitates Saber Alter and Dark Berserker as assistants. At night, she goes on a rampage throughout Fuyuki City, ingesting large numbers of innocents for magical energy. Gilgamesh eventually confronts and impales Sakura's body with several Noble Phantasms from within his Gate of Babylon, but she regenerates at an impossibly fast rate and consumes him as well. She is forced to quickly convert him to magical energy in haste because she was afraid, he might tear her up from the inside if she does not digest him.^[9]

Meanwhile, Shirou realizes that something is wrong, and that Sakura is suffering. Shirou decides to protect her, but he is unsure of his feelings for her. Because of it, Shirou is devastated when he found out that Sakura is one of the participants in the Holy Grail War. He starts doubting about his ideals because he still wants to save everyone but realizes that if he does so, Sakura might die. Finally, after a talk with Illya and later Archer, Shirou abandons his ideals in order to protect Sakura. With this new ideal in mind, he finds Sakura crying at the park, believing that she cannot be saved. Shirou consoles her by telling her that he will always protect her, and he fights for her. However, Sakura continues having her strange dreams. Recognizing the devastation she has wrought; Sakura seeks out her grandfather to force him into ending her life in order to protect Shirou.

However, along the way Shinji attempts to rape her, threatening to tell Shirou of his history of violating her. Horrified at this prospect, Sakura murders Shinji and gives into her internal malice. She then realizes that she is the shadow that appeared in her dreams and becomes Dark Sakura and proceeds to abduct Illya, hoping to use her as the core for a new Holy Grail. After Shirou and Kotomine rescue Illya, Dark Sakura stops the supervisor's artificial black heart, giving him only a few hours to live. She also assimilates True Assassin and purges her body of Zouken's Crest Worms. She is confronted by Rin in the chamber of the Greater Holy Grail beneath Mount Enzō, her power equally matched by the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch. Rendering Sakura's shadows useless, Rin makes her way to Sakura but is unable to give the finishing blow due to her love of her sister. Rin embraces Sakura even after Sakura has stabbed her in panic. Realizing Rin's love, Sakura again starts resisting the malice within in her long enough for Shirou to dispel Angra Mainyu's grip on her soul with Rule Breaker.

If Shirou traces Excalibur and destroys the Greater Grail, his life extinguishes, which results in Sakura's Normal Ending. Refusing to accept Shirou's death, Sakura continues to live in the Emiya household, forever waiting for Shirou until eventually dying of old age. She passes away in front of Rin's granddaughter and reunites with Shirou in the afterlife.

If Illya intervenes, closes the gate, and performs Heaven's Feel on Shirou to keep him alive and close the Grail once and for all, it results in Sakura's True Ending. After her dark self is destroyed, Sakura's body is left containing vast amounts of Od due to her connection with Akasha. She ends up living with Shirou and Rider, with the Servant's existence sustained by Sakura's magical energy pool. Sakura is the de facto Winner of the 5th Grail War in this route, though Kirei Kotomine proclaims Shirou to be the Winner.

Fate/stay night manga[]

« Nii-san...Senpai...Will we ever be able to go back to those happy times? »

(Fate/stay night Manga, Chapter 24)

In the Fate/stay night 2006 manga adaptation, (which follows the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works scenarios), Sakura is a supporting character. Her background is lighter and softer compared to the visual novel, as she was adopted by Byakuya Matou rather than Zouken (who does not appear in the manga) and she was trained in Matou magecraft when she was much older. Also, while Shinji still becomes abusive with her after finding she's the true Matou heir, he doesn't rape her.

Sakura doesn't want Shirou and Shinji to fight in the Holy Grail War, simply wishing for them to be good friends like they used to be before. She quietly watches the fight between Saber and Rider from afar and after Shinji is defeated and falls from a collapsing building, Sakura uses her last Command Spell to make Rider save his life, revealing to Shinji that she is the Master of Rider. She disappears for the rest of the Holy Grail War, in order to take care of Shinji in the hospital. In the end Sakura survives the Holy Grail War and resumes her school life with Shirou and Shinji, more cheerful and assertive than she was before.

Fate/hollow ataraxia[]

In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Sakura lives a peaceful life in Fuyuki City, which Rin has left in Sakura's care while she is at the Mage's Association, and Rider comments that Sakura is now the popular new captain of the school archery club. Sakura's dark side still exists but appears only for comic relief. Now that the Holy Grail War is over, she has become more assertive and has assumed control of the Matou household, much to Zouken and Shinji's chagrin.^[10]

In her Eclipse scenario, Life of Sakura, Sakura takes Shirou to the Matou residence's garden, where they are looking at cherry blossom trees in bloom. Sakura then shows a very old tree to Shirou, that was planted by her grandmother and is now blooming for the very first time. Sakura then invite Shirou into her room where they continue talking about the old tree's rebirth. Shirou then expresses that he wants to see Sakura to "bloom" as well and then they both have sex.

Sakura also appears in Rider's Eclipse scenario, The Backside of Kibisis, where she and Rider appear both naked in front of Shirou and seduce him with their gorgeous big breasted bodies into a threesome. However, it turns out that whole scenery is just Rider's illusion that she made in order to compel Shirou to pursue Sakura more aggressively. Yet in the middle, Shirou reverses her spell on her, revealing that Rider herself has deep feelings for Shirou. Sakura appearing in this episode is only a conjecture by Rider's spell, a representation of Rider's true intentions of her actions.

Fate/Grand Order[]

Main article: Parvati

Main article: Kama

Sakura's good aspects serve as Parvati's vessel, while her darker aspects serve as Kama's vessel.

Fate/Accel Zero Order[]

In this alternate Fourth Holy Grail War, Sakura is captured by Iskandar while he is burning the Crest Worms in the Matou Mansion basement. Iskandar trades her to Kariya in exchange for his right hand and Command Spell. After severing Kariya's right hand, he has Mithrenes take Kariya and Sakura to a hospital outside of Fuyuki.^[11]

Fate/unlimited codes[]

In Fate/unlimited codes, Dark Sakura is a playable character, and she is known as the Makiri's Grail (マキリの杯, Makiri no Sakazuki^?).

In her story, her personality becomes twisted, and she wants to destroy everything along her path. She has already killed Zouken by the time she encounters Kirei Kotomine. Kirei can tell Dark Sakura is on the verge of collapse and the personality of Sakura Matou is still within Dark Sakura. Although Dark Sakura claims she is broken, Kirei finds the Matou can raise the young well, but the training is too harsh which Sakura appears to have no concern of pain. She further explains that Zouken didn't expect her to last long and ironically, he didn't last long to die. Kirei is pleased with Zouken's death and expects to wait for the Holy Grail to form by removing Sakura's consciousness. Kirei is impressed with Dark Sakura's knowledge, but Sakura kills him in the battle, claiming that she will complete his plan in his place. Her final opponent is herself; her counterpart has stayed behind in order to help the growth of Avenger and the Greater Holy Grail. They both fight to the death because there is no point in having two Sakuras and they hate themselves the most. Dark Sakura fuses her memories with her counterpart, although she is uncertain who actually died. She finally completes the transformation into becoming the Holy Grail and gives birth to "All the World's Evil". In her ending, she desires to get out to the outer world and wants to meet Shirou when she is reborn. However, she forgets about Shirou's existence and longs to get out to the outer world.

In Kirei's story, Kirei used Sakura in order to learn the meaning of life and was responsible for Dark Sakura transformation. In the opening, Dark Sakura approaches Kirei in the church. Kirei notices Sakura to be very different from their last meeting and he is pleased that she conceived Avenger. She already devoured both Lancer and Gilgamesh and she desires the life energy that has kept Kirei alive. It appears that Sakura's mind and body are completely contaminated aligned with the "curse". Dark Sakura desires to pay back everyone who made her suffer. Kirei points out that although Sakura appears to be a different person, she is pretending in order to protect Sakura Matou as a person. While Kirei escapes, Sakura convinces herself that she can kill him with two of his Servants gone. Kirei encounters Shirou, who wants to destroy the Holy Grail in order to stop Avenger and save Sakura.

Fate/unlimited codes - Sakura Matou command list

Special: Can you avoid this? (避けられますか？, Sakeraremasu ka??) - An obstacle (邪魔です, Jama desu?) - It's dangerous (危ないですよ, Abunai desu yo?) - No escape (逃がしません, Nigashimasen?) - I'll sharpen it (削りますよ, Kezurimasu yo?) - Ah, flying (飛んじゃえ, Tonjae?) - Caught you! (捕まえた, Tsukamaeta?) - How neglectful (お留守ですよ, Orusu desu yo?) - A bad person... (ひどい人…, Hidoi hito...?) - Let's eat? (いただきますね？, Itadakimasu ne??) - Burst: Cursed Boundary Layer - magical energy Absorbtion (呪層界・魔吸根, Shūsōkai Makyūkon?) - Super Move: Heaven's Fall: Cursed Boundary Layer - Womb Realm Mandala (呪層界・胎蔵曼荼羅(ヘブンスフォール), Jusōkai - Taizō Mandara(Hebunsu Fōru)?) - I ate too much... (おなかがすきました, Onaka ga sukimashita?) - Holy Grail Burst Super Move: Art - Angra Mainyu: Cursed Boundary Layer - Malicious Festivity (呪層界・悪心祝祭(アート・アンリマユ), Jusōkai - Akushin Chosai(Āto - Anrimayu)?) -

Fate/tiger colosseum series[]

Carnival Phantasm[]

« Nii-san became such a monster because of society....and me. Because I'm a beautiful, ill-fated girl. »

(Sakura to Rider, Episode 6)

Despite being one of the heroines in Fate, she has a minor role in Carnival Phantasm, compared to Saber and Rin. Her darker personality is comically exaggerated, such as complimenting herself in her monologues and having her stalk Shirou on his dates with the other heroines, all while showing a mischievous, evil grin and getting there before he does.

She's the protagonist of Episode 6, Type-Moon Serial TV Novel Sakura, parodying a soap opera. In it she abused by Shinji, causing Rider to rescue her many times. Sakura patiently endures it, making Rider wonder if she's intimidated by Shinji. In the end Rider and Sakura accidentally purify him with Rule Breaker, but Sakura isn't happy about it and reveals that being abused by Shinji makes her look good and now she's less sympathetic and important. Rider is appalled at the revelation.

Today's Menu for Emiya Family[]

Sakura makes frequent appearances in Today's Menu for Emiya Family, being a regular guest at Shirou's house. She is shown cooking in Episode 5 with Shirou and Episode 8 with Rin at the Tohsaka Mansion. Sakura's specialty is Chinese food.

Other appearances[]

In an alternate scenario where Sakura was kept by the Tohsaka and Rin was the one adopted by the Matou, Tokiomi would send Sakura to the Clock Tower or something similar due to the rarity of her Imaginary attribute making it impossible for him to teach her.^[12]

In the World of Fate/EX, the Moon Cell replicated Sakura's data and created an NPC with the same name Sakura Matou who is an Advanced AI in charge of the health of Masters.

In Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, Sakura appears briefly to help Shirou after he is injured from Rin and Luviagelita. An alternate Sakura is an ally of the Ainsworth family, where she is equipped with a Lancelot Class Card. Julian Ainsworth controls her by taking Shirou's appearance.

In the World of Fate/Apocrypha, Sakura was adopted by distant relatives, the Edelfelts. She ended up as a pro-wrestler with "unimaginably nice proportions" and forming a tag team with a Luviagelita Edelfelt^[13] and acts like a cheerful girl who laughs like a high-class young lady, though would still head to Fuyuki at some point and will go through her days with a love comedy-like tone as she competes for Shirou's affections with a twin-tail magecraft-fist user.^[14] She would be a "babyfaced super-dark heel^WP character", and maybe have a theme for bondage. But in actuality, since Luvia is of similar disposition to Rin but believes in aristocratism, she would prioritize strengthening Sakura's talent. This would end up creating a "cool and dark, yet good-hearted top tier Magus".^[15]

Sakura makes an appearance in Fate/Grand Order as a Craft Essence card. She appears as the illustration cover for Imaginary Number Magecraft (虚数魔術, Kyosū Majutsu^?), Imaginary Around (イマジナリ・アラウンド, Imajinari Araundo^?), and Imaginary Number Attribute (虚数属性, Kyosū Zokusei^?).

Non in-universe appearances[]

Abilities[]

Sakura was born with great potential and rare natural talent, considered to be a miracle equal to that of Rin with even the same Od level as her. It surpasses the norm of "natural talent", or "inborn skill" possessed by others, and due to that she would be in danger without the protection of a magus house, can be equated to a curse in a way. She was given to the Matou house to act as their heir for this reason, but Zouken did not intend to use her for that purpose. For the purpose of acclimatization, she has to undergo constant torture in the basement of the Matou household. The way they pass on their magecraft is not a study, but constant, lifelong torture due to Zouken's preference. Taught to the body rather than the mind, she is forced through immense pain and stress constantly for her "education." The changes are so extensive as to change her hair color, eye color, and every cell in her body so that they no longer reflect her Tohsaka heritage.

While having greater potential than Kariya or Byakuya, she is more suited to the Tohsaka magecraft.^[16] She was born lacking an Elemental Affinity of the "Five Great Elements", and instead had an Imaginary Element of Imaginary Numbers, or Hollow, as her affinity, Thaumaturgical Attribute and Origin. Her Element was changed to the water alignment with her acclimation to the Matou magecraft, so she cannot display her true talent.^[17][18]

Her Attribute is one specializing in dealing with Spirits, and her Element is highly effective against those made of Mysteries like Spirits but is not quite as potent against with physical bodies. However, when imbued with the power of Angra Mainyu, this weakness is overcome and her power can greatly affect physical creatures like Humans,^[19][20] whether it be to devour them for magical energy or trap them in a shadowy pocket dimension made of Imaginary Number Space with no concept of time or space. Her Crest Worms will feed on any excess magical energy she circulates before she can use a spell, leaving her unable to even cast any in most cases. Due to them devouring it on a constant basis, even Rin is unable to tell that her sister is an actively practicing magus.

Without expecting anything from her intelligence, Zouken sought to turn her into a tool that uses magecraft. With such little formal education, she is unused to combat and cannot normally match someone of Rin's caliber, losing ten out of ten times without being able to breach Rin's barrier. Rin compares her to a bird with the potential of flight being placed in water, forced to die or adapt as best it can. While she would have had great success as a Tohsaka magus, her current state is much like that of the untrained Shirou, only worse due to her lack of physical training. Under duress, she can cast a spell using the Matou "absorption" nature magecraft, and it shoots like a spear, stabbing and entangling the part hit to drain the person of magical energy.^[21] She says that it has little practical use compared to something like Reinforcement that has many different uses in that it is limited to "stealing away from others" and feeding on their pain.

Magic Crest[]

The Magic Crest of the Matou family is in the form of Zouken's Crest Worms, forcefully implanted into her as part of her acclimatization process. They have grown within her for eleven years, turning into a nerve that has entangled throughout her entire body like a Magic Circuit. The Crest Worms is suspended under normal circumstances without have an effect on her body, but it will attack her nerves and use her Magical energy to roam throughout her body while taking even more if it activates. Left for half a day, they will drain her body of magical energy and consume her flesh as nutrition. As with any Magic Crest, it is painful containing a foreign substance in her body, but even more so with it entangling her nerves with its own and moving about. Compared to the pain experienced in Rin's arm, she compares Sakura to a cluster of Magic Circuits that violates her function as a human being and should overwrite her mind with a wave of energy.

Normally only an observation device for Zouken, its usage can be activated by her lust, which in turn causes her to lust even more as the Crest Worms in her blood become an aphrodisiac. It can be forcefully activated with an aphrodisiac given to Shinji or just through her normal feelings for Shirou. As they devour her magical energy, she becomes more lustful and is forced to seek out supplemental magical energy, semen in the original story and blood in Realta Nua. Zouken should be able to incite the Crest Worms into action as he pleases, making it a priority to stay away from him. As his main body has been changed to a small Crest Worm next to her heart, that is actually impossible. As they are so integrated into her nerves and Magic Circuits, it is impossible to remove them normally, even for Zouken. Kirei Kotomine uses a large number of Command Spells to remove most of it, but he cannot remove the ones metabolized with her nerves without removing her heart.

Its original usage is not meant as a means to kill her, but the conditions of the Fifth Holy Grail War provide a unique opportunity. Imposed on her to make sure she participates in some capacity, they will activate if she breaks a "certain condition", abandoning the war as a Master. Entrusting Rider to Shinji falls under the condition, but it will torture her should she refuse to battle while having Rider's contract. Even forcefully removing her contract with a Command Spell would cause her to be instantly consumed. With the added burden of managing Rider's upkeep, it is difficult for her and could lead to it devouring her. It is set to last for the duration of the Holy Grail War and will spread further with each day. Kirei's surgery is able to reduce her overall pain somewhat, but she is still plagued by the same overall problem.

Black Grail[]

At some point after the Fourth Holy Grail War, Zouken managed to collect fragments of the destroyed Grail and implanted them into Sakura's body, transforming her into an incomplete lesser Grail.^[5] Sakura has been developed to be able to act as the Black Grail (黒の聖杯, Kuro no Seihai^?), a second Lesser Grail, by Zouken Matou. Though the ritual of the Fourth Holy Grail War ended in failure with the destruction of the Holy Grail, it had briefly been completed.

It would normally be painful to have the inorganic substance of the Holy Grail within a human body, so he turned the shards into a living thing to allow her to still function as a human. Combining them into Crest Worms, he placed them into her body. Zouken lacked the skill of the Einzberns and completed an eighth of the process in his own way, so she is in an incomplete state. The shards corroded and assimilated her Magic Circuits over the ten-year period between the Fourth and Fifth Grail Wars, leaving her with only her Crest Worms as her only way of using magecraft if she even did.^[22] She has the ability to function like the Einzbern Lesser Grail, Illyasviel von Einzbern, in acting as a container for the souls of the Heroic Spirits and becoming the gate upon the ritual's completion.^[5]

Zouken originally has no plans for her to be utilized fully in that state during the Fifth Holy Grail War, but instead as an experiment in acting as "Makiri's Holy Grail" that is able to live as a human and contain the function to collect souls. The purpose of changing her is mostly as a way for eventually reaching his goals, slowly developing her into something like the Holy Grail over several decades. While it would be impossible for her to go into that state in other routes, the conditions within the Heaven's Feel route allow for her to become active. Only when being chosen by Shirou Emiya, the "person she does not wish to lose", do her bottled up negative emotions come to the forefront to accelerate Avenger's growth.^[23] Previously thought of as only an unadaptable Holy Grail, she shows surprising growth and talent in being able to retain her senses after eventually taking in a number of Servants. He equates her to a true Holy Grail on the same level as the Einzbern's, even though he had thought it impossible.

Servants that come into contact with the shadow from the Grail are greatly affected. They cannot oppose it, rotting them anywhere it touches. They lose feeling in the affected areas as they become that which does not exist in the world. Proper Heroic Spirits are extremely affected, going as far as losing consciousness on contact, while Servants close to it in nature, while not fully affected, will have their magical energy drained from touching it. Those taken in and not digested are Blackened, changing their mentality as they are corrupted by its malignant influence and considerably augmenting offensive power.

While she can take in and blacken most Servants, Gilgamesh is unable to be controlled, so she must digest him in haste to keep him from tearing her up from the inside.

Converted to magical energy, he provides enough to accelerate the development of the Holy Grail even without enough Servants. Though he is difficult to digest, the large amount causes her to buckle like a broken dam due to previously being able to only barely maintain herself.^[24] Differing when he escaped from the Holy Grail Mud in the Fourth Holy Grail War cut off from the main body, that of Sakura, the shadow, is connected to the body of Avenger itself.^[25]

Servants are unable to resist her, having become the Holy Grail itself, and even being incarnated is not enough as long as one materialized under the Holy Grail System.^[24] As with the Einzbern Holy Grail, the container cannot retain full human function while taking in souls of Heroic Spirits and receiving the powers of the Holy Grail. Her body loses function as the amount of magical energy she contains from the souls increases, and the overflow from the great swirl of magecraft of the Holy Grail is too much for her mind to withstand. It causes her to break down until becoming Dark Sakura, first showing an overall loss of feeling in her extremities and the state of recent memories becoming vague.

Forms and Alternate Versions[]

Black Shadow[]

With the development of Sakura as the Holy Grail, the Black Shadow (黒い影, Kuroi Kage^?) begins to manifest around Fuyuki. The Black Shadow is the contents of the Holy Grail, Angra Mainyu, leaking out from the other side when Sakura is unable to properly shut the gate even as a complete Holy Grail. The Black Shadow is a Cursed Boundary Layer, Sakura's shadow or even Sakura herself, normally controlled below her threshold of awareness. While it seems that it works with Zouken, he cannot communicate with it, and he can only arrange its path to keep it from running wild. Though he is able to calm it nightly to keep the damage to a minimum, he eventually becomes unable to handle it as Sakura develops. It devours magical energy at first, only leaving people unconscious. More ruthless in its feeding than Caster, it eats their magical energy along with their minds. It eventually realizes that eating them fully is more efficient, taking hundreds of people from fifty households in one feeding. Rather than smashing them, it only needs to swallow them, body and soul.

Black Shadow is an "unidentified object" that gives the impression of a jellyfish on land or a deep-sea monster. Its presence dominates all who look upon it, seeming to distort space around it. It lacks eyes, limbs, or a body, but still casts a shadow at its base. It looks insubstantial, as if a shadow were to stand with so light an existence that it looks able to simply be blown away. As the Holy Grail's shadow, Black Shadow should not normally have form or a will, but passing through the gate, Sakura, it takes her form, borrows her sealed id, and obtains a body to come into the world. It is a Holy Grail with a will, seeking out humans' souls to complete itself. It will swallow all it sees, especially clumps of magical energy like Illya. It should be possible to stop by stopping Sakura, as it is born from her unconsciousness. It hates whoever Sakura hates, so it will keep them from coming near her.

It is impervious to all conventional attacks, and its targets can only await death in its presence.^[26] Shirou is unable to tell if the Concept of Death can even be applied to it. As a cluster of curses, its touch is highly corrosive due to containing Angra Mainyu's property of All the World's Evil, dissolving organic matter and converting the base elements into pure magical energy. It can lash out with tentacles, bring forth a Shadow Giant, and spread out for ten meters to swallow everything like a wave of water, touching them with All the World's Evil that burns skin like coal, cuts off their life, and shows them its horrors. It takes in energy just by existing, turning plant life black, and automatically leeching it from those without any resistance. It can absorb the energy in an area in order to swell up and explode. It tramples over everything upon exploding and spreading the collected energy out like a storm, swallowing its prey instantly.

It can overwhelm all Heroic Spirits no matter their strength so long as they are summoned under the Servant system, filling even the mindless Berserker with the instinct to run away. Spreading its Mud over the ground like a swamp, Servants engulfed by it are restrained down by countless tentacles and swallowed. It easily tears through Lancer's Rune barrier, capable of blocking great Noble Phantasms. Black Shadow dislikes organic material, passing through that which is not alive and digesting that which is alive. Taking them in instantly, the Cursed Boundary Layer is a Bounded Field of dissolution much stronger and more instantaneous than even Blood Fort Andromeda. Growing by the day to feed even more, it swallows an area of fifty meters at once, and then goes on to act as a tidal wave that passes through all things to take its victims without causing a bit of collateral damage. It is not detectable because it is not a specially activated spell, but its regular actions even if it is extremely powerful.

Connected to Sakura, she can initially only feel slight aftereffects from its feedings, but later begins to have uncontrollable visions of it acting. Both its smell and the presence behind it remind Shirou of her, and she feels an intimacy with it, something without an evil mind that, while similar to her, just eats in a different way. She becomes more in-tune with it as the war progresses, eventually coming to the point where she is the one wandering the town at night. It begins to originate from her as her affinity with it develops, feeling its hunger as her own and allowing her to swallow Gilgamesh. It begins to stretch out on its own, allowing her to hear and see through it directly. After becoming Dark Sakura, the Command Spell around her body has the same make-up as the Shadow.

Dark Sakura[]

After Sakura rejects Zouken's control and regains her central consciousness, she becomes Dark Sakura (黒桜, Kuro Sakura^?), a rancorous and psychotic distortion of her normal self. It would normally be that she would either have exploded from the strain of being the Grail or have had her consciousness disappear and be overtaken by the shadow. Due to her affinity with it, she is able to take control of it. Touching Angra Mainyu, the Mud of the Grail, contaminates a person's personality and reverses it towards the orientation of evil. Her reasoning and emotions are severely impaired, and she is indiscriminately destructive to everything around her. She is one capable of using the power of the Mud as part of her own power due to the contamination.^[28]

Appearance[]

Her appearance changes when she becomes Dark Sakura. Her hair turns white, and her eyes turn red, but she retains her trademark ribbon. She wears a long black dress made of black ribbons, that are trimmed in red. The length of the dress and the length of the ribbons it is composed of vary. In this form, her face, dress and legs are covered in red markings.

Ufotable's character sheet of Dark Sakura in the Heaven's Feel Trilogy. Ufotable's character sheet of Dark Sakura from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura official art in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura in Fate/tiger colosseum, illustrated by Yukio Hirai. Dark Sakura character select image in Fate/unlimited codes, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. Dark Sakura versus cut in image in Fate/unlimited codes, illustrated by Ryuji Higurashi. Seed of the Briar (茨の種, Ibara no Tane?) in Fate/Grand Order, illustrated by Endou Kaori. Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel III - Spring Song key visual, with Shirou Emiya drawn by Takashi Takeuchi and Sakura Matou drawn by Tomonori Sudou. Dark Sakura promotional artwork, from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura official promotional art in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura official promotional art in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura official promotional art in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura artwork from Theatrical Edition Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] - Anime Visual Guide. Dark Sakura and Rin in Newtype magazine. Dark Sakura on the cover of Newtype magazine. Dark Sakura artwork by Takashi Takeuchi in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly. Dark Sakura, Shinji Matou, and Shirou Emiya in Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly. Dark Sakura official art from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Dark Sakura and Sakura artwork from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Rin vs Dark Sakura artwork from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Rin hugging Dark Sakura from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Rin and Dark Sakura official art from Art Book - Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III. spring song. Sakura Matou and Shirou Emiya illustration card in Fate/stay night - Tracing 15 Years of TYPE-MOON -, illustrated by Hidetoshi Kuramoto. Dark Sakura illustration card for Fate/stay night - Tracing 15 Years of TYPE-MOON - illustrated by CAPCOM Artist. Dark Sakura concept art in TYPE-MOON Manuscript. Dark Sakura concept art in TYPE-MOON Manuscript. Dark Sakura concept art in TYPE-MOON Manuscript. Dark Sakura concept art in TYPE-MOON Manuscript.

Personality[]

When she becomes Dark Sakura under the influence of Angra Mainyu, her personality changes drastically; she becomes a devilish, evil, cruel, and extremely violent person. Sometimes she talks about herself in the third person. This personality occasionally shows itself during the events of Fate/hollow ataraxia but is less violent and acts more as comedic effect.

Abilities[]

As she develops, she becomes a "Threat to Humanity" that could potentially have required or eventually gotten to the point of needing intervention from the Counter Force.^[29] Even with this overwhelming strength, being unused to battle and her unstable mental state makes planning against her possible.

Using souls as a perpetual motion machine to create magical energy, Rin calls her a poor imitation of the Third Magic. Connected to the "other side" of the Holy Grail, she has a stock of magical energy that cannot be used in a lifetime, effectively making it infinite. Despite that, she can only use the full capacity of her Magic Circuits to instantaneously release one thousand at a time. Against the Jeweled Sword, Rin is able to release the same amount to match the shadows, making it a battle of Sakura's limitless magical energy and Rin's infinite magical energy.

With the same properties as the Shadow, Dark Sakura is capable of forming tentacle appendages from her body. She can spontaneously regenerate, allowing her to recover from mortal wounds within minutes of receiving them. Even before fully developing, she survives being impaled by the Gate of Babylon, having everything below her stomach severed, with only severed nerves being the issue the next day. She can support a number of Servants without issue in this state, and Saber can use the energy intensive Excalibur without limit.

After the contract to Avenger is broken at the end of Heaven's Feel, she is still connected to the other side of the Holy Grail. As an after-effect of the contract, she remains a Holy Grail. While Avenger still exists before Shirou destroys the Greater Grail, it could potentially make her its Master again due to the connection. Vast amounts of magical energy are collected in her body, and she must periodically release it. She is able to use it to keep up Rider's existence even without support from the Holy Grail, and the excess left after that is given to Shirou to help him maintain his body. She learns magecraft from Kirei's successor and Rider, and her abilities as the Holy Grail, even only in part, are a large boon to her life as a magus.

Shadow Giants[]

The Shadow Giants (影の巨人, Kage no Kyojin^?) are Familiars made out of her Hollow Element. Under normal circumstances they are extremely small, but when her powers are augmented by Angra Mainyu and the Holy Grail, their size increases vastly and they start acting as a materialized curse. Each composed of roughly one thousand units of magical energy, they are called a match for the Noble Phantasms of Servants. She can bring them forth without limit, and the amount of magical energy spent creating them for just a single battle, over one hundred million, is enough to run a department of the Clock Tower for one hundred years.

Carrying the properties of All the World's Evil, fighting them would normally require something to dispel a curse, but a level of magical energy equal to that making up the shadows can eliminate them. While Rin Tohsaka could not hope to destroy a single one normally, the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch allows her to match Sakura's limited output used to create them and destroy them with her infinite magical energy provided by the Second Magic.

Development[]

Creation and Conception[]

Her initial concept was based on Fujino Asagami.^[7] Upon looking at Sakura Tohsaka depicted in Character material, Gen Urobuchi thought "aah, right now I'm writing about a world that does its best to brutally mistreat this kind of girl." It was a "huge mental burden" for him, so he decided to torment her even more. While she only appears twice, her "misery index" may actually be the highest in Fate/Zero. In the original draft of the scene of Kariya's death, the plot was "inhumane." Nasu "scolded" him for it, asking him "What color is your blood, anyway!?" It became one of the few scenes he stopped, making Sakura's monologue into a very mild and calm one.^[30]

Reception[]

• In the first Popularity polls of Fate/stay night in 2004, Sakura was ranked 6th and the fifth most voted female character. Dark Sakura was ranked 33rd. Tsuku Sakura (Tiger Dojo) was ranked 49th.
• In the second Popularity polls of Fate/stay night in 2006, Sakura was ranked 5th and the fourth most voted female character. Dark Sakura was ranked 38th.
• In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Sakura from Fate/stay night was ranked 8th and the sixth most voted female character. Sakura from Fate/Zero was ranked 150th. Dark Sakura from Fate/stay night was ranked 176th.

References[]

Fate series characters

Characters by series Fate/stay night Main characters: Shirou Emiya • Saber • Rin Tohsaka • Sakura Matou • Shinji Matou • Illyasviel von Einzbern • Archer • Kirei Kotomine Secondary characters: Assassin • Berserker • Caster • Gilgamesh • Lancer • Rider • Souichirou Kuzuki • True Assassin • Zouken Matou Minor characters: Atrum Galliasta • Ayako Mitsuzuri • Bedivere • Claudia Hortensia • Gai Gotou • Issei Ryuudou • Kaede Makidera • Kane Himuro • Leysritt • Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern • Otoko Hotaruzuka • Sella • Taiga Fujimura • Vivian • Yukika Saegusa Fate/hollow ataraxia Main characters: Bazett Fraga McRemitz • Avenger • Caren Hortensia Secondary characters: Assassin • Dilo • Edelfelt sisters • Luviagelita Edelfelt • Minori Mitsuzuri Master of Assassin • Perseus • Reikan Ryuudou • Saber • Scáthach • Stheno • Euryale Fate/Zero Main characters: Kiritsugu Emiya • Irisviel von Einzbern • Saber • Kirei Kotomine • Waver Velvet • Rider • Tokiomi Tohsaka • Archer Secondary characters: Aoi Tohsaka • Assassin • Berserker • Caster • Kariya Matou • Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald • Lancer • Maiya Hisau • Risei Kotomine • Ryuunosuke Uryuu • Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri Minor characters: Byakuya Matou • Fionn mac Cumhaill • Glen and Martha Mackenzie • Grainne • Jubstacheit von Einzbern • Natalia Kaminski • Norikata Emiya • Shirley Fate/EXTRA Main characters: Hakuno Kishinami • Saber • Archer • Caster • Gilgamesh • Rin Tohsaka • Rani VIII • Sakura Matou • BB Secondary characters: Alice • Archer • Assassin • Berserker • Berserker • Caster • Caster • Dan Blackmore • Jinako Carigiri • Julius B. Harwey • Launcher • Kiara Sessyoin • Lancer • Lancer • Lancer • Run Ru • Leonardo B. Harwey • Meltryllis • Monji Gatou • Passionlip • Rider • Saber • Saver • Shinji Matou • Twice H. Pieceman Minor characters: Amaterasu • Aoko Aozaki Chishiki Mabi • Ikuyo Yuutou • Issei Ryuudou • Kirei Kotomine • Shiki Ryougi • Sialim Eltnam Re-Atlasia • Taiga Fujimura • Touko Aozaki Fate/Apocrypha Black Faction characters: Caules Forvedge Yggdmillennia • Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia • Fiore Forvedge Yggdmillennia • Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia • Reika Rikudou • Roche Flyn Yggdmillennia • Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillennia • Archer of Black • Assassin of Black • Berserker of Black • Caster of Black • Lancer of Black • Rider of Black • Saber of Black Red Faction characters: Kairi Sisigou • Shirou Kotomine • Rottweil Berzinsky • Jean Rum • Pentel brothers • Feend vor Sembren • Archer of Red • Assassin of Red • Berserker of Red • Caster of Red • Lancer of Red • Rider of Red • Saber of Red Other characters: Sieg • Ruler Minor characters: Aias • Alma Petresia • Alzir • Bram Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri • Fafnir • Hector • Lord El-Melloi II • Reines El-Melloi Archisorte • Rocco Belfeban • Serge • Toole • Touki Sisigou • Trimmau • Victor Frankenstein Fate/Prototype Main characters: Ayaka Sajyou • Saber • Misaya Reiroukan • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Manaka Sajyou Secondary characters: Archer's Master • Assassin • Beast • |Berserker • Caster • Aro Isemi • Hiroki Sajyou • Sancraid Phahn Fate/Prototype: Fragments Manaka Sajyou • Saber • Elza Saijo • Archer • Nigel Saward • Lancer • Shizuri Isemi • Rider • Misaya's father • Caster • Tatsumi Kitano • Berserker • Seiji Jinga • Assassin Fate/Labyrinth Manaka Sajyou • Norma Goodfellow • Saber • Archer • Caster • Assassin • Gray • Lord El-Melloi II • Wolfgang Faustus Fate/strange fake False Masters and Servants: Flat Escardos • False Berserker • Tiné Chelc • False Archer • Silver Wolf Chimera • False Lancer • Tsubaki Kuruoka • False Rider • Orlando Reeve • False Caster • Jester Karture • False Assassin True Masters and Servants: Ayaka Sajyou • Player • Saber • Sigma • Watcher • Bazdilot Cordelion • True Archer • Francesca Prelati • True Caster • Haruri Borzak • True Berserker • Faldeus Dioland • True Assassin • Doris Lusendra • True Rider Other characters: Philia • John Wingard • Vera Levitt • Clan Calatin • Hansa Cervantes • Lord El-Melloi II • Yuukaku Kuruoka • Cashura • Galvarosso Scladio • Langal • Saint Germain • Master of Archer (Fate/strange Fake) Fate/Grand Order Main characters: Ritsuka Fujimaru • Mash Kyrielight Observer on Timeless Temple characters: Romani Archaman • Leonardo da Vinci • Olga Marie Animusphere • Fou • Sherlock Holmes • Lev Lainur Flauros • Beast II • Goetia Epic of Remnant characters: Baal • Phenex • Zepar • Beast III/R • Ashiya Douman • Raum • Randolph Carter Cosmos in the Lostbelt characters: Goredolf Musik • Jingle Abel Meuniere • Sion Eltnam Sokaris • Captain Nemo • Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya • Grigori Rasputin • Kirei Kotomine • Priestess of the Alien God • Alien God • Kadoc Zemlupus • Ophelia Phamrsolone • Hinako Akuta • Scandinavia Peperoncino • Kirschtaria Wodime • Beryl Gut • Daybit Sem Void • Senji Muramasa • Chaldean • David Bluebook Other characters: Marisbury Animusphere • Galahad • Characters in Fate/Grand Order Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Main characters: Lord El-Melloi II • Gray • Reines El-Melloi Archisorte Recurring characters: Add • Trimmau • Hishiri Adashino • Flat Escardos • Svin Glascheit • Luviagelita Edelfelt • Hishiri Adashino • Melvin Weins • Faker • Doctor Heartless Secondary characters: Flueger • Heine Istari • Jiroubou Seigen Tokitou • Clown • Orlocke Caesarmund • Rosalind Istari • Geryon Ashborn • Touko Aozaki • Inorai Valualeta Atroholm • Byron Valualeta Iselma • Diadra Valualeta Iselma • Estella Valualeta Iselma • Carina • Regina • Maio Brishisan Clynelles • Islo Sebunan • Mick Grazilier • Atrum Galliasta • Caules Forvedge • Yvette L. Lehrman • Olga Marie Animusphere • Trisha Fellows • Karabo Frampton • Rodin • Leandra • Jean-Mario Supinerra • Bersac Blackmore • Magdalena • Zepia Eltnam Atlasia • Fernando Croze • Sister Ilumia • Corpse King • McDonell Trambellio Elrod • Rufleus Nuada-Re Eulyphis • Asheara Mystras • Calugh Ithred The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Main characters: Lord El-Melloi II • Gray • Reines El-Melloi Archisorte • Ergo Secondary characters: Add • Rin Tohsaka • Latio Crudelis Hiram • Tangere • Wuzhiqi • Flat Escardos • Luviagelita Edelfelt Other characters: Shirou Emiya • Mikiya Kokutou • Mana Ryougi Garden of Avalon Agravain • Artoria • Galahad • Gawain • Guinevere • Kay • Lancelot • Merlin • Morgan le Fay • Tristan • Vortigern Fate/kaleid liner Main characters: Illyasviel von Einzbern • Miyu Edelfelt • Chloe von Einzbern • Rin Tohsaka • Luviagelita Edelfelt • Magical Ruby • Magical Sapphire • Secondary characters: Shirou Emiya • Sella (Fate/kaleid) • Leysritt (Fate/kaleid) • Kiritsugu Emiya • Irisviel von Einzbern • Caren Hortensia • Bazett Fraga McRemitz • Tanaka • Beatrice Flowerchild • Angelica • Darius Ainsworth • Erika Ainsworth • Shirou Emiya (Miyu's brother) • Julian Ainsworth • Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg • Lord El-Melloi II • Mimi Katsura • Tatsuko Gakumazawa • Suzuka Kurihara • Nanaki Moriyama • Taiga Fujimura • Shinji Matou • Sakura Matou Fate/Requiem Main characters: Erice Utsumi • Voyager • Karin • Berserker • Koharu F Riedenflaus • Saber • Chitose Manazuru • Lancer • Nzambi • Anubis Secondary characters: Caren Fujimura • Makki • Kuchime • Rurihime Fate/type Redline Main characters: Kanata Akagi • Tsukumo Fujimiya • Saber Secondary characters: Archer • Berserker • Major Magatsu • Kaname • Major Reiter • Assassin • Caster • Rider Fate/Koha-Ace Main characters: Sakura Saber • Kohaku • Akiha • Demon Archer • Artoria • Rider • Oryuu • Caren Kotomine • Lancer • Major Matou • Berserker • Assassin • Caster • Major Reiter • Fuhrer • Lancer Other characters: Saber • Devil Saber • Sun Wukong Others Association Director • Gazamy •Grail-kun • Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg • Magical Amber • Magical Caren • Moby Dick • Nagato Tohsaka • Neco-Arc • Phantas-Moon • Raiga Fujimura • Saber Lion • Typhon • List of characters by statistics Masters Fate/stay night Shirou Emiya • Rin Tohsaka • Illyasviel von Einzbern • Shinji Matou • Souichirou Kuzuki • Caster • Kirei Kotomine • Zouken Matou • Sakura Matou • Atrum Galliasta Ernest Gravehill Fate/hollow ataraxia Bazett Fraga McRemitz • Caren Hortensia • Edelfelt sisters • Master of Assassin • Einzbern Master Fate/Zero Kiritsugu Emiya • Kirei Kotomine • Tokiomi Tohsaka • Ryuunosuke Uryuu • Waver Velvet • Kariya Matou • Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald • Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri Fate/EXTRA Hakuno Kishinami • Rin Tohsaka • Rani VIII • Leonardo B. Harwey • Run Ru • Dan Blackmore • Shinji Matou • Alice • Julius B. Harwey • Monji Gatou • Twice H. Pieceman • Jinako Carigiri • Kiara Sessyoin • Meltryllis • BB • Kazuhito Sakagami • Izaya Kii • Leila Raidou • Misao Amari • Atrum Galliasta Fate/Apocrypha Kairi Sisigou • Shirou Kotomine • Rottweil Berzinsky • Jean Rum • Pentel brothers • Feend vor Sembren • Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia • Fiore Forvedge Yggdmillennia • Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia • Celenike Icecolle Yggdmillennia • Roche Frain Yggdmillennia • Caules Forvedge Yggdmillennia • Reika Rikudou • Sagara Hyouma • Sieg Fate/Prototype Ayaka Sajyou • Misaya Reiroukan • Manaka Sajyou • Sancraid Phahn • Aro Isemi • Elza Saijo • Nigel Saward • Misaya's father • Shizuri Isemi • Seiji Jinga • Tatsumi Kitano Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Doctor Heartless Fate/Labyrinth Manaka Sajyou • Norma Goodfellow • Wolfgang Faustus Fate/strange fake Player • Tiné Chelc • Tsubaki Kuruoka • Orlando Reeve • Jester Karture • Flat Escardos • Silver Wolf Chimera • Ayaka Sajyou • Sigma • Faldeus Dioland • Cashura • Francesca • Doris Lusendra • Haruri • Bazdilot Cordelion Fate/Grand Order Ritsuka Fujimaru • Kirschtaria Wodime • Ophelia Phamrsolone • Kadoc Zemlupus • Scandinavia Peperoncino • Hinako Akuta • Beryl Gut • Daybit Sem Void Fate/Samurai Remnant Miyamoto Iori • Zheng Chenggong • Chiemon • Yui Shousetsu • Tsuchimikado Yasuhiro • Dorothea Coyett • Takao Dayu Fate/Requiem Erice Utsumi • Karin • Koharu F Riedenflaus • Chitose Manazuru • Makki • Kuchime • Rurihime • Ahasuerus Fate/type Redline Kanata Akagi • Kaname Asama • Reiji Magatsu • Major Reiter • Master of Caster • Mysterious Officer • Lanlan Fang Koha-Ace Kohaku • Artoria • Major Matou • Caren Kotomine Fate/kaleid liner Class Card users: Illyasviel von Einzbern • Miyu Edelfelt • Angelica Ainsworth • Beatrice Flowerchild • Julian Ainsworth • Rin Tohsaka • Luviagelita Edelfelt • Shinji Matou • Kariya Matou • Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald • Atrum Galliasta • Zachary Ainsworth Servants Classes Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker Ruler • Avenger • Alter Ego • MoonCancer • Shielder • Beast • Saver • Gunner • Gatekeeper • Funny Vamp • Faker • Watcher • Pretender • Voyager Grand Servant • Non-classed Servants Fate/stay night Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker Archer • Assassin Shielder Fate/hollow ataraxia Avenger • Saber • Assassin Fate/Zero Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker Fate/EXTRA Playable Servants: Saber • Archer • Caster • Gilgamesh • Saber • Caster • Saber • Ruler Party Servants: Rider • Rider • Ruler • Saber • Rider • Lancer • Archer • Berserker • Caster • Berserker Non-Playable Servants: Saber • Lancer • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker • Berserker • Saver • Rider • Assassin • Lancer • Saber • Lancer • Berserker • Berserker • Armstrong Non-Playable CCC Servants: Saber • Lancer • Caster • Launcher • BB Alter Ego: Passionlip • Meltryllis • Violet • Kingprotea • Kazuradrop Others: Saber Fate/Apocrypha Black Faction: Saber of Black (Sieg) • Lancer of Black • Archer of Black • Rider of Black • Caster of Black • Assassin of Black • Berserker of Black Red Faction: Saber of Red • Lancer of Red • Archer of Red • Rider of Red • Caster of Red • Assassin of Red • Berserker of Red Others: Ruler • Ruler Discarded designs: David • Musashibou Benkei • Georgios • Sakata Kintoki Fate/Prototype First Tokyo Holy Grail War Servants: Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker Second Tokyo Holy Grail War Servants: Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker • Beast Fate/strange fake False Servants: Saber • False Lancer • False Archer • False Rider • False Caster • False Assassin • False Berserker True Servants: True Archer • True Rider • True Caster • True Assassin • True Berserker • Watcher Fate/Grand Order Saber: Astolfo • Altera • Artoria Pendragon • Artoria Pendragon (Alter) • Artoria Pendragon Lily • Barghest • Bedivere • Benienma • Charlemagne • Chevalier d'Eon • Diarmuid Ua Duibhne • Dioscuri • Fergus mac Róich • Gaius Julius Caesar • Gilles de Rais • Ibuki-douji • Jason • Lancelot • Medusa • Miyamoto Musashi • Mordred • Nero Claudius • Nero Bride • Prince of Lanling • Rama • Roland • Saitou Hajime • Senji Muramasa • Shiki Ryougi • Siegfried • Sigurd • Suzuka Gozen • Theseus • Trưng sisters • Watanabe-no-Tsuna • Yagyuu Munenori • Yamanami Keisuke Lancer: Artoria Pendragon • Artoria Pendragon (Alter) • Bhima • Bradamante • Britomart • Brynhildr • Caenis • Cú Chulainn • Cú Chulainn (Prototype) • Diarmuid Ua Duibhne • Don Quixote • Elizabeth Bathory • Enkidu • Ereshkigal • Erice Utsumi • Fionn mac Cumhaill • Gareth • Hector • Houzouin Inshun • Jaguar Man • Karna • Leonidas • Mary Anning • Medusa • Melusine • Musashibou Benkei • Nezha • Parvati • Percival • Qin Liangyu • Romulus • Romulus-Quirinus • Scáthach • Sétanta • Sakamoto Ryouma • Valkyrie • Vritra Archer: Arash • Arjuna • Baobhan Sith • Atalanta • Billy the Kid • Calamity Jane • Child-Gil • Chiron • Chloe von Einzbern • David • Durga • EMIYA • EMIYA Alter • Euryale • Fujino Asagami • Gilgamesh • Ishtar • James Moriarty • Kali • Napoleon • Oda Nobukatsu • Oda Nobunaga • Orion (Artemis) • Paris • Ptolemy • Robin Hood • Saika Magoichi • Sei Shounagon • Sugitani Zenjuubou • Super Orion • Takasugi Shinsaku • Tawara Touta • Tomoe Gozen • Tristan • Zenobia Rider: Achilles • Alexander • Andromeda • Artoria Pendragon (Santa Alter) • Astolfo • Bartholomew Roberts • Bonny and Read • Boudica • Captain Nemo • Christopher Columbus • Constantine XI • Dobrynya Nikitich • Edward Teach • Europa • Francis Drake • Habetrot • Huang Feihu • Ivan the Terrible • Leonardo da Vinci • Mandricardo • Marie Antoinette • Medb • Medusa • Ozymandias • Quetzalcoatl • Red Hare • Georgios • Martha • Sakamoto Ryouma • Sakata Kintoki • Taigong Wang • Takeda Harunobu • Ushiwakamaru Caster: Aesc • Alice Kuonji • Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova • Artoria Avalon • Avicebron • Charles Babbage • Chen Gong • Circe • Cú Chulainn • Daikokuten • Geronimo • Gilgamesh • Gilles de Rais • Hans Christian Andersen • Helena Blavatsky • Illyasviel von Einzbern • Irisviel (Dress of Heaven) • Izumo-no-Okuni • Leonardo da Vinci • Medea • Medea Lily • Mephistopheles • Merlin • Merlin (Prototype) • Miss Crane • Murasaki Shikibu • Nitocris • Nursery Rhyme • Queen of Sheba • Scáthach Skadi • Scheherazade • Sieg • Solomon • Tamamo-no-Mae • Thomas Edison • William Shakespeare • Paracelsus von Hohenheim • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Xuanzang Sanzang • Zhang Jue • Zhuge Liang (Lord El-Melloi II) Assassin: Carmilla • Charles-Henri Sanson • Charlotte Corday • Cleopatra • Consort Yu • Dr. Jekyll • EMIYA • Fuuma Kotarou • Hassan of the Cursed Arm • Hassan of the Hundred Faces • Hassan of the Shining Star • Hassan of Serenity • Huyan Zhuo • Jack the Ripper • Jing Ke • Kama • Kashin Koji • Katō Danzō • Kiichi Hougen • King Hassan • Koyanskaya of Light • Locusta • Mata Hari • Mochizuki Chiyome • Mysterious Heroine X • Okada Izou • Osakabehime • Phantom of the Opera • Sasaki Kojirou • Semiramis • Shiki Ryougi •Shuten-douji • Stheno • Tezcatlipoca • Wu Zetian • Yan Qing Berserker: Asterios • Atalanta Alter • Beowulf • Caligula • Chacha • Cú Chulainn Alter • Darius III • Duryodhana • Eric Bloodaxe • Florence Nightingale • Frankenstein's Monster • Heracles • Hijikata Toshizo • Galatea • Ibaraki-douji • Kijyo Koyo • Kiyohime • Kriemhild • Lancelot • Lu Bu • Minamoto-no-Raikou • Morgan • Mysterious Heroine X Alter • Nagakura Shinpachi • Penthesilea • Paul Bunyan • Sakata Kintoki • Salome • Sen no Rikyu • Soujuurou Shizuki • Spartacus • Tamamo Cat • Vlad III • Xiang Yu Ruler: Amakusa Shirou Tokisada • Amour • Himiko • Iyo • James Moriarty • Jeanne d'Arc • Johanna • Qin Shi Huang • Sherlock Holmes • Uesugi Kenshin Avenger: Amakusa Shirou Tokisada • Angra Mainyu • Antonio Salieri • Black Iri • Comte de Monte Cristo • Edmond Dantès • Gorgon • Hessian Lobo • Jeanne Alter • Marie Antoinette Alter • Mysterious Ranmaru X • Nitocris Alter • Space Ishtar • Taira-no-Kagekiyo Alter Ego: Ashiya Douman • Kiara Sessyoin • Kingprotea • Larva/Tiamat • Manannán mac Lir • Mecha Eli-chan • Mecha Eli-chan MkII • Meltryllis • Okita Souji Alter • Passionlip • Sitonai • Super Bunyan • Taisui Xingjun • Xu Fu MoonCancer: Archetype: Earth • BB • Ganesha • Kiara Sessyoin Foreigner: Abigail Williams • Aoko Aozaki • BB Pele • Jacques de Molay • Katsushika Hokusai • Koyanskaya of Darkness • Kukulkan • Mysterious Heroine XX • Mysterious Idol X Alter • Van Gogh • Voyager • Wandjina • Yang Guifei Pretender: Alessandro di Cagliostro • Hephaestion Mnemosyne • Lady Avalon • Nine-Tattoo Dragon Eliza • Oberon • Tenochtitlan Beast: E-Aqua Marie • E-Flare Marie • Goetia • Tiamat • Kiara Sessyoin • Kama/Mara • Cath Palug • Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya • Whore of Babylon • U-Olga Marie Fate/Requiem Voyager • Berserker • Saber • Lancer • Caster • Anubis • Unnamed female Servant • Assassin • Avenger • Rider • Hendrik van der Decken • Barbarossa • Circe • Edward Teach • El Cid • Jacques de Molay • Hannibal • Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa • Minamoto Kurou Yoshitsune • Elizabeth Bathory • Mata Hari • Foreigner • Asclepius • Odysseus Fate/type Redline Saber • Archer • Berserker • Assassin • Caster • Rider • Lancer • Fake Lancer Fate:Lost Einherjar Archer • Berserker Caster • Assassin Lancer • Rider Saber • Unknown Fate/Samurai Remnant Initial Servants: Saber • Archer • Lancer • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker Stray Servants: Stray Saber • Stray Archer • Stray Lancer • Stray Rider • Stray Caster • Stray Assassin • Stray Berserker • Stray Ruler Others: Ototachibana-hime Fate/kaleid liner Fifth Holy Grail War Class Cards: Archer (Gilgamesh) • Assassin (Assassin • Assassin) • Saber • Lancer • Archer • Rider • Caster • Berserker Unknown Holy Grail War Class Cards: Assassin • Berserker • Berserker Koha-Ace Sakura Saber • Musashi • Lancer • Demon Archer • Devil Saber • Rider • Caster • Assassin • Berserker • Sun Wukong • Lancer Others Saber Lion • Faker • Others • Servants of Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's World