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characters and supernatural events happening in the course of the series. The second novel in the series can then be considered an expansion, further developing on the cast of character. The entire story was picked up for Serial Publication by Kodansha, who combined all previous material into 3 volumes. An official publication meant that the series could expand further, which led to sales skyrocketing to over 500,000 sold total. The Garden of Sinners, or Kara No Kyoukai in Japanese, was the very first work written for the Nasuverse. When Type-Moon was still Takebouki, in 1998. The series was first written as a single book with 5 chapters and was first published on the Takebouki site before physical copies in winter comiket were sold. It sold enough that the series continued with a second volume the next year. Upon the release of the updated version of Lunar Legend Tsukihime, Nasu included digital copies of the novel in a disk of the bundled game. This release saw unpresedented success and led to rising sales of Type-Moon products. The story was considered completed even in the first novel, with the 5th and final chapter of the novel, Paradox Spiral, which answers many of the burning questions related to the rest of In 2007, a year after the anime adaptation of Fate by Studio Deen, the later Studio staple for the franchise, Ufotable, started adapting the novel into a series of movies that would cover the 2 volumes of material. The movies also added original stories of their own, including the OVA’s: Recalled Out Summer, which serve to explain plot points from the later movies and give an extra bonus for fans of the series. The movies are currently being re-released on Blu-Ray in individual copies. The first movie in the franchise, Overlooking View, is set to release in early April of 2020, while the rest of the movies and OVA’s will be released bi-monthly.

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