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Good news for fans of Tosaka Rin. The rumor of a Fate/Stay Night movie has finally been confirmed to be the animation of the Unlimited Blade Works arc. The movie will debut on the 23rd of January next year, and apparently the seiyuu cast from the anime series will be carried over wholesale into the movie.

That means we will get more of Kana Ueda as Rin, which is a very good thing since I consider Rin as one of Kana Ueda’s best work ever. She almost always stole the show from Shiro and Saber whenever she appeared, and the Rin fan in me rejoices in her getting a whole movie to call her own.

The UBW movie aside, this trend of producing anime movies seems to be on the rise. Off the top of my head I can think of Nanoha, Gurren Lagaan, Evangelion, Macross Frontier and Kara no Kyoukai, with KnK having the distinction of never having a prior anime series adaptation before hitting the theaters. What’s next…. a K-On movie perhaps? I know I would dearly love to see a Shin Mazinger movie!

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.