First of All… [Note]
Do note that Fate/type Redline is not connected to any other existing work within the Fate franchise and exists within its own unique continuity.
Class: Assassin
Master: ???
True Name: ???
Sex: Male
Height & Weight: 174 cm, 65 kg
Alignment: Neutral Evil
STR: C
END: D
AGI: B
MANA: E
LUK: E
NP: C
Class Skills:
■ Presence Concealment: B
The ability to erase one's presence. Once activated, it becomes nearly impossible for even Servants to detect him. However, the effect of this greatly decreases once an attack is made.
Personal Skills:
■ Man-Slayer: A
Possession of a fighting style specialised in butchering people with a sword. A practical fighting style focused solely on winning. Completely unrelated to the mentality of an investigator. This makes it strong yet fragile.
■ (Obscured in volume 3)
■ Eye of the Mind (False): C
The ability to evade danger through instinct or a sixth sense. The ability to predict danger through natural talent. Also bestows resistance to obstruction one's sight.
Noble Phantasms
■ (Obscured in volume 3)
Rank: –
Type: Anti-Unit
Noble Phantasm Range: 1
Maximum targets: 1
???. A Noble Phantasm that allows the copying of any sword technique witnessed by the user. Upon summoning, he can only reproduce techniques acquired during his life, but it is possible to copy new techniques after being summoned. However there are limitations to what he can copy. It must be an anti-unit technique, and the special characteristics of the Noble Phantasms cannot be copied either.
Class: Berserker
Master: Reiji Magatsu
True Name: (Obscured in volume 4)
Sex: (Obscured in volume 4)
Height & Weight: 194 cm, 93 kg
Alignment: Chaotic Mad
STR: B
END: C
AGI: D
MANA: E
LUK: D
NP: C
Class Skills:
■ Mad Enhancement: D
The Berserker class skill. It gives the user violent brute strength in exchange for their sanity. Improves physical strength but decreases language ability and the capicity for extended complex thought.
Personal Skills:
■ Bloody Savage: A
(Obscured in volume 4)
Berserker gets stronger the more they attack, but their defense goes down as well.
■ Mental Pollution (Wicked): B
An abnormal state of mind displayed in the battlefield. Berserker enters a state of rampage where it becomes difficult to communicate with anyone, including their Master. Berserker's brutality is enhanced, and they will not stop fighting until either them or the enemy is dead.
■ (Obscured in volume 4): C
(Obscured in volume 4). This skill has different effects depending on if its used during battle or upon defeat. (Obscured in volume 4).
Noble Phantasms
■ (Obscured in volume 4)
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Noble Phantasm Range: 1
Maximum targets: 1
(Obscured in volume 4).
(Obscured in volume 4).
This Noble Phantasm may be simple, but its mana cost is low and it's extremely powerful in battle. Usually looks like a spear, (Obscured in volume 4).
■ (Obscured in volume 4)
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Noble Phantasm Range: 1
Maximum targets: 1
A mounted NP obtained during summons as Lancer or Rider. (Obscured in volume 4).
(Obscured in volume 4).
Cannot be used when summoned as a Berserker.
Strength: C
Endurance: B
Agility: C
Magic: B
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: E~EX
Class Skills
■ Magic Resistance: B
Negates the effects of magecraft with three incantations or less. It is difficult to damage her even with greater magecraft or rituals.
■ Independent Action: B
The ability to act independently even when not receving mana from a Master. At rank B, it is possible to remain materialized for a period of time for about two days.
Personal Skills
■ Military Tactics: B
The ability to obtain victory before the battle even begins by utilising tools like diplomacy or logistics. She's famous for pulling off one of the greatest surprise attacks in Japanese history.
■ Tenka Fubu - Innovation: A
A special skill given to her as the biggest revolutionary of her age. The conceptual ability to impose "new" unto "old". The more divine, the higher the mystery of the opponent or the higher their attribute as protectors of an order, the more she will gain a conceptual advantage against them. Due to this, she's able to fight in total advantage against Heroic Spirits and Noble Phantasms that possess divinity or mystery. On the other hand, the more modern or lacking in mystery an opponent is, not only will this lose its effect, but her own skills and Noble Phantasms will become weaker against them as well.
■ Demon King: A
A monster who, due to the impression she left in the people during her life, had her way of being twisted after death. It allows for the changing of her abilities and appearance. In Archer's case, since she called herself the Demon King during life, it is possible to activate and deactivate this skill at will. She can also obtain all of its benefits without any downsides. A skill similar yet different to Innocent Monster.
Noble Phantasms
■ (Obscured in volume 2)
CLASS アーチャー
マスター：？？？
真名：???
性別：女性
身長・体重：１５２ｃｍ／３９ｋｇ
属性：秩序・中庸
Class: Rider
Master: ???
True Name: ???
Sex: Male
Height & Weight: 178 cm, 72 kg
Alignment: True Neutral
STR: C
END: C
AGI: B
MANA: D
LUK: A-
NP: EX
Class Skills:
■ Riding: A+
A special Riding Skill given to ??? for crossing the Bakumatsu period of Japan while riding the dragon that is the changing times.
He has the ability to ride phantasmal creatures close to becoming dragons.
■ Magic Resistance: C
Negates magecraft with a chant of two verses or less.
It can't block large-scale magecraft, like high-thaumaturgy or greater rituals.
Personal Skills:
■ (Obscured in volume 4): A
The 8 proposals said to have been drafted by ??? describing the shape of a new country
Its text is notorious for being very modern and ground-breaking for its time. It's a Skill that represents a path to hope towards a better future even under the most difficult circumstances.
■ Hero of the Restoration: A
A special Skill given to ??? for his crossing of the turbulent Bakumatsu period and for his contributions to the Meiji Restoration, a grand revolution on a scale rarely seen in history.
■ Charisma: C+
He can't rule a country, but his bonds with like-minded allies are solid enough to endure after his death. ???'s charisma is strong enough to get groups of opposing ideologies to work together.
Strength: C
Endurance: E
Agility: A+
Magic: E
Luck: D
Noble Phantasm: C
Class Skills
■ Magic Resistance: E
The Saber class usually boasts high Magic Resistance, but due to the fact that she lived in a time that had very little mystery, her Magic Resistance skill is very weak and unreliable.
■ Riding: E
The Riding skill is given to all Sabers, but due to there being no record of her ever using a mount, she's been given the skill in its lowest rank. As one can probably guess from her stats and skills, she's kind of a rare case within the Saber class.
Personal Skills
■ Eye of the Mind (False): A
The ability to evade danger through instinct or a sixth sense. The ability to predict danger through natural talent. Also bestows resistance to obstruction of one's sight.
■ Weak Constitution: A
A naturally weak and frail disposition. In her case, on top of her illness, she also obtained a curse similar to Innocent Monster due to the impression her story left on people through posterity. Anytime she does anything she runs the risk of having all her stats suddenly drop. The chances of it triggering are very low, but the danger of it happening in the middle of a fight would be immeasurable.
■ Reduced Earth: B
The ability to erase the distance between oneself and the opponent. The peak of movement techniques that all martial arts strive to achieve. It is not simply speed, but a combination of footwork, defensive movements, and use of blind spots. If one achieves the highest rank of A, it evolves into something more akin to dimension-hopping and becomes less of a technique and more like a kind of sorcery.
■ (Obscured in volume 2)
Noble Phantasms
■ Coat of Oaths
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
Range: 1
Maximum number of targets: 1 Person
A light-blue haori. The famous coat of the band of murderers who shook the capital during the Bakumatsu period, now transformed into a Noble Phantasm. By putting it on, Saber increases all of her stats, and her armament also gets upgraded. Her usual weapon as a Saber is the ??? but with this Noble Phantasm, it turns into ??? the sword future generations considered to be her favourite.
■ (Obscured in volume 2)
CLASS セイバー
マスター：？？？
真名：???
性別：女性
身長・体重：１５８ｃｍ／４５ｋｇ
属性：中立・中庸
Akagi Kanata [Master]
Saber’s Master. 17 years old. The oldest son of a family that quit the ways of magecraft in his father’s generation. He currently goes by his mother’s last name. As a magus, he’s a mediocre one who can merely decrease the speed of any object he touches. As for his personality, he’s just like any other modern human in that he’s become much too accustomed to peace. Having nothing to call a conviction of his own, he was thrown into the Holy Grail War through a crazy series of coincidences. By the way, he has a younger sister who apparently had potential and talent, so she separated herself from their family and became a freelancing magus.
Anti-Servant Type 97 Tank [Weapon]
A magecraft weapon created by modifying a Type-97 Chi-ha tank. Conventional weapons don't work on a spiritual entity like a Servant, but the modifications to this tank make combat possible. The Type-97 tank was designed to provide support to infantry, and thus it proved to be no match to other countries' tanks during the later stages of the war, it seems the same thing could be said for its Anti-Servant version.
Archer [Servant]
A mysterious Servant who controls a large number of rifles. Befitting of the name Archer, she boasts incredible power when fighting from a distance, but the fact that she's usually supposed to consume great amounts of mana makes her a difficult Servant to use. However, due to a certain reason, the problem of mana consumption has been resolved.
One would not be able to tell from her appearance, but her identity is that of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, Oda Nobunaga.
Asama Kaname [Master]
Archer’s Master. A blonde girl with blue eyes. She was the daughter of a high-ranking army official, but due to the inconvenience of her birth, she was shunned by her father. She had originally been called not to serve as a Master, but to make use of her peculiar magecraft in the war. However, Archer took a liking to her and made her her Master.
Assassin [Servant]
A mysterious manslayer calling himself 'Sakamoto Ryouma'. He possesses the peculiar skill of being able to reproduce others' sword techniques just by seeing them. He has a tendency to act arrogant about his own skill and to look down on others, but his skill is truly that of a genius. He utilizes a fighting style specialized in killing his enemies practically, and is the kind to not hesitate about using underhanded means for victory.
Berserker [Servant]
The heroic spirit of madness who wields a giant spear. Berserker went on a rampage immediately after being summoned, so clearly there was no communication between him and his Master. Usually a Berserker would lose all reason and become an embodiment of destruction, but while this one does display cruel brutality in battle, his actions could also be considered completely logical. This is also shown in his attitude towards his Master. He didn't hesitate to take Magatsu's command seals when he was being ordered to kill himself, yet he still recognized Magatsu as his master. A Berserker usually drains their Master of mana quickly, which puts them in grave danger, but due to a certain piece of technology, the mana consumption issue has been solved.
Command Seal [Magecraft]
A proof of supreme authority over their own Servant, given to each Master chosen by the Holy Grail. Possessing these is proof that one is an official Master chosen by the Grail. Each Master possesses three of these and they can be used to force Servants to do certain things, or to power them up. The more immediate and straightforward the order is, the more powerful the Command Seal’s effect is, and the longer-lasting and vague the order is, the weaker the effect becomes.
Father [Person]
The church's supervisor for the current Holy Grail War. Originally he was a priest assigned to the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament, but the person tasked with supervising the last Holy Grail War was relieved of their charge, so he was sent to replace them. Due to the difficult times they live in, he cannot conduct his activities openly in Japan, which is why he approached Fujimiya Tsukumo to participate. After hearing Tsukumo's request, he obtained the sheath of the holy sword for her. Usually this holy relic would be so rare that it'd be impossible to find it, but...
Fujimiya Family [Magi Family]
Tsukumo's family. The previous family head, Tsukumo's mother, had been summoned to help repurpose magecraft weapons for the war, but she refused. This caused her whole family to get eliminated, leaving only Tsukumo as the sole survivor, as she had been away at the time. Her dad, who had been away for the war, died during his duties, but it is unknown if the army had anything to do with it.
Tsukumo's son, Kanata's father, didn't inherit her magecraft, and thus the Fujimiya's lineage of magi ended with Tsukumo.
Fujimiya Tsukumo [Magus]
The 5th head of the Fujimiya family. 17 years old. She uses magecraft that allows her to channel her mana into liquids and control them like mist. However her skill level isn’t that great, making her more or less a very average magus. She’s the head of the Fujimiya family, who goes down a path of constant decline with each generation. Through the connections of her predecessors, she managed to obtain an invitation to the Holy Grail War from the Church, and burning with conviction, hope for the future, and hoping to restore her family, she set out to summon a Heroic Spirit, but was suddenly interrupted by Kanata and had Saber stolen by him. “Why did this happen…?”
Held Krieger [Heroic Spirit Soldier]
Magecraft-based weapons created through replicating the summoning of Heroic Spirits that occur during a Holy Grail War, but without using support from the Grail. By using organic parts, it is possible to produce fake Servant soldiers.
This would usually be something impossible to accomplish, but through use of a certain theory this project was able to “become realized without being realized”. Unlike the normal Servant summoning, a single Master could control a varying number of these, and instead of the usual three Command Seals, the Masters only get one for emergency use. As their name implies, these are meant to be used as heroic spirit soldiers. However, due to merely being fake Servants, their ability is nowhere near that of a real one.
Heroic Spirit Restraining Device [Weapon]
Originally a restraining device from the Third Reich which Magatsu modified. It restrains a Servant, allowing for full control of their actions, but Magatsu added a few other features as well. It was supposed to be able to control Berserker, but you must already be aware of how that turned out.
Holy Church [Organization]
A religion based on following the teachings of the great father, which also makes aiding humanity one of their core principles. On the other hand, they will also eliminate those who go against their teachings, and possesses various other organizations tasked with controlling mysteries too powerful for society. It is one of the biggest organizations that take care of keeping mysteries secret. Their plans and policies are fundamentally different from the Mage's Association’s, so the two organizations usually find themselves opposing eachother. However this is not the case during the Holy Grail War, as both organizations have agreed to cooperate in overseeing it.
Holy Grail War [Concept]
A battle between seven magi (Masters) and seven Heroic Spirits (Servants), where they fight to obtain the right to use the omnipotent wish-granting Holy Grail. The Holy Grail War that takes place in the Imperial Capital during the final stages of World War 2 is the stage for Fate/Type Redline’s story.
Hourglass [Mystic Code?]
The hourglass that became the means by which Kanata was transported from modern times to the past war times. Usually, time travel is a miracle that can only be performed through the mysterious art known as True Magic, different from Magecraft, and it is currently unknown whether the phenomenon in which Kanata found himself is actually that.
Imperial Army’s 4th Magecraft Division [Organization]
A division of the army created with the intention of utilizing and developing magecraft-based weapons in preparation for the Great War. Archer was summoned as one of the first stages of their plan, but to their surprise, she ended up taking part of the Imperial Army under her own control instead. Usually, this would be the time when Japan allowed the country to be air-raided, but through Archer’s efforts, they’ve brought the war situation on their coastline to a halt.
Imperial Army’s Special Squadron [Other]
A special team created by the Imperial Army's 4th Magecraft Division, tasked with eliminating Saber's Master, Akagi Kanata. This team was composed of highly-experienced soldiers, but as it's been shown, they couldn't deliver favorable results. To begin with, normal weapons don't even work on Servants, so living humans would be no match for them. It is said that assassinating a Master is a very effective tactic in the Holy Grail War, but now we've seen how difficult it really is to try and pull this off on a Master that is being protected by their Servant.
Jigen-Ryu [Fighting Style]
An ancient sword fighting style passed down in the Satsuma domain. This is a fighting style that aims to end a fight with the first strike, which is usually accompanied by a battle cry. Back in the Bakumatsu period, Shinsengumi's captain, Kondo Isami would tell his men ‘When fighting someone from Satsuma, make sure to evade the first strike'. Assassin comes from Tosa, so the reason he could make use of this is due to his peculiar aforementioned skill, which has allowed him to kill many opponents on their first encounter. Saber could have never predicted that someone who spoke in Tosa dialect would use Jigen-Ryu, so there's a possibility that she would have died had it not been for her Eye of the Mind skill.
Lancer [Servant]
A spear-wielding Servant who Lanlan calls Sensei. He has the looks of an old man, but his extraordinary skill with the spear has earned him the nickname of "Divine Spear". He mentioned having only died quite recently, so it's clear that he's a pretty modern Servant.
Lanlan Fan [Master]
Lancer's Master. A freelancing Chinese Magus who's become infamous in many ways. Her nickname is "The Fire Rat". She's known for doing just about anything for money, but this time she's participating in the Holy Grail War after being hired by a certain organization to do so. Her relationship with Lancer seems like that of a grandfather and his granddaughter, but this is due to their personalities being quite compatible with each other. She summoned Lancer at a location connected to him, and then proceeded to head east.
Major Magatsu [Master]
A consultant magus from the Imperial Army. 24 years old. He comes from a family of magi who specialized in ancient magecraft to communicate with dead spirits. Due to the current Holy Grail War, he was especially invited into the Army. Unlike Fujimiya, he’s a magus from a family with far greater history and pedigree, but Magatsu himself seems to prefer climbing up the ladder of normal society rather than that of magi society.
Mysterious Woman [???]
A mysterious girl who arrived in Japan.
She is accompanied by a man with an intense aura.
She claims their objective is treasure hunting, but the real details are unknown.
Mysterious Woman [Master]
Assassin's Master. She seems to be a member of the Third Reich, but is also receiving information from Japan's Imperial Army, although the details are unkown. She's someone who would go so far as to use a Command Seal to make Assassin retreat despite him wishing to continue his fight. So far, her goals are a mystery. By the way, isn't she just absolutely beautiful?
Operation No-riku [Thing]
A Heroic Spirit summoning project conducted by the Imperial Army's 2nd Magecraft Division. The objective was to summon Servants and have them participate in the war on the Army's orders. Taking into account their fame in the east, the plan was always to gather catalysts for Oda Nobunaga's summoning. They had intended to cut off the connection of Nobunaga to her initial Master and have people share that role to maximize the Servant's flexible use, but since her original Master was killed after summoning and Nobunaga chose a new one herself, these plans had to drastically change.
ノ陸号作戦 [マスター]
Records of the Imperial Capital[]
[v] Fate/type Redline - Volume 2 - Glossary: Records of the Imperial Capital [Light Novel], p.202
Records of the Imperial Capital [Light Novel]
The light novel Kanata was reading in the present. Strangely enough the events told within the story hold a great resemblance to what’s happening in the Holy Grail War he now finds himself in. An extremely mysterious book that also somehow managed to serve as catalyst for Saber.
Rider [Servant]
A suspicious-looking man claiming to be Rider. He claims not to have a Master and has proposed an alliance despite the war only having a single victor, so his true intentions are hard to discern.
He is accompanied by Oryou, a strange woman capable of floating, healing and super-strength on par with a Servant.
Saber [Servant]
The Saber servant that made a contract with Kanata. A Servant specialized in close-quarters combat that possesses both immense skill and agility. She also possesses an extremely powerful trumpcard that allowed her to erase the space between her and Archer, who fought at long range.
Due to the fact that she wears that extremely famous haori, figuring out her identity was easy, but Archer still has no idea who she is, so she couldn't figure out her name.
Usually, Saber is considered the strongest class due to having the best overall stats, but it would seem that in her case, her base stats are actually quite low.
セイバー【サーヴァント】
Sheath of the Holy Sword[]
[v] Fate/type Redline - Volume 4 - Glossary: Sheath of the Holy Sword [Artifact]
Sheath of the Holy Sword [Artifact]
The sheath of a legendary holy sword found beneath Cornwall. Or rather, a fake of it. One can only imagine what Tsukumo was thinking while she excitedly tried to summon with it. Though realistically, there was no way such an important relic would be handed over to a simple eastern magus. It seems the Father did intend to hand over a real relic, but due to the difficult times, he had to settle for sending her a fake.
How mean.
[マスター]
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Special Mana Drop Tank[]
[v] Fate/type Redline - Volume 4 - Glossary: Special Mana Drop Tank [Ability]
Special Mana Drop Tank [Ability]
The special ability, or rather constitution of Archer's Master, Asama Kaname. Her ability to store and produce mana is several times that of the average magus. To a magus this ability would be incredible, but as Kaname has little ability in magecraft, her gift is somewhat wasted. Magatsu took notice of her ability, and decided to use her as an expendable mana tank, or rather a sacrifice, during Archer's summoning. She was fine with this as long as she could be useful, however Archer took a liking to her and she became a Master. Also the needles used on her during the summoning are quite painful so please stop doing that.
特型魔力増槽 [異能]
The Third Holy Grail War[]
[v] Fate/type Redline - Volume 4 - Glossary: The Third Holy Grail War [Incident]
The Third Holy Grail War [Incident]
The previous grail war which was held in Japan two years ago.
Along with the founding three families, many powerful Servants were summoned, but for some reason they all disappeared along with the grail. This brought the war to an abrupt end...or so it would seem.
第三次聖杯戦争 [マスター]
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Yan of the Lone Sword[]
[v] Fate/type Redline - Volume 4 - Glossary: Yan of the Lone Sword [Person]
Yan of the Lone Sword [Person]
A bodyguard for the Shanghai mafia. He used to be a renowned martial artist in Hebei, but after all the chaos brought by the war, he ended up becoming a bodyguard. He practices a self-taught style called the Lone Sword, and his skill was such that it's no exaggeration to call him a master of the sword. Lanlan had been giving the mafia a hard time, and Yan had been called to guard them. However he was no match for Lancer. He also seemed to know who Lancer was in his past life.
And Lastly… [Afterword]
Well, this is the end, but allow me to introduce myself as Keikenchi, the author of the work this manga is based on. I could have never expected that Legend of the Imperial Capital would have gotten a remake manga. This is such a wonderful thing that I can’t say anything but “Awesome!”. Many thanks to Hirano Ryouji! Please look forward to seeing in future volumes what the Shinsengumi’s Saber and the Mysterious Archer will do next. It’s sure to make you go “Eh? What? Who are these people!?”
