Type-Moon’s Mahōtsukai no Yoru: Witch on the Holy Night visual novel will be getting an anime film adaptation by ufotable. The announcement was made on Sunday.
Ufotable has worked on various other Type-Moon properties in the past, putting out a variety of Fate projects and handling the opening animation for the Tsukihime remake, Tsukihime - A piece of blue glass moon.
The Witch on the Holy Night visual novel was released in 2012, with Kinoko Nasu handling the scenario and Hirokazu Koyama working on the character designs. Like many of its predecessors, the game never received an official translation but has a strong following among the Fate fan base. Though the project is implied to be a single film, the visual novel has an estimated playtime of 25 hours on VNDB, making a multi-entry series a possibility.
Ufotable first collaborated with the developer on a film series adapting Nasu’s Garden of Sinners light novels. A total of eight films were released between 2007 and 2013. Various directors spearheaded the film project, with God Eater director Takayuki Hirao and Fate/Zero director Ei Aoki handling the 1st and 5th films, respectively.
The studio then produced an anime adaptation of Gen Urobuchi’s Fate/Zero light novels in 2011. The 25-episode series’ first cour aired during the Fall 2011 season, with its second cour airing during the Summer 2012 season.
Ufotable later adapted the Fate/stay night visual novel’s Unlimited Blade Works route in 2014. The series aired during the Fall 2014 season, with a second cour that aired during the Spring 2015 season. Takahiro Miura, who had previously worked on the Garden of Sinners films, directed the series, and would later go on to direct the 2018 Today's Menu for the Emiya Family ONA series.
Ufotable most recently worked on a film trilogy adapting the Fate/stay night visual novel’s Heaven’s Feel route. The first film in the trilogy, presage flower, was released in 2017, with the second film, lost butterfly, released in 2019, and the final entry, spring song, released in 2020. Tomonori Sudō, who had worked on the Garden of Sinners and Unlimited Blade Works projects, directed the films while celebrated composer Yuki Kajiura handled the trilogy’s music.
Source: Comic Natalie via Anime News Network