When it comes to Fate, not a lot of stuff has been localized, very minimal. A lot of the peripheral materials - novels, short films, manga - have never been localized. Among the series, Extra only has been localized halfway, because Extra/CCC hasn’t been localized.

When it comes to the main Fate series: we have Unlimited Blade Works; we have Heaven’s Feel movie going on right now, and we have Zero, but the main Fate route was never properly animated. Hollow Ataraxia was never properly animated.

How I want to expand the franchise - FGO in Japan did several in-game player surveys. The first time they took the survey, everyone was already a Fate fan. “I played the original game”, “I watched this animation”, “I read that novel” and such. They have some understanding of Fate. From the second player survey, it turns into “FGO was my first entry.”

Being the first entry in the franchise, FGO now sets up the worldview. FGO does that pretty well, setting up the player on what’s going on, on what the world is like, but it also makes references to other works that force people to look it up.

If they don’t understand when I say GUDAGUDA Order, GUDAGUDA Honnouji, how can we not localize the manga? People have to look it up GUDAGUDA Honnouji to figure out where it’s coming from.

"It sounds like it’s a manga somewhere, where can I find it?"

For the stuff not localized, FGO will somehow force them to look into it. With hope, my hope, my personal hope being that FGO does well in the States. It expands the people’s interest and expands the fanbase. Then maybe we can look into other options to expand the franchise.