MC: Heaven’s Feel is the Sakura Route. Playing as the heroine this time, how is your performance different compared to Unlimited Blade Works?

VA Noriko Shitaya: As you know, Sakura still shows up in the Saber route and UBW, but her existence was only symbolic of how the daily life is. There was no depiction of Sakura’s past or her true self.

After reading the Heaven’s Feel screenplay, I really get the internal aspect of Sakura in this one. In order to play Sakura, I went and redid Sakura from scratch, approach Sakura from scratch.

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MC: The movie is filled with amazing, white knuckle action sequences, especially the battle between Lancer vs Assassin. Do you have any behind the scene stories about making that sequence? [SPOILERS] Director Tomonori Sudo: Since the scripting stage, we all knew going in that the battle between Lancer vs Assassin was going to be a highlight of the movie. I went to Mr. Miura at ufotable, who is known for dynamic and exciting action sequences, to do the storyboard of this battle scene. Mr. Miura was the director of Unlimited Blade Works and I believe that scene is a culmination of great storyboarding and a great team of talented animators, artists, and director of photography working together to bring an incredible scene to life

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MC: For this movie you were able to record with the Fate/ cast all over again. Did you have any fond memories from the recording?

VA Noriko Shitaya: I don’t know how it is in America, but in Japan, all the cast members record together in the studio. It’s been a while since the cast members were all together, so there’s one thing I was resolved to do in recording Heaven’s Feel. I was determined to sit next to Mr. Noriaki Sugiyama, the voice actor of Shiro.

I would get to the studio a little earlier than everyone else, to staked out my position and get a hunch where Mr. Sugiyama would be sitting. Once he sat down