New anime gets a historical look this weekend for the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2016. Fitting with the famously traditional city, Aniplex is featuring their characters in classic kimonos for event promo material and merchandise. On the Fate/stay night front, the Saber and Rin Unlimited Blade Works pieces will be brought back and joined by a new Sakura Matou Heaven's Feel piece, featured on life-sized displays and sold on tapestries, clear files, and keychains.

The theatrical anime adaptation of visual Fate/stay night's "Heaven's Feel" route, in which Sakura Matō is the heroine. is planned as a trilogy of anime movies launching in 2017 with Tomonori Sudou, animation director/character designer of ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works TV anime, as director.









Last year's Saber and Rin art

Updated painted prototypes of chibi figures of these will be exhibited

Aniplex is also teaser a new Saekano Eriri Spencer Sawamura and Megumi Kato kimono figures



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.