The final chapter of Arc 2 of Fate/Grand Order will appear for the Japanese server in Winter 2025. Lasengle will announce more detailed information on the exact date closer to the season.

Arc 2 encomes the Cosmos in the Lostbelt and Ordeal Call chapters, and started in December 2017. On the global server, it started in 2020. Cosmos in the Lostbelt focuses on the aftermath of defeating Goetia, in which seven of the original Chaldea Masters awaken from cryogenic sleep and work to revert the world to the Age of the Gods. Ordeal Call, which started in 2023, takes place after the destruction of the seventh Lostbelt. It focuses on the Extra Class Servants (Alter Ego, Avenger, Moon Cancer, Foreigner, and Ruler).

Aside from the Arc 2 story winding down, the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order will also have Grand Duel battles. These battles will allow you to face off against powerful Servants from each class, as well as choose one Servant from the class in question to transform into a Grand Servant. Not only are Grand Servants stronger stat-wise, but you can also equip their Max Bond Craft Essence in a separate slot from the usual. Currently, you can choose a Saber to transform into a Grand Saber. The next Servant you'll be able to transform is Berserker, and the Grand Duel for that Class will start in June 2025.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. The end of Arc 2 will only appear on the Japanese server for now. Meanwhile, the global server will see Ordeal Call starting some time this year.

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Lasengle launched a new update in the Japanese version of Fate/Grand Order that introduces a gallery feature. You can access it from your My Room, and look at past story stills or watch movies.

The gallery only applies to the main story and interlude. So any movies or stills that appeared during events don’t appear in the gallery. As well, like most galleries in other games, you need to actually play said event in the game before they’ll appear there. Since Fate/Grand Order lets you change your Master’s physical appearance at any time, stills that show Ritsuka will show the version you currently have right now. If you go and change your character’s gender, you can return to the gallery and see the alternate version of the artwork.

On April 9, 2025, Lasengle launched a campaign to thank players for 31 million s. This event will run from April 9 to 30, 2025, and you have a chance to pull for the 5-star Pretender, Lady Avalon. Gudaguda Close Call, which debuted in 2021, is also re-running its light version until April 23, 2025. Completing the event will net you the free 4-star Avenger, Mysterious Ranmaru X.

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Each year for April Fools’ Day, Aniplex, Type Moon, and FGO Project release a Fate/Grand Order game created just for the holiday. 2025 is no exception, and the April Fools’ Day game this year for FGO is called Fate/Final Journey. The official site is live, and it can be played on a mobile device via the App Store and Google Play pages. Unfortunately, it is region-locked.

The Fate/Final Journey game this time around is a Vampire Survivors sort of game starring the Crypters from FGO. Players will pick a Master and Servant pair, then will pick weapons and items upon leveling up or finding them. The confirmed initial characters on the site are the player with Mash Kyrielight and Kadoc Zemlupus with Caster/Anastasia. Each pair is available at the start. However, imagery also shows characters like Beryl Gut, Daybit Sem Void, Hinako Akuta, Ophelia Phamrsolone, and Scandinavia Peperoncino. Your new goal as a Crypter is to fight to overcome hordes of enemies and survive, so you can get out of the UR simulation. 

There is already gameplay footage online. xNaya shared about a six minute clip showing Kadoc and Anastasia in action against hordes of Servants. 

Here are some screenshots showing how the game looks:

There is also an in-game bonus for FGO for April Fools’ Day 2025. People get 10 Saint Quartz for logging in. This is being given out until April 2, 2025. As usual, you can use this to do things like get Servants from the gacha. 

These April Fools’ Day FGO games always tend to pull from different genres. For example, the 2022 Fate/Pixel Wars entry was a “grow” style game. In 2023, we could play Fate/Grail League baseball. For 2024, the title was Fate/Dream Striker soccer.

Fate/Grand Order is available on mobile devices worldwide, and the April Fools’ Day 2025 FGO game is Fate/Final Journey. 

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Aniplex shared a Global version preview of Ordeal Call, the follow-up story arc to Cosmos in the Lostbelt Fate/Grand Order. The official trailer teased some of the servants and concepts this story will feature ahead of its release later in 2025. It is already available in the Japanese version of the game.

The trailer focused on Novum Chaldea and its new mission, which is proving its innocence to Proper Human History. Da Vinci acted as the narrator detailing the new mission. Now that we resolved the Lostbelt crisis, the story is centered around dealing with Servants from classes that never should have manifested. These are Avenger, Ruler, and Alter Ego. The trailer ended with the announcement that this next part of the Fate/Grand Order story will appear worldwide in 2025.

You can take a look at the Ordeal Call Trailer here:

Fate/Grand Order'sCosmos in the Lostbelt story arc released in the Global version, bringing an end to a nearly five-year-long saga. The Ordeal Call storyline has been running in the original, Japanese version of the game since 2023. This gave us a way to see what is on the horizon, such as the Servant Dante Alighieri. Takashi Takeuchi, one of the lead designers, illustrators and producers for Type-Moon, stated that the team plans for FGO to continue past 11 years, beyond the ending of the Ordeal Call storyline.

Fate/Grand Order is available now on all mobile devices. Ordeal Call, the next section of the story, will begin in 2025 in the global version.

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Alter has revealed a new figure featuring the Fate/Grand Order Saber Alter version of Altria Pendragon, who is also alternatively known as Artoria Pendragon. The company will release the figure with the title "Star of Twilight" in March 2026.

This figure will primarily depict Saber Alter in the outfits that she wears after players have unlocked her late-stage Ascensions, and both dress options will be available. Alter will provide swappable parts that let the owner choose between the longer dress skirt from Stage 3 and the shorter one from Stage 4.

As the 1/7 scale figure is set to depict the character sitting on the floor, the overall height will be just 13 cm (~5.12 inches). Alter also shared that the figure's total length—presumably with the long dress part equipped—will be around 27 cm (~10.63 inches).

Alter will sell the figure exclusively on AmiAmi. However, the latter also makes the figure available to order on its English website, so people from all around the world can get the figure at 37,180 yen (~$250.70).

The new figure featuring the Saber Alter Star of Twilight version of Artoria/Altria Pendragon from Fate/Grand Order will be available to ship worldwide in March 2026. Type-Moon's Takashi Takeuchi expects the popular mobile game that launched for Android and iOS devices in late July 2015 to continue running past its 11th year.

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Lasengle has released the CBC 2025 Servant on the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order, and this year, we have Dante Alighieri. He’s a 5-star Pretender.

Dante Alighieri, or Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. He’s best known for the Divine Comedy, which in turn inspired multiple works and games such as Devil May Cry. Kamome Shirahama, the manga artist for Witch Hat Atelier, is the character designer for Dante in Fate/Grand Order. His voice actor is Shoya Chiba. Chiba’s roles include Sethos in Genshin Impact, Akihiko in Wind Breaker, and Kou in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun. 

In the game, Dante appears as a Pretender because he (the author) is pretending to be Dante (the character). Dante’s second Skill has the unique ability to change the battlefield to either Heaven or Hell. Heaven heals the party every turn, as well as increases Arts performance and critical damage. Meanwhile, Hell charges his own NP gauge every turn, along with increasing the party’s Buster performance and NP damage.

You can watch his Noble Phantasm, Lasciate Ogne Speranza, Vol Ch’Intrate: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here, here:

As a note, Dante will appear in the story gacha later on. However, you must first complete Ordeal Call IV before he'll appear there, and Ordeal Call IV will debut in Spring 2025. Okada Izo, the 3-star Assassin, is also on Dante's banner. However, Okada will not appear in the Friend Points gacha after. So in a sense, he's a bit more valuable since he's actually limited.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. Dante is currently only on the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order.

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Lasengle announced that the Chaldea Boys Collection, or White Day event, will take place on the Japanese Fate/Grand Order server from March 5, 2025. As per usual, all male Servants will receive a Bond bonus in event quests. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

Aside from the standard Bond bonuses, five Servants will also deal more damage when you use them in event quests. They are Jason, James Moriarty (Archer of Shinjuku), Okada Izou, Setanta, and Duryodhana. Lasengle also announced a short Chaldea live stream to take place on the same date as the Fate/Grand Order Chaldea Boys Collection 2025 event. The update will go live after the stream, which will start at 7:00 PM JST.

Valentine’s Day events in Fate/Grand Order usually have the player completing quests to receive points, which they can then exchange for chocolates. After giving these chocolates to Servants, they can watch a short scene with them, as well as receive a special Craft Essence. In contrast, White Day events usually play like a normal story event, though with male Servants as the star of the show. Previous ones include the The Fifteen Bespectacled Intellectuals (which starred Altjuna), and the Holy Grail Phantom Thief Amakusa Shiro and the Slapstick Museum (which starred Amakusa).

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. More information on this year’s Chaldea Boys Collection event theme will appear on March 5, 2025, and this particular event is only on the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order.

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During the Chaldea Satellite Station 2024-2025 Okayama event, Lasengle revealed the top 10 Servants from 2024 that people raised to Level 100 in Fate/Grand Order, with Space Ereshkigal topping that list. It also announced some details about the current Valentine's Day 2025 event. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

Of the 28 Servants that debuted in Fate/Grand Order in 2024, these are the top 10 Servants that people raised to Level 100:

1. Space Ereshkigal
2. Mysterious Executor C.I.E.L.
3. Aozaki Aoko
4. Phantasmoon
5. Louhi
6. Yamato Takeru
7. The Count of Monte Cristo
8. BB Dubai
9. Miyamoto Iori
10. Shizuki Soujuro

Space Ereshkigal in Fate/Grand Order is a popular unit not only for her strength, but also for her unique Friendship Level system. Her Noble Phantasm gains different animations and buffs depending on how much she likes her Master. Ereshkigal herself is also just a very popular character. Iori and Soujuro making it onto this list, even if they’re near the bottom, is quite something, considering they were welfare Servants you could get for free from participating in their events.

Lasengle also discussed the new Valentine’s Day 2025 event in Fate/Grand Order. Like in previous years, you can get event rewards to exchange for chocolates, which you can then gift to your Servants. In return, they’ll give you a special Craft Essence in an event. As for the Valentine’s Day Servant this year, we have Sparkling Caster, who is a Quick-oriented unit with a more offensive kit. 

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices, and this Valentine’s Day 2025 event is only on the Japanese server.

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For a limited time, the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order (FGO) will feature a banner re-run with the Berserker form of Miyamoto Musashi. You’ll also have a higher chance of pulling Li Shuwen (Lancer) during this time.

The New Year 2025 gacha in FGO will run until January 15, 2025. Aside from Richard I the Lionheart (the New Year Servant for 2025), you’ll also have a chance to pull seven different limited-time Servants. The banner times for these Servants are very short, giving players only about a day or so. For example, the Aoko Aozaki banner only lasted from January 4 to 6, 2025. This is the last day to pull for Kyokutei Bakin, and players will have until the 8th to pull for Takasugi Shinsaku. Servants who’ll return to FGO for New Year 2025 after Miyamoto Musashi are Sakamoto Ryoma (Lancer), Miss Crane, and Alice Kuonji.

Miyamoto Musashi (Berserker) is a swimsuit Servant who debuted on the Japanese server in 2019 for the Las Vegas Official Bout event. She has one of the highest ATK values among all of the Servants, which can make up for her natural squishiness as a Berserker. Her Noble Phantasm, Ganryu-jima, is an Arts attack that can damage all enemies, as well as reduce their critical rate chance for three turns.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. Miyamoto Musashi (Berserker) will only return on the Japanese server of FGO, and her banner will end on January 9, 2025.

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In an interview between Famitsu and Takashi Takeuchi, who is a designer, illustrator, and producer for Type-Moon, he stated that Fate/Grand Order would go on past Year 11. He also stated that Part II, which is Cosmos in the Lostbelt and Ordeal Call, will end soon, though there’s no concrete date for that yet. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

This information comes at the end of the interview with Takeuchi. He stated that unlike most live-service games, the development team’s focus was on finishing the story rather than making the game last for X amount of years. So it feels like ten years ended up ing, rather than them planning on the game lasting this long. He wants to come up with a special and memorable event, both in real life and in the game, to thank fans for their years of . This event will also hype up the final chapter of Part II, so he considers it his greatest challenge yet.

When the Famitsu interviewer asked if Fate/Grand Order would see a Year 11, Takeuchi said, “Of course it will.” However, the timing of when that happens will also depend on the players. So far, we know that Ordeal Call IV will come out in Spring 2025 on the Japanese server. It’s unknown if the chapter after that will usher in the end of Part II. Takeuchi also didn’t say whether the story will continue into Part III.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on mobile devices. The Japanese server featured debuted Richard I the Lionheart (Saber) as its New Year Servant.

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Richard I the Lionheart from Fate/Strange Fake, the new anime, is the 2025 New Year’s Servant on the Japanese server of Fate/Grand Order (FGO). He is a five-star Saber unit.

You can see an animation of him at the end of this commercial released in Japan.

Unlike the GSSR Servants, you don’t need to use paid Saint Quartz to pull for him. People who don’t read Fate/strange Fake don’t need to worry about spoilers when raising him, either. Ryogo Narita, the author for Fate/strange Fake, said on X (formerly Twitter) that both his third ascension and his Noble Phantasm were created specifically for his appearance in Fate/Grand Order.

Yuki Ono reprised his role as Richard for Fate/Grand Order. Ono’s previous roles include Kagami in Kuroko’s Basketball, Gran in Granblue Fantasy, and Josuke in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable. In the game, Richard’s Active Skills focus on buffing himself and the party, as well as charging his own NP and increasing the performance of his Buster cards. His Noble Phantasm, Utopia Purgatoire, deals Buster damage to all enemies after increasing his critical damage. He can also inflict Burn for 5 turns to all enemies.

Fate/Grand Order is available on mobile devices, and Richard I the Lionheart from Fate/Strange Fake is only on the Japanese FGO server. As a limited New Year’s Servant, he will not be in the normal gacha pool after his banner ends on January 15, 2025. Fate/Strange Fake is available to watch on Crunchyroll.

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Lasengle announced that the Fate/Grand Order Christmas event will turn servant Abigail Williams into Santa Claus, as well as introduce a brand new servant to the mobile game. The F/GO “Christmas Eve in Pohjola: Dreaming Santa and The Nutcracker” event starts on December 11, 2024, and the update applies only to the Japanese game servers.

The new Abigail Williams Santa servant version is a 4-star character in the Pretender class. Meanwhile, Louhi is a completely new a 5-star Christmas servant and is a Berserker class unit. Louhi is a character taken from the Kalevala epic poetry compilation and derived from Finnish mythology.

To participate in the new “Christmas Eve in Pohjola: Dreaming Santa and The Nutcracker” event, players need to have completed Lostbelt No.6 Part 2. The Abigail Williams (Santa) servant can be obtained in Fate/Grand Order by progressing through the main story of the event. Meanwhile, Louhi will be available as a Saint Quartz Summon gacha pull for the duration of the event.

Furthermore, there is a new Japanese teaser trailer for the Fate/Grand Order Christmas 2024 event featuring Abigail Williams (Santa) and Louhi, and you can take a look at it here:

As a reminder, the Japanese Christmas 2023 event for Fate/Grand Order turned Nemo into Santa Claus as a Rider class servant.

Fate/Grand Order is readily available on iOS and Android mobile devices.

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Koei Tecmo has revealed that it will set up a merchandise booth at Comic Market 105. The company will particularly sell merchandise themed after Fate/Samurai Remnant and Gust's Atelier series. Prices for the item will range from 800 yen (~$5.35) for individual domino-shaped keychains featuring Atelier Resleriana characters to 12,600 yen (~$84.50) for a full set of 14 acrylic magnets with Fate/Samurai Remnant characters.

The Atelier lineup will feature multiple titles from the long-running series. There will be specific focuses on Atelier Yumia, Atelier Sophie 2, the Atelier Ryza trilogy, and Atelier Resleriana. The latter will comprise both the ongoing mobile game Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator and the console game The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian.

Meanwhile, the Fate/Samurai Remnant segment will primarily focus on the seven primary Masters and Servants who appeared in the game's storyline. However, Koei Tecmo will also include acrylic stands showing Fate/Grand Order ascension stage forms of Servants who debuted in the console game, such as Yamato Takeru, Yui Shousetsu, and Minamoto-no-Raikou a.k.a. Ushi Gozen.

Comic Market 105 will take place at Tokyo Big Sight on December 29-30, 2024, and Koei Tecmo will set up its merchandise booth at No.1322 in the corporate booth area in the Western 3-4 Hall.

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Good Smile Company announced its next Fate series Nendoroid, and it will be a Fate/Grand Order (FGO) Nendoroid Doll of original character Mash Kyrielight. The official art in the announcement suggests it will be of her more casual, day-to-day Chaldea Security Organization outfit, rather than her Shielder Servant costume. There’s no release window for her yet.

Here’s the official announcement image. It features the Nendoroid Doll logo at the top, with the FGO series for the Fate mobile game below it and official art of Mash Kyrielight to the side. It seems this is early in development, as it wasn’t SD-style Nendoroid concept art accompanying the reveal. There is also no prototype to look to at the moment. 

There have been lots of Good Smile Company Mash Kyrielight FGO Nendoroid, figma, and other figure types in the past. For example, there are Nendoroids of her in her casual wear and Shielder armor. The same happened with her figma models. 

People may want to look to third-party sites like Amazon, AmiAmi, Big Bad Toy Store, and Crunchyroll for Nendoroids and Good Smile Company figures in the meantime. While Good Smile didn’t address the issue or make any announcements, people on various subreddits such as r/GoodSmileCompany, r/Nendoroid, and r/AnimeFigures warned people about a potential breach and credit cards being used at the storefront being used maliciously.

Fate/Grand Order is available on mobile devices, and the FGO Mash Nendoroid Doll is currently in development.

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Google has published the Japanese version of its Best of 2024 awards. Bandai Namco's Hatsuboshi Gakuen: The Idolmaster has particularly won the Best Game award in the country's version of the annual awards that give rewards to notable games available on Android mobile devices.

This award also served as a testament to Gakuen Idolmaster's success. Sensor Tower Japan noted that the game topped the amount rankings on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store in Japan in a full month following its release on May 16, 2024.

Google has also published a list of games that win other awards. The list of winners is as follows:

• Best Multi-Device Game: Pokemon Sleep
• Best Multiplayer Game: Squad Busters
• Best Pick-Up-and-Play Game: Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles
• Best Indie Game: Suika Game
• Best Story: Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade
• Best Ongoing Game: Fate/Grand Order
• Best Play Game: Cafe Master Story
• Best PC Version Game: Wuthering Waves

As a side note, Ensemble Training—a workout-based rhythm game with characters and songs from Ensemble Stars—won the Best Personal Growth App award in the regular app categories, even though it did not appear in the game award categories.

Hatsuboshi Gakuen: The Idolmaster, the winner of the Best Game award in Google Play Japan's Best of 2024, is also available on iOS in addition to Android mobile devices in Japan.

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