Fate/hollow ataraxia
Fate/hollow ataraxia is a 2005 PC visual novel video game developed by Type-Moon, and the sequel to Fate/stay night. The word "ataraxia" in the title is a Greek term for "tranquility", giving the title the combined meaning of "empty tranquility".
The game also was ported to PlayStation Vita in 2014, adding full-voice acting, among other enhancements.
A remastered version, titled Fate/hollow ataraxia Remastered, was released on Steam and Nintendo Switch in 2025 with English and Chinese translations.
Plot
The plot of Fate/hollow ataraxia is set about eight months after the events of Fate/stay night. Like its predecessor, the story is set in Fuyuki City. Bazett Fraga McRemitz, a member of the Mages' Association and a master in the Fifth Holy Grail War, wakes on the fourth day of the Fifth Holy Grail war with a new servant, Avenger, and no memory of what happened to her beforehand. She and Avenger set off to fight and win the Holy Grail War.Meanwhile, Shirou Emiya lives a peaceful life with all of his friends from the Fifth Holy Grail War. After one of her experiments changes time and space, Rin Tohsaka leaves for the Mages' Association in England to fix things. The Servants sense a new danger while dark creatures appear soon afterward. Shirou, as a precaution, sets off to ensure nobody is in danger and instead finds himself frequently meeting a mysterious girl, Caren Ortensia.
Both Bazett and Shirou find themselves in a time loop that lasts four days, beginning on the fourth day of the Fifth Holy Grail War. Each time they die or survive four days, they always awake on the first day of the loop, aware of what has happened to them since the first time loop began. Determined to end the loop, Bazett, Avenger, and Shirou fight to discover the truth behind what is causing the endless four days.
It's eventually revealed that Shirou was in fact Avenger himself using Shirou's body as a shell, and the one responsible for the time loop. His true identity is the entity that corrupted the Holy Grail in the previous Holy Grail War until he was released when Shirou and Saber utterly annihilated the Grail at the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War. Having become a weak Grail with the destruction of its physical vessel and his soul separated of Greater Grail in process, his spirit came across a dying Bazett and responded to her wish to live. He created the time loop inside of Bazett's mind and replicated the characters in this dream world, while the real Shirou and his friends are living peacefully in the outside world.
After learning the truth with Caren's help, Avenger and Bazett decides to put an end to the loop by destroying the Grail. Following the Grail's destruction, Bazett awakens from her coma in the real world and Avenger returns to the void, but not before stabilizing the timeline he helped create in the mind of Bazett, thus reviving the participants who died in the real Fifth Holy Grail War more than half a year ago.
In the epilogue, Bazett quits from the Magic Association and became a freelancer. She visits Shirou's house to ask for a temporary lodging until she found a proper job and a house of her own so she won't need to have Lancer to work in her stead, followed by Caren who requested to stay until her church's renovation is completed, much to chagrin of Saber, Rin, and Sakura.
Characters
He wields a pair of misshapen and brittle daggers in combat and his Noble Phantasm is "Verg Avesta" which reflects the pain caused by an opponent's attack back at them. He eventually decides to end the loop after realizing all the trouble he has caused and, with help from his new friends and allies, fights off the pieces of him that protect the Grail and ends the loop for good, but not before using the hidden crack that was opened in space-time of reality in real world made by Rin's copy of the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch by transfer and stabilize the timeline he helped create in the mind of Bazett, thus reviving the participants who died in the real Fifth Holy Grail War more than half a year ago and transferring the memories that Avenger did when he acted as Shirou for the true Shirou, so he can live and act on them and so Shirou, Caren, and Bazett can live out whatever life they had made in this new timeline.;Shirou Emiya
;Rin Tohsaka
;Sakura Matou
;Other characters
Adaptations
Manga
There have been many sets of manga anthologies bases on the series produced by different companies and drawn by a multitude of different artists. The first volume of the earliest anthology series was released by Ichijinsha with the title Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Anthology Comic, on January 7, 2006, under their DNA Media Comics imprint; the fifteenth volume in the series was released on August 25, 2008. Two anthology series were then released by Kadokawa, the first was Fate/hollow Ataraxia ~ Comic la carte, released on January 10, 2006. The second, Fate/hollow ataraxia Comic a la carte ~Happy Life hen~, was released on May 24, 2006. Another two anthology series were then released by Enterbrain. Fate/hollow ataraxia Anthology Comic was released between January 30, 2006, and May 25, 2007, in nine volumes under their Magi-Cu Comics imprint. A 4-koma series was later published by Enterbrain between December 25, 2007, and December 25, 2008, in six volumes.In 2013, a Fate/hollow ataraxia manga illustrated by Medori and published by Kadokawa began serializing.
Music
A soundtrack to the game, entitled Fate/hollow ataraxia Original Sound Track was published by Geneon Entertainment on November 23, 2005. The single "Hollow" was released by Type-Moon on October 28, 2005.| Title | Composition | Arrangement | Lyrics | Performance | Type |
| "Ataraxia" | KATE | James Harris | Kinoko Nasu | rhu | Opening theme |
| "hollow" | KATE | James Harris | Keita Haga | rhu | Theme Song |
| "Our future" | KATE | NUMBER 201 | Keita Haga | rhu | Ending theme |
| "broKen NIGHT" | Takeo Asami | Kenji Tamai, Shogo Ohnishi | aimerrhythm | Aimer | Opening theme |
| "holLow wORlD" | Go Okamoto, Kenji Tamai | Kenji Tamai, Shogo Ohnishi | aimerrhythm | Aimer | Insert song |
| "Open The Doors" | KATE | Kenji Tamai, Shogo Ohnishi | Keita Haga | Aimer | Ending theme |