Fate/Strange Fake Richard the Lionheart Is 2025 FGO New Year Servant

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.