Maaya Sakamoto performs the new opening theme for the game Fate / Grand Order

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On the official site of the singer and voice actress Maaya Sakamoto, it was announced that her new single titled "Yakudou" will be used as the new opening theme for the second part of the story "Cosmos in the Lostbelt" of the smartphone game. Fate / Grand Order. The single will be released digitally on August 11.


This single is a collaboration with rock band Yourness, and directly follows the previous game's opening theme also performed by Sakamoto, beginning with "Shikisai" in the first part of the "Lostbelt" story. Sakamoto is also performing the theme song for the first film in the Fate / Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot film project, titled Fate / Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot: Wandering: Agateram, which will be released on December 5.

About Fate / Grand Order

It is a free online role-playing game developed by Delightworks and distributed by Aniplex. The game is based on the Fate / stay night franchise by Type-Moon, and was released in Japan in July 2015 and in the United States and Canada in June 2017. In 2017 alone, the game had already accumulated more than 982 million dollars in earnings, making it the sixth highest grossing mobile game of that year. In 2018 it surpassed $ 1.2 billion, making it the seventh-highest grossing game in history at the time. Finally, in 2019 the game surpassed $ 4 billion in winnings.

The game franchise finally saw its leap to anime with the Fate / Grand Order: First Order special released in December 2016. The Fate / Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia anime was recently aired, which had 21 episodes aired between October. 2019 and March 2020, produced by CloverWorks Studios.

Sources: Maaya Sakamoto's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web

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