

As a result, people call his clothes "weird" and are baffled when he asks what year it is. Fish out of Temporal Water: He's a teen from modern-day Japan who is dropped into the Shōwa era completely by accident.

He stabilizes when he manages to rescue Tsukumo. Should Tsukumo actually die of her injuries, this means he and his father would have never been born.

Both are the masters of Saber/Okita by accident and members of a declining line of mages. Expy: To Kohaku, his counterpart in the original version.His father, whose mother (Kanata's grandmother) was a mage, was born without magic circuits like many of their recent family members and raised Kanata away from the dangerous nature of mages so that he could live normally.

#Fate type redline code
Assassin could have easily cut it apart but was so baffled by its appearance that he mistakes it for a Mystic Code and is put on edge by how it simply floated in the air due to Kanata's magecraft instead of returning to the ground. Kanata throws his phone at him as a distraction while preparing to use a Command Spell. Subverted and exploited against Assassin. His smartphone is mistaken for a rather colorful block of painted wood. Tsukumo mocks him for his "strange clothing" and calls him a country bumpkin because of this, but he doesn't attract much attention otherwise. Changed My Jumper: Due to his unplanned trip through time, Kanata is still wearing his clothes from the modern-day.But I Read a Book About It: When Tsukumo asks if he has any previous experience stitching body parts together since he did such a good job at it, Kanata thinks to himself that thankfully he read Black Jack in the past to do so.Audience Surrogate: Kanata is largely indifferent to the world of magi and needs to be briefed on the basics of the Holy Grail War, introducing them to the audience at the same time.While helping his father liquidate his grandmother's house, he's suddenly dropped into Showa era Japan and becomes Saber's Master while trying to make sense of it all. Although he was born to a family of magi, his potential is middling at best and his father purposely kept him from learning magecraft to save him from a life of suffering. The Master of Saber and the hero of the story from the country of Japan in 2020 A.D.
