yeah I already found it
The raws say it was more than eight years ago, which would place Mahoyo's events in KnK more than 7 years before Paradox Spiral. Now let's take a look at other statements regarding the timeline placement.
Comptiq 2004-12 issue - Fate/secret book Q&A: |
Q: Fate/stay night is a story set in the same world as Kara no Kyoukai and Tsukihime, isn't it? If that's right, then what's the temporal relationship between them?
A: It's the same world. And I can't give you exact dates, but basically Fate and Tsukihime are set around the same time, while Kara no Kyoukai is a little bit further in the past. |
Type-Moon Ace; Volume 2; The Secret of Mahoutsukai no Yoru's Birth (2009) |
The story takes place in 1989, exactly 20 years ago.
Nasu: Actually, the original story took place in 1980, a time of "Check it out Soujuurou! The neighboring town built a convenience store!!" "What's a convenience store?" (laughs). The reason for the change in time was mainly to preserve continuity with other TYPE-MOON games. Thinking of Aoko's age in Melty Blood, if we want to have her age make sense, the story has to take place in 1989. Even so, the Japan from 20 years ago is still a mysterious place for younger gamers, so I think they should have fun playing it. A weak economy due to the economic bubble, very few people with cell phones, no Internet. They can see a lifestyle totally different from today's. I also felt like I went back to 20 years ago while working on it. In one scene, someone suddenly fainted while on the phone, the other one tried to call for an ambulance by hanging up, but since the other person didn't hang up, the line is still connected to the phone of one who fainted... things like this. Surprised? Things like that really happened, like that (laughs). Just like that, even after fixing some parts that made no sense due to being too old, there are still feelings of leaping across time. |
What's more is we have evidence of Fate/stay night changing in timeline placement as well.
Where currently it takes place during 2004, consider the in-game calendar:
As we know, Fate/stay night starts on January 31st. The above scan is from the third day, which is February 2nd.
February 2nd in 2004 is on a Monday, not a Saturday. The year that's actually in-line with FSN's dates is 2002:
What's more, Fate/world guide, a guide published in 2011, places Fate/Zero in 1990 and Fate/stay night in 2000.
Which is in line with Nasu's statement that Fate/stay night takes place shortly after the end of Tsukihime (which takes place in October of 1999)
Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Miscellaneous, p.136 |
Q: About Tsukihime, which has the same background world setting as Fate/stay night, which story happened first chronologically? And how many years apart are they?
A: The end of Tsukihime is the beginning of Fate/stay night. |
So it's not even deniable, the timeline placements were constantly shifted around before being (relatively) settled on recently.