Tales of Symphonia-The Animation

[Ecclesiastes]

Tales of Symphonia is one of my favorite games. Story, characters, gameplay; one big package deal. Well, I've been playing it co-op with my friend, and we got to talking about how utterly amazing a ToS OVA would be. That conversation was two days ago.

Well, today, I came across a trailer for A FREAKING OVA OF ToS! Dreams do come true-well, they will June 8! Check it out on Youtube!

Official Site(Japanese)-ova-tos.com/
Trailer-www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSJTkymzwAA

[CyberBotX]

Are you serious?! I would sooooooo watch that, I loved the game so much, and was sad that there was almost no animated cutscenes besides the one at the end of the game. I can't wait. Especially not after watching both trailers. >.>

[OmegaArchetype]

That's great. I loved ToS, and wouldn't mind having an anime about it. I wonder though, is an OVA a movie or a series?

[Iyouboushi]

OAV is usually a movie. Usually it's somewhere between 20 to 30 minutes in length, but that varies (the Kenshin OAVs were broken into multiple parts, all running the length of a full episode or longer). Looks like this one will be broken into four parts/episodes.

I've never played ToS so I can't really comment on the actual series. It looks interesting though.

[CyberBotX]

Wikipedia actually says it's a 4-episode OVA, and btw Iyou, OVA means Original Video Animation, and usually means direct-to-video, or so the FAQ in my RightStuf catalog says.

[Iyouboushi]

Yeah. It can also be written OAV which is "Original Animated Video" (I believe) but basically it's the same thing.

[CyberBotX]

So yeah, after not posting here in forever and a day, I can say that I have seen the first 2 episodes of this subbed, and I can't wait for the 3rd one. I see there are a lot of changes, but it is also keeping in-line with the game in some parts.