Topic: Tales of Symphonia gets animated

[Famicom]

Animate has announced that UFOTABLE will produce a Tales of Symphonia OVA series for Japanese release next year, based on the popular Namco RPG. The series will be directed by Haruo Tonosaki (eX-Driver) and feature character design by Akira Matsushima (Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen).

Original Link (In Japanese).

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

And it will come out on Blu Ray and UMD where it will fail in the retail sector.

[JonLeung]

Is this a real, full-length series?

(You can tell I'm bitter about the ridiculousness of the King Of Fighters: Another Day "series".  It was just four 5-minute episodes!  WTF!)

Raine fan-service FTW!

[Athrun Zala]

It appeared in AnimeNewsNetwork that there was one in the planning stages long ago, and I thought it got canned.....

luckly it isn't ^^


in the link it says that it'll be called Tales of Symphonia The Animation, I wonder if it'll be like Tales of Eternia The Animation....

[KDR_11k]

OVAs are usually just a few episodes but IIRC the Tales of Phantasia OVA had 13 eps.

[Bill Aurion]

Errr, the Phantasia OVA I watched was only 4 episodes...

[Famicom]

Eternia was 13, Phantasia was 4. Only time will tell how long this one goes.  

[WuTangTurtle]

well the series is already on DVD, and volume 2 will be out in August in Japan.  I watched the first episode, and i quite enjoyed it.  I noticed that on Play-Asia's site they have the plain version, limited edition, and collector's edition.  Are the special editions worth it?  And more importantly how do i play these if they are in region 2 only....?

[Mashiro]

If your computer has a DVD drive you can usually shift the region settings on it to play. By default you can only do this 5 times I think (switching the region play back) but I am certain there are programs that get around this.

[KDR_11k]

There's always the option to set your player to region 0 which is possible with some trickery IIRC, it's mandatory for players sold in Australia, for example.