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Has anyone started a thread on this? I guess I'm the first.

 

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Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney is getting an anime. Many questions will arise:

 

"Will the anime be based off the game?" If so it will be about... 20 episodes, 4 for each case and just from game 1.

 

I notice that Mia Fay will be in it and she'll probably die by the end of episode 2. Or maybe this is an alternate universe where Mia is still alive. It's possible.

 

Like I said, many questions will arise. Will other seasons arise from this? Only time, will tell.

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Based on the trailers at least the beginning part will be based off the game, we've got Larry Butz and Frank Sahwit so it's almost assuredly going to be The First Turnabout chapter from the beginning of the first game. Given that the Thinker clock is prevalent in the following case with Mia's death that will probably follow after.

 

I'm excited either way, and this will tide me over until Ace Attorney 6 launches later this year.

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Based on the trailers at least the beginning part will be based off the game, we've got Larry Butz and Frank Sahwit so it's almost assuredly going to be The First Turnabout chapter from the beginning of the first game. Given that the Thinker clock is prevalent in the following case with Mia's death that will probably follow after.

 

I'm excited either way, and this will tide me over until Ace Attorney 6 launches later this year.

Probably as Episode 2, but we'll see.

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Well the first episode is out and I already like the opening. I think they did pretty well adapting the first case of the game. I'm so used to localized English names, so it's weird to see people called as their original names, but I think I'll get used to it. I wouldn't mind getting a dub.

 
According to the wiki, the anime will adapt the first 2 games.

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Well the music did not disappoint, with the remixes of the Cross Examination and Objection themes, but I'm still waiting on the Pursuit theme. But the adaption is on point so far.

 

EDIT: Seeing people on other forums complain that the tutorial case was too simple. lol

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Well the first episode is out and I already like the opening. I think they did pretty well adapting the first case of the game. I'm so used to localized English names, so it's weird to see people called as their original names, but I think I'll get used to it. I wouldn't mind getting a dub.

 

According to the wiki, the anime will adapt the first 2 games.

With, and this is just a guess, a 6-part OVA, which will adapt to the third, Trials and Tribulations.

 

If this anime is popular enough, a second season will be made and adapts to Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies. Though with the poster...

 

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It would be kinda weird to have a soon to be dead character on the poster, but who knows.

 

Anyway, a dub would be nice, and they have to have Sam Reigel as Phoenix Wright. It just works. In fact:

 

Laura Bailey as Mia Fey

Travis Willingham as Miles Edgeworth

Tom Kenny as Winston Payne

Yuri Lowental as Larry Butz

Keith Silverstein as Detective Dick Gumshoe.

 

Not a bad starting cast huh?

 

Also, if I had to guess, episode 1 is Phoenix's first day in court, EPisode 2, Maya fey, episode 3 Will Power, 4 and 5 Manfred Von Karma, episode 6, Damon Gant, 7 is ascot guy, 8 is Franziska Von Karma, 8 is whatever episode 3 in Justice for All is, but parts 9 - 12, that is Matt EnGarde.

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Somehow I got to watching this. It felt pretty cheap but coulda been a lot worse too. The image of a lawyer riding a cheap bike to the courtroom fits 'I see'-kun pretty well, and conveys the quirkier side of the series in the first few seconds nicely.

 

It was pretty nice to see how the court works in animation instead of just through game mechanics. Still, Ace Attorney's rather unique in its presentation so they had to keep some stylistic elements in the animated adaptation and I guess I'm fine with that even if I feel it doesn't fit very well.

 

Soundtrack is so-and-so. It was nice to hear remixes of some of the themes, although I'm not sure how much of the soundtrack should they adapt and how much should be original. A track that works for a game won't necessarily feel right in an anime and all. The opening sucks though. Ending is A-OK. Voices are A-OK. Yuki Kaji as Feenie felt natural enough, unexpectedly.

 

I'm glad they got the intro case out of the way quickly. Wish they'd skip Turnabout Big Top when they get to it. 1 cour for 2 games feel a little rushed, probably. And they probably will skip the Rise from the Ashes case too, since it was added later on. Even then it's going to feel rushed as sheet. Mostly for JFA's cases. Cutting out the tutorial case of JFA as well, JFA still has 2 really important cases that honestly deserve more than just two or three episodes. And the original game, the second case is upcoming and that's okay, but they can't skip the third case since it introduces characters that come back for JFA's last case, and the fourth case is naturally really important and deserves a good few episodes to itself too. I sorta wish they made a series of anime movies instead of a 12 episode show.

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Well, no, I mean, an animated movie, like Kara no Kyoukai or the Madoka movies. Wouldn't the format be perfect for AA? A movie per case.

 

Suppose this was a movie then they could bundle up the first two cases as a single film since the murder weapon links both. The Edgeworth case and the Engarde case would each get a 2 hour film, which could be enough.

 

Plus movies tend to have better animation than a weekly series.

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Somehow I got to watching this. It felt pretty cheap but coulda been a lot worse too. The image of a lawyer riding a cheap bike to the courtroom fits 'I see'-kun pretty well, and conveys the quirkier side of the series in the first few seconds nicely.

 

It was pretty nice to see how the court works in animation instead of just through game mechanics. Still, Ace Attorney's rather unique in its presentation so they had to keep some stylistic elements in the animated adaptation and I guess I'm fine with that even if I feel it doesn't fit very well.

 

Soundtrack is so-and-so. It was nice to hear remixes of some of the themes, although I'm not sure how much of the soundtrack should they adapt and how much should be original. A track that works for a game won't necessarily feel right in an anime and all. The opening sucks though. Ending is A-OK. Voices are A-OK. Yuki Kaji as Feenie felt natural enough, unexpectedly.

 

I'm glad they got the intro case out of the way quickly. Wish they'd skip Turnabout Big Top when they get to it. 1 cour for 2 games feel a little rushed, probably. And they probably will skip the Rise from the Ashes case too, since it was added later on. Even then it's going to feel rushed as sheet. Mostly for JFA's cases. Cutting out the tutorial case of JFA as well, JFA still has 2 really important cases that honestly deserve more than just two or three episodes. And the original game, the second case is upcoming and that's okay, but they can't skip the third case since it introduces characters that come back for JFA's last case, and the fourth case is naturally really important and deserves a good few episodes to itself too. I sorta wish they made a series of anime movies instead of a 12 episode show.

What about the fifth case? It also introduces another important character. Ema Skye. Plus, JFA features Maggie Byrde.

 

Well there's already been a live action movie, I'd be kind of annoyed if they did more movies instead of a series.

 

 

Well, no, I mean, an animated movie, like Kara no Kyoukai or the Madoka movies. Wouldn't the format be perfect for AA? A movie per case.

 

Suppose this was a movie then they could bundle up the first two cases as a single film since the murder weapon links both. The Edgeworth case and the Engarde case would each get a 2 hour film, which could be enough.

 

Plus movies tend to have better animation than a weekly series.

And need I mention sometime before the end of the year they should make a 7-part OVA based on the events of T and T.

 

Episode 1 will be the tutorial, Mia defending Phoenix Wright.

Episode 2 introduces Godot, and is the Mask de Masque case.

Episode 3 is the Furio Tigre case.

Episode 4, Phoenix is lost.

Episode 5: Investigation and Terry Fawles flashback.

Episode 6: Dahlia ressurected.

Episode 7: Godot Revealed.

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Ema Skye, God bless her cuteness, is not relevant in the context of the first two games, or within the original trilogy at all. In the first place, Rise from the Ashes is sort of a tie-in prequel to Apollo Justice, if anything. RotA should be saved for an OVA released before an Apollo Justice adaptation release, if we'll ever get to that.

 

Maggie Byrde is even less relevant, and reappears only in one case in the third game. While that case does foreshadow some things in regards to Godot, it was mostly irrelevant and can sorta be cut out as well if needed. I sort of enjoyed the tutorial case in JFA but it really isn't needed in an adaptation.

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