Tales of Zestiria the Cross
 

IMPORTANT MOD NOTE: Discussion of the "Alisha Controversy" related to the Tales of Zestiria game is completely forbidden in all anime threads. This is a flammable and cyclic topic and the anime needs to be judged on its own merits. All discussion that relates to this point in Zestiria anime threads will be deleted, and the posters may be infracted or banned.



Per ANN:

Not much is known about it, but it's a "TV Animation" Project and it may or may not be related to Zestiria. As such, the topic title is temporary until more information is available.

ANN had updated it's news about this series

So it's going to be titled "Tales of Zestira the X" for the TV anime adaptation coming 2016.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWQJLDqUkAAmUj4.jpg

Actually, in the katakana under the English title there, it says the title is "the Cross." Sometimes in Japan they use an X to symbolize "cross."

Summer 2016

http://i.imgur.com/0k7nxfz.jpg

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Original Character Designers: Mutsumi Inomata, Kosuke Fujishima, Daigo Okumura, Minoru Iwamoto
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
Character Designer: Akira Matsushima
Screenplay: ufotable
Composite Director: Yuichi Terao
3DCG Director: Kazuki Nishiwaki
Art Director: Minji Kim
Color Keys: Yuko Omae
Editor: Manabu Kamino
Music: Motoi Sakuraba, Go Shiina
Opening Theme Song: FLOW
Animation Production: ufotable

http://toz-thex-anime.tales-ch.jp/

Character designs page is up

http://toz-thex-anime.tales-ch.jp/character/

fhána Performs Tales of Zestiria the X TV Anime's Ending Theme
also:
Why I have this feeling that they will remove whole begging (OVA material - read as: cut Alisha time even more)? I'm starting to think that this series is created just to give certain character (let's call her rose) even more screen time...

Ufotable did have a trailer for the anime at machi asobi, you can see screens on their twitter.
https://twitter.com/hikaruufo/status/724944915176820742
Closed theater, I believe. It should be released at a later date for everyone to see.
It's a crappy thing the devs did, but Alisha isn't so loved a character that she could hold back the release of an anime likely planned way in advance. The most popular characters were Mikleo, Edna and Sorey, anyway. Not to mention the rest of the cast is quite fun and I'm quite hype for the anime even if I had some issues with the game.

I'm re-opening this thread, but I added a very important mod note to this thread (which will carry from now, into the show's airing, and beyond):

IMPORTANT MOD NOTE: Discussion of the "Alisha Controversy" related to the Tales of Zestiria game is completely forbidden in all anime threads. This is a flammable and cyclic topic and the anime needs to be judged on its own merits. All discussion that relates to this point in Zestiria anime threads will be deleted, and the posters may be infracted or banned.

50+ posts from this thread were deleted. If you really must discuss this, you can only do it in the game thread, but if it becomes a flamewar there too, we may step in again.

Funimation has the stream. (Source)

Confirmed to be 2-cour (split) by http://animedigitalnetwork.fr/news-a...evoile-sur-adn

The 1st cour will be 13-episodes long and the 2nd cour that will air in Winter 2017, will be 12-episodes long.

"They" as in Bandai Namco and whoever the stakeholder in the Production Committee is. Ufotable is just commisioned to create it. Do note that this project is an anniversary project for the franchise.

http://i.imgur.com/HyykbdR.jpg
Velvet

Some people have shared clips from the English Dub. I had some concerns, but it was put to rest from what I have seen :D

The English Dub seemed quite solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMZD46WGPN0

Opening

Watched episode 0. Damn that was good.

Decent start, the story feels kinda confusing but I like the amount of technical effort Ufotable put in for the animation and music. In the meantime, seems like Sorey hasn't been introduced just yet.

Alisha seems to be more of the main focus for now while tragedy strikes with some weird mist against Clemm and the others. I hope the story is explained better as it feels like there's a lot happening for now. Looking forward to more though.

I'm assuming they already expect you to have played the game? Well, these "episode 00"s all tend to expect you know certain things, it shouldn't be hard to come up with ideas as to what's going on if you know the story. Not jumping into game spoiler territory, I'd at least say this is probably the precursor of how she ended up where she did in the original OVA.

I wonder why Velvet in opening ?. I think she will make appearance