"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 (Ruroni Kenshin Seisouhen)."
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Short preview clip.

Lloyd and Colette make weird yelling faces at each other or something.

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I think that was Lloyd proving that Colette is easily scared.

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Hmm...seems that the Tethe`Alla characters are missing from the initial episodes, as they are nowhere to be found in the trailer videos and the character biographies on the site. Hopefully its just me and they will still appear later in the series and not completely missing from the entire series.

Colette does look rather cute though, that more than makes up for it.

I`m gonna guess that the OVA is going to follow the progression of the game (like the ToP OVA does), which means we probably won`t see any Tethe`alla characters in the first episode, except for maybe Sheena.

We can only hope the ToS OVA summarizes the plot as well as the ToP one did. They're probably going to end up skipping over that several hours of back-and-forth questing near the end (go get this book, you need this staff to get in here, you need this crystal, you need to take it to Dirk to do this... et cetera), you know the part.

Also, the OVA will be out in just a short two months... probably before this project gets out.

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First OVA is out, obviously, but I can't find a fansub anywhere. Accidentally downloaded the full first episode with no subs, so while it looks cool, I can't actually tell what they're saying other than the occasional "desian" and "exsphere" here and there.

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So this came out like ages ago.

With no word on the supposed existence of the second half (though there's apparently some mini extra thing with Zelos and Souless Colette around).

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Second half? I thought the whole thing came out like 2 years ago.

Hell no. It ended just after the first Tower of Salvation visit. Zelos has been in like two scenes, Regal and Presea were never met. Yggdrasil was there for all of ten seconds at the very end.

Supposedly the Tethe'alla stuff was gonna make up the next four eps. I've heard stuff like a) Vesperia's production b) voice recording for Dawn of the New World and c) some singer (?) dying delayed the second half, but I really don't know anything. I mostly picked this up from other sources.

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Hah, we will be out before they finish thing after all!