Introduction
Ten years ago, a massive invasion by the Erebonian Empire almost shattered the Kingdom of Liberl, piercing to the heart of Capital City before being driven back by a determined counteroffensive led by Cassius Bright. Now, as the invaders pace behind the northern borders, coveting the small kingdom's magic and high technology, Liberl slowly rebuilds with the aid of the Bracer's Guild, whose mystical use of "Craft" is even more intrinsic to the nation's defense than its own army. For young Estelle Bright, daughter of Cassius, this is all just ancient history that she and her adopted brother Joshua learned as kids. But history has a way of repeating itself, and as they prepare to join the Bracers Guild themselves, sinister forces are preparing to thrust them into the familiar family situation of being in the worst possible place when mayhem breaks out. Because when their father's airship goes suddenly missing, of course it only makes sense to two green, but extraordinarily capable, young teenagers to strike out on a rescue mission of their own!
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Audience reviews
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MagicalWendy
NANDESUTTE?!
Even in anime, Estelle is still Bestelle.
Definitely don't watch this if you haven't finished the first two or at the very least the first game yet. It does skip 99,9% of the first game, and they changed some things to make it fit into 80 minutes, but it worked nicely, so while not as good as the game, it works nicely for this. I can only hope for there to be a full TV adaptation of Trails in the Sky at some point, but overall I quite enjoyed it still, especially seeing all these characters animated. The animation is also pretty good, and they really paid attention to some details.
Read at the sourceLadyAxeFace
OVAs have a reputation for not being very coherent if you aren't familiar with the source material. Trails in the Sky is worst than most because this is actually an adaptation of the SECOND game in the series. Every emotional beat misses its landing, because it's missing the context of the entire previous game, and tons of stuff is rushed and insufficiently explained. Furthermore, the game's final act was entirely cut from this adaptation. As a result, there's also details that are left hanging with no payoff. I can't imagine anyone who hasn't played to entirely get what's going on, or if they did, I'm sure nothing would resonate.
On the other hand, if you're a fan of the games, you'll likely still hate this adaptation. The way the games are designed do not lend themselves to an anime ad…
Read at the sourceBlueFox541
As with a lot of video game adaptations, this one fails to bring the full emotion of the game to the table, that being said, I feel this animation was not all that bad.
They successfully recreated a few famous scenes from the game while ruining others completely.
Most of the characters feel "off", as in they act in totally different ways from the game. Some scenes have also been drastically changed in order to fit some plot points in such a small running time.
Overall I feel like if this was longer, they would have been able to fit the emotion the history deserved, however with only the duration of a film that was just not possible to do, hell, they did not even finish the history to be honest. Still though, I found the animation to be enjoyable, and if you played the game "The legend of…
Read at the sourcesushiisawesome
Video game adaptations are not easy to execute, and for good reason. Taking something from one medium to the other, especially mediums like video games or visual novels (in some cases, even manga) is difficult, because whatever has been written is written, well, for that medium.
For example:
1)- There's the interactive elements which simply have to be removed or done in a way that doesn't feel forced (if you've seen many video game or visual novel adaptations, you know what I'm talking about). Say, people randomly stumbling across the main character and talking one by one, or it being too easy to tell the important characters from the irrelevant ones.
2)- The world-building that is so intriguing and interesting may come off as boring and irritating in anime form, because since you're…
Read at the sourceMystikas
This OVA really god choice for short watching as a movie, it gets you instantly hooked and holds to the end, but being and short have a lot of downsides that you can find after watching Legend of the Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
First of all short anime equals short story and here you can see one of strange way of telling it: they cut beginning and ending of it (full story can be found while playing the game) and i think it makes more time for pure action. Other than what is good beside few unexplained things that you have to figure on your own or wait till they slowly and partially reveal to you.
Sound was good nothing too fancy but i loved opening and ending melodies. Art and animation was exceptional especially outstanding action scenes. As rpg game adaptation they truly focused on com…
Read at the sourceRadeon
Anime based on a game. Anime adaptation from a video game. Anyway, whatever it's called, my expectations are USUALLY low whenever a video game gets an adaptation, whether its a live-action movie(or simply just movie) or an anime. And to no one's surprise, Eiyuu Densetsu is no different. So for this, Eiyuu Densetsu Sora no Kiseki or Legend of Heroes : Trails in the Sky The Animation gets an anime. One note though, Nihon Falcom is one company which makes one of my favourite RPG game series - Ys.
Getting straight to the point - Overall, Eiyuu Densetsu is just so-so. Story is so very rushed (and very difficult to understand) and with the amount of episodes(only 2 with approx.40 mins each, since its an OVA) is just not enough for all to fit everything into that time span. It starts of with a…
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