The Ace Attorney Anime Series is Waiting For You On Crunchyroll

It's...odd. Its not bad, and perhaps because it was the first episode that is based off of your first tutorial episode in the game it was the way it was, but it just feels off in its pacing. Hopefully when they move into the main story, it will be better, but its just very strange coming from the games.

Is there English subtitles? I don't have a membership to Crunchy but I don't want to buy one if I can't understand it

Awesome just finished watching erased on crunchyroll. I still haven't played the ace attorney games, which seem pretty fun. I'll try the anime and if the story gets me hooked I'll download the trilogy on the eshop and give it a go.

No way, I always wanted a Phoenix Wright anime!

I expect this anime to be as cringeworthy as the cutscenes in Dual Destinies but since the anime is based on the original Ace Attorney, i"ll give it a chance.

Just watched the first episode and I love it! The pacing was a bit quick, but I can see why, trying to fit the tutorial into one episode. Can't wait to see how it handles the other cases!

Hah, nice pun

@GrizzlyArctos My guess is either a single episode for each of the 3 days for a Case (Investigation and Trial), or give each section of each day it's own episode. Given the first case was just 1 episode for 1 Trial (which was the only day and event for that case) both ways make sense as of now.

I certainly will be watching this, if anyone watches any of my videos you'd know how hyped I get over the trailers of these games, I'm tempted to react to these on my channel but I'd have to cover up most of the image otherwise the capcom ninja's would get me! Still this has got me to pay for a crunchyroll subscription well done ace attorney! I love this series so much ahah

@blackbox64 Crunchyroll comes with English subtitles for all of their anime.

Haven't bought premium yet so I gotta wait a week before I can start watching this lol.

Not buying premium just to watch this, so unfair

I'd guess only the tutorial is in one episode since they pretty much had to fit in one episode. There aren't really great cliffhangers where to leave it and it's better for people new to Ace Attorney to have full experience on the first episode. They teased the second episode at the end and it said "Next time: Turnabout Sisters - 1st Trial". That pretty much confirms that the later cases are divided into multiple episodes and I'd guess it's one in game day an episode. Does anyone know if they'll move onto other parts of the trilogy once they're done with AA1?

@4stringsteve: I would personally play the games first since so far the anime seems to be based on the cases in the games. At least the first two are. If the first episode is anything to go by, you'll get most of the answers to the trials by watching the anime. The game is about finding contradictions (at least the trials) and some of the fun is gone when you know the answers beforehand. The story in Ace Attorney games is really good and I've got a feeling that it won't translate quite as well in anime format.

@Late Ok thanks for the heads up.

It took some button-mashing, but you can sign in to a Crunchyroll account — premium or not — through the Menu option (X or Y on Wii U, Triangle or Square for PlayStation). Not inuitive, but it exists here in the U.S., so maybe it's likewise buried for your units.

Just play the game. Figuring the mysteries out yourself is part of the fun

I've played all the games, but I think this is worth a try.

I think I'll give it a shot. I played the game a little, so the anime must not be that bad. Also, subscribing to crunchyroll is totally worth it. I did it years ago and never looked back.

Couldn't resist downloading the original trilogy around Christmas. I'm sadly even a fan of the much criticized Apollo Justice from back in the ds days.

I kind of cheated and watched the first episode already. From now on, I'll simply wait to watch it free on Crunchy and stop once reach the case I was on in the game (before I loose the save).

It was pleasant to see all those old GBA games elements reused for the anime, from some sound or music to panels and direction choices. I know there will be a sixth game soon and this series is like a promotion campaign to bring new peoples to the franchise by showing them the old scenari but it is a shame how it will prevent any desire to buy the actual old game (released on several platforms and pretty cheap on the 3DS e-shop even without the repeated sales).
On the other hand, all the characters looked "stuffed" when they were moving while their faces were far from pretty. I know the games use still artworks and I never really found the pictures style great but the anime doesn't look good. The finale might turn out ugly.
The ending was a lot better than the opening.

@blackbox64 The idea of providers like Crunchyroll is to bring you a translated episode a few hours/days after it was shown on its japanese TV channel. So... yes, it is subtitled. But you should first check the availability of the anime series you are interested in before paying. (they don't always have the publication rights for every country)
Be sure to understand that you would not lose anything by refusing to pay. Crunchyroll allows free watching in the lower resolution 7 days after release. It comes with short advertising spots but works well.

@Late The 24-26episodes will adapt the games up to "Justice for All".

@TheAceofMystery Non-premium mebers ghet it a week after it airs in Japan instead of an hour.

@Rei: Kind of weird place to stop. I guess they'll continue with the third game if the anime does well. Thanks for the info!

Or you can watch it on anilinkz.tv if you don't want to wait a week before the translations.

@Braok I just watched it on Ryuanime. Gotta love that site

The actual animation is really simple and bland, was expecting better production values.

What the heck? When the witness pointed at Phoenix, he got blown back for some reason xD

What the heck? When the witness pointed at Phoenix, he got blown back for some reason xD

Just watched it. One episode is fine for the tutorial case, but I hope the more substantial cases are developed fully. I really enjoyed it: it captures the grounded absurdity of the video game perfectly.

While there's obviously only subs available right now, there's no reason the translators couldn't have just used the Western localized names in the subs. I think it would've been better had they taken a little extra effort to do that, as most people who are going to watch this are already familiar with the games, so the original names are an unecessary extra layer of the language barrier separating us from our enjoyment.

I'm gonna watch it in a minute, hopefully they've done it well, there are so many ways in which it can go badly...still, I'm optimistic, I love this series, and I hope this anime does it justice

@BulbasaurusRex For the record, they have.

This episode has been uploaded with -nine- different subtitle tracks; eight different languages, and two English options- one using the Japanese names and one using the English ones.

I'm not sure if you can change it on the console or phone apps, but on the desktop site you just right-click the video and you can change it.

For the record, there's a switchable subtitle track. You can use the Japanese or English names for the characters, they've done two sets of English subtitles for that very reason.

It's currently only available on the website/ desktop version though, I don't think it works on the console or mobile apps yet.

IGIARI! I'm pretty stoked for this. Been replaying the whole series in Japanese (cheap JLPT prep) and I can't wait to watch this anime take. Loved the live action movie , even though I wasn't a fan of either of the Ayasato sisters...they were both too serious.

Will be watching on my Wii, but not via their terrible app.

Yay! Happy to see it on Crunchyroll. Will watch it later today. Though... I don't know if I could get used to the Japanese names, and if I did, I will have to get used to the west name back whenever AA6 came. >.<"

@blackbox64 Crunchyroll offers ad-free viewing as well.

@yuwarite Anime based on games never have a high-tier animation budget. Don't know what you were really expecting there.

@jersLater999 I LOVE the Apollo Justice game! Well, just the cases, and Trucy. Apollo as a character is too straight-laced for me, but I'll gladly tolerate him for more Ace Attorney games. So nice to meet a fellow fan.

Wow, this is fantastic. The art is a bit weird (dem face profiles yo), but I was totally into it. Well done.

P.S. there is an alternate track with English names (right-click on the video)

Just watched the episode, and it was pretty nice. Great adaptation of the first case, and it follows it line to line at some points. Although the powers of finger pointing were definitely amplified here.

I guess I was one of the few who expected slightly higher production values, but this will also do great. Waiting for the next episode when he meets Maya!

I'm a bit disappointed Frank didn't throw his wig in this one. I was waiting all episode for that. Still, I got pretty excited when Objection! 2001 started playing.

@Snargledon
I was sorta expecting that to happen as well. It did fly off though.

Although I got goosebumps when I heard the first 'objection' in Phoenix's flashback. The part later on when he says it himself and Objection starts to play was also awesome.

They didn't play Cornered though >.< Probably saving it for later, more epic cases.

@LasermasterA
I can't wait to hear their rendition of Cornered!

As mentioned elsewhere, there is an English subtitle track that does have the English localization names. Just right-click and choose "alt"

And for anyone not familiar with how Crunchyroll works, episodes are first released for Premium users, and then made available free a week later.

@Seacliff The Persona 4 animations looked a lot better than this. It's also not a written law that every anime based on a game will forever and always have a low budget.

I was looking forward to this until I saw the post. I mean...really?! In this kind of quality?! Just compare this to animations in the game. Very disappointed.

Loved it. It was exactly what I expected from it. I wasn't looking for anything epic, juSt for them to capture the outlandish cheesiness from the game and they nailed it.

Premium Cruncyroll is great as it's so inexpensive for what you get. Never have any issue with any stream and everything looks great - always high res.

Watched the 1st episode. It was a pretty good representation of the tutorial case in the first game. Looking forward to the next episodes.
That said, some of those running animations in the opening look pretty awkward to me!

@Late I suppose but it looks like a way to interest new people to the characters while giving them enough background infos before the next game release.
By the way, strange they never mentionned any reason for this kind of justice system (for the new
public)

@TheAceofMystery @Xaessya You could avoid pointing out illegal alternatives for animation watching since this website doesn't allow us to advert videogames piracy.

@Rei I had no idea ryuanime was illegal. I've been using it for years very sorry

I think that the only really disappointing thing is the opening and ending song, they didn't fit into the awesome pumping music they have in the games at all ... D: But the first episode was awesome
To the dude saying it's unfair that it's availible in premium now, uhm ok? if you dont want to pay you can wait a week and it will be availible for free members, you know it costs money to produce these shows, so of course they should get money from the people watching them. If no one pays then no one will bother spending time and money to produce anime so think about that.

@Rei

Something something anime preservation is important something something if you have the dvd

@TheAceofMystery @Rei
Why not? Crunchyroll did it for a long time. Those conniving thieves deserve every ounce of justice they can get, as people who have been part of the anime community for a very long time know.

I'll quote someone who said it better than me:
"1. They were actual thieves, earning profit from streaming anime illegally. Most of the anime community follows fansubs of unlicensed series, where a free translation service is provided for sharing a series among fellow fans. The DVDRip community is separate from the fansubbers, and even then the rippers usually encourage financially supporting series you like.

2. CR not only made money off stealing shows, they stole fansubs and made money off them, claiming the stolen fansubs as their own without even bothering to strip the subber tags. CR made money from stealing shows, which is anathema to everything the anime community follows.

3. CR was a ripoff, streaming crappy quality video as they committed the above offenses. So not only was it morally offensive, they didn't even have the decency to do a good job of it."

"5. The thieves converted to "legal" - i.e. still trying to rip people off to make money off anime that would have been shared freely otherwise

6. They don't publish DVDs, so anything they license is dead in the water in terms of anime collections. DVDs have been the traditional route of non-Japanese fans financially supporting anime they enjoy, so this also interferes with that.

7. Their quality is still pretty crappy. The translations on various shows have had blatant errors, poor editing, and are generally shoddy compared to the quality of most of the top fansub groups.

8. CR has been poaching series by offering to be "cheap and easy" licensing and profit, basically the Chinese Outsourcing of licensing companies. This makes it tougher for the core licensing companies, like Funimation, etc., to survive and thrive.

While what they offer isn't really too bad, and probably seems pretty spiffy to the Youtube Newbies who still stream anime and have just discovered CR, money paid to them pretty much stops there. You're not financially supporting your favorite series, you're not supporting the US anime industry, and you're just helping to eat away at the foundations of the strong anime community that has been supporting the entire US anime industry since the start."

I never miss a chance to take from CR, and have already spread around the love for this episode.
Crunchyroll can go screw themselves after what they did. Honestly, I could forgive them for the past if they weren't continuing to screw over the industry today. But anyway..

The episode animation was poor.. but I enjoyed it. I mean, it's a Phoenix Wright anime, how could I not? Here's hoping it'll get better.
I liked seeing all of the characters fully voiced, that was nice.

@Zibene999
The past doesn't matter to the eyes of the law.
Crunchyroll in 2016 is absolutely, 100% legal.
Unofficial streaming sites were illegal and still are.

If they're "screwing over the industry", you could bet that Crunchyroll will die out soon enough. As of right now, it shows no signs of slowing. Japanese publishers are willing to license to Crunchyroll because they feel they are getting a sufficient amount of money.

Don't just copy-paste a post from a six-year-old MyAnimeList topic and pretend it still applies. Can you watch anime illegally through usually higher-quality fansubs and torrents, while paying nothing? Sure you can.

Should you?

@Arminillo My excuses but I do not understand your sentence at all.

@Zibene999 Errm... sorry for the misunderstanding but I was not referring to the old dead illegal streaming website who "stole" stolen animation (because while fansubbing is perfectly legal in itself, to deliver the episode encoded with the subs has always been illegal, be it licensed in your country or not) but to the current legal service who finances the japanese animation before and after production of the animated thing itself.

So much theatrical "hate" to justify one's own stealing o_o (I do it myself, but I do not rely on justification...)

@Rei Nah, I buy the anime I watch most of the time. That's my problem with CR, actually. :/
Don't get me wrong, I do it on purpose specifically to CR. It's not about justification. I just have it out for them specifically.

My biggest issue is supporting the anime industry, which I don't feel CR is doing, rather harming it. They won't release their numbers though, so who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. But they are keeping companies like Manga Entertainment and Funimation from licensing anime.

But I'm not telling anyone to do anything; feel free to watch wherever you want. I'll continue buying and importing anime, you can stream it and watch however you want or buy it etc, no problems from me. It was just a little reminder of the past.

I guess I did let my dislike of CR get the best of me though, lol. Didn't mean to take it out on NL. Sorry about that.

The AA anime is decent, but I wonder if they'll continue through all three games or just one?