Final Fantasy IX Is Being Turned Into An Animated Series

I like this…A lot

Ok I'm actually pretty excited for this. (Never played the game so)

Eeeh...?! 😲
After 21 years later, we will hear the voice of Quina Quen whether if Quina is a male or female or genderless.

That’s actually really cool I hope it’s good.

One of the best in the series to adapt. Lots of room to be cinematic and humorous. Should be cool.

Would have been nice if they at least announced this in their abysmal E3 presentation. This is probably the most exciting news from them.

I don’t think is a good idea. Videogames never translate well into series or films, even the good ones are worse than the source material. (just for the record I love FF IX played it on the playstation back in the day and beat it 4 times)

Cool, me likey!
Hope this is indeed an introduction to many more to come.
Wink IV
Cough VI

@AlienigenX
Netflix's Castlevania wants to have a talk with you

@AlienigenX The Castlevania anime would beg to differ...

Hoping this will do the game justice. And hopefully they'll start considering a sequel/remake of the game too. That'd be rad.

This is my absolute favorite Final Fantasy title and in my all time top 3 games!

Somewhere on my old blog I called it "the most Nintendo RPG Nintendo never made"

@NESlover85 @jamesthemagi
Lmao! Now kiss!

This is awesome news. Wonder what the art style will be

Cool. Come to think of it, IX might be the best story to make into a series.

That's incredibly exciting! I can't wait to see the gang back in glorious animation!

I am trying my best to catch up with Final Fantasy games having neglected them for too many years. So far I've played VIII, IV, and am currently playing through IV: The After Years.
I haven't gotten around to IX yet, but I heard it's great. I did want to play VI and VII next however before I got around to IX. ...

@Anti-Matter All Qu are genderless, so we know the answer to that.

@Anti-Matter what if Quina spoke in slurps and the crew just automatically understood?

@shogunyan13
I was thinking Quina will have voice like Whisper from Yokai Watch.

@jamesthemagi I know I am the minority, but I did not like the Castlevania Series on Netflix (watched season one) but I had that one in mind when I said “Even the good ones”

IX took a lot of time but grew on me. It ends up with a pretty moving story and themes, a cast of believable, lovable characters, some really sweet moments, and one of the best soundtracks ever.

So eh 50/50 on a series ‘-‘)

Should I play this one, I've only ever played 7 and choco tales ds

Holy beep, this is incredible news. Always happy to see one of my favorite games ever get some love

@AlienigenX Others already mentioned the Castlevania series, and I think as a broad observation about most game-related movies/shows you're right, but (and I may be an outlier here) I... really rate the Detective Pikachu movie. Took my kids and a Pokemon-ignorant partner to see it, and we all enjoyed it for variety of different reasons.

I am weirdly up for this. I say "weirdly" as while I've played/finished a few FF games (I, 2, 3 and 7) and own 9 (on iOS - must have bought it cheap somewhere along the way) I've never actually played it. Maybe I should...

I feel like it's already the one that feels the most like a (great) show. It's cartoony, yes, and there’s plenty of comic relief, but it’s a surprisingly dark game under there; I hope it doesn't get toned down too much for the apparent audience, but I think there's room to pull it off - that's the vibe of a lot of kids' cartoons these days. So I'm tentatively very exciting.

If nothing else, at least it's an excuse to get to talk to more people about Final Fantasy IX, which I love to bits.

"The show will be aimed at younger audiences between ages 8-13."
Isn't a theme of IX the inevitability of ones death?

While they're at it, it'd be really nice if Square could put the weird FF5 but also not FF5 anime on Netflix or something. I really want to watch that one someday, but I don't think its available anywhere

It's a decent FF game but not my fav. However, as an animated series it is a good choice IMO

@AlienigenX What about Mortal Kombat (both original and newest one), a very fine film, what about the Sonic cartoon series that was well received, or its recent film? And finally, Detective Pikachu?

This is one of my top 5 video games ever, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this. The target age group worries me a bit though.

I love the full story of this game, definite watch for me, all the twists and turns just make this game

@AlienigenX
I didn’t like Castlevania cartoon either but I did like the Prince of Persia movie.

I’m a bit confused by this. The studio seems to do the stuff that only appeals for kids. Why them? And Why FFIX?
Kids don’t know Final Fantasy IX..

Unless Square Enix is remaking the game or something.

I noticed that the only Final Fantasy on iOS that doesn’t seem to work is Final Fantasy IX. It just won’t install. This has been an issue for quite some time. When contacting Square Enix they say that they are aware of the issue and looking into it.

The funny thing is the the whole problem looks to be because they just did provide privacy information about the game, and now they are required to.

So why does it take this long? Unless they are actually working on a bigger update..

This is my favourite game of all time. I am at least a little bit curious even if it’s not aimed at all towards my age….

'The games have a strong co-viewing potential.'

I've never heard this particular piece of business jargon before. Thankfully the next sentence explains what it means - otherwise I'd have no idea what he's talking about.

Well,seeing as I never actually played this particular entry, I am okay with this.

Back when a new FF release felt like an EVENT!

Guess I violated the TOS by mentioning that a queer person exists, since half my comment is gone. Jacob Tobia describes themself as genderqueer, so it certainly is not an insult.

Pretty interested, FF9's my favourite entry.

@Snatcher Really? If you can i highly recommend it. The music, the story its all just perfect.

Despite the game being polygonal, I hope this is animated in 2-D rather than CGI.

@cmlobue I assume people took offense of the implication that the Qu would need to be portrayed by them. For future reference, please complain about our moderation choices using the contact form. Doubling down on the comments sections will rarely result in anything useful 😉

@Anti-Matter Male, based on the game mechanics it's pretty obvious.

@CactusMan Thanks, sounds good I really enjoy turn base RPG's so I'll give it a go.

This was the best of all FF games. Shame all we get is a silly cartoon instead of more games set in this otherwise forgotten universe. Maybe it means they're planning to bring it back? As a mobile match-3 F2P card game, because it's Squeenix.

Meanwhile the next FF is a "mature" (read: blood, dark, and emo) game for western audiences. yawn

There is a god and, thankfully for all of us, he is a
Final Fantasy IX fan!

This was the main-series first final fantasy I ever played from start to finish. I should be finishing FFXV this week and getting my first Platinum Trophy. The story line from IX is definitely geared towards a younger audience, but I think it'll shape up to be a fantastic series for anyone who enjoys fantasy. I'm particularly excited to see the environments brought to life. I just hope they do justice to Vivi's story.

@Kieroni Yeah this confuses me a bit too. While many stories for kids involve death it’s usually an impetus for the rest of the tale (The Land Before Time, Bambi) or the end result (Old Yeller, Bridge to Terabithia, The Outsiders). As a pervasive theme, there are probably examples but I’m not sure how well FFIX’s treatment of the subject would translate. It’s another one, like FFX, that has a cheery exterior and a somber body.

I keep saying that Square should abandon video games and just go full-on as a movie studio. They are WAY better at animation than story-telling. If they hired some really solid writers, they would have something very special!

@Kieroni That may well be the theme, but teaching it to people in the right way can benefit their lives and cause them to spend time doing things that are the most important to them during their short lifespans.

@BloodNinja Perhaps, but it's just as likely that the themes will be squashed by the makers of the show in an effort t make it appeal to kids, whether or not that's true

@Deady Not that shows haven't pulled it of before, but yeah, this may be interesting. ^^;;

@Kieroni There will always be the game to keep it intact, at least!

But why not FFVII?