Surprise! Bandai Namco Is Uploading The Tales Of Symphonia Anime To YouTube

There was an anime? Well, you find out something new every day. Is it worth a watch though?

Already own it on Bluray. But its really cool to see them uploading more Tales on Youtube. (Tales of The Abyss is uploaded too, but on the JP channel w/ English Subs)

@Takoda they skip 80% of the game as far as I remember. It’s a short anime. But it’s fun seeing that world more alive through the animation. 7/10 for me.

At the risk of upsetting the crowd that can't accept the idea of a series being voiced in any language that isn't the native tongue from whence the series originated, I have to wonder why this series never got an English dub. Surely the VAs for the main cast can't be that hard to get a hold of.

@Takoda the anime started in 2007 and ended in 2011. It strays too far from the game, unlike Abyss, which is almost identical to the game

@KayFiOS

Its 16 years old so that's probably why. Dub was far from popular back then. Dub is more accepted nowadays. So to them it was most likely just a waste of money.

@KayFiOS could be because it's just 7 episodes that never followed a normal anime serialization

Loved watching this as they came out back then. But it's more of a companion piece to the game. It's missing a hella lot of important scenes. Still great imo.

I remember watching the anime for Tales of the Abyss and finding it to be a decent substitute for the game. I'll probably give this a go over the next few weeks just to see what it was like.

A lot of Symphonia's story is pretty hazy to me. I just remember the game being super long, dragging at lots of points.

I remember the opening song for this one was really good. The anime didnt make sense if you didnt play the game though. It's basically a series of ovas

@Savage_Joe it’s actually 11 episodes… 3 seasons.

@YoshiF2 you're right. It's been so long since I watched them

Thank you for giving us free contents to watch without paying anything. This makes my day and help me save money so I could get the next Nintendo system or PC handheld.

@KayFiOS
Probably has to be because of the licensor. For example Tales of Phantasia was dubbed in English and it's older than ToS the animation by a few years.

Phantasia was licensed by Geneon Entertainment, which back then was one of the biggest anime distribution companies before they went bankrupt in 2008. Most anime they licensed they dubbed.

As for ToS they were licensed by Discotek Media which was a smaller company and they aren't known for dubbing anime that they license. They have dubbed a few shows before but majority of times they license the anime then distribute it with subs only.

So in short if it was licensed by say FUNimation or Geneon back then the anime would had gotten a dub.

Do NOT watch it before playing the game- obviously there are spoilers, but it's also a vastly vastly compressed re-telling which makes it hard to follow even when you're familiar with it. It's much more of a spectacle anime- an "I remember that bit!" that covers all the major plot beats. Worth revisiting after playing if you really enjoy the game.

@KayFiOS I'm normally 100% a subs guy but I would enjoy a version of this voiced by the same English language cast as the game I spent so much time playing in my childhood

@Takoda a good few Tales games have had anime adaptations - Phantasia, Eternia, Abyss, Vesperia... Symphonia is remarkable as, AFAIK, the first time the franchise turned to Ufotable, the anime juggernaut that later went on to animate intros and cutscenes of many flagship games starting with Xillia. And it features a good few songs from Akiko Shikata (a legend in her own right whose works also include many video game contributions - from Shadow Hearts and Ar Tonelico games to the more recent NIS gems like The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince).

I would definitely watch it, but I don’t want to spoil the game.

Guess the "Tales Of" makes even more sense now!

No, dumb, stupid, that's all I can think of to say, don't tell me what to do

i am really hoping to see more gameplay of the switch version of the game since it seems like even the trailer on nintendo americas youtube account looks like the same one namco released a while back with the playstation button prompts edited out.