A new trailer has been released for Tales of Luminaria: The Fateful Crossroad, which will premiere in Japan on Jan. 21, 2022.
The trailer for the new anime series was released to the official YouTube channel for Bandai Namco's Tales video game series. The trailer for the anime concentrates on four of the game's 21 protagonists, the passionate swordsman Leo, his childhood friend Celia, the noble warrior Alexandra, and the vengeful August. The game and anime's characters are split into two factions: the agrarian Jerle Federation, which lives in harmony with the world's mana-generating Primal Beasts, and the technologically advanced Gildllan Empire, which seeks to subjugate them. Funimation has announced that it will stream the series outside of Japan.
The anime adaptation is being produced at Kamikaze Douga, the hybrid CG/2D animation studio that is best known for its work on the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure franchise and for its contributions to Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Visions anthology series. The new series is directed by Shiori and Midori Kato, and features a screenplay by Yoriko Tomita. The game's character designer, Food Wars! Shogeki No Shoma creator Shun Saeki also worked on the series, as did the game's composer, Go Shiina, who is best known for his work on several Namco video game franchises, including Mr. Driller, Ace Combat and several other entries in the Tales series.
The show will star One Piece and World Trigger's Ryohei Arai as Leo Fourcade, alongside That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime's Mio Okasaki. Saori Onishi, who previously starred in Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, will portray Alexandra, while August will be voiced by Yuiichiro Umerhara, who is also part of the cast of the new Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean series.
The Fateful Crossroad is an animated adaptation of the Tales of Luminaria mobile game, which launched globally on iOS and Android devices last November. The game was developed by Colopl, and featured storylines written by several anime and manga luminaries, including Sekina Aoi, the creator of Gamers! and Okina Baba, the creator of the So I'm A Spider, So What?.
The game is the latest entry in Namco's long-running Tales RPG franchise, which began on the Super Famicom with the release of Tales of Phantasia in 1995. The series is best known outside of Japan for previously Nintendo Gamecube-exclusive Tales of Symphonia, which was released in 2003 and was also adapted into an anime series, and its most recent main series entry, the critically acclaimed Tales of Arise, which was released earlier this year for the Playstation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Windows PCs.
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