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Anime Spotlight - PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2 THE ANIMATION




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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:32 am Reply with quote
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Completely original story takes place on Earth in the near future. A story about players who may be right next to you, concerning the online RPG "PSO2"...

Wow! That really sounds like...something. And the characters all...have names! Yay! This looks like it could be...pretty much anything. The suspense is killing me!
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LinkTSwordmaster



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:18 am Reply with quote
Am eagerly waiting for it, but especially after how closely Phantasy Star Zero resembled an anime series, I cant help but feel like I'd rather them reboot the franchise with an epic show starting with Alisa and running up through all of the Genesis RPGs.

I just hope it comes off as something more subtle like .hack//SIGN (without the "stuck in a game" part) since I always liked how that series emphasised human communication and socialising within a virtual space. Sword Art and everything after it have tempered my desire to see anymore "stuck in a game" plots for the near future.

A thought: why doesn't this look like it's running parallel to the PSO2 main story? I'm suspicious of the fact that they're trying to use this as a thinly veiled attempt to market the PC game to anime fans that may never have tried it before.
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Kimiko_0



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 3:36 am Reply with quote
Correction: Your tagline says "15th anniversary of Phantasy Star Online 2". That should be "15th anniversary of Phantasy Star Online", i.e. without the "2".
PSO is from 2000/2001, PSO2 is from 2012/2014.
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phia_one



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:06 pm Reply with quote
With that summary, it almost seems like a 'trapped in the game' type of series. Oh well, I'm still interested to see where this goes.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:16 pm Reply with quote
Introduction wrote:
PSO 15th Anniversary project #8

Eagerly awaited TV Anime version of one of Japan's biggest domestic online RPG with over 4 million IDs issued domestically in Japan!!

Story wrote:
Completely original story takes place on Earth in the near future. A story about players who may be right next to you, concerning the online RPG "PSO2"...


Wow, such clarity. I was on the fence before, but now I'm hyped.
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