Ace Attorney, known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igiari! (Japanese: ???? ????????????!?, lit. "Turnabout Trial: I Object to That 'Truth'!"), is an anime series produced by A-1 Pictures, based on Capcom's video game series of the same name. It is directed by Ayumu Watanabe and written by Atsuhiro Tomioka, with Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi serving as a script supervisor. The first season--which adapts the first two games of the franchise, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Justice for All--aired in Japan from April to September 2016, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. A second season by CloverWorks was announced to air in October 2018, adapting the third game, Trials and Tribulations.
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Premise
Based on the first three video games in the series, Ace Attorney takes place in an alternate world where the court system has been changed to the point where trials held in first instance courts must reach a verdict within three days. Phoenix Wright is a rookie defense lawyer who works under his mentor, Mia Fey. When Mia is murdered, Phoenix befriends her younger sister Maya, a spirit medium-in-training who can channel the spirits of the dead. Joined by Maya, Phoenix heads up the Wright & Co. Law Offices and stands up to defend his clients in court, often butting heads with several prosecutors, most notably his childhood friend Miles Edgeworth.
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Production and release
Ace Attorney's anime adaptation was first announced during a presentation at the 2015 Tokyo Game Show. The first season adapts the first two video games in the franchise, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Justice for All, though the cases "Rise from the Ashes" and "The Lost Turnabout" from the first and second games respectively are omitted from the adaptation. The series was produced at A-1 Pictures, who also produced the animated cutscenes in the sixth main Ace Attorney game, Spirit of Justice, and was directed by Ayumu Watanabe and written by Atsuhiro Tomioka with character design by Keiko ?ta and Koji Watanabe. Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi also acted as a script supervisor for the series.
The opening theme of the first 13 episodes is "Gyakuten Winner" (??Winner, lit. "Turnabout Winner") by Johnny's West while the ending theme is "Message" by Rei Yasuda. From episode 14 onwards, the opening theme is "Jinsei wa Subarashii" (????????, lit. "Life Is Wonderful") by Johnny's West, while the ending theme is "Jun'ai Chaos" (?????, Jun'ai Kaosu, lit. "Pure Love Chaos") by Tokyo Performance Doll.
The anime began airing on NNS across Japan from April 2, 2016, replacing Kindaichi Case Files R in its initial timeslot. The series was simulcast by Crunchyroll, with multiple subtitle tracks featuring both the original Japanese names and localized English names. Funimation licensed the series in North America and released the first Blu-ray and DVD set on January 23, 2018. A second season by CloverWorks, which will adapt Trials and Tribulations, will begin airing in October 2018, with Takumi returning as a collaborator.
A manga adaptation by Naoyuki Kageyama was serialized in Shueisha's V-Jump magazine from March 2016 to July 21, 2017. It has also been collected into books, of which the second volume was released in February 2017.
Reception
Jacob Chapman of Anime News Network said that popular reception was "subdued at best and outraged at worst, in ways usually reserved for radically altered adaptations". Chapman was critical of the animation quality, calling it "constantly off-model and slideshow-minimal but still watchable at least", whilst being more receptive to the adaptation's faithful recreation of the game's events and removal of "extraneous gags and details". He added that while the adaptation "[does] its best to adapt in beneficial ways", it fails to replicate the "surprisingly powerful impact" of playing the games and experiencing the characters' intricacies firsthand.
References
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Ace Attorney (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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