The Terrible Cancelled Final Fantasy Anime

If you think Isekai is bad now, wait 'til you see how cursed the first TV Final Fantasy anime was.
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0:00 A Trip Down Memory Lane
2:11 A Hot Summer with NIKKE
3:58 Fighting Bankruptcy With The Power of Anime
9:04 Filler Formula: Fun is Limited
19:04 Finally Something New Happens (not really)
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[@SonicKurosaki]

I feel the need to inform everyone that Lisa's full name is Lisa Pacifist. When she was first shown, she was speaking into a radio saying "This is Pacifist" so I assumed that it was a codename. No. Her last name is Pacifist.

[@IamMeHere2See]

Honestly, that's rather on-brand for FF, who's most popular character at the time was Cloud *Strife.*

[@richmcgee434]

There is a non-zero chance that one of the PCs in my current TTRPG superhero game is named Paci-Fist. Because they beat the violence out of villains, of course.

[@e-money9251]

@@IamMeHere2Seegotta love square’s weird naming conventions

[@gravajaumbros]

To be fair, it's a less weird name than at least half of the characters Kojima has created.

[@e-money9251]

@@gravajaumbros nah kojima made weird nicknames and callsigns. Square just put random non japanese words together and call it a day

[@Random-yg1fi]

The twist that the main children were actually from the isekai world and adopted by the scientist because they had a miscarriage is such a good one and I wish it was in a better show.

[@arobot1910]

yep

[@Tigresspink]

Wierd thing is that the narrator was revealed to be working with the bad guys this entire time. She was sent to spy on the good guys as a cute robot pet. Which is how she was able to recap every episode. It was just so pointless and confusing. Like how " Kaze" means wind, in Japanese.

[@Virjunior01]

It makes sense. Remember, Square spent quite a bit naming their MCs that way. Cloud (Kumo in FFU), Squall, Tidus meaning "sun," Lightning...

[@TheCyberloki]

well he had forgotten his true name and used a weapon that created a dark wind --> Man of the black wind, Windmill, --> Kaze its a nickname for what he appears to be.

[@goazer2]

Yeah I seem to recall that made absolutely no sense.

[@gravajaumbros]

Wait, what? I know that they send a cute flying robot to fly after the good guys and spy on them (wouldn't call her a 'pet' but, she closest resembles your description there aside from the fact that she isn't the narrator), but the narrator (Fabula) who lives in the giant clam is working with the bad guys? Was this revealed in some of the stuff from after the series ended?

[@Virjunior01]

@@gravajaumbros no, I think it was actually in the show. But I'm not gonna rewatch it to double check

[@Vulpilux]

The idea that this broody anime guy just shows up every episode and does his one minute long posing, which basically consists of him loading and then shooting his gun, is kinda hilarious. And the fact that the writers just made some weird mirror summoning device instead of having this guy rescue them normally or having the main group solve their own problems is just *Chef's kiss*.

[@kingsleycy3450]

I like to think that the animators are at least self aware about how dumb that is, and the moogle impersonating him was a deliberate dig at the character

[@timothymclean]

To be fair, the summoning gun gimmick is pretty key to why this anime was supposed to work as a Final Fantasy property. The summons are the most plot-significant recurring FF element in the anime, and summoning summons from across the series is supposed to mimic the things that make those games cool. And of course, the Pokemon angle; "Play the game and you can summon these monsters yourself!" To be fairer, that's kind of a silly reason to structure your show's method of plot resolution around some guy following the protagonist around and occasionally shooting his monster-summoning gun.

[@drgapinski]

Man, they really soiled any potential this show could have achieved, didn't they?

[@mothersbasement]

Badum-tish

[@reloadpsi]

Oh god that took me a second.

[@unnamedenemy9]

you should be ashamed of yourself. That pun was so bad it has permanently soiled you and your family's reputation.

[@alicehiess6508]

@@unnamedenemy9 you know i didn’t even notice the pun

[@koletonnelson6310]

SOILED IT.🧽

[@Addlexx]

For everyone saying Chaos escaping the FF1 timeloop and destroying other worlds and combining their remnants into a big mishmash world is a great idea: Final Fantasy also agrees with you, and that's why they made Dissidia: Final Fantasy.

[@Senerith]

The Psp ones and not that abomination known as NT

[@chrisdaughen5257]

And who could forget its beloved sequel: Stanger of Paradise. Seriously, the DLC goes into Dissidia stuff.

[@AzraelThanatos]

That also, semi, explains some of the absolute insanity that was Mobius: Final Fantasy because that world is a horror show with depression stacked on top of it. Except for it's version of Gilgamesh because he's a riot and a half...

[@chrisdaughen5257]

@@AzraelThanatos Sounds interesting. Wish I could have seen it, but some mobile games are a massive time sink. And apparently it got taken down T_T

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@chrisdaughen5257 The PC version of Mobius was the one I played. It's main feel was less of a mobile game and episodic semi-MMO...save for the events because it seemed to have a never ending stream of them like several mobile games do (Or any game by Cryptic). The more mobile game "restrictions" were ones that were ones they put in because there were pushes for anti-poopsocking measures after a few higher profile news stories about people in computer cafes gaming themselves to death or in their homes and people doing absolutely stupid things in other MMO's with neglecting their kids so they put an energy mechanic in...and they had a shop that was, largely, cosmetics and enough free stuff that could get you things where a lot of people that dumped large amounts of cash into it would kind of screw themselves over on the skill and experience side of the mechanics because of snagging a massive pile of things and being able to skip the parts that explained the mechanics. It had a very good, but extremely depressing story and pretty much everyone who played any real amount of the game put the setting (Palamecia) as Final Fantasy's equivalent to the Ravenloft setting where it even tends to try eating portions of other worlds which explains the crossovers...including things like setting things up to remove Sephiroth from itself on multiple occasions because he was an outright danger to the setting by attempting to cause an apocalypse...

[@Medenmath]

I have to admit I do really love the idea of a flightless bird getting a superhero powerup that just allows it to fly

[@Archgeek0]

Plus fairly cool paladin-lookin' armour that I *presume* increases its defense stat.

[@lotusthemermaid]

As a Digimon fan, this feels like they took a LOT of inspiration from that series, but without understanding what fans loved about it.

[@warlordsquerk5338]

Some of the 2D art and animation for this FF anime looks pretty good, but outside that yeah... I'll stick with Digimon

[@Tamashikiri]

To be fair to the Chocobo designs in those early OVAs, they are closer to Yoshitaka Amano's original designs for the creatures, which envisioned them as huge, featherless pterosaur/ostrich hybrid creatures before the fluffy yellow chicken mounts caught in in later games. Although I will concede that yeah, the later design caught on for a good reason.

[@Sigmaairav]

Chocobo are best birbs in all fiction. I wish they were real so I could hug one and tell him he's a good boi before feeding him gysahl greens

[@Hawk7886]

@@Sigmaairav dunno about hugging them, they would probably smell super bad

[@juliebartlett4222]

I wonder if his design was influenced by Dragon's Heaven?

[@TheInfiniteAmo]

Okay but... Chaos screwing off out of the FF1 timeloop and starts mishmashing worlds together including the real world IS ACTUALLY SUCH A GOOD CONCEPT FOR A FF SHOW

[@paperluigi6132]

Hell, that’s a good concept for a game set in the Dissidia universe.

[@the_exegete]

It's probably more like the chaos from FFXIII Lightning Returns.

[@Josearnaldomanuel2]

Isn't that what they did in Dissidia?

[@thomasfrazer8934]

@@paperluigi6132 Maybe I'm high but isn't there a game exactly like that?

[@KururuJi]

@@Josearnaldomanuel2 Nah, Dissidia had Shinryu make a pact with Cid (to protect Chaos, who was an experiment he made) and since Shinryu was already part of the Rift, it could just bring in strong warriors. Chaos didn't do any of the mish-mashing.

[@kylewilkes9761]

I watched this almost 20 years ago and was flabbergasted by it all. I finished out of obligation. However, I cannot explain why I love Kaze and “soil is my power” SO much. I still pull up the ‘Best bits’ video of only the canned Magun sequence every so often. Part of me hopes every time I pick up a new Final Fantasy gacha that THIS will be the brave one that adds Kaze!

[@tropichawk850]

I've always adored that too. My interest in Kaze is an enigma.

[@comfylain]

Kaze is just cool as hell. Brooding characters with cool guns will always be cool.

[@egbertmilton4003]

@@comfylain Too bad he loses any coolness he has by repeating the same animations over and over again, while not advancing as a character beyond the powerful edge lord. What an embarrassment of a character!

[@JapanFreak2595]

My ability to navigate beyond my lesser cognitive functions is overridden by how cool I think Kaze’s design is.

[@kylewilkes9761]

@@egbertmilton4003 For me the coolness was his potential. I mean, canned animation happens. Sometimes that's the style. Look at Super Sentai; Gokaiger was amazing and still had canned attack sequences. But again, back to the potential. The attack sequence was not initiated by "Soil is my power." It was started with a heartbeat and Kaze's "It has moved." My theory was always that the black heart in the Magun was Kaze's own heart. His stoicism was why the gun was always "on cool down." The situation had to be desperate enough to stir his emotions, which I also assumed were stunted because he went put his ding-dang heart in a gun. And no that doesn't make sense but it's pretty cool. I think it's like live action: is this bad because of the actor or the director or the writer? I don't think it's Kaze's fault. Conceptually, he's got a lot going for him. He just landed in a bad production. Don't get me wrong--FF:U is a hot mess! I don't love him ironically; I don't love him unironically. I just do.

[@zeronxepher]

At least you didnt spend 40 bucks a DVD and got the collectors edition vol 1 with the Tshirt....and wore that shirt shamelessly around. Damn, I'm still depressed about this.

[@AussieDragoon]

A full 25 minutes, and I still have no idea why we were following Ai and Yu as they seem to never solve anything. Good storytelling team!

[@saltyk9869]

As I recall, the series justifies them at the end by stating that Kaze's Ma-Gun was broken and whenever they were in danger they somehow unlocked it. Also, because you need kids in an anime. But yeah, they could have been removed and very little would change. May save you some braincells.

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

It was meant to be 50 episodes but poor reception meant it was canceled at 25.

[@goazer2]

I mean I watched the series and I was asking this question the entire time. On the one hand the show would be better without them on the other they're such a focal point there's barely a show left without them.

[@ConvincingPeople]

16:18 I kind of love the trope of the self-conscious weird child whose weirdness is actually rad as fuck, as well as its slightly more fraught adult romantic counterpart the "but your horns are beautiful!" cliché, partly because when executed decently they can reflect actual human experiences through a fantastical metaphoric lens in a charming way, but also because when they're handled particularly bluntly or simplistically it can be *extremely* funny.

[@timothymclean]

I feel like that trope works best when we're shown why the weird kid thinks their weirdness would make them a social pariah. Or when it's extremely funny.

[@ButterflyScarlet]

@@timothymclean Yeah, it's one thing for the character to be angsting because maybe that superpower got them disowned or accidentally led to the death of a loved one or maybe they legitimately were bullied over it because people can be cruel to anyone who is different. It's different when they're just whining for no reason because the author just wants angst.

[@jennyjoseph778]

This is one long as fuck sentence

[@irisaferg2524]

​@@ButterflyScarlet"I can turn into a bird, Ruby. a BIRD!!!"

[@ConvincingPeople]

@@jennyjoseph778Sometimes you only need one.

[@TheRevengeOfKhat57]

That Legend of the Crystals OVA was actually my entry into the franchise and it's a miracle I stuck with it after that introduction. Would love it if that got a roast as well

[@BJGvideos]

I have a fond memory of watching that at Sakuracon back when it was still called Bakacon. There was an empty viewing room that people had shown up for (idr if they were just hanging out or if something was supposed to be shown but wasn't and I'd just picked this show up on VHS in the dealer hall. Two episodes per tape. Not sure why. There's only four episodes. But I remember it was great fun.

[@mitsudafanni7978]

My favorite thing about this anime was the music. The theme that plays when Kaze fires the Magun is so cool that it made the canned sequence the highlight of each episode. Also, one of the ending themes was "Romancing Train" by m.o.v.e, who are probably most noted for their Initial D songs. I actually got to see them live at an anime convention years and years ago (around 2006/2007) and they played "Romancing Train". It was easily the best moment of any convention I went to.

[@Foxflarep]

Kaze should have been a twist main antagonist. Guy was going around presumably turning people into Crayola Crayons and shooting at least 3 of them an episode.

[@sailesh1144]

If I remember correctly, he turns himself into one in the end.

[@madambutterfly1997]

As somebody who loves dragon. Seeing two hideous CGI dragons just makes my entire existence collapsing on itself

[@based980]

dragon deez-

[@jackkatz8604]

Yugioh fan?

[@madambutterfly1997]

@@jackkatz8604 yes

[@jackkatz8604]

@@madambutterfly1997 Let me guess: Blue Eyes?

[@Darasilverdragon]

I feel that you may be slightly overdramatizing, but hopefully my presence is sufficiently invigorating for you. Enjoy.

[@lancerguy3667]

Jrpg anime hit a new bar of awful right as I was hitting that point in my childhood where I could afford the occasional box set. I remember the first sets I ever bought were FF Unlimited and Star Ocean EX…. Both of which constantly battle in my brain for the title of “most disappointed anime I ever spent money on.”

[@CalvinChikelue]

There is absolutely no way I could have prepared myself for the voice that came out of that evil Earl’s mouth. Good lord lol

[@scarletice]

Right!? I don't know how Jeff didn't rip into that.

[@timothymclean]

At first I thought Geoff's editor was cutting in some South Park audio as a gag.

[@Brasswatchman]

Like you said, it seems like there WAS potential here. The whole "world made up from pieces of other destroyed worlds" thing could make a pretty great setting! Kaze's soul gun could have been cool if it had been anything other than a Do-Anything-The-Plot-Needs Device! The kids could have been more interesting than cardboard cutouts if they'd actually been given anything to do! But it sounds like all of that was wasted. What a pity.

[@saltyk9869]

As I recall his Ma-Gun is a literal plot device. The animation always started with Kaze saying "It moves" before choosing his bullets. I don't think it gets explained until the end that his gun was broken, and he couldn't use it. I think the kids were kind of magic and they somehow could unlock it when they were in danger. I surprisingly remember a lot for a series I haven't watched since like 2008.

[@Brasswatchman]

@@saltyk9869 Even then, that's not something they're actually consciously *doing.* Characters need a certain degree of agency in a story to be interesting, or at least to be active participants. As it is, all that explains is why Kaze would want to hang around them.

[@saltyk9869]

@@Brasswatchman I don't even think he knew they were doing it. I agree though. This series needed more time in the planning stage and it could have been something. Barring some major rewrites, the kids could have been dropped.

[@Senerith]

The gun is his heart, both metaphoricaly and literally, as in his heart is sealed in his gun. that’s why his chest has that patch over it and why the Magun animation has a beating heart in it. His weapon literally is tied to his emotions; and 90% of the time hes literally dead inside. The anime could have had so much more going for it if they paid any attention to the main cast and not made them annoying as hell or generic and bland, or clones of other ff franchise characters. And maybe a budget

[@Brasswatchman]

@@saltyk9869 When you think about it, they even messed up the Pokemon/Digimon formula here. By that measure, the *kids* should've been the summoners. The whole fantasy there is the idea of "I'm a weak kid, but I've got superpowerful monster friends," right? Handing that role off to Kaze throws off the whole thing and makes the kids redundant. Imagine if instead, Kaze had been their guardian holding off whatever the threat of the week is with his Sword-Gun while the kids try to call in Ifrit or Bahamut or what have you (which they can only do so often because of Plot Reasons.) *Then* you've got some dramatic tension. As it is, though...

[@PapaBlach]

Seeing mothers basement rip into another bad anime is my 2nd favorite pastime.

[@mranonymous5828]

Sussy bumpkins

[@Ligma_butt]

What’s the first?

[@QuickThekidd]

@@Ligma_buttfr don’t just leave us on a cliffhanger like that

[@MegaMinerd]

The first must be using soil.

[@mesousagaby740]

Eh, this hoenstly isn't that bad, just safe and boring, but I still do remember the saying "SOIL, IS MY POWER.", so that's something, I guess.

[@RedMageUltra]

I remember seeing the complete set at Best Buy circa 2009, being sold for $20. At that time, anime dvds were still expensive *especially* for box sets. So I was excited to see a final fantasy anime being that cheap and bought it with my own money. Geoff’s opening intro about forcing oneself to like a crappy product is very applicable to my watching experience

[@RedMageUltra]

At least I was introduced to M.O.V.E. as a result of this anime 😂

[@Buugipopuu]

There was so much unsold stock of this that by 2010, vendors were literally giving it away for free at cons. That's where I got my copy.

[@andebor4169]

I genuinely loved this series when I was younger. I thought it was so incredibly cool. last dvd was the first thing i ever imported ...there was little anime in the middle of rural Sweden in the early 2000s, so when you found something in a store, you bought it.

[@cattysplat]

Finding anime in a store back then in Europe was like finding gold in a scrapyard.

[@crithitjace]

don't forget that Soil is Kaze's power and that the Magun has thawed.

[@blackfox4138]

I gotta admit, your ability to ride off the hype of a trend while making it seem like a natural part of your video schedule is the journalistic skill I admire about you.

[@DemonicsInc]

Imma be real. I unironically love this show. To me it's so fun and I love the character designs backgrounds and monsters. I know its a bad show but I still love it.

[@kyou42]

I was like 14 at the time and really liked it. I thought the two broody dudes were really cool. I also loved that the Chocobo's super armor allowed it to fly and that's it. This video unlocked so many memories.

[@TheZoragon]

holy hell!!! I remember watching this show and loving it!!! Thought it was really cool. Never knew the title though.

[@DemonicsInc]

@kyou42 I have almost the entire thing on DVD still looking for volume 1 but this shaped a lot of my aestetic growing up

[@DemonicsInc]

@@TheZoragon i absolutely love it myself

[@andrewpragasam]

Yup, I loved it too. Maybe my standards were low but the designs were great. Also I have always thought Final Fantasy games were magical and wondrous not dark and edgy. But that's just me.

[@brainwheeze6328]

I can't believe this show was directed by Mahiro Maeda. Man made Gankutsuou, one of the all time greats!

[@strangehominid]

another director for some of the episodes was fucking ryutaro nakamura! (the director for lain and kino's journey) this show should've been good haha

[@lax9586]

Geoff really nailed that feeling of finding content for a series you like and having it be garbage. Being a kid in the early 00s you really had to scrap the bottom of the barrel to find the good anime stuff. I remember going to the mall with my cousins and being amazed at the hobby stores that had whole sections related to anime. Outside of that there wasnt alot of places to get access to anime related content outside of renting games/movies like Geoff mentioned. I feel like Grandpa Simpson being like back in my day we had to walk thirty miles for a anime body pillow.👴🏾

[@josephmatthews7698]

Try 90s. All I had was a single vcr tape of robotech which along with old superman cartoons became my most worn out video tape. Roughly 3 episodes. I looked everywhere for it. No internet and no one knew what the heck it was. I didn't finish the season until after I finished high school. Didn't even know what anime was.

[@DenSporetrix]

The Digimon comparison seems really apt as the artstyle of this show really reminds me of Our War Game. Like it's veeeeery similar.

[@Klonoa1545]

The character designer, Carmel 7, designed the characters for Diaboromon Strikes Back in addition to this show.

[@secreus5517]

"Soil rhymes with soylent, which is people" I legit choked.

[@winterx2348]

Good lord, I watched episode 1 of this back in like 2005 and was confused enough by it that for the next 18 years I would occasionally think back to it and wonder what the rest of the show was like, but never actually having enough motivation to seek it out. Thank you for answering that question and confirming that I made the right decision to be lazy.

[@-datrandomdude-6979]

Pretty wild that this is coming from the Gankutsuou director and had some talented staff on it from time to time like the late Ryuutarou Nakamura (director of Serial Experiment Lain & Kino no Tabi) directing episode 2 or Noriyuki Abe (director of Bleach, GTO & 90's Hunter x Hunter) storyboarding episode 6

[@mboatrightED300]

I mean, just watching the clips here, the direction does not seem the problem so much as the writing and the lack of an animation budget.

[@RaxiazRedux]

@@mboatrightED300 writing and time in the oven imo on some of the CGI summon designs. animation budget definitely needed more too like you said! I liked it for what it was but it definitely suffered from poor writing and scene/character direction imo. I'm pretty sure that by Ep6 or 7 I was pretty bored with the "monster and problem of the week gets solved the same way every time [Ma-Gun summons]" concept... But I still wanted to see it thru to the end, just to watch an FF anime. Unfortunately FF media outside of the main titled games has suffered a poor track record from the inception. :(

[@Bwooke]

There's a real charm to the animation illustration quality and designs, and despite them using canned animation for stuff it looks like the rest of the time the characters are actually moving around and animated fairly well considering it's an episodic show. Such a shame that the premise and effort ended up wasted by poor management.

[@MyShiroyuki]

I remember there being an abridged series of this anime and the part where the guy was summoning was really funny to me because he just threw together random crap and somehow got a summon.

[@gaosaman]

In a odd way, this was and still is one of the favorite animes that I have seen. Yeah, its hella cringey to watch, but man. I remember going to my local library to find the first three dvd's and obviously I loaned them so many times whenever I could, because it was so good. Even later on my years I managed to find a dvd collection on a anime convention and I just knew that I need it in my life. It was just meant to be :D

[@saltyk9869]

I remember this series. I watched it once. And yet one episode has always stuck in my mind. The episode where the Earl's Fungus minion learns that a part of his home had survived. So he goes to restore and protect that land. Of course, our heroes arrive and Kaze fights him, only it doesn't work as his regenerative abilities are too strong. In the end, the Fungus minion discovers black mold (if memory serves) that destroyed his home before. And then Kaze hits him again killing him (only possible now because of the mold ruining his regenerative abilities) and destroying what remained of his home. It then cuts to the Earl enjoying his "meal". I think part of why I remember the episode is because the Fungus guy was revealed to have never truly been a bad person. Just unknowingly working for the person who had destroyed his home. Only to then have it all destroyed by our protagonists. It was an oddly sympathetic story in this series. It was also one of the only times Kaze had to use his gun twice. Otherwise, you are 100% correct. The rest is basically "whacky hijinks", then Kaze using his MaGun to kill whatever villain of the week is here. In the end, the series feels really rushed, too. Honestly, feels like there could have been something interesting if they workshopped it a little more and focused on a cohesive longform story rather than a monster of the week format.

[@sarafontanini7051]

tto add to this based o my own memory: the earl's minions were the ones who delierately threw the mold in there because the plan all along was to eat Fungus and feed on his despair, showing jsut how little the big bad cared about his own followers and only wanted to eat.

[@Amitlu]

It was probably the only time the status quo changed in a major way (outside of introducing new characters). Until they suddenly had to wrap everything up of course.

[@saltyk9869]

@@sarafontanini7051 That's probably why I remember the episode all these years later. The Earl and his minions tell him they have found some of his homeland, then destroy it and him. It was needlessly cruel to their own ally. Only he was never their ally. More their slave that didn't know it. Looking back, things like this show there was potential in the story. It just needed some more work.

[@SheliakDragon]

I misread Kaze's gun as McGun and it took me a while to realize you'd spelled it correctly

[@skyhighlander6447]

Usually I’d cringe my ass off at ad sections but there was something surprisingly wholesome about them just tapping at each other’s screens and her just going like ‘Fine, you can look at ass, but maybe lay off it a bit okay?’ instead of ‘what the hell are you playing? O-o’ He loves her so much, he even put her face on every girl’s assets! That’s couple goals right there.

[@MrGksarathy]

Agreed. They just ran with the fanservicey nature of the game and the ad spot and made it couple goals.

[@samt3412]

Well, Yazzy (that's how you spell it, right?) was wearing a FAKKU! shirt, so it's not like they don't enjoy those kinds of things for what they are. Also, the literal only reason I know about NIKKE is because they're one of the (surprisingly few) games to have done a Chainsaw Man collab yet.

[@MrGksarathy]

@@samt3412 Oh yeah, there was a CSM collab.

[@Amonkira1029]

And then she started sweating too

[@algorithm_acolyte]

Love that it starts with, "babe why are you still playing that phone game?" And ends with both of them sweatily tapping their screens. Christ that sounds like euphemism but I swear it's not.

[@wrathshorts2894]

Okay, I don't wanna be "That guy". But I'm gonna be "That guy". The reason the Earl needed the flying water WAS explained. He needed it to contain the pieces of Omega so he could hold them long enough to eat them. It is the only thing Omega can't destroy. Specifically one piece named Clear who was a good guy but would destroy everything around him if he didn't have his suit of flying water. He was also rumored to be the love interest of the little girl. His episode was also an episode where Kaze DIDN'T solve everything.

[@s4db0i]

The Magun thawing is the best part of the show and it's epic every time. No one can convince me otherwise.

[@timothymclean]

There's a reason they played it every episode.

[@egbertmilton4003]

Wow, you have no taste if you think that ugly, boring animation that took way too long and solved pretty much every problem by throwing an energy blast until the bad guy dies is good at all or even epic. No one can also convince me otherwise that you deserve the right to have any influence to vote.

[@egbertmilton4003]

@@timothymcleanBecause it is is easy, wastes time and makes the production a cheaper process. It wasn’t good, you just have no idea what quality is.

[@TeamGhostRyderINC]

"The Magun has thawed" such an epic line that I will never forget.😅😅😅😅 It's amazing

[@spagheleton]

did the anime kill your grandma

[@Lady_Yunalesca]

As someone who has loved final fantasy for basically my whole life, I remember renting this from my local video rental store and being incredibly disappointed. Especially because I feel like a lot of the games could lend themselves to a very fun anime.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Yeah, for shame that each time Square Enix has done something anime related, it's always been a bit meh or just bad. FFXV's Brotherhood is probably their best so far, but even then, the animation was definitly lacking. Noctis' warpstrikes could lend themselves to some gorgeous "sakuga" moments if Square Enix ever paid a studio to really give it their all.

[@skeletor8951]

The fact there isn't a proper TV anime adaptation of any of the Final Fantasy games is genuinely baffling to me.

[@seraphinw1]

Yeah for some reason Square never wanted to do a real adaptation of an FF game for the longest time even though many people would love that

[@coatlmaru]

There was a summer when I rented each of these from my local wannabe-Blockbuster and with each disc I kept waiting for something, ANYTHING to happen. I never bothered to finish it and now I'm glad.

[@MrInuhanyou123]

I'm the opposite of "final fantasy has to be one type of genre or battle system" type of person. Goodness knows every FF after 6 might as well be it's own IP. I love that about the franchise. But the amount of betrayal I felt when I saw spirits within and then this anime sometime all those years ago are on a level I can't describe. It's so far removed from anything FF. And while they are both JRPGs turning FF into a pokemon oriented anime is just strange...I wondered what the point of even labeling this ff even was.

[@saltyk9869]

Look. There's a chocobo. And Shiva. It's totally Final Fantasy!

[@saltyralts]

FF 1-6 FF 7-10/2 FF 11-16 The three eras

[@RaxiazRedux]

i'm in same boat as MrInuhanyou. i wish FF had a good fully-fleshed out anime franchise but I doubt that'll ever happen in my lifetime. And I would love if it did some crossovers - nothing crazy like Dissidia but a few things would be nice. /shrug

[@THB192]

​@@saltyralts Eehh. It's hard to do good era divisions for Final Fantasy.

[@KrimsonKattYT]

Honestly I'm only mad that Final Fantasy seems to have ditched turn based combat entirely, which is what the core of the series is, and becoming a fully action series. FFXVI is more DMC than FF and that's not really okay. Final Fantasy 1-12 we're all fine and all fit within the mold, as even FF11 and FF12 still had that final fantasy "feel" even if the combat was in real time for those. FFXIII was an interesting deviation but it really should have been its own IP, especially when it got 4 games under the FFXIII brand completely different from the rest of the series. FFXIV ARR just blatantly copied and improved upon WoW for gameplay but the story and world is 100% final fantasy, so that was a mixed bag. And FFXV was a disaster with 1000+ spinoffs most of which are now lost media with an absolute mess of a game in both gameplay and story that was NOTHING like final fantasy taking place in an urban fantasy setting with cars and gas stations and roads and modern cities and crap. Not to mention the terrible Chinese mobile shovelware-esque gameplay where you just hold down a button and watch big numbers pop up. The game was over 500 GB yet was completely soulless with an incomplete story and terrible open world. Easily the worst game in the series. And then FF0 and FFXVI go full dark souls/DMC action game? This is NOT final fantasy, even more than the FNC saga on PS3.

[@sanfransiscon]

Okay but I actually want to play as Kaze in a game. The soil gun sounds like it could be turned into an interesting mechanic of combining elemental energies to get different effects. Something along the lines of FF15's magic grenades or Rikku's mix ability from FF10.

[@TwoPairSA]

Glad to see you squeeze in a "CHAOS" there as literally every Stranger of Paradise reference/meme makes me howl with laughter even if it's just for a second.

[@groofay]

"Her parents are mind-controlled to think they're pastry chefs and forget they have kids, which makes Yuu very sad." Look Final Fantasy, just because Digimon Tamers was better than your show in every conceivable way does not mean you get to throw shade at it like that. (yes, I know, they were airing at around the same time so it almost definitely wasn't deliberate, but as a fan of both the Final Fantasy games and Digimon Tamers, I am taking this personally.)

[@DavidRichardson153]

Surely, I cannot be the only one whose first FF game was VIII and played it so much that the Balamb Garden theme playing in this video's background could not be missed. Thank you so much for that, Geoff.

[@gorimbaud]

i heard a lot of barret's theme from vii, but i somehow missed balamb garden despite how distinct that track is. i can't tell you how many times i boot up final fantasy viii just to watch the opening cinematic and end up sticking with it an extra ten minutes because i'm caught up in the balamb garden music

[@RadHazard]

VIII was my first too. Much love to VIII.

[@timothymclean]

Well, the first Final Fantasy game I played was VIII. I didn't play it much, though, because it wasn't the one I'd thought I bought and the tutorial was dense as molasses (and unlike PDX grand strategy games, I couldn't ignore it and run a world power into the ground learning how the game was supposed to work).

[@DavidRichardson153]

@@timothymclean Perhaps strangely, it was the very first game I played on my then-new PS2. To this day, my copy of FF8, my original PS2 (and my big-block memory card for PS1 games), and even the official strategy guide book for the game are still in good working order - though the guide has seen plenty of wear, with the pages containing the weapons lists and SeeD rank test answers having separated from the spine, but I managed to keep them around, in order, and otherwise more-or-less intact.

[@saltyk9869]

FFVIII does have some great music. I think I would put FFVII's soundtrack slightly higher overall, but VIII has some amazing songs. The Extreme. Balamb Garden. Fisherman's Horizon. The battle and boss themes.

[@RobertIsLostInTheWires]

Finally sat through this, and god what a trip down memory lane this was. I saw this whole series when it came out and felt absolutely empty by the end. It sucks because I believed that the setting had a lot of potential, thought character designs and OST were neat, and teenaged me really thought the descriptions of Kaze's Soil Bullets were always pretty metal. The problem was ...the rest of it. I think if Square was Less ambitious and committed to a solid 26 episodes from the jump, then maybe the series would be a lot better. If nothing else, it would have forced them to pare down their ideas (IE, focusing on a couple of major power sources as opposed to the eight or nine they loaded into this) and maybe the animation wouldn't have had to have cut so many corners and there'd be some actual plot progression. Sadly, the FF franchise has always had this reputation of being Huge and Epic, so I can't help but feel like this was doomed from the start.

[@pihlaaurora9009]

OMG!! I have seen this as a little kid. I grew up in the middle of nowhere village in Finland and didn't know what anime was until my late teens. But I remember my parents found and bought these weird "cartoons" for me to watch, and I remember being scared of that opening with the portal. Later, I became a huge anime nerd, and I always wondered, was it a real show or my fever dream.😅 Now I wonder where my parents found the anime.

[@deadcard13]

I forgot the days when all the Isekai copied Digimon's homework instead of half-assing Mushoku Tensei. I must now go find a bootleg of Monster Rancher and indulge my inner child. Optimally, before the work-week drives that inner child out to the woods and leave it for random hikers to find months later.

[@mothersbasement]

Monster Rancher was actually dope tho

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

​@@mothersbasementAgreed man🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MrZer093]

1+2 got a remaster recently! Also last year saw a new entry doing a Godzilla collab where you can raise and fight kaiju!

[@GhostRiderLSOV]

The musical themes for the Magun (Demon Gun) activating and then Kaze choosing the bullets and firing are some of my favorites.

[@NrgSpoon]

Perhaps the biggest redeeming factor of the entire series. The ending theme is also a real brainworm that I'm surprised I'm able to recall this many years later.

[@saltyk9869]

Honestly, seeing what summons Kaze would call upon and what sort of soils would be used to make them was about the only reason I got through the whole thing.

[@jtlego1]

Hell yeah. Thats pretty much the one Unironically Cool Thing about the show (animation reuse notwithstanding for the loading/firing sequence itself).

[@FalconSpirit]

@@saltyk9869 I remember being so proud of myself when I successfully guessed the Phoenix summon before it appeared by the soil he choose.

[@kiel6262]

@@NrgSpoon Fairy Fore has been embedded in my brain for a shameful amount of time

[@Amonkira1029]

The power of Final Fantasy is in exploring a world and its implications. Every entry has to answer what black magic is, what white magic is, what roles summoners have, etc. There's always something rotting the world from the inside out, and then that and the magic system usually combine to produce something even more messed up. As others have said, the premise of this one is great. But that's all it is, a premise

[@Hugelag]

I think it'd be really funny if Unlimited got a reference in an official game. Maybe have a chocobo named Chobi or something small like that.

[@mesousagaby740]

"Mediocre Digimon" still sounds so much more worth watching than "power fantasy isekai harem". Anyways, I remember watching this in 2007 when, for some reason, Anime Network's 24/7 linear channel was brought to Puerto Rico, as it aired on fridays throughout the year. I recall only seeing a handful of epiosdes and I thought it was fine, but BOY, maybe it's repetitive formula might have been indeed the reason why I probably never fully got into it. On the plus side, THE ENDING THEME SLAPS.

[@Hatchmatic]

This convinced me to look up the magun on the wiki and if you haven't, you really should. The concept art is hilarious. Even the designer is like "for some reason, black blades come out".

[@nickledeepickle]

This was so nostalgic! I used to watch that as a lil kid in Japan! It was formulaic as hell, but it looked cool as hell and I was young enough to buy into its cool factor

[@AzraelThanatos]

The main thing with it is that a big chunk of the issues with it are due to them being part of the way through the episodes all but complete and trying to tell the story of the rest with what they had left. There were also sections that were pretty far along that got scrapped to at least have a semi-viable finale to it. Clear was going to play a larger role in the story, and Omega was supposed to be revealed as, essentially, a countermeasure for Chaos. Part of the story would have moved up the confrontation with the Earl earlier, which would be followed by ending up back on Earth which is where Lisa was supposed to earn the Kigan dragon she uses later on and most of the events of After would have happened and Chaos still plotting and arriving on Earth which would then trigger things with Makenshi revealing his motives (he was trying to position himself and get strong enough to assassinate Chaos, and would have stolen the Ocean Puzzle which would be used to remix all of the destroyed worlds as a delaying/equalizing tactic so that if they could get through it, they could destroy Chaos and restore the worlds the Earl had destroyed. Madoushi would have played a larger role after that and be revealed as the one who killed Aura [The girl Kaze keeps dreaming about and Makenshi would also have as she was Kaze's sister and had been betrothed to Makenshi as part of a peace treaty...that Madoushi was against and assassinated her after willingly turning to serve Chaos and unleashed him on the worlds of their people while making it look like Makenshi was the one that betrayed them and got Aura killed, which was why Kaze was so focused on going after him). Another thing was that Kaze and Makenshi's first major battle (The one intended to be the opening) is also when Clear was "created" and Omega was shattered The Earth->Wonderland->Earth->Puzzle thing was something they were inspired directly by Digimon Adventure with...the first section largely being to have several other worlds pop up that would show up again later involving other things There were a LOT of things that had been planned for the full, original runtime...which then got butchered as they had to remove a lot of things from the earlier ones while both having fewer episodes to finish things off unless they got a last minute reprieve (which they didn't get) while also hammering in a massive pile of more exposition dumps... All in all, I actually still enjoyed the series and own a copy despite it's myriad of flaws in final execution...and I would have loved the original plans for the series

[@yoseisovereign6728]

Where did you get all this information? I’m a fan of the series and I’ve been upset the side-content isn’t easily available as far as I know.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@yoseisovereign6728 In various places, it's been a while, but there used to be a few sites that had translated transcripts of interviews and other things tied to it along with the the audio dramas and other parts of it. The show was, in the end, a mix of rushed and having budget hacked out and a lot of other things due to other issues that were happening with it at the time. Their thing with it was more of an admission that the actual series ended up a jumbled up mess, but it was the best they could do at the time considering everything else done to the teams resources and everything else there. At the time, they were still trying to find a way to redo the series how they had originally intended it to be.

[@yoseisovereign6728]

@@AzraelThanatos Thank you for sharing all this interesting stuff, I really wish someone would gather this all up somewhere. I do love this series and even find stuff to like about some of its flaws. There's so much cool stuff it's a shame if they never try something else with it. I struggle to think of another short-runner that has so many interesting concepts in it. The technology, the mist, the sheer number of different creatures. And hoo boy were the Gaudium crew a memorable bunch of villains...

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@yoseisovereign6728 A chunk of the problem is a ton of stuff is no longer available online...I dug around for anything and everything that I could on the series after watching it because the end is sudden and I assumed there was a second season...or that chunks just weren't translated. Now it kind of sits about the same category as Trinity Blood in that there isn't an actual ending to it and, likely, never will be...

[@Globalastral5]

The finale is so sad because, similar to Tsubasa Chronicles, you knew the story was incomplete and you weren’t getting an ending. The OST was great though

[@fataleflare]

So many anime I was baited into watching because of a good OST… sigh…

[@the_exegete]

I don't know if it's better or worse to know that there is an ending, but that you're just never going to get to experience it yourself without learning Japanese. This series simply doesn't have the kind of fanatical devotion that's required to get something like full translations of the books, comics, and audio dramas that finish the story. I've always been morbidly curious about it as a huge FF fan but honestly the flavor text from a random mobile cash-in that never left Japan would probably be more interesting. Some things just stay mysteries, to us.

[@nathank2289]

Firefly PTS activate

[@Virjunior01]

Avex Mode was absolutely everywhere

[@Virjunior01]

​@@the_exegete Square did really poorly at trying to spread brands about, culminating with the Fabula (!) Nova Crystalis project. Nomura was an awful choice to pick up the presidency.

[@mattwo7]

14:55 In the animators' room: "Well it's called Chocobo Kick so it must be a rider kick style dropkick" "Sounds legit!"

[@Mastercrazybird]

You know, I always wondered why Final Fantasy, a multi-billion dollar fantasy anthology franchise, refused to make an anime, especially given high-quality concepts such as the stories of FFIX and even the weird concepts in spin-offs like Tactics. Hell, Tactics Advance and Tactics A2 are an isekai and next-generation isekai respectively, and they have amazing worldbuilding via systems like rumors. Now, you have shown me why. This franchise tried cooking something before, and it got burned as a result.

[@BJGvideos]

Supposedly there's a FF9 series in the works by a French studio

[@studlytheknight]

This really hits home. I also fell into the trap of this anime when I was younger... I only got to the 2nd episode when I stopped watching and never watched it again. Nice to hear that there was an ending and it was as bad as I thought it would be...

[@covanentsbane]

... This video unlocked *primal memories* for me and I kinda hate it I watched this growing up, but I had completely forgot it until I saw Kaze's canned animation with the gun thingie, and I suddenly remembered drawing *fanart* for this thing. Because as a teenager I had no taste. I don't know whether to thank you or curse you for unlocking these thoughts

[@AzureIV]

I really liked the cursed Final Fantasy anime. The whole using that dust gun to perform summonings was unique and lead to the most epic final boss fight where three important characters sacrificed themselves to win the day.

[@13Fenrir]

Same here. honestly one of the main reason why its bad is cause half the series got axed.

[@supsup335]

This show had no right to go as hard as it did.

[@13Fenrir]

Another reason why spirits within sucks lol

[@LuckyTrouble777]

This feels like one of those comments from someone who hasn't actually watched this since it was new and is basically riding high off vague childhood nostalgia awoken by the summaries in the video.

[@13Fenrir]

@@LuckyTrouble777 not true. We know it’s bad, but it’s worse cause the reason it’s bad is cause we lost a lot of the story we were supposed to get. And the only way to get the story at least at the time and even now is to learn Japanese or fan translations. Also it was dubbed by ADV. This anime had to fight an uphill battle.

[@cortezdelanoche7877]

Bruh, that @18:44 "...And HE'S GOT SOIL!!!" fucking killed me! lol!

[@Sheidowo]

I remember watching random episodes of this on KZbin back in 2000 something and I could never find it until right now. Thank you for bringing this back into my life again.

[@usulu1]

This was my first ever anime, i watched it as a small child. And even though it's bad, it holds a really special place in my heart. Thank you for at least bringing attention to it! I hope Square Enix makes a reboot of it at least. It had potential to be great.

[@the_exegete]

Good on you for sticking with it! I would hate anime if this was my first one.

[@tropichawk850]

I had the exact same experience with it. That one "working" tune is still stuck in my head to this day.

[@JourneyPT]

​@@the_exegetemy 1st anime was probably Majokko Megu-chan which my sister absolutely adored. While very very old it still holds a very special place in my heart, because I watched it with my sister (and thats it 😂). When we are kids things often look better than they really are. A lot of people stop watching anime as they get older, others just carry on for decades, but that very 1st anime often stays close to the heart be it bad or good. Hat off for the OP for sticking with their 1st anime show. 🎩

[@B.A.D8008]

I got a real nostalgia kick seeing this be covered even though the thumbnail was going to crack down on how repetitive and aimless the plot was. I still hold in in fond regard all those years back and glad still Jeff informed on it.

[@gravajaumbros]

@@tropichawk850 Same! My sister and I will still occasionally sing the working tune to each other!

[@margaretmcfarland793]

I remember renting this anime when I was very young. My friends were trying to get me into Final fantasy and thought that since this anime was connected to the franchise, it had to be good. It wasn't.

[@VoidWalkerOblivion]

I don't think you realise how strongly your thumbnail sent me into flashbacks of Kaze's magic gun sequence. I remembered literally nothing of the show until you explained, but boy did I remember SOIL! Is my power

[@JJUniverseChannel]

Awesome video man 😎!

[@thelastdictator482]

I remember excitedly buying the first volume of this show on VHS because I was such a huge FF nerd. I learned a valuable lesson about blind buy-in that day.

[@AllBeganwithBBS]

I would think it's a shame to bash on anything Final Fantasy, but with the way Square Enix acts nowadays, I would just say "go for it".

[@azoth6641]

At least they still have Final Fantasy XIV (and even that has less to do with the bigwigs and more with Naoki Yoshida saving it from its own disastrous release), the Dragon Quest games, and Stranger of Paradise.

[@Gloomdrake]

Every franchise that goes on as long as FF is going to have it's fair share of missteps and stinkers

[@lolaf1er]

@@Gloomdrake I think it's less missteps and stinkers and more repeatedly releasing subpar live service games, milking every cent they can from the few people who stick with it and then shuttering service for it in under a year. Less bad games and more just bad morals.

[@Gloomdrake]

@@lolaf1er that's gaming and Square Enix especially in general. A handful of Final Fantasy games, even. However, most of the problems with the Final Fantasy franchise are hardly so sinister, so I don't think your comment is really relevant

[@lolaf1er]

@@Gloomdrake The original comment was talking about Square Enix's behaviour so I'll respectfully disagree.

[@worldwidestepper9880]

I just finished the ffxvi demo and I’m dying waiting for the release on June 22 , perfect timing Geoff!

[@EdRider03]

Found this channel with this video. I remember when this show was first airing and how cool I thought Kaze was with his big CGI gun! I used to praise this show even though I only had seen like 5 episodes of it back then. Now older I see why younger me stopped praising it so quickly... Great episode and you've earned yourself a new subscriber (Also I see that Steambot Cronicles in the background! Highly underrated early Atlas game!!)

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Kaze even has a metal appendage like Vincent, the arm that turns into a gun...which is ALSO Vincent's weapon! 😂 Also, his whole transformation sequence just makes Kaze a magical boy 😂

[@iamjustkiwi]

But....soil is his power...

[@timothymclean]

Not to be confused with Barret, who has an arm that _is_ a gun, which is also Barret's weapon.

[@moddrew546]

.....Now I want fanart of this, stat

[@gopakkusnr2392]

Rude! The Magun sequences are the best part of each episode! Read into that regarding the episode quality however you want.

[@saltyk9869]

As someone who had watched the series like 15 years ago, I can concur. It was basically why I had managed to finish it.

[@Arktic06]

Thanks for the upload! Great way to end my night :)

[@mookiestewart3776]

This is the second time I’ve seen you mention last exile in a vid . You truly are a man of culture my friend! That show is really underrated if you ask me

[@ZweihanderSteve]

FFU was actually my first FF. I never owned a single system that could play a mainline game, and FFU let me bandwagon on my brother asking for a PS2 as a birthday gift. Even now I remain fond and nostalgic on the base concept (thanks Kawazu) and music (thanks Hamaguchi) and even some of the art. Some of original concept art is kinda neat where Kaze was a bard with a shotgun and Lisa WAS BASICALLY TIFA. Thanks for covering my pre-teen Geoff :)

[@timothypulliam2177]

This anime has been laying dormant in my mind for the past 22 years. I was wondering if I'd ever see it again.

[@Catkeeper]

The intro about just dealing with you purchases rings so true. I was picking this up as new volumes were released here in the UK alongside some other, better series and I was just as invested in watching this through. Honestly I have some fondness for it, I like Lisa, though mostly the design, and the soundtrack is pretty damn good. I didn't know they followed it up at all, so now I'm curious how they went about it.

[@MalaysianGov]

Great episode! And I checked out Nikke. And I'm kinda loving it

[@chrisdodson2025]

Time may have forgotten this anime, but I didn't. I desperately wish I could. Thank you ever so much for the reminder =P

[@jrmloh]

I was like.. I remember seeing this in Animax years ago and seeing this unburied from my memories. 😅

[@dirtywhitepoodle]

I feel for FFU the same way I feel about the Star Wars prequels: Yes, they are absolutely atrociously made. I still hold them near and dear to my heart because of my childhood memories about them.

[@Blacknight8850]

That part about buying a bad anime at the bookstore and making yourself rewatch it in the hopes you'll like it eventually is so real - I got fairly lucky as a kid, but I did buy two hentai OVAs and Go Nagai's Devil Lady when I was 16 from a bargain bookstore that didn't notice the *Rated 18* label on them.

[@Charuchii]

Years back (around 2006/2007), I was hugely into stepmania/DDR and here in the Netherlands there was a group that would make stepmania packs for conventions. After the conventions these packs were free to grab online and so I played the hell out of them. The packs all consisted of anime OPs and EDs and in some cases other music from the OST. It's a lovely little time capsule featuring the shows that were on the minds of people at the time. These were mostly the anime everyone was talking about, the ones you'd see the boxsets of, the cosplays, the fanworks. The stuff people loved. They had Trigun, Love Hina, Lain, Digimon, a para para mix from the first Pokémon OP, you name it. Anyway Romancing Train, the second ED of Final Fantasy Unlimited on there too for some reason and that's how I found out this anime even existed.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your videos always make my day man! Really appreciate them ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[@mattwo7]

5:51 I'm guessing this Jack Frost is from the Demikids anime? I don't think anyone who hasn't seen it would be able to identify it from Atlus' company mascot alone....

[@kondorem]

alright sorry my comment has nothing to do with the video(its great btw) but can someone for the love of all that is good please PLEASE tell me what the last music track in the video is called and what game its from? ive been trying to find it for years bc i cant fucking remember where its from and its driving me insane. its the very very last song its like at 24:14 in the vid, please PLEASE help

[@spacescribs5838]

This show has too much potential I hope it gets a remake some day

[@kadosho02]

I remember this series. Unlimited was.. bizarre, unique, quirky, and weird. Was it good? Um.. yeah that is a difficult one to answer Flashback to The Spirits Within. Oh. Oh I know that feeling 🤔Jeez Memory unlocked This journey has been a weird one Also best girl Yazzy could definitely cosplay a Nikke character 😉 Or Final Fantasy

[@Lishadra]

At about 7:20 Geoff shows a clip meant to highlight how bad the cgi is but I grew up watching Beast Wars and am now mostly immune to cgi of that caliber from that time. … Theoretically

[@FanOfMostEverything]

Oh goodness. Years and years ago, someone in a forum I was on based their play-by-post RP character on Kaze, complete with the Soil system. _I finally have context for that._

[@ThatGreyGentleman]

Ok but that advert was 100% couple goals 😂❤

[@gldni17]

Wow, it's Final Fantasy day between you and Andrew Bluett both putting out some nice FF vids today. ^_^

[@mothersbasement]

I was watching his new retrospective as I worked on the thumbnail!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

​@@mothersbasementgonna check it out🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Leodaire]

i have fond memories of watching final fantasy unlimted on the anime network after school but i can definitely say it has very much not aged well.

[@aoihitori]

Whoa, you unlocked my very old memory bank... I really forgot that this is one of first anime I watched and yeah I am surprised that it suddenly disappeared.

[@crestren5996]

I swear, that soil animation felt like 15 seconds when I was 12 and not a full minute

[@ZeketheZealot]

The Gamer website legitimately ranks this anime 2nd of all anime and movies with Final Fantasy in the name. Second only behind Advent Children. I dont know if that says more about TG’s taste or Final Fantasy’s ability to craft non-games.

[@HeisenbergFam]

10:47 "just a totally normal girl" has become a frequent plot point in these types of anime, what could go wrong

[@SphereMapLog]

"And soil rhymes with soylent, which is people" is my favourite line from this

[@rosewatersoda]

I watched this anime by renting DVDs over several months as they came out, and I kept thinking to myself, "They bothered to dub this, it has to get better. It has to get better. When is it going to get better." The denial was real.