Everyone would benefit from a FFXIV anime series

We all know that FFXIV's story is very good but it takes a long time to get good. ARR and STB are a huge wall for a lot people thanks to their slow build-up and their uninteresting fetch quests, making some players want to skip them, which is generally not advised. It's nearly impossible to solve this problem inside the game in its current state, however one thing they could do is release a short anime series summarizing all the important plot points of ARR and beyond. People that find themselves stuck in the MSQ will have an alternative and can waste only a few hours instead of dozens. Not only that, the anime would be a good advertisement. Non-FFXIV players that watch the anime may be interested in playing the game. Square already did something like this with FFXV, so I don't think it's impossible for them to do this.

I wouldn't watch it. The wol in my eyes is only my character. That's who I'm attached to I cba with another shield hero looking type. The writing wouldn't be done by cbu3 so it wouldn't have that authentic koji humour. And honestly it would be nothing we hadn't seen before. People are finding more and more ways around playing this game that it's becoming reflected in the game and makes me wonder why ppl play it to not play it

I think there’s already an unhealthy overconsumption of anime amongst this community as it is

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Originally Posted by chaotix69

I think there’s already an unhealthy overconsumption of anime amongst this community as it is

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Is it just me aswell or is it thar as you get older anime becomes more cringe and less appealing. I can still watch great anime like yugioh and dbz but I feel modern day anime is extremely cringe and I can't even tell 90% of them appart from each other. The all have the same badly designed bland protagonist. Lazy artstyle. Plot narrative and characters who fall so far into tropes that you basically can sort them on there personality in my anime list. Young ppl with no ability to write will enjoy this tripe but older ppl will search for substance and find more in og beyblade than current time anime. I think rn in the state of animes climate I would not want this game represented by it

lol yugioh is extremely cringe

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

lol yugioh is extremely cringe

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I think simply put you're unable to comprehend why it's as good as it is. Some ppl also say berserk was cringe too. Perhaps you only watched the 4kids dub and didn't explore the manga whatsoever ever. Then kind of. I could understand. But the creativity and ingenuity of the manga as a whole is something even pokemon couldn't replicate. Anything past og duel monsters shouldn't be glanced sideways at and no fan will deny that. But the main series was powerful storytelling with mostly) likeable characters and harsh life lessons like letting ppl go. The budget and standard for animation had allsays been sky high. The main and rival main character are legends in anime history. You'll never find another character written like seto kaiba as ridiculously ott. Or a main character as stupidly awesome as the pharaoh. But go on tell me a really good justification for why it's cringe. I can wait. Or is this simply another desperate ploy for a strangers attention

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

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wow that was good for a lol

Please no. Stop.

I'd watch a fall of ascians that spirals into a dark end (with chipper breaks and highlights via the 'human' spirit, as it goes down), with at least non-childish anime art style (Castlevania, Cyberpunk, League of Legends, etc). I'd almost say Sil'Dih and Ul'Dah, for potential political intrigue and chaos, but the issue is I think you'd struggle with the whole lala thing, cute here and there but 90% of the content would be high pitch knee kickers.. that'd be a challenge lol. The beginning of Garlean civilization could be fun, given they have a persecuted beginning.

Have to stay, imo, away from anything the WoL (us) touched though cause it wouldn't feel right.

One idea might be a sort of Love Death + Robots / Black Mirror, except maybe 2 or 3 episodes (or definitely at least one 1 hour long episode). Covering major historical moments. It would be easy to phone it in though, in which case don't bother, should care about the individuals at the end and not look like butt lol.

I don't need an anime of the game though, so unless it was great I'd not bother (as it's not a space of desire in my life I need to fill).

I don't see any particular value in recapping the game when we can just do New Game Plus for that.

Could be interesting to see an anime of 1.0, though, since that story's not available anywhere outside of Youtube anymore. Of course, then it'd be rewritten to fit with changes made from ARR onwards.

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

Is it just me aswell or is it thar as you get older anime becomes more cringe and less appealing.

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As someone who has been watching anime in its various forms for the last 30 years ... it's just you. Well, it's probably that your introduction to Japanese anime and Chinese donghua has been a bit, um, tilted? Perhaps mostly kid-oriented anime?

I do not consider Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters to be the epitome of Japanese anime over the last 20-odd years.

From my watchlist on Crunchyroll, I present: Bureau of Paranormal Investigation [Chinese], Undead Murder Farce, Moriarty the Patriot, DRAMAtical Murder, Shinobi no Ittoki, Magic Kaito 1412.

From my watchlist on Hidive, I present: The Eminence in Shadow

From YouTube and Netflix [mostly Chinese donghua]: Carp Reborn, the Island of Siliang, A Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Battle through the Heaven, King's Avatar, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Heaven Official's Blessing, Qi Refining for 3000 Years, One Hundred Thousand Years of Refining Qi ...

Is there a lot of junk out there? Yes. You need to expand your source material, and figure out if you really enjoy Shónen anime geared to 9-18 year old boys. I expect you'd be more into Seinen anime these days. For your own sake, lay off the kodomo-muke anime types (Pokemon, Doraemon, Digimon, etc).

There's a lot of cringey anime. There's also a lot of really good anime. Be discerning and find what fits your tastes.

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

Is it just me aswell or is it thar as you get older anime becomes more cringe and less appealing. I can still watch great anime like yugioh and dbz but I feel modern day anime is extremely cringe and I can't even tell 90% of them appart from each other. The all have the same badly designed bland protagonist. Lazy artstyle. Plot narrative and characters who fall so far into tropes that you basically can sort them on there personality in my anime list. Young ppl with no ability to write will enjoy this tripe but older ppl will search for substance and find more in og beyblade than current time anime. I think rn in the state of animes climate I would not want this game represented by it

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Actually as you get older the more cringey it is to care about cringe and to unironically believe in cringe and using the term "cringe".

Who cares

I wouldn't want them to retell the MSQ or various sidequest story lines in anime series.

If they were to make an anime taking place in the world of FF XIV, I'd rather it be a completely new story with new characters...

everyone benefiting? i am not sure how.

i will say i think it would be cool to get an anime and each season is a story arc as seeing the game in an anime perspective in the eyes of derplander would be cool as i feel like an anime could convey a lot of the action in a much better way than the animation of the game can as you can surely tell in scenes that 3d models do not look good with certain facial expressions.

i will also say anime with more views on other characters or story arcs we may not have been able to fully see or got grazed over because of pacing or importance would be cool to see.

There was actually meant to be a live-action with CGI FFXIV TV series in the pipeline, funded partly by Sony and partly by Amazon TV, but apart from jokes about having "lots of chocobos" by executives, apparently featuring Cid in a major role, and was meant to tie into ShB, nothing has come of it (COVID as usual was partly to blame), and as nothing has been heard about it since 2019, I think it's safe to say it's been scrapped alas.

There has been a few short anime OVAs for past FF games however, two single episode ones for FFVII (Last Order, and On the Way to a Smile ~ Case of Denzel), a four-episode sequel to FFV (Legend of the Crystals), a single episode OVA to FFXV (Brotherhood), and an obscure 25 episode TV series from 2000 called FF Unlimited (that had a unique story unreleated directly to any of the games), so there has been FF anime in the past. They've... generally been a mixed bunch though, so I wouldn't hold much confidence in a FFXIV themed one being particularly good though alas.

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Originally Posted by Vandso

We all know that FFXIV's story is very good but it takes a long time to get good. ARR and STB are a huge wall for a lot people thanks to their slow build-up and their uninteresting fetch quests, making some players want to skip them, which is generally not advised. It's nearly impossible to solve this problem inside the game in its current state, however one thing they could do is release a short anime series summarizing all the important plot points of ARR and beyond. People that find themselves stuck in the MSQ will have an alternative and can waste only a few hours instead of dozens. Not only that, the anime would be a good advertisement. Non-FFXIV players that watch the anime may be interested in playing the game. Square already did something like this with FFXV, so I don't think it's impossible for them to do this.

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The problem with that is that it would spoil the game. So people who watched it probably wouldn't try the game.

On the other end, an anime that begins with the civil war in Ala Mhigo and ends at the end of 1.0 would be such a good ad for the game (with Louisoix, Cid and Raubahn/Ilberd as main characters). The WoL would only refered as one of the adventurers, never telling "This is THE WoL", so people can still "insert" their own woL into it (from what I got from 1.0, the "the chosen one" storyline was not so much of a thing).

I don't know why they have not done it yet. It wouldn't spoil anything (I mean, the secret that the hooded guy in the church is Cid is pretty much gone as soon as the character is introduced, and the fact that Ildbert and Raubahn are childhood friends is said as soon as Ilbert is introduced) , and would even make some scene stronger (imagine if the whole series protrayed Ildbert as a good guy, how his treason would feel even worst). And even (most) current player would get something good from that.

And then you do some kind of contest ingame they select some of the players WoL to be the faces of those adventurers in the anime (you put different ones everytime you need some a nameless adventurer). The hype would be huge.

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Originally Posted by Vandso

We all know that FFXIV's story is very good but it takes a long time to get good. ARR and STB are a huge wall for a lot people thanks to their slow build-up and their uninteresting fetch quests, making some players want to skip them, which is generally not advised. It's nearly impossible to solve this problem inside the game in its current state, however one thing they could do is release a short anime series summarizing all the important plot points of ARR and beyond. People that find themselves stuck in the MSQ will have an alternative and can waste only a few hours instead of dozens. Not only that, the anime would be a good advertisement. Non-FFXIV players that watch the anime may be interested in playing the game. Square already did something like this with FFXV, so I don't think it's impossible for them to do this.

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An 8 episode series on Netflix would be nice.

This Final Fantasy XIV manga [https://press.na.square-enix.com/NEW...E-ENIX-COMING] could be turned into an anime: Shiritsu Eorzea Gakuen (Academia Eorzea).

Frankly, I'd be much more interested in a Final Fantasy anime based on the manga Final Fantasy Lost Stranger [https://yenpress.com/series/final-fa...lost-stranger].

Yoshi is on record for wanting an anime but he would insist on being the producer for it and his story team deeply involved. Because of this, they won’t because they are already too busy.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

An 8 episode series on Netflix would be nice.

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I'd watch it. Have it be like FLCL with plenty of good music and social commentary.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

I'd watch it. Have it be like FLCL with plenty of good music and social commentary.

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Hmm... IDK... FFXIV in FLCL flavor as an anime to me screams Hildibrand lol.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

I'd watch it. Have it be like FLCL with plenty of good music and social commentary.

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I was thinking Castlevania (Trevor Belmont) type series.

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Originally Posted by Vandso

We all know that FFXIV's story is very good but it takes a long time to get good. ARR and STB are a huge wall for a lot people thanks to their slow build-up and their uninteresting fetch quests, making some players want to skip them, which is generally not advised. It's nearly impossible to solve this problem inside the game in its current state, however one thing they could do is release a short anime series summarizing all the important plot points of ARR and beyond. People that find themselves stuck in the MSQ will have an alternative and can waste only a few hours instead of dozens. Not only that, the anime would be a good advertisement. Non-FFXIV players that watch the anime may be interested in playing the game. Square already did something like this with FFXV, so I don't think it's impossible for them to do this.

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Final Fantasy Unlimited.
Final fantasy advent children
Kingsglaive
Dad of light


So why we need a anime based on ffxiv?

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

Hmm... IDK... FFXIV in FLCL flavor as an anime to me screams Hildibrand lol.

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Shut up and take my money.

Yes please pump more money into everything except the game itself!!

NO.

I feel like an FFXIV anime would not be made in the greatest quality. Lot of arcs and fight scenes would be rushed, and we'd just basically watch an animated montage of the Scions being good buddies made better or worse depending on how many episodes we'd be given to cover 5 - 6 expansions worth of material. Things would absolutely get retconned or skipped entirely for the anime's sake and we'd probably still end up with random filler episodes that don't tie into the game in any way. The anime would also probably age poorly as new expansion material continues previous material continuations which the anime might not set up very well. Additionally, things like animes tend to play into head canons like "shipping", that otherwise aren't a role in game's story. So, we end up with game canon and anime canon.

Eh..with how anime FFVII has become, and how cringe I find it now (maybe it's an age thing?), I want the other Final Fantasies to stay as far away from anime as possible.

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Originally Posted by Bonoki

I feel like an FFXIV anime would not be made in the greatest quality. Lot of arcs and fight scenes would be rushed, and we'd just basically watch an animated montage of the Scions being good buddies made better or worse depending on how many episodes we'd be given to cover 5 - 6 expansions worth of material. Things would absolutely get retconned or skipped entirely for the anime's sake and we'd probably still end up with random filler episodes that don't tie into the game in any way. The anime would also probably age poorly as new expansion material continues previous material continuations which the anime might not set up very well. Additionally, things like animes tend to play into head canons like "shipping", that otherwise aren't a role in game's story. So, we end up with game canon and anime canon.

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I think an anime adaptation of the story would be a bad idea in general, not to mention would force them to try to make a more fleshed out canonical Warrior of Light as I don't think a silent protagonist can really work in non-interactive media.
But the entire universe doesn't need to revolve around the WoL, I'm sure they could come up with stories that doesn't actually involve them in any way.

I wouldn't mind them making an anime series that just takes place in the world of FFXIV, rather than trying to turn the game into an anime.

I'd like an anime showing 2.0(or 1.0) thru EW. I already played it, obviously, but I almost always enjoy seeing the characters more. A big bit of the game's appeal to me is the story and how it feels almost like a TV show you are participating in, sometimes. Lord knows there have been a fair share of "anime moments" in the game over the years, both epic and silly. lol

I don't know if it'd be particularly cost effective as an aid for people looking to skip the story straight in to DT, though. Seems like a recap video (series) could do that better.

Or just a prompt to read the Unending Codex. Pretty sure that's what its for. Its a reference book for people who skip but end up caring enough to look; while secondarily maybe providing a bit of insight for people who lived it and always cared.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

As someone who has been watching anime in its various forms for the last 30 years ... it's just you. Well, it's probably that your introduction to Japanese anime and Chinese donghua has been a bit, um, tilted? Perhaps mostly kid-oriented anime?

I do not consider Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters to be the epitome of Japanese anime over the last 20-odd years.

From my watchlist on Crunchyroll, I present: Bureau of Paranormal Investigation [Chinese], Undead Murder Farce, Moriarty the Patriot, DRAMAtical Murder, Shinobi no Ittoki, Magic Kaito 1412.

From my watchlist on Hidive, I present: The Eminence in Shadow

From YouTube and Netflix [mostly Chinese donghua]: Carp Reborn, the Island of Siliang, A Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Battle through the Heaven, King's Avatar, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Heaven Official's Blessing, Qi Refining for 3000 Years, One Hundred Thousand Years of Refining Qi ...

Is there a lot of junk out there? Yes. You need to expand your source material, and figure out if you really enjoy Shónen anime geared to 9-18 year old boys. I expect you'd be more into Seinen anime these days. For your own sake, lay off the kodomo-muke anime types (Pokemon, Doraemon, Digimon, etc).

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Nah I'm good thanks. I've never even heard if those wires animes you listed and find when I try to watch em I can't enjoy them. Shounen anime is the only anime I can get into and I don't wanna bleed your ears with why I think shounen anime is the definitive best kind of anime. You can lead me to crime/adult series but you can't make me like em

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I do not consider Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters to be the epitome of Japanese anime over the last 20-odd years.

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Yugioh and dragonball z are some of the best mangas and animes and in general works of art and writing to ever be produced. Literal master pieces. If ppl think they're for children they're committing peabrainism

Also an ffxiv anime would not honestly be enjoyable unless it really wasn't afraid to be honest about the game and make the jokes that need to be made in order for players to relate. Such as minfillia making you tp over and over to waking sands. Being put in aurum vale with a maniac sprout tank who pulls everything. Msq dialog choices that aren't really choices. Retainers bring roofs back and annoying loud bards playing in your face while your crafting

I think an ffxiv comic series with funny shorts would be better than a full blown anime.

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Everyone would benefit from a FFXIV anime series

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Maybe, maybe not. I reckon making animation and making videogame are two massively different thigs because these are fundamentally two different kinds of entertainment, i.e. videogame is interactive, which is a pretty pivotal feature where animation is not.

Let's start with questions which would hold interest to people making these kinds of projects happen: Would it be for teens, older teens, adults? "For everyone!" would just mean teens, which don't necessarily catch adults', not even adult anime watcher's interest.

We have seen enough fantasy videogames/mmo inspired anime sometimes married to isekai quirk, but would that cut it (with or without, you know, isekai)? Mmo players tend to use their characters to express themselves which would go against animation narrative's need to generalize heavily. Making the character arcs generic enough seems like necessary evil with grounding idea like this, but would that be interesting to enough people? Would that make FFXIV: teh anime too similar to its competitors?

For me personally; maybe if they managed to make it feel like Overlord, in my opinion the best time you can have with anime by premise 'we're all stuck in videogame (kinda)'. There is nothing too unique going on with Overlord, but to me the charm is being unique enough - compared to any random fantasy-inpired-by-videogame-tropes anime.

I'm just what-iffing here with very little sleep. Ultimately if SE wants to finance anime, they will, but I think they are too busy throwing their dwindling money to some other cracked projects.

I have no interest in such a series. There are already FF series and movies and there are more being made. Why do people need films/movies about every little detail and stories that have already been told? Leave some room to imagination. Just go and read about the story if you skipped everything. It takes far less time than a movies or a series.

FFXIV doesn't need an anime
not like cyber punk where people suddenly like the game after it got one

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

I have no interest in such a series. There are already FF series and movies and there are more being made. Why do people need films/movies about every little detail and stories that have already been told? Leave some room to imagination. Just go and read about the story if you skipped everything. It takes far less time than a movies or a series.

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I think a story focusing on a new sprout character where the WOL exists in the background as his/her inspiration without ever seeing the WOL could be interesting to see the world from someone else's perspective and how the WOL influenced the world.

I would watch that.

I just want a FFXIV CGI movie with an original story. It could take place at the current time, or else at some point during a past expansion. The WoL would not be in it, for obvious reasons -- maybe they can be mentioned in passing, like one of the Scions says they are gone on some adventure or something.

I'd rather eat my left foot.

Absolutely not.