Regarding Anima (Endwalker Spoilers)

[Gemina]

Anima in XIV is what I call a "Fan Disservice". However back with X, I also felt like Anima was specific to Seymour and should have remained exclusive to him. You have to go through quite a bit to acquire Anima as a summon, but I digress. The main point is I feel Anima was done dirty even back then. This summon is one of the most terrifying ones to date in both looks and ability. A horrific creature that embodies pain and suffering.

That last part, FFXIV kind of did right as along with using Varis' body, Anima was born from not necessarily the prayers, but the pain and suffering of the Garlean race over the course of decades, if not hundreds of years iirc. Anima without questions deserved more than being reduced to a dungeon boss. The primal's introduction though by tempering a ridiculous range through the roars and screams was absolutely fantastic, but also just kind of made the eventuality a bit more disappointing

I feel there is still a smidge of hope though, and the dev team could make Anima a surprise EX trial much like they did with Varis.

[Midareyukki]

Anima's appeared in other games, unrelated to Seymour. And she definitely had a lot more visual impact in there than what we got from 14.

This is the best version of Anima imo, her Lv 2 LB from Brave Exvius.

[Mimilu]

I can't remember, which one is Zodiac in XII?

He was the dark-element esper who represented the constellation Ophiunchus the snake-holder. He looks like a little baby snake strapped to an archway and he grows giant wings when he uses his ultimate attack, Final Eclipse. You unlock him in a secret area in the Henne Mines that you can only get to when you have at least 10 espers.

He was also in Tactics as the secret, ultimate Summoner spell that could only be learned by a Summoner was to be hit by it during a secret battle with a man named Elidibus.

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[Liam_Harper]

Have to keep in mind the entire expansion was rushed. They wanted to cram about 3 expansions worth of story into one so Yoshida could shove it over to the side and get started on his pet idea of "new adventures". We had Zodiark and Hydaelyn, who were hyped up over years, as regular trial bosses.

Quite likely if they didn't rush it we'd have had the chance to explore all of Garlemald as several zones before it was wrecked and Anima would have been the first or second Trial at the least.

[Ranaku]

Anima should've been the first trial boss but like Stormblood Endwalker felt rushed and like they wanted way too much with not enough time for each zone etc. at all.

We are in sharlayan and all of the sudden in thavnair and then in garlemald and eorzea and on the moon and back to thavnair and into another timeline and then back to garlemald and to the edge of the universe...no time at all to actually care about any of the people we see then dying. And then the so dreaded final days last for like what some days while nothing really happens outside of thavnair, we see no destruction etc. just some people turning into monsters in a secluded area and the rest of the world has just to deal with one blasphemy each.

Like Stormblood, EW should've been two separate expansions. Not the rushed mess that it ended up to be.

[Jettinson]

He was the dark-element esper who represented the constellation Ophiunchus the snake-holder. He looks like a little baby snake strapped to an archway and he grows giant wings when he uses his ultimate attack, Final Eclipse. You unlock him in a secret area in the Henne Mines that you can only get to when you have at least 10 espers.

He was also in Tactics as the secret, ultimate Summoner spell that could only be learned by a Summoner was to be hit by it during a secret battle with a man named Elidibus.

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I honestly expected this Zodiark to appear somewhere in a dungeon too. Still missing some Espers. ..