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Tales of Symphonia: The Animation
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Tales of Symphonia OVA
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Publisher
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Ufotable
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Number of episodes
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Sylvarant Chapter
Episodes 1-4
Tethe'alla Chapter
Episodes 5-8
The United World
Episode 9
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Tales of Symphonia: The Animation is an eight-part OVA series based around the plot from
Tales of Symphonia.
Two worlds exist, both unaware of the existence of the other. In
order for one world to flourish, the other will have to perish. On the
perishing world, a
Chosen one is send on a journey to restore that world's mana by awakening the
Spirits and becoming an angel.
Colette Brunel, the Chosen of Sylvarant, sets out on her journey accompanied by her best friends
Lloyd Irving and
Genis Sage.
As they travel further they meet more friends and even more enemies,
while they learn more and more about the truth behind the World
Regeneration.
- Note: The following are not summaries these are showing the differences between Tales of Symphonia the video game and the animation.
Episode 1
Edit
- Lloyd gives Colette a pendant at the very beginning of the OVA
as a birthday present. In the game, he does not finish the pendant in
time, so he gives it to her at a much later point.
- Colette is already at the Martel Temple prior to the Oracle. In
the game, Colette is in the Iselia schoolhouse before she sneaks out to
the temple with Lloyd and Genis.
- Raine allows Genis and Lloyd to go with her to the temple to
check up on Colette, but in the game, she orders everyone to stay in the
classroom.
- In the game, Botta makes an appearance at Iselia's Temple of
Martel. The OVA suggests that he does not appear at the building. Botta
makes his initial appearance in episode 4, although he does not make a
contribution to the storyline.
- Kratos is presumably hired by the priests before the beginning
of the OVA to assist in Colette's journey. In the game, Kratos is just a
wandering mercenary who was hastily hired to compensate the deaths of
Colette's original escort.
- In the OVA, Genis does not get spanked by Raine in Martel Temple, nor does Lloyd get kicked by her.
- In the animation, it is shown that Kratos does not have an Exsphere equipped, whereas in the game he does.
- There is no mention of Marble in the OVA.
- Unlike in the game, the angel Remiel does not purport to be Colette's true father. This is one of the many subplots that were omitted from the OVA to significantly cut down time.
- A Desian soldier, spying on the Martel Temple skirmish, sees
Lloyd using his Exsphere, which causes the Desians to attack Iselia. In
the game, the attack is provoked when Genis and Lloyd violate the
non-aggression treaty between Iselia and the Desians by trespassing at
the Iselia Human Ranch.
- The non-aggression treaty is mentioned in the OVA by Genis, though only once.
- Dirk joins the battle after Iselia is set ablaze in the OVA.
Lloyd battles instead of the mutated Marble, while Dirk fights the
Desian forces. In the game, Dirk made no known contribution to the
prevention of Iselia's attack.
- Forcystus is severely wounded, if not killed, by a ray of light
that bursts forth from Lloyd's Exsphere. In the game, he is injured by
Marble's self-sacrifice. Lloyd also does not battle Forcystus until a
later point in the plot.
- In the game, Lloyd and Genis are banished from Iselia,
following the incident with Forcystus. There is no evidence of such a
banishment in the OVA.
- Lloyd's pet, Noishe, makes a minor appearance in a stable at
Dirk's house in the OVA. In the game, Noishe plays a more important
role, allowing the player to ride him across the world.
- The Exsphere is only used in times of desperation; it is
treated like a terrible power that shouldn't be used. In the game, the
Exsphere is active as long as it is equipped; it is treated as a
power-enhancer (though only for this episode, in the next ones it's
treated as a power enhancer).
- In the OVA Dirk, Lloyd, and the others act as if they don't
know what an Exsphere is, merely calling it a gem, in the game Dirk,
Lloyd, and the others know exactly what an exsphere is, though only
after having been to human ranches.
- Phaidra, Colette's grandmother, is never mentioned in the
animation, nor is she seen at Martel Temple. She can be seen, however,
in the crowd of villagers during the razing of Iselia.
Episode 2Edit
- It can be implied that some desert village was destroyed before Colette and the others arrived there.
- Lloyd and Genis manage to catch up with the Chosen's party. In
the game, Lloyd is captured and taken to the Renegade base. Lloyd is
eventually rescued and reunited with the rest of the party.
- Yuan has not appeared in the animation yet, whereas in the
game, Lloyd encounters him in the Renegade base before being reunited
with the rest of the party.
- There is no evidence of events that take place in Izoold and Palmacosta in the game occurring in the animation.
- The party's first encounter with Sheena is not at the Ossa
Trail, but at the Balacruf Mausoleum. In the game, this is actually
their second encounter, and this encounter may also occur outside of the
Tower of Mana or on Thoda island, depending on the path the player had
chosen.
- Zelos meets with Sheena by a lake in Tethe'alla to discuss her
mission of assassinating Colette, but he does not attempt to intervene.
He is later seen at Meltokio Castle, proclaiming that he knew Sheena
didn't have the guts to kill Sylvarant's Chosen.
- Sheena's initial appearance was at Palmacosta to assassinate
Colette in her sleep. Unlike the OVA, she first appeared as a clumsy
assassin at the Ossa Trail in the game.
- The party apparently heads straight to the Balacruf Mausoleum
without visiting Asgard and defeating the false Summon Spirit of Wind.
In the game, this was necessary in order to enter the mausoleum.
- Magnius is confronted in the Balacruf Mausoleum. In the game,
he is confronted long before this in the first initial visits to
Palmacosta, where he invades the town because the Governor-General has
been reluctant to send him tribute. The Desians are never encountered in
the Balacruf Mausoleum, and possibly not in any other of the Seals.
- Magnius is not confronted and killed, like in the game;
instead, he is defeated when he surrounds the Balacruf Mausoleum with
Desians. At this point, Colette sings a mysterious angel song that
weakens (or perhaps kills) Magnius' soldiers. As such, the party never
meets him in battle.
- Sheena guides the party out through an underground sewer
beneath Balacruf Mausoleum. She subsequently attacks the party in a more
secluded area of the sewer. This sewer does not exist in the game.
- One detail included in the animation is that Colette does not
fight the Seal guardians (she is protected by Raine instead). In the
game, Colette is required to be in the party during these battles.
- The animation begins taking the so-called "hard path" in the
game, which is the route that has Balacruf Mausoleum before the
Palmacosta region events.
- In the animation, Magnius is shown in the Asgard region,
outside the Balacruf Mausoleum. In the game, however, he appears in the
Palmacosta region.
- In the animation, they take a rather large Gallion over to
Palmacosta, whereas in the game they take a small boat that they can all
barely fit on.
Episode 3Edit
- In the OVA, Lloyd finds out that Colette has lost her senses
when she is holding the cup and singing; in the game, Lloyd tricks
Colette with a hot cup of coffee to find out that she cannot feel
things.
- In the game, the party decides to steal Desian uniforms in
order to sneak into the Asgard Human Ranch. This does not occur in the
OVA.
- Lloyd duels Kvar in a hall at the Asgard Human Ranch in which
prisoners are getting their Exspheres harvested. In the game, this hall
does not exist; instead, the humans are processed through assembly lines
and machines, ending in box-like containers.
- Kratos kills Kvar
by stabbing him; in the game, Lloyd and Kratos fight together to defeat
the Grand Cardinal. In addition, Kratos merely stabs Kvar once; in the
game, he strikes Kvar no fewer than three times.
- There is no mention of the Tower of Mana, for it says in the episode that the Seal of Water is the final seal.
- Lloyd finds out about Colette losing her voice when they are
alone. In the game, the party finds out immediately after leaving the
Tower of Mana.
- Sheena's Shikigami (Guardian) transported Lloyd and the group
away from the Human Ranch in the game, whereas it slaughtered the
Desians when they were caught in the courtyard in the animation.
- Sheena did not remain with the party in the animation.
- Lloyd had his Exsphere to battle the Water Seal's guardian in
the game; due to an internal conflict about whether using his Exsphere
was ethical, Lloyd did not use it to battle the Seal's guardian in the
animation.
- In the animation, there is a boat at the dock of Thoda Geyser. There is no mention of the washtubs that appear in the game.
- In the animation, there is no referance to Kvar's base as a ranch, it is simply called Asgard base.
- In the game, Rodyle gloats to a dead Kvar as the ranch is about
to be destroyed. In the animation, Rodyle and Pronyma are both watching
the Asgard ranch get destroyed from a nearby cliff.
Episode 4Edit
- In the animation, the party acquires money from the local church
to pay for the dragon ride to the Tower of Salvation; in the game, the
dragon ride is free.
- Lloyd takes back the pendant he gave to Colette before their
journey began. This does not happen in the game, as Lloyd gives her the
pendant much later.
- Lloyd does not know of the existence of Tethe'alla before the
Tower of Salvation in the animation. Even so, he chooses Colette's life
over the Regeneration. In the game, he cannot bear to lose Colette and
initially attempts to convince her not to complete the regeneration.
- In the game, Lloyd meets Yuan in the Renegades' Base; in the
animation, Lloyd, Raine, and Genis meet him in a forest near the Tower
of Salvation, disguised as a Renegade soldier.
- In the OVA, Kratos and Colette leave the night before to go to
the Tower of Salvation without telling Lloyd or the others. In the
game, everyone leaves at the same time, although Kratos and Colette
arrive first.
- Instead of battling Lloyd, Genis, Raine, and Sheena (as he does
in the game), Kratos duels with Yuan outside of the Tower of Salvation.
- In the animation, the interior of the Tower of Salvation is a
giant pillar with a transparent blue staircase circling it, leading up
to the main altar. In the game, a narrow pass suspended in endless,
luminescent space leads the way to a teleporter directly to the altar.
- In the game, Raine realizes that the hundreds of floating
coffins around them contain the corpses of every Chosen before Colette.
There is no mention of this in the animation, despite the coffins being
present.
- Mithos Yggdrasill does not descend from Derris-Kharlan, so Lloyd's party remains unaware of his existence.
- When Colette loses her spirit in the game, her angel wings are
visible, her Cruxis Crystal turns grey, and her eyes are red. When she
loses her spirit in the OVA, she is floating in midair, her eyes become
cloudy, and her Cruxis Crystal is still red.
- The fight with Remiel begins when he is attacked by Genis and Raine; in the game, Lloyd provokes the fight.
- Yuan kills Remiel in the OVA after Lloyd is knocked unconscious
by falling debris; in the game, Remiel dies from the wounds Lloyd's
party inflicted during their battle.
- In the game, a spiteful Kratos lets Remiel die from his wounds.
In the animation, he expresses his displeasure when he discovers that
Yuan has killed him.
- In the game, Lloyd is knocked unconscious by Mithos Yggdrasill;
in the animation he is hit by falling debris while attempting to save
Colette.
- In the game Lloyd is sent flying into a pillar, knocking it
down, which leads to a stunning revelation later on; this doesn't happen
in the animation.
- In the animation, Sheena mysteriously vanishes after the
destruction of the Asgard Human Ranch; she only reunites with Lloyd's
group in the Renegades' Base. This does not happen in the game, as
Sheena is already with the party.
- While preparing the Rheairds for transportation, Sheena reveals
Tethe'alla's existence. The game reveals this fact much earlier, before
the group reaches Luin.
- At the end of the episode, Regal is shown looking up at the sky
near some mountains. In the game, Regal would have still been in prison
at this point.
- At the end of the episode, Presea is shown without a Key Crest.
Although she has one in the game, it is not made from the correct
material.
- In the game, Yuan is very discreet about ever being seen by
Kratos, instead using Botta to indirectly act as he switches the mana
flows in the Desians' Human Ranches; in the OVA, Botta is never seen to
leave the Renegade Base, and Yuan openly shows his face and fights
directly with Cruxis.
- Because Yuan is very clearly defined as an anti-Cruxis element
in the OVA, it is presumable that he has already publicly betrayed
Mithos.
Episode 5Edit
- Zelos Wilder fights Regal Bryant and the bandits on top of the
Cathedral in Meltokio , while in the video game Regal is not introduced
until the party enters the Meltokio Sewers.
- In the animation the party lands in the middle of Meltokio and
are surrounded by Papal Knights, while in the video game the party crash
lands in the Fooji Mountains.
- Colette attempts to perform Judgment in the middle of Meltokio
attempting to destroy the city, while in the video game this never
happened.
- The party goes to Meltokio Palace to speak to king without
sneaking in, the video game storyline provided the party sneaking in
with Presea Combatir.
- Sheena accompanies the party when they meet with the King of
Tethe'alla, Although in the video game she leaves with party to go
report to Mizuho elders.
- The King of Tethe'alla seems to have not to been poisoned like in the video game.
- The events of Sybak are skipped and the party goes to the events in Ozette.
- The party visits the dwarf Altessa in the anime to find a way
to heal Colette, in the game the party visited Altessa to find a way to
heal Presea from the effects of her Exsphere.
- The party meets Presea at Altessa's House instead of meeting her in Meltokio.
- The procedure of Presea getting her Exsphere is more explained in flashbacks.
- The main objective to go to Toize Valley Mine is changed to
find a cure for both Colette and Presea, while in the video game the
party goes there to find a cure for Presea only.
- During the events of the Toize Valley Mine Altessa accompanies the party.
- The party encounters Kratos at the mines, while in the video game this did not happen.
- Due to the fact the party does not meet Yggdrasil at the Tower
of Salvation, the party meets him at the Toize Valle Mines after Lloyd
battles Kratos.
Episode 6Edit
- Zelos fights Regal in front of Altessa's House while Lloyd and the others are at the Toize Valley Mine.
- Flashback scenes are used to explain Regal's past one scene
takes place at Princess Hilda's birthday party to explain young Zelos'
first encounter with Regal, Alicia's time at Altimira, Alicia's murder,
and Regal's court case after killing Alicia Combatir.
- While in the game Regal agreed to help the Pope of Tethe'alla
in order to be set freed, but in the anime he helps the Pope to save a
false Presea from being killed by the Papal Knights.
- The Pope of Tethe'alla has no intentions of killing the King of
Meltokio like in the game, but he plans to kill Zelos in attempt to
take over the church.
- The entire party battles Yggdrasil at the Toize Valley Mine,
but loses when Yggdrasil uses the Time Stop arte on the entire party
except Colette.
- Yggdrasil kidnaps Colette at the Toize Valley Mines, despite
the fact he doesn't kidnap her successfully until the final stages of
the game.
- Sheena finds the Inhibitor Ore and gives it to Lloyd to make a
Key Crest for both Colette and Presea, while she goes to find Colette.
- The events taking place in Meltokio Sewers, Ozette, and Altimira have been fused to take place at Altessa's House.
- Regal meets Presea at Altessa's House instead.
- Vharley has been removed from the story entirely and Rodyle is the one who took Alicia away for Exphere experimentation.
- Presea's father has been buried before the events of the anime,
taking out the scene where the party find him decomposing on his bed.
- Regal reveals that he is Alicia's murderer to Presea after she regains her senses.
- Presea fights Regal to avenge Alicia's murder.
- Regal carries Alicia's Cruxis Crystal a momento, this causes
Alicia spirit to appear before Presea to stop her from killing Regal.
- Yuan and Botta meet Sheena at Mizuho to give her information on where to find Colette.
Episode 7Edit
- The events of of Tethe'alla Renegade Base have been deleted, the Renegades ally themselves with the party.
- Yuan and Botta are with the party during the meeting with Tiga in Mizuho.
- Yuan tells them to make a pact with Volt so they will be able to use the Rheairds. In the game it was Kratos who told them to do this.
- Corrine and Lloyd have conversation about Sheena's past, this did not occur in the game.
- Yuan and Botta occopany the party to the Temple of Lightning, this did not occur in the game.
- Rodyle's Dragon's Nest in the anime is his base of operation, in the orginal game it was the Remote Island Human Ranch.
- Kratos is working with Rodyle, this did not occur since Rodyle was traitor and Kratos was loyal to Mithos.
- During Sheena's flashbacks about meeting Corrine there are certain differences.
- Sheena did not kill the scientists experimenting on Corrine.
- Corrine was not made in Meltokio Elemental Research Institute in the anime.
- During the attack at Dragon's Nest, the Renegades work with the party.
- Yuan and Lloyd are the only ones to get into the base, this did not occur in the game.
The ending to the Tales of Symphonia animation features several of
the game's main characters in a short scene constructed entirely from
clay.
Opening themeEdit
ALMATERIA
Performed by: Eri Kawai
Lyrics: Eri Kawai
Composers: Lunaria
Arranger: Tatsuya Nishiwaki
Ending themeEdit
Negai (願い Negai?, "Wish")
Performed by: Kaori Hikita
Lyrics: tomo
Composers: Tatsuya Nishiwaki
Arranger: Tatsuya Nishiwaki
Insert themeEdit
Uchi e Kaerou (うちへ帰ろう Uchi e Kaerou?, "Let's go home")
Performed by: Nana Mizuki
Lyrics: Ikuko Ebata
Composer: Ikuko Ebata
Arrangers: Toshimichi Isoe and Ikuko Ebata
Opening Theme 2Edit
Tenkuu no Canaria (天空のカナリア Tenkuu no Kanaria?, "Canary in the Sky")
Performed by: Nana Mizuki
Lyrics: Hibiki
Composer: Yuusuke Katou
Arranger: Yuusuke Katou
Ending Theme 2Edit
Inori no Kanata (祈りの彼方 Inori no Kanata?, "Beyond Prayer")
Performed by: Akiko Shikata
Lyrics: Noriko Mitose
Composer: Akiko Shikata
Arranger: Akiko Shikata
