Fire Emblem

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Synonyms: Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム紋章の謎

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 26, 1996 to Apr 26, 1996

Producers: KSS

Licensors: ADV Films

Studios: Studio Fantasia

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Duration: 27 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.68¹ (scored by 6,619 users)

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Ranked: #11137²

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Popularity: #5597

Members: 13,944

Favorites: 42

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The Kingdoms of Dolhr, Grust, and Gra band together to wage war on the rest of the continent Archanea and defeat the Kingdom of Altea. King Cornelius is slain in battle but his son Prince Marth is able to escape the invasion thanks to the sacrifice of his older sister Elice. He and a small group of retainers find refuge on the island nation of Talys, where they spend the next three years in hiding under the royal family's protection.

Marth lives a peaceful life in Talys, enjoying the beauty of the island and the friendship of its pegasus-riding princess, Caeda. But he is uneasy, knowing soon the day will come that he must take up arms. That day arrives when Caeda comes to Marth and his retainers in a panic, telling him that the castle town has been attacked. After some close calls, they manage to defeat the assailants and save the city.

Realizing that his presence may bring further danger to his new home, Marth decides that now is the time to set off. He journeys to raise an army with which to reclaim his kingdom.

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Fire Emblem: Ankokuryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi

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Marth

Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese

Sheeda

Main

Tange, Sakura
Japanese

Gordon

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Dohga

Supporting

Kawazu, Yasuhiko
Japanese

Paola

Supporting

Narrator

Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio
Japanese

Niena

Supporting

Kain

Supporting

Hiyama, Nobuyuki
Japanese

Jeigan

Supporting

Katou, Seizou
Japanese

Nabarl

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
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Misawa, Shin

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Tanaka, Kazuya

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Sakata, Junichi

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Kuroda, Yousuke

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Aug 27, 2014

ktulu007

Recommended

Fire Emblem was a game franchise virtually unknown outside of Japan until Super Smash Brothers Melee came out. That game featured two Fire Emblem characters, Marth and Roy, as playable fighters. Creating an interest in the franchise that was great enough to get the seventh title, Blazing Sword, and most subsequent titles released internationally.

So, why was the franchise only released outside of Japan at that point? My theory is that the games were simply considered too difficult. Yes, Nintendo had a lot of really hard games, some unfairly so. But Fire Emblem is the most difficult franchise developed by Nintendo itself. The games feature ...

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Feb 22, 2009

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With the recent release of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon in English, this OVA is perhaps more relevant than it has been in over a decade. Some quick backstory: in 1990, the first Fire Emblem game was released for the Famicom (and was remade for the Super Famicom in 1994). Since games back then had simpler stories and characters, extra care was taken by Fire Emblem’s creators to make supplemental media to flesh out the game. This OVA wasn’t meant to stand alone or take the place of the game, but to help players understand a little more about what was going on. I’m sure it ...

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Sep 27, 2015

FAKEANIMEGIRL

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I admit it, I was pleasantly surprised at how much better the Fire Emblem anime was than what I was expecting. Short OVA adaptations of existing franchises usually tend to be heavily abridged and amount to little more than a special trailer for the source material. And when the source material comes from Fire Emblem, specifically one of the earliest, simplest games in a series where the storylines are just amusing at best, you would naturally expect no different.

But in a twist, that's not the case. This OVA's creators actually did honor to their source material, adhering to the original storyline while using the new ... format to flesh out the game's scenarios and characters more than the game itself did. Player characters are given more personality and dialogue than they did in the game and are seen interacting with each other and contributing to the anime's adaptations of some of the game's earlier chapters.

There are even parts of this OVA that seem as if they were somehow made for future fans of the series. All characters featured in the OVA are at the very least given brief moments for their own cool stunts and maybe a tough line or two, and we even get to see a fight between Ogma and Nabarl, the first instance of the series's natural rivalry between the Mercenary and Myrmidon classes.

In addition, most of the score contains new orchestral renditions of music from the game, and it sounds just as good as it did on the consoles, if not better. I know for a fact I've never been as much of a fan of the Fire Emblem theme as I was while watching this OVA. The original scores are quite nice as well, and I especially like the tune that plays during each episode's introduction to Akaneia before the Fire Emblem logo appears.

Now, before Fire Emblem fans get too excited, let me clarify that I'm only saying this OVA is good for what it is. It goes above the call of duty for a videogame adaptation, but it's still an adaptation of a fairly generic plot and character archetypes. This isn't a particularly good anime in any general sense, and if it satisfied at all that's entirely due to the fact that it's just mildly appeasing fanservice at its best moments. The OVA also ends far before the game's storyline does, although this does mean we avoid the awkward breakneck pace a lot of videogame adaptations have. The animation and art are completely average for its time, though the framerate is quite nice and Shiida is classic anime cute.

With all that said, the Fire Emblem OVA does an admirable enough job for a videogame adaptation, and it deserves proper credit for doing the fans a service by expanding upon a storyline and its characters when the game itself didn't give much attention to them.

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