Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igi Ari!

Really good anime that does the games justice. (Did I really just make that joke?) The music was great, the characters were very entertaining, and the story was extremely engaging. Episode 13 in particular was really heartfelt and shed some light on the Phoenix/Ryuichi's backstory. Highly recommend to fans to the series, as well as newcomers who want to get into Ace Attorney.

It starts out like the first game, where we see a young woman get killed in her own apartment, and the murderer stating he'll pin it on Larry Butz, Phoenix/Ryuichi's best friend. As you may guess, Phoenix must prove Larry's innocence to ... avoid him from being sentenced to prison.

The anime is charming and comical, much like the games, and it really makes being a lawyer look cool as heck (keeping it kid-friendly, I like it).

Overall, great anime with fun mysteries that will keep anyone entertained. 10/10.

The anime is faithful to the game, as far as I've been told, but there's a limit sometime to copy a game into anime. All scenes that were not involving court were nice and would have loved more of it. When they get into the courtroom, nearly everyone should get accused of contempt to court, even the judge. I wasn't expecting Law & Order level of details, but having each prosecutors openly manipulate the judge blew it. Same with the aura-boom blowing people in court kind of get boring after the 2nd episode, not funny anymore. Yet, I've managed to get to the bottom of ... this because the cases were nice.

(Updated 24/9/16 with all episodes seen)

This is a spoiler-free review of Gyakuten Saiban, where the first two games (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All), also known as Gyakuten Saiban 1 and 2 in Japan) has been adapted.

The Ace Attorney series is a big series of games, with the first game released during 2001, and went on to boast a catalog of six main games and four side games. The games, as many fans claimed to be, are a parody of the justice system.

As such, many elements regarding the law in this show could be depicted as inaccurate as ... compared to its real-life counterpart. This show also bears strong supernatural elements, where the spirit channeling technique pretty much becomes the central theme of the story. Keep this in mind that you should not be expecting a fully realistic justice system.

Even so, you will see trials being held in a courtroom, you will have witnesses providing testimonies, with the defense attorney cross-examining them, and you will see evidences and objections being thrown all over the place, with the two opposing sides, prosecutor and defense attorney getting into each others' throats. So it could well be an entertaining ride if you are into this sort of thing.

In the original games, you play as Phoenix Wright (Ryuuichi Naruhodou), a defense attorney whose job is to get his client (the defendant) acquitted, while his opposition, a prosecutor, would aim to get the defendant a guilty verdict instead. The game is mostly split into two parts: 1) An investigation part where you have to gather evidences, as well as clues from relevant people of the case; 2) The trial where you cross-examine the witness and search for contradictions, present evidence to prove why your defendant isn't guilty, as well as finding out the truth and the real culprit.

The anime also works the same way.

For most of the first half of the show, the scriptwriters followed the original script rather closely, but our producers did make more and more changes to make the story flow better. These changes are a hit and miss. Most of these changes are done just to speed up the case, cutting down lots of the mundane stuff, such as making witnesses blurt out highly relevant information at a much quicker rate (you often need to dig hard for them in the games), and investigations are becoming rather short and hastily went through in favor for the trial scenes, which are also sped up to a degree where it could become difficult for anime-only viewers to solve the puzzle themselves, instead everything was revealed before the viewers could actually fully grasp the full extend of the case.

Indeed, pacing is the greatest issue of this show. I believe that anime-only viewers will struggle with the super-quick pacing and might have to pause/rewind various scenes so that they can catch up with the story. In the games, you could slowly browse through the profiles of all the relevant people and all the evidences of the case, slowly piecing them out together to discover the real truth. But here, you will have to think faster as time is always ticking for every episode have a limited airing time. This may prove to be a huge factor in determining the enjoyment value of this show. (Then again, you could pause and rewind the episode, if that is your thing.)

Moving on to the art department, which is the weakest point of this show. The character models aren't really drawn well if you compare them to their original game counterparts. Phoenix (Naruhodou) has overly emphasized lightning eyebrows, Maya (Mayoi) is obviously moe-fied, Detective Gumshoe (Itonokogiri) always appear in varying sizes, sometimes plump sometimes malnourished, etc etc. Animation at most times, stiff and minimal. 3D-CG was also utilized poorly, most evident from the grotesque audience of the court. The art may scare viewers away at the first few episodes, for they are, sad to say, really poor. The art gets better during the latter half, but still pretty below-par according to modern standards.

Sound-wise, I'd say Kaji Yuki portrayed Phoenix pretty well, the oomph when he yelled out "Objection"! ("Igi Ari!") was there, and his performance was pretty consistent throughout the show. The other characters have voices fitting to their roles, which is really nice to hear, as most of them do not have a voice in the games. For the soundtrack, various themes from the games are remixed and inserted in various scenes, however, I feel that the soundtrack list is too short, for there aren't many songs in the show, as well as some scenes did not have the right music at the right time.

The good thing about anime adaptations, is that you get to flesh out the characters a lot more as compared to the game. The games are known to have a penchant of quirky characters, and A-1 Pictures did well in preserving these quirks, at the same time amplifying them sufficiently to give these characters more depth.

So, is Gyakuten Saiban worth watching? This is a tough one, for I am left a little disappointed at the latter half of the show, seeing how they changed so many things, mostly for the worse. Admittedly, as a fan of the series, I have been waiting for an adaptation, and the show is great advertisement for viewers to check out the games, which, I guarantee, will be very worth your time, for they have really good storylines, great characters and it is quite satisfying seeing how the case unravels itself. Therefore, if you like, you could come over and watch this, even better if you decided to skip the show and go for the games instead.

I could wrap up this review in one sentence: 'what did you do to poor Phoenix?!' Okay one more: 'this anime was terribad'!

I guess it's not easy to do decent anime based on two games. Games that takes about 65 hours to beat them. But on the other side I loved Persona 4 anime, and to beat game you need over 100 hours.


I will start with acceptable things (don't confuse them with good!). Animation was goo... decent. Sometimes I wanted to pluck my eyes off but well Maya looked nice. If we would change Franziska's lips I believe it would fix her weird looks too. ... And hmmm characters looked kinda like the ones in game. But all the time I had feeling that they are weird and creepy! Bodies looked awkward. Dunno maybe it is me.

So let's look at Voice Actors. They did decent job but I just didn't like Phoenix's voice. Same goes for more characters. But that is just my opinion as you know in game we could hear only few words 'objection' and 'hold it'. But that was the thing that made Phoenix Wright the game awesome. It fit in this game style and I really always was feeling like shouting with him while pointing my finger like idiot at my console.

What else made the games so good? Soundtrack. Making you feel the mood. And we can hear poor versions of them in anime. And it is not even used properly! Yes they messed it up! While in game you felt fired up with 'cross-examination theme' in anime... eh I guess they used it somewhere? Music was building suspense but anime didn't provide it at all. Etcetera etcetera.

And you know what? That was the 'not worst part of anime'. Really!
Story. They showed sketch of intriguing and sucking in stories. And in anime we couldn't feel it at all. Shortened into absolute minimum, skipping factors that made the twists work so well left us with pile of s... ah no swearing. Sorry but I really was pissed off when I watched this and saw what they did to plot. Where was the investigation that made us think 'what the hell really happened here'. Where were some barely visible clues? Skipped!
Instead of dialogue that built the plot we got exposition! To be honest it reminded me of reading the checklist. 1. Phoenix talks to cop, 2. Phoenix finds out something (skip it, we will show it in point 4 or 5). You get the idea.

You still don't believe it was terrible experience watching this anime? Okay so let's look at characters. We don't get any development! For example my least favorite one: Larry Butz. It is hard to say if he has any personality. At the beginning we see Phoenix save him in the court, we get a little, tiny piece of explanation that he is quite immature guy. While in game we got his goofy character clearly showed to us here even that didn't work.
Also how usually we develop characters? Through story. And while story was bad you know what that mean. Next example: Miles Edgeworth. The DL-6 Case was his nightmare and we saved him, we 'killed' that nightmare. In anime it is barely mentioned! And we don't get how he hurt Phoenix when he ran away. Ah wait we got information about this in one of the last episodes! No build up for his come back, no nothing. And I could talk about this for hours writing way more but it's waste of time.

And watching it was waste of time! Do not watch this until you are really bored or want to see something very very very bad!

Story: 2/10 (not 1/10 because at least they showed all cases)
Art: 4/10
Sound: 4/10
Character: 1/10
Enjoyment: 2/10
Overall: 2/10

The animation and art style just- well, as a giant fan of the orginial games, and after knowing how good this could've been, (the anime cutscenes in games 5 and 6), it just makes me sad.

The story is top-notch, as we had that in the games. The characters are likeable and relatable, and are properly portrayed by their japanese voice actors.

The animation gets a bit better once we get to the Justice for All arc (especially for 6 seconds of the opening...the Turnabout Big Top animation there was just, *shivers*). However, it just doesn't accurately portray the art style of its source material, and less ... said about the animation itself, the better.

However, if you're an ace attorney fan, I HIGHLY recommend watching this. There are some filler episodes that delve into the backstories of the characters, plus, a cute doggo uwu-

Overall, this show satisfies my need for Ace Attorney to have some new publicity. Hopefully, if you watch it, you'll want to continue not because of the art, but because of how riveting the story is.

*MINOR SPOILERS, NOT TOO BAD*
6/10
As someone who is a very big Ace Attorney fan, I was very surprised to hear that people were so disappointed in this anime adaptation of the first game. The first time I saw it, I personally thought it to be an enjoyable experience overall. However, I do have to admit that it went on the Persona 5 route when it came to artwork and design.

The soundtrack, on the other hand, is pretty great. Thankfully, they're not just re-using the low-quality GBA/DS samples for the soundtrack and actually have put in the tiniest amount of effort to remaster certain tracks. Pursuit ... and Objection are my favorites, although I really like what they did with DL-6 and the Steel Samurai theme. Also, there are brand-new tracks that usually match up to the standards of the originals, and these were great. I really liked the orchestral feel of the soundtrack.

The story is virtually the same as the games, but cramming in the first and second games into a mere 24 episodes definitely hurt the experience. I would not recommend anyone to watch the Ace Attorney anime before playing the games. The amount of aspects cut-out in place of really strange additions was too much for me. You could point a gun to my head and I still wouldn't be able to tell you why Maya goes to the Prosecutor's Office to obtain the DL-6 pistol and bullet and why Larry disguises himself as Edgey. The changes truly hurt the experience. Also, as is to be expected with a format change from a videogame to an anime, major events are less impactful and emotional.

Disclaimer: I did watch the dub instead of sub because that's how I like experiencing media that I began in one language. The English voice actors were really good at certain points, though you cannot get me to like Helium Maya. Maximillion Galactica, Edgeworth, Gumshoe, among others are some of my favorites. I did see a few clips of the JP version, and I personally do not like how high-pitched Phoenix's voice is. Maya sounds way cuter, at least.

If you don't have enough time to replay the games, watch the anime. It's good for experiencing the games once more if you don't really care about getting the full experience.

(sorry if this review is bad, this is my first one)

Gyakuten Saiban is a fine anime, but really is intended for those that have played the games. I would not recommend it to those that have not.

My only real problem with the show is the editing. There are some short scenes throughout the series that make no sense in the context of the show and seem to only be there because they were in the game. For example, there was an episode where they showed a person as if they were examined but were never talked to in the show. There's one scene where it looks like a person fell in paint or something but ... with no context. In another, they show a quick scene from one of the mini games in the series, which they had never done before. Honestly, if you had not played these games, these scenes would make no sense.

Aside from that, I have enjoyed the series, but I have played every game twice. They do a good job at portraying the characters in the game and I really like the music. Overall, I think it is decent anime but only if you are familiar with the first two games.

I am of the opinion that this is an anime that can be appreciated only and only if you have played the video games from which it takes its cue. As fans of the latter, I can say that this anime has faithfully taken over and adapted the vast majority of the details of the first two video games. I greatly appreciated the way they were rendered, being well aware of the difficulties that these can create by wanting to transfer them into an anime. Very few details are missing, which is why I feel satisfied overall. I can't wait to see the second season.

Another guilty pleasure!

So first; it's probably better to play the game, if you've got the time.

Second, if you're looking for an all-around good anime, this ain't it.

However! If you're looking for for some trial madness, this certainly is it! Well, I haven't found many alternatives, but there you go. :P

The main reason I enjoyed this show, was just to witness how ridiculous the trials and murder cases were, as well as the continuous last-second objections and epic finger pointing. If you like that kind of stuff as a one-off, you may very well enjoy it, too. ^^

BUT! From a critical pov, I can't call it ... good. The audio is good here and there (tho so is the game). The visuals are mostly underwhelming, with a few rare good shots (lots of repetition also). The characters are somewhat cliche and bland. Edgeworth pulls a Sasuke and Maia is a typical anime woman.

Easy fix: try the first few trial! If you like it, you may just enjoy the ride. If not, that's okay too, and on you go. :)

First off, let me make it clear that I'm a huge Ace Attorney fan. The games are all very dear to me, and the first three are, in my opinion, especially spectacular. This anime covers the events of the first two games.

So, first, let's talk presentation. I quite like the background music, it's pretty fitting and the main theme is super catchy. Some of the court themes are a little underwhelming, but overall I'd say the music does its job pretty well. Both the OPs and one of the EDs are very idoly - if you like idol music, you'll probably like them. If you ... don't, then you probably won't. The other ED is a (in my opinion) very nice pop ballad. Cool.

So, the character design. I actually think the characters generally look pretty visually appealing. They all look pretty similar if not identical to how they look in the games. Well, when they're not moving. Unfortunately, the animation is not so good. The characters are nearly always horribly off model. Not in a good KonoSuba way, in a "this anime was far too rushed and lacking a decent budget" kind of way. The animations aren't nice looking or interesting, they're just dull and bad. Also, side note, the background characters' faces in this show look hideous. I get that they're going to look as good as the foreground characters - that would be pointless - but they just look appalling in this, sometimes even to the point of being distracting. When the faces in your show look distractingly bad, that's when there's a problem.

There are also some strange changes to the story. I should note first though that there were always going to have to be some changes when adapting this series to anime. I understand this. Some changes were actually really good. Having screens in court to replace the game's UI works really well. That was a good change. On the other hand, sometimes certain characters were replaced with other ones for no reason whatsoever. It doesn't improve the show in any way, and just serves to confuse fans of the games. It's not like it ruined the show or anything, it just seemed super weird and unnecessary. Oh well.

But now I want to talk about what I believe to be the real problem with this anime is. The reason fans of the games and newcomers alike found it to be pretty "meh". These games just don't work very well in a non-interactive medium. The whole joy of the Ace Attorney series comes from that "aha!" moment when you finally find a lie in a witness's testimony, when you discover a damning piece of evidence, and when you nail a killer. The whole satisfaction of these moments is YOU working it out, and that just doesn't really work as an anime. Sure, it can still be interesting to find out who did it and how in the anime, but the real satisfaction, the thing that made the series as successful as it is, comes from the interactivity of the game medium.

So I think this anime wasn't awful. It had many enjoyable moments, and there are aspects that I really do like about it. But in somes ways, it never could have lived up the the heights of the games for me, and I think for many others too. It can be an interesting companion to the games, and I enjoyed seeing the stories I loved animated on screen, but as a stand alone series, I'm afraid that this anime was, in my opinion, a failure.

Nevertheless, I look forward to the next season. Maybe the animation will be better. I hope so.

If you watch this before playing the games, ur killing ur chances to experiment the amazing masterpiece Ace Attorney (AA) is, so pls, start with the games!!
You only have to play the first one to be able to watch this anime!

"Why is the anime so bad?": It's NOT bad, is just that.... not even counting the immersion u get by playing the games and finding the truth by yourself.... the anime is just too short to be as good as the games. The character development, the scenarios, everything just in just 12 episodes of 20~ minutes is not even close to be enough! On anime ... there's just seconds to watch some places, almost no time to watch closely each evidence, each person, each scenario, each crime scene.... no time to think either. That totally ruins Ace Attorney.

If it helps you to trust this random u know nothing about (or not whatever), let me tell you I played....

- AA1,2,4: More than 7 times each start to finish not skiping any case or text.
- AA3: 12 times already, and thinking about replaying it soon (best one!).
- AA5,6: Twice each not skiping anything (Unpopular opinion maybe but almost as good as AA3).
- AA Investigations 1,2: First twice, 2nd once. These are spin offs btw.
- Layton/AA crossover: Just once.

I also played every Android version of the games once.


PD: I know, I'm insane playing a game (specially a visual novel wich has no gameplay-reason to replay it) that many times hahah But that also shows how good AA is and how much I love it, so I really don't want anyone to kill their AA experience by watching first the anime!

Thanks to a good friend of mine, she convinced me to try out the Ace Attorney series again after not finishing it for years. AA is a great series altogether, even with some hiccups here and there. And of course, much like with most video games, there's bound to be an anime adaptation to follow. I've already discussed my distain with the Persona 5 anime last year, so I guess you could day that my expectations for this one wasn't very high. With that said, while I don't think this is a better alternative to the games, I do think this is a pretty decent ... adaptation, albeit with some caveats along the way.

Story: A straightforward plot based on the games, but Ace Attorney focuses on defense attorney Phoenix Wright who became a defense lawyer to protect those who were wrongfully accused. During these trials though, he bites off more than he can chew when he realizes the courtroom is much more than just a guess who scenario. There's tons of reveals and secrets that I do not want to spoil here since it's heavily required to play the games to understand what I am talking about. Besides that, it's mostly fine for what it is. Obviously, there are cuts to shorten the episodes, but I don't find it as irritating here especially when it comes between the fluff that the games have at times. One of the biggest examples is...*sigh* Big Top Turnabout. While I do not like this case, I thought it wasn't as obnoxious here than in the games because of how fast it went, only clocking in around 3 parts (thank God) and getting rid of some annoying sub plots. Overall, a decent adapted plot, but not anything mind blowing. 6/10

Characters: Again, as an adaptation from the games. the characters mostly remains the same way as they were. None of them were untouched or shifted in terms of personality. With that said, if we're going based off of the games, most of these characters are great. And in the anime, they do try their best to give these characters more depth. It's good. 7/10

Art: Now THIS is where the anime really shines. It's animation. I heard horror stories about how poorly animated the show was. What's crazy is that it was done by the same studio behind Fairy Tale and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. So I have to ask, what happened here? It's NOT as bad as others point it out to be, but I won't lie when I say that the HD sprites in the PW: AA trilogy looked better than this. And I don't even like the HD sprites all that much. In close to the characters, the animation looks fine. But when they're far away, it's so funny to look at. Especially with the eyes. Not that good in my opinion. 5/10

Sound: The soundtrack is mostly just renditions of the original soundtrack. I love the game's soundtrack. It's so good. and the anime does the games justice with these good tracks. The English dub is fine for what it is. I seriously thought it was Sam Riegel who was playing Phoenix only to find out that it wasn't. But still Eric Vale did a good job playing as the main character. 7/10

Enjoyment and Verdict: In contrast to the Persona 5 anime, this adaptation is fine for what it is. I personally prefer you play the games over watching the anime any time of the week, but the anime isn't bad. I don't think every AA fan will love this anime, but it does a decent job of following the footsteps of the games, even if there are some sacrifices (though some of them are DEFINITELY necessary). It's fine. 6/10

I played the game and I watched adaptation in the hopes it would be a similar experience. Of course I knew some things would differ, but small details are not my concern. A skip here or there, avoiding pointless dialogue, that would be ok.

However the entire anime was rushed. Instead of translating a single game into a single season, two games were merged. 2 cases were entirely skipped, one major, many facts have been hidden or changed. It was annoying to say the least. But this was bearable untill the very last case in which everything was changed, characters, story, facts, even ending. For what? ... The anime even had audacity to make references to the case it didn’t show as was the case of blue badger.

My verdict is clear. Not only the game is better, the anime is simply not an adaptation, but an author version. Don’t play the game, because it’s a game, play it, because it’s the true story and not a fake one like here.

Other than that I really enjoyed audiovisual layer, although I watched dubbed since everyone plays game in English.

When looking at Gyakuten Saiban, to be honest, I was never really sure what to think of him. On the one hand, the plot around the court and this whole search for evidence and speculation was quite interesting even if the implementation is terrible.. On the other hand, the anime, really had properties that I kept thinking to myself "Why are you doing this?"

There were about 5 different cases that were worked out quite well and could be maintained over a period of 2-3-4 and even up to 5 episodes. . The characters weren't really bleak either, they had more human traits and were easier ... to understand. Extreme exaggeration was lacking here, but it was not entirely out of the question.


Unfortunately, the anime also had an urge to ridicule some of its cases. For example, that everything is set up properly and there is no resolution for a case. In the scenario, it is simply pushed over the table with some excuse, which has nothing to do with the actual events, only to bring an end to the case. See e.g. spoiler


Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is not enough evidence to defeat the perpetrator in court and he walks off the field confidently since there was no longer a target. But then a person comes up from the realm of the dead and throws a note on his head, in which the names of his blackmailed politicians are written and he suddenly confesses everything?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something like that is of course just disappointing when you consider that 4 episodes were used to build this interesting case, just to insert such an ending. The same applies to some others.

Most of the time, the appropriate reasons were simply missing. The structure and implementation of the cases were interesting, but they almost never managed to come to a useful end and somehow put everything together. There are also plenty of parodies on YouTube that convert these shortcomings into amusing gags.

The thing with the spiritual stuff and the summoning of spirits was just completely inappropriate.
Just like the character of the protagonists constantly giving up at the end of a case and dropping everything, just so that someone tells you not to give up and suddenly he no longer gives up. This property was also quite troublesome, especially since it wasn't just that
had a unique appearance. I also found the point that the characters were able to fire a kind of shock wave by hitting the wound point of a statement. It was weird but kinda funny after all.

I don't want to start talking about the judge in the courtroom. I really don't know how he got his job. I had the feeling he didn't even understand why he was there in the first place.




Story:


The Main Story was missing the "red thread". It was a series of successive cases that occurred over a longer period of time. In other words, there was no real plot after all.

There were certainly changes, characters came and went and relationships changed slightly, but there was nothing more behind the action.

As interesting as the cases were, they only told their own short story without any connections expect for the first case.

Animation / pictures:


I don't know what to make of the animations. These were quite close to falling well below the average.

These animations corresponded roughly to the level of the actual game, but the effort was hardly comparable to any other work.

Also, the characters rarely had to move, which means that there were hardly any animations regarding the movement apart from the "objection".

Characters:


The characters were a little more satisfactory.

The protagonist Ryuuichi was a typical clumsy and idealist. He tried to help people in the name of justice and to go his own way. His personality was not particularly sophisticated and can be summed up well with the above two words. He also had no real change in the anime, which means that he simply remained the same person from start to finish.

Mayoi was the typical innocent good girl who was allowed to be in the courtroom for an unknown reason. Apart from that,she was a medium that could come into contact with the dead. About her personality there is to say that she was very excited, a fan girl for different superheroes and is often hyperactive. She hadn't gone through any remarkable changes and remained the same.

Reiji, on the other hand, was already a bit deeper character than these two. He had a slight change in his character and was also dealt with a little more. His personality was very calm, cold and cool, even if he was often upset about surprises.

Music:


The musical performance in the intro was just average, and the endings were nothing special. There was one or the other useful East, but there was very little choice either. You can clearly see that not too much effort has been put into the work.

My conclusion

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This anime is a double-edged sword. On the one hand he had cases of interesting structure and the characters were not a disaster, on the other hand the cases were closed quite laughably and the actual story was often ridiculed. If you had put more effort into this work, it would have had potential to become very interesting.

Until the end, i really wonder if the Games are actually better.

I'm on the last couple of episodes, and this show is about as mediocre as I was expecting going in. My expectations were on the floor, and it managed to meet that much at the very least. (It's my automatic reposnce to knowing A-1 Pictures was the studio behind it.)

I have played the games. Which means I noticed where they changed the events. Some changes were really annyoing (the removal of big character building moments/heartfelt scenes). But I do love what they did for Big Top Turnabout and it's actually one of the better sets of episodes in my opinion. (Which I am really greatful ... for cause that is my least favourite case in the trilogy.) They also added new scenes and more background for the Phoenix-Edgeworth-Larry dynamic that I actually really enjoyed. So there's a balanace of nice and not nice changes from the source material.

I watched the dub. I normally avoid dubs at all costs, but because I knew this was going to be something not worth my full attention, I put on the dub so I can multitask with it on. And I think that's what made my experiance more tolerable. If I had to give it my full attention I would have given up within a couple of episodes as the animation is nothing interesting to actually look at. The amount of times I glanced over and fully paid attention, only to think "what the-" at the animation. I'd be amazed if there isn't a compilation video of that weird jank.
Oh, and the voice acting and dialog was as cringe as I was expecting. ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

Otherwise, it's just a condensed recap. So the only real audience I can imagine this is for, is people who don't want to play the games nor watch a Let's Play but want to know what happens story wise or as a recap. I'd reccomened a Let's Play over this, but understand that is probably a bigger time sink. So I guess if you just want filler anime to space out to, here you go?

The story and characters are interesting, knowing that I enjoy playing the game.

However, the anime itself is horrible.

The animation overall and the animation of the characters in particular is more like a step motion animation: it's horrible.

The colours and overall quality are horrible, it seems as if this is a fan made anime to be honest and not even a student project.

The flow of the story also seems little bit rushed as if something is omitted alrhough honestly can't recall the story in the game very well.

This deserves to be remade hopefully ...but I can see it being adapted into a Korean ... TV series based on the context.

I fucking love Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney. The original GBA trilogy is GOATed, some of the best video games of all time so damn good. They're on PC, consoles and handheld platforms remastered, I recommend playing them ASAP. This anime honestly isn't that. It's decent, and if you're an Ace Attorney fan you shouldn't miss it. But it takes the spark of the original series and does it a mid-job.

Obviously a key problem is that the story designed for a Nintendo GBA game isn't necessarily going to translate well to anime form. Some of the most satisfying moments when playing the first two games ... (the games this one adapts) are figuring out a key piece of evidence through deep thought. Sometimes your own "genius" shocks you when playing the game lol, but this isn't the case when watching the anime obviously. It's comical to say but in this series Phoenix seems way more competent than he does in the original games. Being kinda clueless but just going with whatever bluff he can make up adds to the humour of the original series, but those key moments of wit and frankly genius on the a part of Wright make for an interesting and well rounded character. This element doesn't completely fail in the adaptations but again, it just doesn't have the same spark. Figuring out an objection and having Phoenix scream object, without that damned background music playing anymore, was ample evidence that you had just kicked ass and found a contradiction. Such a satisfying thing. But I digress.

It's a decently enjoyable show. The suspense isn't really there so the extent I would like it to be, it was way more enjoyable in the games. The story is paced well enough, with longer cases in the games being adapted over more episodes. It is a tad faster than it should be however, they fixed this in the second season. A key issue I have is how this show handles tone. There are some pretty serious moments in the original DS games, but this adaptation seems to gloss them over like they're no big deal. It's true that Phoenix and Maya were often light-hearted towards pretty dark things in the games but this anime takes it to a new level. The animation style just seems kinda generic, the intro songs are meh in my opinion as well. I guess I liked how the potential romance thingy between Phoenix and Maya was explored a little more here, even if comedically. Just my inner shipper I suppose.

Ehh pretty mediocre show, but occasionally the great elements of the original games shine. 6/10.

Now, to set the scene. I love these games, the original trilogy is among some of my favourite games ever released and I think that the rest of the series is also really good. I didn't go into this anime expecting to like it, I also wanted to watch the english dub so i could hear the names of the characters that I actually knew instead of the original names. To say i find the english dub the most entertaining part of this show is an understatement since they make it so much funnier.
That aside, this show just proves that some games cannot be made ... into anime, it just drags out things that went by instantly in the games and it doesn't do it well.
It's a good anime to have in the background while doing something else, but that's about it. Play the games instead or listen to the bloopers for the English dub, they're infinitely more entertaining than the show

First I want to disclose the fact that I have not played any of the ace attorney games nor have I seen any part of the playthroughs. My only interaction with the games was through the memes, so I cannot comment on the anime's adaptation of the game. From what I have heard it was adapted quite poorly.

That being said, the anime as a standalone piece of entertainment is pretty good. While a large part of every arc is pretty slow and not that interesting, the anime's intense moments in court scenes and the excellent choice of music in them more than make up ... for it.

The arcs are in the most part only a few episodes long, which is a good thing in this case, as the majority of time in every arc is spent gathering clues for the case. When the court cases get towards the end you get rewarded handsomely for sticking to it. The intense interactions make you cheer for the protagonist with all your heart.

Overall the Ace attorney anime is pretty slow, easy going and very uplifting/cheerful. I consider it a nice mix of slice of life and action anime. It's perfect for when you want to relax and want to watch a few episodes (IMO best to watch an arc in one sitting, that being 3-4 episodes).

If you are looking for an intense action packed story or a morally ambiguous anime this is most likely not what you are looking for, but it is a nice and wholesome change of pace to soothe your heart.

Well... to put it simply, it's a mix between "uuurgh!", "hm..." and "what the hell?!"

I don't know the game series, but I guess there the characters had at least a bit of a mysterious or interesting feeling. But here every character so far is so much simplifield, it's hard to take the plot serious. There is no tension like "Did he/sehe tell the truth?" or "Wow! Didn't saw that comig!" Instead everything is just so obvious and it's like the show doesn't even want you to think about the cases.
On top of that, most of the characters so far behave like cartoonish morons, unable to ... see any contradiction until someone says so.

Also,if you know at least a little bit about lawsuits, you can already see mistakes for example how evidences are used, especially when they are new, or the ludicrous arguments used sometimes. And, oh, did I tell you about the outlandish behaviour of the most of the characters so far?

To keep it short, if you're interested in at least somehow realistic lawsuits inside anime, better watch some episodes of Detective Conan. But if you're not interested in characters you can take serious or if it doesn't bother you that everything is obvious, this anime is at least a guilty pleasure.