HAJIMARI NO KISEKI – Producer comments on the latest game of the series released in Japan.KURO NO KISEKI – First details on the new Trails game coming in 2021 in Japan.With capitalism and everything, anime series nowadays are sadly rarely over 2 cours – 24 to 26 episodes. Depicting several events which were only hinted at thorough the games.
Personally speaking, I’d guess it’ll be a one cour – 10 to 13 episodes series – with an original story. Kondo also explained we’ll see many Thors Military Academy related characters. For example, what happened to certain characters or regions while we were following other events through Rean’s point of view. Kondo said “events, story, and characters” who were not depicted in the games will be depicted in the Trails of Cold Steel anime. Discussing it with the companies involved, instead of directly adapting the series, they decided to focus on stories not shown in the games.
However, Falcom explained that the anime will only use this as base and depict the story of the western part of the Zemuria continent.Ĭomments from Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondoĭuring the stream, Kondo himself said at first they had no idea how to adapt all the games. The official press release states how the Trails of Cold Steel games depict the story of Rean Schwarzer and his comrades, set in the giant military nation of the Erebonian Empire. The Trails in The Sky games also already received an anime adaptation in the past.
Trails of Cold Steel is followed by Hajimari no Kiseki, released in Japan in 2020, and Kuro no Kiseki, coming in Japan in 2021. They follow the Liberl games – Trails in The Sky / Sora no Kiseki, and the Crossbell games – Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki. The games The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I to IV are part of the larger Trails / Kiseki series, and these four games form the third arc in total. Here’s everything revealed on the Trails of Cold Steel anime so far. Falcom celebrated its anniversary on the same day, and the company has been existing since 1981. Nihon Falcom officially announced an anime adaptation of the Trails of Cold Steel series at the Nihon Falcom 40th Anniversary Party stream on March 9.