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114-550: Satō was given freedom by the video game series' executive director  Katsuhiro Harada to write the film, which led him to the idea of Blood Vengeance being a buddy film by two female characters from different generations of video games. Tekken: Blood Vengeance was released in the United States by Bandai Entertainment on July 26, 2011, and in Australia on July 27, 2011, in a special exclusive one-off screening. It

228-506: A PlayStation 3 console will allow owners to also play an HD version of the original Tekken Tag Tournament , which was originally released in the arcades in 1999 and for PlayStation 2 in 2000, as well as a demo version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 . A 3D version of the movie was made available in Tekken 3D: Prime Edition for the Nintendo 3DS . It is the first film to be released for

342-535: A Chinese student, Ling Xiaoyu to act as a spy, while Jin sends humanoid Russian AI robot Alisa Bosconovitch for a similar purpose. During their investigation, Xiaoyu and Alisa form a friendship, unaware that the other is working for their enemy, although they are forced to turn against one another when Shin is captured by an unknown assailant. It is here that Alisa is revealed to be a cyborg - although Alisa believes she possesses human qualities after she spares Xiaoyu's life. After coming to terms with each other, Xiaoyu

456-466: A Japanese voice track in Japan, and an English voice track elsewhere. Advent Children began as a short film by Visual Works , a company used by Square to develop CGI scenes for their video games, based on Final Fantasy VII . Kazushige Nojima , who had written the script for the game, was brought on to write a 20-minute script. He decided to write "a story about Cloud and Tifa and the kids". The film

570-424: A Smile at the same time that Advent Children Complete was released. The DVD releases of Advent Children sold over 410,000 copies in Japan during their first week on sale, with roughly half of the sales coming from the limited edition. The DVD and UMD releases combined sold over 700,000 units in Japan in the first three weeks and over one million copies by January 2006. In a 2005 Oricon Japanese sales report,

684-475: A Smile short story series. A director's cut of the film, entitled Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete was released on the Blu-ray format. The new edition of the film was released in Japan on April 16, 2009. A separate version was sold that included a demo of Final Fantasy XIII . Both editions included the first HD trailers of Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII , though

798-494: A blast by an explosive planted by Reno and Rude. Cloud chases Kadaj down and engages him in battle, ultimately subduing him. Outmatched, Kadaj opens Jenova's box and fuses with its contents, transforming into Sephiroth. He tells Cloud he will use the souls of Geostigma's deceased victims to dominate the Planet. He and Cloud then fight; throughout the encounter, Sephiroth appears to have the upper hand and ultimately impales him through

912-529: A bonus character. By 2019, Harada had been promoted to lead the fighting game esports division of Bandai Namco, as well as to being a general manager at the company overall. Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a 2005 Japanese adult animated science fantasy action-adventure film directed by Tetsuya Nomura , written by Kazushige Nojima , and produced by Yoshinori Kitase and Shinji Hashimoto . Developed by Visual Works and Square Enix , Advent Children

1026-434: A copy of the script, the original Final Fantasy VII game, a strategy guidebook for the game, and a disc containing the original video animation (OVA) Last Order: Final Fantasy VII . Nomura stated that meaning of the name Advent Pieces was that "advent" means "the recognition and commemoration of something", while "pieces" was added to bring special meaning to the release. A special one-time-only theatrical screening of

1140-438: A courier service and are the caretakers of an orphan Denzel and the adopted daughter of Barret Wallace , Marlene . Out of guilt for failing to save Aerith Gainsborough , Cloud has recently moved out and isolated himself from his friends. The story also portrays that many people, including Cloud and Denzel, are infected with a mysterious and incurable disease known as "Geostigma". Cloud is contacted through Tifa and summoned to

1254-424: A different take from his relatives. Meanwhile, according to Satō, Kazuya represents the "core" of the franchise, finding his antagonism and strength as a charm for the plot. Kazuya's actor also liked how his character stands up as a villain. In contrast to the games, the film uses more facial expressions as it helps them humanize. In the final scenes, the sight of Alisa, bruised and wrecked, summoning her final strength

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1368-490: A few Chinese language courses, albeit finding it very difficult. After graduating from university, he joined Namco to become a promoter. His parents were initially unhappy with his pursuit in a career with the video game industry, but have since accepted him in his work. During his first year working in the Namco arcade, Harada surpassed the sales record two months in a row, and subsequently received an award of commendation from

1482-529: A future challenge. The film ends with Alisa and Xiaoyu back at their school's festival, with the pair planning to enter the next King of Iron Fist Tournament . Development of the movie started in January 2010. Namco 's Tekken team has wanted to do a 3D movie after the creation of the CG opening for Tekken 6 ' s scenario campaign. Katsuhiro Harada elaborates the success of Tekken 3 as by that installment,

1596-445: A game. Still, Nomura decided against it, partially because Visual Works had no experience making a full game. The creators had no prior experience working on films, so they fell back on their knowledge of in-game movies . The film was planned to focus on the characters of Cloud and Tifa in a similar way to how other titles from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII centered on certain characters; for example, Before Crisis focuses on

1710-606: A higher visual quality than the original release, is 26 minutes longer than the film's original cut, and contains roughly one thousand revised scenes. Themes expanded in Advent Children Complete include Cloud's development, Denzel's background, and a more in-depth view of the Turks and Rufus Shinra. The film's staff wanted to add links to the other titles in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII released since

1824-470: A massive explosion that engulfs the three. Cloud has visions of his deceased friends Aerith and Zack Fair , who say that his time to join them has not yet come. He then awakens in the church, healed of his injuries and surrounded by his friends. Behind them, he sees the spirits of Aerith and Zack, smiling at him before departing to the afterlife. Aerith says to Cloud, "You see, everything's all right". He agrees: "I know. I'm not alone... not anymore". Cloud and

1938-659: A meeting with the Shinra Company's former president Rufus Shinra , who was presumed dead in Final Fantasy VII . Rufus asks for Cloud's help to stop Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo , who are the physical manifestation of Sephiroth's surviving spirit and seek to resurrect him using the remains of the extraterrestrial villain Jenova . Cloud refuses to help and leaves. Meanwhile, Kadaj and his colleagues are recruiting children infected with Geostigma, and Denzel falls in with

2052-409: A new audience. The film also heavily uses motion actors for the fight scenes which surprised Harada. Kensuke Sonomura was in charge of all fight scenes with Satō wanting the fights to be exclusive to the franchise. There was a heavy focus in the film encounter between Jin, Kazuya and Heihachi as it was more challenging than common one-on-one battles. The setting was intentionally made to be enjoyed across

2166-411: A result often sneaked into arcade centres, where he would occasionally be discovered and dragged out. He worked hard and ended up securing a place at Waseda University . He has studied judo , karate and a little bit of taekwondo in the past. He attended Waseda University along with Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki and holds a degree in psychology . During his university studies, he took

2280-463: A sharply negative review, described the plot as "soulless" and "utterly impenetrable" to anyone who had not played the game, and Anime News Network's Santos agreed that people who had not played Final Fantasy VII would not understand the story. Mania Entertainment's John Eriani also found the plot confusing to non-players, though he liked how the characters were further explored in the film. Todd Douglass Jr. from DVD Talk , while "highly recommending"

2394-555: A similar fashion to Final Fantasy VII gamers since the story ended with Cloud saving Midgar from Sephiroth's resurrection which would threaten it again especially when the spirit of Zack Fair reminds him that he has already defeated him already. Kotaku saw the focus on the Midgar's ruins as a parallelism with psychological trauma due to how all of its survivors suffer a disease that cannot be fought with Cloud's striking weaponry on its own. The director's cut, Advent Children Complete ,

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2508-558: Is a 2-disc set that contains several bonus features, including Last Order . Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (Limited Edition Collector's Set) was released in North America on February 20, 2007. The set included more bonus material than the previous DVD releases, including a copy of the script, several postcards with imagery from the film, and the first three stories from the On the Way to

2622-524: Is a Japanese game director and producer for Bandai Namco Entertainment . He is best known for his work with the fighting game series Tekken . Harada was born in Osaka , Japan, and grew up within the Nara Prefecture region. He later moved to Tokyo , Japan. During his childhood, video games were viewed with a great deal of suspicion in Japan. His parents would not buy him a home console, and as

2736-566: Is abandoned by Anna and G Corporation, and the two girls flee from their previous organizations, taking refuge in their teacher, Lee Chaolan 's mansion. Xiaoyu and Alisa eventually discover genetic experiments had been done on Shin and his classmates, and believe that the Mishima family is seeking Shin, the sole survivor, and M gene subject, for his immortality. The pair discover that this had in fact, been an elaborate plan engineered by Heihachi Mishima , who used Shin to lure Kazuya and Jin and get

2850-489: Is distanced as much as possible from that film. "That doesn't have anything to do with it this time," Harada insisted. "We're not trying to rewrite those wrongs. Fans are always asking us for a 3D movie. This is our response to them... We want to make a movie that everyone can enjoy, though. Not just Tekken fans." On July 23, 2011, Namco Bandai previewed Tekken: Blood Vengeance at Comic-Con with writer Satō, and voice actresses Carrie Keranen and Cristina Vee as guests. It

2964-522: Is known within the fanbase for his sense of humor, such as his comical rivalry with former Street Fighter producer (producer from 2008-2020), Yoshinori Ono , jokes around the character Leo Kliesen in Tekken 6 because of their ambiguous gender, and for attending EVO 2017 in a shirt that read "Don't Ask Me for Shit". Harada is also a member of Project Soul (the team behind the Soulcalibur franchise) and makes an appearance in Soulcalibur V as

3078-548: Is part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series of media, which is based in the world and continuity of the 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII . Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was released on DVD and Universal Media Disc with Japanese voice acting in Japan on September 14, 2005, and on April 25, 2006 with English voice acting in North America and the UK. Advent Children takes place two years after

3192-450: Is saved by the arrival of his old comrade Vincent Valentine . Cloud then returns to the city, where Kadaj has summoned Bahamut SIN and other monsters to terrorize the population. With the help of his companions, Cloud engages and defeats the monsters. Kadaj confronts Rufus Shinra, who reveals he possesses Jenova's remains. He attempts to destroy it, but Kadaj saves it and flees the city with his companions, with Yazoo and Loz being caught in

3306-564: The Digital Frontier famous for developing the film Resident Evil Degeneration . That allowed Namco film and continue to work on our games. Namco was already associated with Digital Frontier during Tekken 5 and they had helped with making the CGI scenes for both the game and Tekken 6 . Harada wanted Blood Vengeance to emulate the success of Degeneration as well the game adaptation film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children , remarking

3420-410: The music video for the song "Sonata of Temptation" by Korean singer Ivy recreated the fight between Tifa and Loz. The director of the video, Hong Jung-ho, stated that it was just a parody of the film but could not get Square Enix's official permission. That December, Square Enix launched a lawsuit against Fantom Entertainment (Ivy's agency) and Hong, asking for ₩ 160,000,000 total. In April 2008,

3534-414: The 3DS. Tekken: Blood Vengeance has received mixed reviews with many comparing it to Tekken: The Motion Picture and the 2009 live-action film . IGN 's Steven Hooper claimed that despite pacing issues, the plot is benefitted from appealing fight sequences and stylish CGI. The fight scenes were generally praised by critics. PALGN ' s agreed, also enjoying the story. Engadget 's Eric Kaoili found

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3648-582: The Blu-ray was #2 on the American Nielsen VideoScan Blu-ray bestseller list, with 274,774 units sold. During 2009, the regular version of Advent Children Complete sold 49,000 units in Japan according to Oricon, ranking second in their category "Animation/Special Effects Blu-ray Discs". It ranked eighth in the category "Overall Blu-ray Discs, by Yen" with 310 million yen (US$ 3.4 million) sold in 2009. Gaming sites Gamasutra and Kotaku cited Advent Children Complete as one of

3762-606: The DVD was at the tenth spot. As of June 2006, the DVD and UMD releases combined sold over 2.4 million units worldwide, with 1 million units sold in Japan, 1.3 million in North America, and 100,000 in Europe. By May 2009, just before the release of Advent Children Complete , the film had sold over 4.1 million copies across all versions. On its first day of release, over 100,000 Blu-ray copies of Advent Children Complete were sold in Japan across all three versions. During its initial week,

3876-622: The Devil Gene. After Heihachi disposes of Shin, he, Kazuya and Jin engage in a triple threat brawl. During the fight, Kazuya and Jin become their devil forms. Ultimately, Jin is the victor, utilizing his devil powers. Heihachi then unleashes the ancient spirits of the Mokujins and a final fist burst by Alisa leaves Mokujin Heihachi open. Jin finishes him off, by an eye blast which slices it in half. Jin then leaves, telling Xiaoyu that he awaits

3990-704: The English version of the film took place on April 3, 2006, at the Arclight Theatre in Los Angeles . The event was promoted via email to those who subscribed to the Square Enix mailing list . The screening included trailers of the video games Kingdom Hearts II and Dirge of Cerberus , and featured appearances from the English language cast and the Japanese developers. The film's DVD release

4104-579: The Mishimas and the Williams was noted to be the highlight of the franchise who the heroines explore. Satō always wanted the story to be set around the conflict between the Mishimas though explored from another point of view. In order to make it more unique, the story was given a school feeling based on Satō's preferences as well as how relatable it can be. Satō had been a fan of the Tekken games and played

4218-568: The Seoul District Court ruled that the video was considered plagiarism and ordered Fantom Entertainment and Hong to pay the fine. The video was subsequently banned from airing on Korean television . OverClocked ReMix 's four-disc Final Fantasy VII unofficial tribute album , Voices of the Lifestream , contains one disc remixing music from the film. Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has stated that he felt

4332-467: The Tekken series, worked on the video that combines intense action and deep storytelling. Mizushima, who worked on the production, said, "When I saw the finish of that video, I was convinced that it would be a movie. Rather, I wanted to see a feature-length movie by this staff." Satō read the plot created by the game version staff, but while referring to them, he wrote a completely new original story to attrat

4446-403: The Turks, Crisis Core on Zack Fair, and Dirge of Cerberus on Vincent. Nomura says the film was, in its first manifestation, only going to be 20 minutes long. The original story featured someone requesting a message to be sent to Cloud; the message is relayed to Cloud through several children. When the message finally reaches Cloud, it is revealed who the messenger is. Nomura very much liked

4560-404: The Way to a Smile story, "Case of Barrett", involves Barret and his struggles to find a new energy source for the world's people. To coincide with the release of Advent Children Complete in 2009, four more stories were written: "Case of Red XIII", "Case of Yuffie", "Case of Shinra", and "Case of Lifestream - Black & White". All the stories were released together as a book titled On the Way to

4674-411: The action sequences, and Felperin of Variety felt they were the only point to the film, which they felt focused entirely on the technical aspects of the action. The music received mixed reviews; Eriani of Mania Entertainment heavily praised it, as did Santos of Anime News Network, but 1UP.com's Mielke called it "a bit sappy". Douglass Jr. from DVD Talk concluded that Advent Children "is pretty much

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4788-429: The air, mirroring the scene in the game where he performs the same action. During the same year, Advent Children Complete was released in North America on June 2, and in the UK on July 27. The North American and European versions come with a new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII rather than a demo. The releases in all regions also feature an animated piece entitled "On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel", as well as

4902-534: The arcade version of the third installment as part of research. As he discussed the handling of these leads with Harada, Satō claims he wanted to use these characters since they come across as weak, something which he believes films require in order to undergo a character arc, common in coming-of-age story stories. Alisa in particular appealed to him because of how different she made the franchise from other fighting game series. A new character named Shin Kamiya appears in

5016-411: The audience give a different impression from the game in order to attract more people to watch the movie. The role producer was given to Yoshinari Mizushima (水島能成) who has worked in the franchise since Tekken 2 , while storyboard artists include Tensai Okamura , Shinji Higuchi , Masayuki Miyaji , Soichi Masui, and Kazuyoshi Katayama . The film was envisioned as an alternative story that happens between

5130-577: The country. The DVD ranked a "surprise" #2 during its first week on the American Nielsen VideoScan sales charts after being released in North America. Nielsen's "Top Selling Anime Releases of 2006" report had Advent Children ranked first, and the 2006 report by the Japan External Trade Organization also ranked the film as the best-selling Japanese anime DVD in the United States. In the 2007 list,

5244-688: The end of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII , as the staff still had more ideas, it marked "the end of the Advent Children saga" as there would be no more re-releases or extended versions. Later, Advent Children Complete was released in Ultra HD Blu-ray on June 8, 2021 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment . Last Order: Final Fantasy VII is an original video animation directed by Morio Asaka , written by Kazuhiko Inukai, and animated by Madhouse . It depicts an alternate rendition of two flashbacks found within Final Fantasy VII . It

5358-501: The events leading up to his becoming afflicted with Geostigma, and how he came under the care of Tifa and Cloud. "Case of Denzel" was adapted into On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel , a short OVA animated by A-1 Pictures and directed by Shinji Ishihara , that was released with Advent Children Complete . The second short story, "Case of Tifa", is Tifa's account of the events following Meteor's destruction and her life with Cloud, overlapping in part with Denzel's story. A third On

5472-521: The events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 , begins with Anna Williams setting up a decoy for her sister, Nina Williams , who is currently working with the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Jin Kazama . Anna, on the other hand, works for Jin's father, Kazuya Mishima and its rival organization, G Corporation. Both are seeking information about a student named Shin Kamiya , and Anna dispatches

5586-453: The events of Final Fantasy VII and focuses on the appearance of a trio that kidnaps children infected with an unexplained disease called Geostigma. Final Fantasy VII hero Cloud Strife , suffering from the same disease, goes to rescue the children. He discovers that the trio plan to resurrect Sephiroth using the remains of the extraterrestrial villain Jenova, and he and his compatriots from

5700-445: The events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 . In regards to the voice acting, Harada explained that a new one was created due to the differences the movie has with the games; In the latest games every character spoke their own language and understood each other regardless of difference. The film was given two languages: Japanese and English. As a result, several new actors performed the roles of the returning characters. The role of Ling Xiaoyu

5814-472: The events of the 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII , during which the antagonist Sephiroth attempted to absorb the Lifestream, the lifeblood and soul of the Planet, and be reborn as a god. He was defeated by Cloud Strife and his companions , but his final spell, Meteor, destroyed the city of Midgar . Since the end of the game, the survivors of Midgar founded the new city of Edge, where Cloud and his childhood friend Tifa Lockhart now run

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5928-438: The expansion of Cloud's battle against Sephiroth. Douglass also found the addition of On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel to be a welcome edition, though he felt that the bonus features as a whole were underwhelming, belying the "Complete" title. Yoon of Joystiq thought that the new scenes helped give more depth to Cloud's development, to the point of "humanizing" him, though he felt the change in pacing for some scenes made

6042-429: The fashion of eye-candy in contrast to the main characters. Mizushima says that he also wanted to give the story a suspense tone through Shin's side. The team worked to provide several elements including action, comedy, drama among others. Satō described it as a "female buddy film" as he wanted to have more characters than just the Mishima conflict from the games. Additionally, the writer wanted it to be accessible. Xiaoyu

6156-419: The film "pleasing" felt the video player was "garbage". Capsule Monsters praised its campy humor like Shin talking about his body while being naked or Alisa's crush but felt the ending was too forced as the two protagonists are overshadowed by Jin, Kazuya and Heihachi. Spong felt that the fight between the Mishimas was hilarious due to how brutal it was while other elements of the movie made it enjoyable to see for

6270-444: The film an "A−", said the quality and clarity of the CG visuals were "genuinely amazing". Anime News Network writer Carlo Santos praised the animation while awarding the film a "B", calling it "outstanding". About.com 's Roger Altizer, while giving the film overall 2 and a half stars out of 5, cited the visuals as one of its few positive points. The film's plot was generally criticized as confusing; Leslie Felperin of Variety , in

6384-451: The film arrangements cover a variety of musical styles, including orchestral , choral , classical piano , and rock music ; Variety noted that the styles vary between "sparse piano noodlings, pop-metal thrashings, and cloying power ballads". The 2005 soundtrack album Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Original Soundtrack collects 26 tracks of music from the film on two discs. Square Enix published it on September 28, 2005. In addition to

6498-589: The film showed "battles that have not been achievable in FF so far", and so tried to design the battle system for Final Fantasy XIII to create cinematic battles like the film. Cloud's design from the film is available as an alternate costume for Cloud in the crossover fighting games Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate . The reveal trailer for Sephiroth as downloadable content in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate recreates

6612-420: The film that fans all over the world have been waiting for"; RPGamer's Beckett said that "the film feels very much like a love letter to the fans of Final Fantasy VII "; and IGN's Carle summed up the film as "glorious, beautiful, well-executed fan service". Destructoid noted there was a message within the writing of the film regarding the characters' lives in Midgar, leading them to move on with their lives in

6726-413: The film's children, as they represent the "next generation". The music of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children was composed by Nobuo Uematsu , Keiji Kawamori, Kenichiro Fukui , and Tsuyoshi Sekito , and arranged by Fukui, Sekito, Kawamori, Shirō Hamaguchi , and Kazuhiko Toyama . Nomura would make some changes and have the composers re-record the piece upon hearing each track. The end theme, "Calling",

6840-477: The film's release, Square Enix serialized the web novel "On the Way to a Smile" written by Kazushige Nojima on the Japanese Advent Children website on September 5, 2005, which was later released with "Episode: Tifa" by Shueisha in a 118-page book about the film's story titled Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Prologue Book on September 14, 2005. On September 8, 2005, Square Enix premiered

6954-452: The film, praised Cloud's character development in particular. About.com 's Altizer summarized the plot and dialogue as "weak", and IGN 's Chris Carle, in their 9 out of 10 reviews, felt that the plot was just an excuse to get to the next action sequence. The story digest "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII ", included with the DVD to explain the plot of Final Fantasy VII , was described by Anime News Network's Santos as "just as confusing as

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7068-429: The film. This version of the film included a new ending theme, "Safe and Sound", by Kyosuke Himuro and My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way . "Water" was replaced with a new song—"Anxious Heart". Tracks on the album included new versions of "The Chase of Highway", "Fight On!", "Sign", "Advent: One-Winged Angel", and "On the Way to a Smile". A larger album, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete: Reunion Tracks ,

7182-436: The first story, "Case of Denzel", was released in a serialized form on the official Japanese Advent Children website. "Case of Denzel" is told indirectly from the perspective of Denzel, who has requested an interview with Reeve Tuesti in the hopes that he may become part of Reeve's newly formed World Regenesis Organization, an army devoted to rebuilding the Planet. Denzel tells his life story, including how he became an orphan,

7296-531: The former as a direct-to-DVD film. The first trailer for the film was featured in the international version of the video game Final Fantasy X-2 , released in February 2004. The trailer used a motion capture that was altered in the final film. Advent Children was initially scheduled for a September 13, 2005 release in North America and a September 14 in Japan, but the North American release date

7410-484: The game fight to stop them. The film's voice acting cast includes Takahiro Sakurai , Ayumi Ito , and Toshiyuki Morikawa in Japanese, and Steve Burton , Rachael Leigh Cook , and George Newbern in English. An extended version, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete , was released on Blu-ray Disc in 2009, adding 26 minutes of new and expanded scenes to the 101-minute original. It has received mixed reviews; critics praised its animation and CGI , but criticized

7524-486: The game to his more realistic appearance in the film. The difficulties in making Sephiroth led the staff to reduce his appearances in the film. It took them two years to develop and refine his look. Nozue also had difficulty developing a framework for Tifa's body that was "balanced, yet showed off her feminine qualities". Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo were designed to be a manifestations of Sephiroth's spirit—his cruelty, strength , and allure respectively. In contrast to Sephiroth,

7638-536: The group after being attracted by their promises of a cure. Loz follows Tifa and Marlene to Aerith's church, where they are searching for Cloud, and attacks them. Tifa is knocked unconscious in the fight, and Loz kidnaps Marlene. The abducted children are taken to the ruins of the Forgotten City, where Kadaj embraces them as brethren and announces his intention for them to be reunited with Jenova. When Cloud arrives to rescue them, Kadaj's gang overpowers him, but he

7752-484: The heroines of the story was a new point of view that Harada had not thought of and thus find the result very interesting to follow. Satō said in 2011 that he had chosen her as one of the two lead characters because he felt Alisa is "the face of the franchise's future". Meanwhile, Xiaoyu "symbolize[d] the older Tekken games". Alisa and Xiaoyu were inspired by heroines movies in common in Hollywood. The family drama between

7866-481: The main reasons why sales of the PlayStation 3 video game console radically increased during the film's first week of release. Advent Children has received mixed reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film received an approval rating of 50% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The computer-animated graphics were generally praised; 1UP.com 's James Mielke, who awarded

7980-669: The movie in Japan at Virgin Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo. Following the premiere, from September 10 to September 16, Square Enix screened the movie at Virgin Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Toho Cinemas Nagoya Bay City in Nagoya, and Toho Cinemas Nijou in Kyoto. The movie screened once per day at 6:30 p.m.. In order to view the movie, fans had to receive an invite from Square Enix by already being registered to

8094-467: The movie in order to provide a reason to feature Heihachi Mishima and further explore the lore behind the Devil Gene. Shin was written to die early in the movie on purpose to show the dangers of the Gene as it could only be used by Jin and Kazuya. Heihachi's transformation into a giant monster was also an idea written by Satō to produce something unique. The Williams sisters and Kazuya and Jin were added more in

8208-440: The movie" and of no help in explaining the plot to anyone who had not already played the game, though Carle of IGN felt it was helpful to those who had not played the game in a while. The action scenes were generally praised. RPGamer's Michael Beckett, while giving the film a 4 out of 5, lauded the film's fighting scenes, calling them "mesmerizing" and the primary focus of the film. Anime News Network's Santos also heavily praised

8322-430: The multiple fanbases Tekken has worldwide. When the project began, Harada originally wanted all the characters to make an appearance. However, due to need of screentime, the movie would have lacked any coherent narrative as a result. This led to the usage of fewer characters. In the games Harada says the story primarily focuses on the rivalries in the Mishima clan. However, Satō's usage faces Xiaoyu and Alisa Bosconovitch

8436-501: The official "Shinra Company" online fan club on Square Enix's website. In 2006, SoftBank Creative published a guidebook entitled Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Reunion Files , which contains interviews with the film's staff and information regarding the development of the film. A limited edition of the film titled Final Fantasy VII Advent Pieces was released in Japan simultaneously as Advent Children ; only 77,777 sets were produced. The edition contains various pieces of merchandise,

8550-402: The original film. This version has more violence, specifically blood during the fights, as the staff wanted to bring a "dirtier" look to the film, with characters' faces and clothes getting darker and dirtier throughout the battles. Additionally, the fight between Cloud and Sephiroth was expanded by several minutes and included a scene in which Sephiroth impales Cloud on his sword and holds him in

8664-415: The original script, and it became the foundation of the final version. He decided to make the project longer and grander in scope when the early word of the film generated great interest among Final Fantasy VII fans, most of whom wanted something feature-length. The film's length was expanded to 100 minutes. Takeshi Nozue and Nomura, who had first worked together on the video game Kingdom Hearts , split

8778-486: The plot as being incomprehensible to viewers who did not play Final Fantasy VII and having a thin connection between action scenes. The film received the "Maria Award" at the Sitges Film Festival in 2005 and the "Best Anime Feature" at the 2007 American Anime Awards . The original release was one of the best-selling animated films in Japan and the United States in its release year. The Complete release

8892-583: The plot hard to follow. Kotaku writer AJ Glasser, however, summed up the director's cut as "26 extra minutes and it still doesn't make any sense", saying that the new scenes did little to improve the plot of the film itself. Advent Children received the Honorary Maria Award at the Sitges Film Festival on October 15, 2005. The film was also awarded "best anime feature" at the 2007 American Anime Awards . IGN placed it second in their "Top 10 Straight-to-DVD Animated Movies" list. In 2007,

9006-481: The president of Namco. Thanks to the award, Harada now had a platform to approach the management and request that they move him into game development. Towards the end of the first year at Namco, they gave him a position on the first Tekken title. He voiced Forest Law in Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament , Marshall Law from Tekken until Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection , Yoshimitsu from Tekken until Tekken Tag Tournament and Kunimitsu in Tekken . He

9120-462: The quality of animation too. Director Yōichi Mōri said CG facial animations contain a lot of information, so he was worried about the post-recording. He wanted the visuals to illustrate the characters' personalities properly. Mōri requested Takayuki Takeya, who is famous designing Devilman and Kamen Rider , to redesign the Devils featured in the game to give a more "sinister yet beautiful" design

9234-492: The regular edition of the DVD ranked twelfth on the bestseller list in Japan for the entire year after one week of sales, and the limited edition ranked fifteenth. The two editions ranked third and fourth on the animated feature sublist. The English language DVD sold over 960,000 units, which translated to almost US$ 15 million in revenue by the fifth week of release. In the United States, it sold over 832,000 copies by May 2006, and eventually grossed over US$ 58 million in DVD sales in

9348-612: The regular release, a limited edition was produced containing alternative cover art and a booklet of credits and lyrics. The soundtrack album reached position #15 on the Japanese Oricon music charts and stayed on the charts for ten weeks. A mini-album entitled Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete Mini Album was released on April 10, 2009, to coincide with the release of the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete version of

9462-408: The role of directing, as Nomura felt this would add depth to the film. In designing the battle scenes, they first discussed the setting and layout. They then went to the staff with their ideas, deciding which were the best and developing them further. The battle between Cloud's group and Bahamut was the most difficult to design due to the size of the area and the number of objects the staff had to add to

9576-417: The scene to keep it realistic. The alternating positions of the characters, including Bahamut itself, took the staff a long time to complete to give the scene a sense of flow. Nomura said that the team decided not to worry about making the fight sequences realistic, as they felt this would restrict their ability to give the film a "cool look". Therefore, they worked by creating their "own rules". Motion capture

9690-680: The second annual International 3D Awards Lumiere Japan, where all four films won the Movie Award. The film also won the International Jury Prize (Japan) at the International 3D Society's fourth annual 3D Creative Arts Awards. According to Anime News Network , the film has been popular in the United Kingdom based on sales from 2012, taking third place behind Arrietty and Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys . Shin

9804-441: The series. Should a sequel be done, Satō expressed a desire to use Asuka Kazama and Lili as the new leading duo especially because the latter comes across as "versatile". Digital Frontier got more experienced with the handling of the visuals with Blood Vengeance which led to an easier development for Resident Evil Damnation . Katsuhiro Harada Katsuhiro Harada ( 原田 勝弘 , Harada Katsuhiro , born June 10, 1970)

9918-522: The shoulder. He asks Cloud to tell him what he most cherishes so that he can have the pleasure of taking it away. Cloud replies that he cherishes everything and then uses his Limit Break, Omnislash Ver. 5, to defeat Sephiroth. Sephiroth's spirit departs, leaving behind the mortally wounded Kadaj. As he lies dying in Cloud's arms, a healing rain starts falling across the land, curing the people of their Geostigma. Yazoo and Loz appear and confront Cloud; setting off

10032-454: The sick children celebrate by bathing in the rainwater. During the credits, Cloud is seen driving his motorcycle to parts unknown. Advent Children Complete adds a new post-credit scene where Zack's Buster Sword is seen in Aerith's church while flowers from the church are seen blooming at the location of Zack's last stand, having been placed there by Cloud. Advent Children was released with

10146-444: The soundtrack. Despite the heavy focus on violence, Sakimoto was asked by the director to make the music more fitting for Xiaoyu and Alisa's friendship which led to a lighter tone. Harada was surprised by the final product due to his changed impression of the two heroines as they came across filled with more emotions. Basiscape includes other composers such as Yoshimi Kudo, Masaharu Iwata, Kimihiro Abe among others. The official soundtrack

10260-660: The story digests "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII " and "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII Compilation ". The Japanese and English voice actors returned to record additional dialogues for the new and expanded scenes. Nomura said that they had no major problems with this process, noting that Sakurai and Morikawa were already used to their characters from voicing them in other media. However, some child characters, most notably Denzel and Marlene, had to be recast and have all their lines re-recorded. The original performers' voices now sounded more mature in both languages. Nomura has stated that while Advent Children Complete did not represent

10374-417: The team was able to create CGI scenes for every character as well as how fans demanded to know more of the cast. Namco could have probably made a CGI movie 15 years before the release because the studio already had the technique and the talent to do it. But it needed a lot of computing power and above all a lot of time and financial resources, so Namco preferred to focus on video games. It is the association with

10488-413: The theme of the film as "survival". Other themes Nomura and Nojima were concerned to include Cloud's feelings of guilt and regret for failing to save his friends Zack and Aerith. These feelings are symbolized by a grey wolf that appears whenever Cloud thinks about them. The wolf disappears at the end of the film as Cloud comes to terms with his feelings. The word "children" was used in the title to refer to

10602-589: The third edition without the extra videos or demos was also released. On April 11 and 12, days before Advent Children Complete ' s release, Square Enix held four special screenings of Advent Children Complete at the Ginza Sony Building in Tokyo. There were 800 seats available to those who reserved the Blu-ray or the PlayStation 3 bundle at the Square Enix e-store and were Square Enix's online website members. Advent Children Complete has

10716-487: The trio was meant to be younger than Cloud, to focus on the "next generation" theme. By October 2003, the film was 10% complete; while the script was written, not all the characters were designed. Nomura felt that Advent Children differed from Hollywood films , where the meaning of most scenes tends to be explained. However, with Advent Children , the staff wanted viewers to interpret the scenes individually, allowing them to come to different conclusions. Nojima described

10830-453: The unintentionally comedy caused by the film's attempt to write generate drama. The two leads and Shin were the subject of mixed responses as being unimportant in comparison to the Mishima crudge. Capsule Monsters criticized how Xiaoyu loses importance in the movie in the climax when the Mishimas start fighting. Nevertheless, he still found earlier scenes about her search for Shin Kamiya alongside Alisa to be hilarious in an accidental way. Spong

10944-412: The video game Tekken 3D: Prime Edition . The film was praised for its visuals and fight sequences, but criticized for its short length and few characters who have little impact in the story. Nevertheless, the film attracted Western audiences upon release. It was often considered as one of the best adaptations based on the video game series. The plot, which takes place in an alternate storyline between

11058-400: Was Yōichi Mōri. With these staff members, Harada was confident the movie would be successful. In the film adaptation process, the staff imagined the opening movie for the scenario campaign mode included in the consumer version of Tekken 6 released in 2009. With the new character Lars Alexanderson as the main character, the game version staff including Katsuhiro Harada, the project director of

11172-405: Was also screened in the United Kingdom during 2011. The film was released in both Blu-ray and DVD formats on November 22, 2011, in North America, in Blu-ray format on December 1, 2011, in Japan, and in DVD format on December 22, 2011, in Japan. The Blu-ray 2D/3D version was released as a Hybrid Disc , known as Tekken Hybrid. Whilst the film can be played on any Blu-ray player, running the disc on

11286-421: Was developed as a part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII , a set of different media content intended to expand upon the world of Final Fantasy VII . Square's research and development department worked with Visual Works on the piece, and Tetsuya Nomura joined the crew after VII ' s director Yoshinori Kitase called him. Early in pre-production, the team thought about making Advent Children into

11400-461: Was generally praised over the original version. Joystiq 's Andrew Yoon found Advent Children Complete a better film, feeling it was more accessible to people who had not played Final Fantasy VII . Blu-ray.com's Dustin Somner called it "a nice improvement on an entertaining film", and DVD Talk's Todd Douglass Jr. said it was "the best version of the film" due to its audio quality, the new scenes, and

11514-429: Was given to veteran voice actress, Maaya Sakamoto . Mōri enjoyed Sakamoto's performance, believing her work turned Xiaoyu into a beautiful woman while also noting how Mamoru Miyano gave Shin an air of mystery. Harada provided input when it came to action scenes, sound and mouse. Dai Satō is the screenplayer who was chosen by Harada to bring a more creative scenario, thus leading Satō to have more freedom. The director

11628-436: Was influenced by Terminator 2 and Aliens . This scene was storyboarded by Shinji Higuchi much to Satō's joy as it was his favorite. The music of the film was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto alongside fellow composers from Basiscape. As the staff felt that Tekken feels more like a live action film rather than an anime, composer Hitoshi Sakimoto was requested to make the music Hollywood-like. Orchestral pieces were used for

11742-561: Was little focus on them and there is no solution to their rivalry similar to the Mishimas. Dread Central criticized the overuse of the Devil Gene subplot, while comparing Jin and Kazuya's transformations to the series Devilman which leads to a Godzilla -like fight scene in the climax when Heihachi combines with the Mokujins. The Japanese Committee of the International 3D Society honored Tekken: Blood Vengeance along with Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64 , Kaibutsu-kun and Sadako 3D at

11856-415: Was more negative, criticizing her adventure which started Alisa's character arc which came across as fanservice such as one where Xiaoyu is nearly naked in company of her. In a more general overview, Cheat Code Central felt the entire movie was fanservice as the subplot of the Mishima family has no impact in the series. Dread Central also criticized the subplot involving the two Williams sisters, claiming there

11970-549: Was noted as driving a large increase in sales of the PlayStation 3 console in its release week. By May 2009, the DVD and Universal Media Disc releases had sold over 4.1 million copies worldwide. Advent Children (the Complete version) returned to Japanese theaters from January 19, 2024 to February 1, 2024, and returned to stateside theaters on February 21, 2024, to promote the launch of the video game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth . Advent Children takes place two years following

12084-479: Was one of the proposed character concepts as a playable character in Tekken Revolution . The developer found it difficult to make him as a playable character due to his lack of knowledge in martial arts and the fact that he died in the film he appeared in, although there was an idea to make him an immortal character. In retrospect, Harada believes the film lives up to the requests fans used to make about

12198-604: Was originally released in Japan on the Advent Pieces DVD, on September 14, 2005. It was released in North America in the Limited Edition Collector's Set on February 20, 2007 and in Europe on November 6, 2008. There is currently no English dub for the film, and the North America and Europe versions are subtitled. On the Way to a Smile is a series of short stories between Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children . Written by Kazushige Nojima,

12312-506: Was pushed back several times. It was first moved to November, then to January 2006, and finally scheduled for April 25 for release on DVD and Universal Media Discs for the PlayStation Portable . In 2004, Panasonic produced the Japanese exclusive FOMA P900iV cell phone identical to the one Cloud uses in the movie; the phone contained several features related to Advent Children such as wallpapers and ringtones . Before

12426-457: Was released in Japan on September 3, 2011, by Namco Pictures. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc (included on the disc of the video game collection Tekken Hybrid ) in the United States on November 22, 2011, and in Japan on December 1, 2011. The 2D version of the film was also released as a standalone DVD on November 22, 2011, in the US, and December 22, 2011, in Japan. It was later included with

12540-663: Was released on July 27, 2011, on the Namco Sounds label for the Digital Edition and Basiscape Records for the CD Edition. The film was initially announced at Namco's "LevelUp" event in Dubai on May 5, 2011. A trailer premiered at the event and also was posted online shortly after. Harada has been very clear that this movie is not related to the 2009 live-action film and is doing whatever he can to ensure this project

12654-521: Was released with 21 tracks on September 16 the same year. This album contains the tracks from the mini-album and several lengthened pieces for the Complete film version but not rearranged. Reunion Tracks appeared on the Oricon charts for a single week at position #108. Advent Children and the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series were first announced at the 2003 Tokyo Game Show in September,

12768-447: Was used for many of the film's battle scenes; maneuvers that were not physically possible for live actors to perform were constructed digitally. While designing the characters, the staff discovered that it was impossible to translate the Final Fantasy VII designs into the film. Thus some identifying characteristics had to be discarded. Cloud's redesign was a combination of eight different designs, from his super deformed appearance in

12882-408: Was written and performed by former Boøwy vocalist Kyosuke Himuro . The soundtrack includes both pieces original to the film and arrangements of works from Final Fantasy VII , originally composed by Uematsu. Some of the arrangements, including "Advent: One-Winged Angel", are performed by The Black Mages , a rock band formed by Uematsu, Fukui, and Sekito. Both the pieces are original to the film, and

12996-421: Was written to be relatable to the audience and balance the more supernatural elements in the process. Xiaoyu's relationship with Alisa was made so that the latter develops a "soul" as the film progresses. This surprised her own voice actress not only due to her design but how much of a bigger role she had. In regards to the Mishima feud, Satō describes them as horrible people but wanted to give Jin's characterization

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