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Mar 26, 2022 8:51 AM

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I've said this elsewhere, but what armour she's wearing gives me a similar vibe to Jaeger uniforms... which makes perfect sense for a North Ambrian as that's pretty much the only option the country had to sustain an economy after the Salt Pale.

Mar 26, 2022 9:07 AM

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This looks bad.

Original twitter pic looks good though.

Mar 26, 2022 9:27 AM

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Kernal_ said:
This looks bad.

Original twitter pic looks good though.

...Ah, I see the edit now. Goddamnit why. Here's the original tweet, so you can see how she's supposed to look

Mar 26, 2022 6:30 PM

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On one hand, I'm glad Rean isn't going to be the MC. Rean-fatigue is real. On the other, I kind of miss him, but that's just the Stockholm Syndrome talking, haha...

Mar 26, 2022 7:40 PM

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so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).
What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

Mar 26, 2022 9:20 PM

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Bobbelbeat said:
so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).

Story is about the Erebonian annexation of North Ambria, which takes place over the course of two weeks, in between CS2 and CS3.

27 years prior to the story, the Kingdom of North Ambria was almost completely destroyed. A giant tower made up of salt, called "the Salt Pale" suddenly appeared, and rained salt down upon the kingdom. Any living being that was touched by the salt disintegrated into salt. IIRC 2/3rds of the populace died. The royal family fled. The crisis only ended when the Salt Pale mysteriously vanished (probably an agent of the Church teleporting it into a Pokeball or something and then chucking it into their vault beneath Arteria). However, the country had been utterly ruined (in addition to the population loss and the destruction of the government, the sheer amount of salt probably made North Ambria an infertile, desolate land). Since the royal family fled, people despised them so the monarchy was not restored. In order for men to bring home the bacon to their families, they wound up forming a mercenary corps called the Northern Jaegers, and hired themselves out to fight in foreign conflicts.

Fast forward to the present day. The Erebonian Civil War happens. Erebonia is an empire on North Ambria's southern border. The leader of the one of the Noble factions in the civil war, Duke Cayenne, hired the Northern Jaegers as mercenaries, and ordered them to burn a town called Celdic. In CS2 the damage is negligible, with just one guy dying and a few stalls being destroyed, but CS3 retcons this to massive death and destruction and refugee trains.

The Imperials eventually won the Civil War. Their leader, Chancellor Osborne, then used the burning of Celdic as an excuse to annex North Ambria. He demanded reparations from North Ambria for the burning of Celdic, but ofcourse North Ambria is poor and the government declined to pay them, so Osborne used this as an excuse to annex North Ambria knowing that they couldn't/wouldn't pay anyway. (Osborne apparently has a long history of annexing nations on Erebonia's borders, but the one and only country we had heard of was Jurai. Apparently there were a lot of offscreen territories that were never named... but I digress).

The war takes place over the course of two weeks. The remaining Noble Alliance forces, led by Generals Aurelia and Wallace, lead the Erebonian invasion (because that was Osborne's condition for pardoning them). The invasion force doesn't reach the capital of Haliask until like the last two or three days. The protagonist of the Cold Steel games, Rean Schwarzer, organized an attempt to evacuate Haliask. On the last day he see the Northern Jaegers releasing killer robots (given to them by the supervillain organization, Ouroboros) onto their own people.

Since the anime is going to be set from the perspective of a Northern Jaeger, it sounds like the set up for a tragedy as she's probably going to see almost all of her comrades killed, her family slaughtered in the capital, and her country annexed, but I somehow doubt that will happen as Trails pussies out on having a grim tone or meaningful death in the present day, and modern anime as well.

What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

For Trails fans, it will be nice to see what North Ambria looks like, as at this point it is unlikely to ever be visited in the games. It would also be nice to get a story set from the perspective of a mercenary for hire, which has been a popular idea as the premise for a Trails game. Also, Rean will show up towards the end, and Rean is the most popular Trails character, so there's fanservice.

For non-Trails fans, it will hopefully be a gritty war anime and provide that Gundam-IBO style tragedy, and maybe get people interested in the series.

Nov 17, 2022 4:05 AM

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Additional casts
Winter 2023
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PV 2
OP: "The story so far" by Chisato Akita (MIT GATHERING)
Airing on Sundays at 23:30 (11:30 p.m.) JST via Tokyo MX, followed by AT-X and BS12 TwellV starting January 8, 2023. DMM TV will also stream it on January 6, 2023.
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1670063821

New Visual
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Nov 17, 2022 4:55 AM

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So we're getting the CS2 outfits again. Fits the timeframe and it'd be nice to see pre-instructor Rean again before my full-series replay. (Because yes, I do intend to do a full-series replay once Azure is officially out in the west)

Nov 17, 2022 11:06 AM

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Amazing design! Thanks! I wait for this series to start airing!

Dec 18, 2022 9:04 PM

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Bobbelbeat said:
so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).
What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

I heard from someone who played this franchise that you have to play 6 games before watching this.
3 games from Sora no Kiseki and Cold Steel I II and III.

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Dec 19, 2022 12:11 AM

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xkazutox said:

Bobbelbeat said:
so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).
What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

I heard from someone who played this franchise that you have to play 6 games before watching this.
3 games from Sora no Kiseki and Cold Steel I II and III.

Technically, you just only need Cold Steel 1 and 2. No need for other 5 games before which is Trails in the Sky trilogy and Crossbell duology. This anime basically set up between Cold Steel 2 and 3, which can be consider that you have been spoiled on certain contents but needless to day, from what official says, it should be okay for newcomers as it only touch a bit of what can be taken from games.

>What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?

Basically everyone who interested in it, both players and non-players/newcomers/anime viewers. This anime touch upon an event that to us players have no knowledge about. We do only know bits and outcome of this event so other than that our knowledge is the same as non-players/newcomers/anime viewers knowledge.

Dec 22, 2022 1:33 PM

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xkazutox said:

Bobbelbeat said:
so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).
What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

I heard from someone who played this franchise that you have to play 6 games before watching this.
3 games from Sora no Kiseki and Cold Steel I II and III.

The Trails fandom is full of cultists who fixate on the most inconsequential things. No, you do not need to have played every single game. I would strongly advise against it. The franchise never payoffs on the long term storylines it set up early on. Play each game for its own individual merits. If one game looks appealing to you because of its aesthetics or music or battle system or characters, then just go ahead and play that game. Don't play 8 games that don't appeal to you because a random person on the internet said you had to in order to enjoy some anime that you actually wanted to watch in the first place.

On it's own merits, I'm not sure if this show will be too good. Art and animation look meh. Story might be good if it's not written by Falcom. Trails fans are curious to see the new country the show is set in since it as it was described as an interesting place by NPCs, but was never explored in the games and it is unlikely it ever will be.

Dec 29, 2022 7:33 PM

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Valyrian1124 said:

Bobbelbeat said:
so this is going to be a original story? i thought it takes place after cold steel 2 and before 3 (during the timeskip).

Story is about the Erebonian annexation of North Ambria, which takes place over the course of two weeks, in between CS2 and CS3.

27 years prior to the story, the Kingdom of North Ambria was almost completely destroyed. A giant tower made up of salt, called "the Salt Pale" suddenly appeared, and rained salt down upon the kingdom. Any living being that was touched by the salt disintegrated into salt. IIRC 2/3rds of the populace died. The royal family fled. The crisis only ended when the Salt Pale mysteriously vanished (probably an agent of the Church teleporting it into a Pokeball or something and then chucking it into their vault beneath Arteria). However, the country had been utterly ruined (in addition to the population loss and the destruction of the government, the sheer amount of salt probably made North Ambria an infertile, desolate land). Since the royal family fled, people despised them so the monarchy was not restored. In order for men to bring home the bacon to their families, they wound up forming a mercenary corps called the Northern Jaegers, and hired themselves out to fight in foreign conflicts.

Fast forward to the present day. The Erebonian Civil War happens. Erebonia is an empire on North Ambria's southern border. The leader of the one of the Noble factions in the civil war, Duke Cayenne, hired the Northern Jaegers as mercenaries, and ordered them to burn a town called Celdic. In CS2 the damage is negligible, with just one guy dying and a few stalls being destroyed, but CS3 retcons this to massive death and destruction and refugee trains.

The Imperials eventually won the Civil War. Their leader, Chancellor Osborne, then used the burning of Celdic as an excuse to annex North Ambria. He demanded reparations from North Ambria for the burning of Celdic, but ofcourse North Ambria is poor and the government declined to pay them, so Osborne used this as an excuse to annex North Ambria knowing that they couldn't/wouldn't pay anyway. (Osborne apparently has a long history of annexing nations on Erebonia's borders, but the one and only country we had heard of was Jurai. Apparently there were a lot of offscreen territories that were never named... but I digress).

The war takes place over the course of two weeks. The remaining Noble Alliance forces, led by Generals Aurelia and Wallace, lead the Erebonian invasion (because that was Osborne's condition for pardoning them). The invasion force doesn't reach the capital of Haliask until like the last two or three days. The protagonist of the Cold Steel games, Rean Schwarzer, organized an attempt to evacuate Haliask. On the last day he see the Northern Jaegers releasing killer robots (given to them by the supervillain organization, Ouroboros) onto their own people.

Since the anime is going to be set from the perspective of a Northern Jaeger, it sounds like the set up for a tragedy as she's probably going to see almost all of her comrades killed, her family slaughtered in the capital, and her country annexed, but I somehow doubt that will happen as Trails pussies out on having a grim tone or meaningful death in the present day, and modern anime as well.

What exactly is this now? who should watch this? people who played trials? a complete new audience?
I still dont know what are they going to make here

For Trails fans, it will be nice to see what North Ambria looks like, as at this point it is unlikely to ever be visited in the games. It would also be nice to get a story set from the perspective of a mercenary for hire, which has been a popular idea as the premise for a Trails game. Also, Rean will show up towards the end, and Rean is the most popular Trails character, so there's fanservice.

For non-Trails fans, it will hopefully be a gritty war anime and provide that Gundam-IBO style tragedy, and maybe get people interested in the series.

Kuro starts the grim. I mean some boss fights have some options where you can either save or kill that boss and Kuro Crimson sin have a alternate timeline cutscenes where characters die (Towa dying, they have it too)

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