Tales of Zestiria

Do we really have to wait a whole month for the final episode? Christ, why can't ufotable ever get their shit together? They even did a split cour so they could prevent stuff like this.

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Apparently it's because of scheduling from the TV station.

Zestiria is low priority for them, they've been shifting resources to Touken Ranbu for a while already.

That makes sense. That one's basically Kancolle for girls, right?

So if Sorey fucked Alisha while she's armatized with Mikleo, how gay would that be?

>implying
He doesn't need Alisha to be there to fuck his waifu unless she's taking pictures

Alisha doesn't have time for that, she got her own waifu to fuck.

What's the chances the hiatus is because they're redoing the finale to better meet fan expectations? What if they're going full blown fujo?

>What if they're going full blown fujo?
You mean like the source material did?

Nah, it's just scheduling conflict or they just didn't give a damn about getting it out on time, as if the rest of this anime wasn't enough indication.

>They don't even realize the romantic implications.

Their relationship is so pure and platonic.

>pure
They do lewd things without knowing it's lewd because they were raised without human norms. Mikleo probably jerks Sorey off every morning in a 'pure and in a platonic way' to get rid of his wood.

So we can all agree that the only good thing about this show was this ED, right?

WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Yeah, it's a browser game and its gameplay is very similar.

And if they view such a thing as a perfectly normal act between good friends it still means they aren't romantically interested in each other.

No, it just means they're really clueless.

Also for the record Sorey already finds Mikleo attractive and he's not interested in women, doesn't get more 'fag' than that

Yet Sorey has enough sense to know it's inappropriate to enter a girl's room without knocking. So he's not entirely clueless.

Why do people always have to corrupt Sorey and Mikleo's true brotherly love with their lewd thoughts?

Then going by that logic wouldn't that mean that Sorey is aware that he's attracted to Mikleo and isn't interested in girls not because of ignorance but because he's genuinely not interested?

>Yet Sorey has enough sense to know it's inappropriate to enter a girl's room without knocking. So he's not entirely clueless.
That's Game Sorey, we're talking about Anime Sorey, and an anime-only scene where Sorey and Mikleo share icecream mouth to mouth casually.

You said it means their relationship was platonic, I argued that they were raised by different standards and it doesn't really mean shit either way.

>Why do people always have to corrupt Sorey and Mikleo's true brotherly love
Because you're delusional to think it's 'brotherly' in the first place. They are childhood friends, never labeled as brothers ingame. Mikleo is widely considered Zestiria's heroine and Sorey's love interest in nipland.

>share icecream mouth to mouth casually

how fucking autistic can you be, so fucking what? me and pretty much everybody I know all share stuff like that and it's completely normal, I really don't understand the "undirict kissu!" meme

Can you read? Nobody said shit about an indirect kissu. Also nobody gives a shit what you do or don't do. We're talking about a written story here.

Didn't Tales of Asteria also point out that Sorey and Mikleo were dating and neither of them denied it? Then again, Asteria Sorey is based off of game Sorey.

>You said it means their relationship was platonic, I argued that they were raised by different standards and it doesn't really mean shit either way.

The important thing is that the two in question assigned no romantic value to the act. That they did it so casually proves there's nothing more to it. If there was an attraction between them then there'd be blushing and hesitation and all that jazz. Because if you're heart doesn't go doki doki in those situations with some one you supposedly have the hots for it means you don't actually have the hots for them.

And if we're just talking anime Sorey, you can't ignore all the ship teasing they added with Alisha.

Read what? You basically said that Anime Sorey is fucking gay because he shares icecream mouth to mouth casually and has no clue of regular sexual norms or whatever the fuck

That's fucking hot. Doujin WHEN?

>And if we're just talking anime Sorey, you can't ignore all the ship teasing they added with Alisha
Actually you can because anime Sorey barely talks to her. And their interactions have based on her needing his help, to the point that we don't know jack shit about anime Sorey.

>The important thing is that the two in question assigned no romantic value to the act. That they did it so casually proves there's nothing more to it. If there was an attraction between them then there'd be blushing and hesitation and all that jazz. Because if you're heart doesn't go doki doki in those situations with some one you supposedly have the hots for it means you don't actually have the hots for them.
Isn't that also true for a couple that's been in a relationship for a while? They'd have a certain level of comfort with one another so they don't go Doki Doki every time they're intimate?

I find it funny how they threw alishafags a bone by giving her the ability to armatize. It's not canon and won't be acknowledged in any of the games where it matters, but good for you.

I find it more pathetic really. They'd essentially need fanfic where their waifu is a Mary Sue just to like her.

>Read what?
You clearly didn't read shit. I said Sorey/Mikleo sharing icecream casually doesn't mean shit either way. It's just how they were raised and demonstrative of how close they are. Now that I've said that, you can't

See above. The act only implies the intimacy of their relationship and it's not in character for Sorey or Mikleo to blush violently over such an act when they've known eachother their entire lives. For the record, married couples don't go 'uwaa' when they share stuff.

It is not conclusive of anything so we can drop the conversation.

>And if we're just talking anime Sorey, you can't ignore all the ship teasing they added with Alisha.
It's there and just like in the game, it's top tier b8. Only difference is that Ufo wanted to pander to everyone so threw them some OOC moments at the end of first cour.

Everything after that has been nothing, and if they keep the ending from the game, it will still be nothing.

No, but there is a scene in Asteria where Stan says they're more like brothers than friends. He calls Mikleo the younger brother and Sorey the older brother and Mikleo gets mad accusing Stan of deciding that by height. Stan goes silent to confirm Mikleo's suspicions, then Mikleo's about to say Sorey should be the younger brother, but changes his mind when he remembers what Sorey said to Tear about Van.

>Isn't that also true for a couple that's been in a relationship for a while? They'd have a certain level of comfort with one another so they don't go Doki Doki every time they're intimate?

>For the record, married couples don't go 'uwaa' when they share stuff.

Might not be as intense as it was initially, but there's still always something. Otherwise it means all the passion is gone from the relationship.

Besides, those are adults. Sorey and Mikleo are still teenagers who wouldn't have that sort of emotional maturity.

>when they've known eachother their entire lives

You do bring up an excellent point, though. Ever hear of the Westermark effect? Kids raised together from a young age develop an aversion to seeing each other as potential mates.

Yes. It's a preview for some event or something, but Sorey and Mikleo are walking together as night and someone asks, as a joke, if they're on a date and they don't deny it.

Actually I was taking about the recent event.

>Might not be as intense as it was initially, but there's still always something.
Says who? Every couple is different.

>Sorey and Mikleo are still teenagers who wouldn't have that sort of emotional maturity.
Yet everything about their relationship implies they do. Even the butchered the anime version. This isn't really an argument anyway because I already stated how I felt about it.

Probably talking about pic-related.

>???: This late at night, are you on a date?

Neither of them deny it.

>Might not be as intense as it was initially, but there's still always something. Otherwise it means all the passion is gone from the relationship.
Couples can have passion without over reacting every time they touch or are in close proximity to their significant other.
>Besides, those are adults. Sorey and Mikleo are still teenagers who wouldn't have that sort of emotional maturity.
They're teenagers who weren't raised like normal teenagers who have spent their whole lives together, who see each other every single day, and are implied to live together. They actually have more in common with an older couples.

>You do bring up an excellent point, though. Ever hear of the Westermark effect? Kids raised together from a young age develop an aversion to seeing each other as potential mates.
Which if it was the case here, then Sorey wouldn't find Mikleo attractive. Besides that the Westermark effect doesn't effect everyone, and there's been multiple studies over the years which prove the whole theory to be invalid.

>and are implied to live together

Except they clearly live in different houses?

>then Sorey wouldn't find Mikleo attractive

One can make an objective observation regarding the attractiveness of some one with the same sex without being gay. Only immature kids who believe cooties are a thing think that.

>Except they clearly live in different houses?
Mikleo was just staying there for that night because of Alisha, however all media for the anime shows that they live and sleep in Sorey's house.

>One can make an objective observation regarding the attractiveness of some one with the same sex without being gay. Only immature kids who believe cooties are a thing think that.
Except Mikleo is the only one that Sorey recognizes as attractive, and will actively stare at Mikleo because he finds him attractive. That's not the behavior of a guy that's straight.

Oh that, yeah it's Zelos saying that line. Sorey and Mikleo were talking about the upcoming final battle and protecting their dream when Zelos interrupts with that line and the rest of the party immediately follows up that it's not their dream alone, it's everyone's dream. Sorey doesn't get a line in until they finish, he replies that they're right.

Oh I see, thanks for more context

If either of them wanted to, they could have interrupted and said that it wasn't a date.

>Zelos asks if they're on a date
>at the end of the scene Sorey says they're all right
HMMM

They knew Zelos was joking, but go ahead and interpret it like

Speaking of Merchandise, that reminds me. Mikleo is getting some pumps designed around his character, while Sorey gets sneakers.

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Is there a deeper meaning behind the shoe choices

>One can make an objective observation regarding the attractiveness of some one with the same sex without being gay.
This would be legit if it wasn't canon that Sorey has no romantic or sexual attraction to females.

Husband and waifu probably

I get upset when people won't admit Sorey and Mikleo are gay because deep down I don't actually think they're gay either so I must crush any who dare stir up those doubts. They're not allowed to think whatever they want because it makes me feel bad.

I love Alisha!

That hat is dumb, though.

Okay but I still love her!

>Sorey is confirmed not into females ingame and by scriptwriter
>Rejects Alisha and laughs at the thought of being with Rose
>Mikleo is a satellite character made solely to compliment Sorey like most Tales heroines
>Staple last night before final battle scene is Sorey/Mikleo
>Sorey spends eternity with Mikleo after reuniting with him (and ONLY him) at the end of the game

Literally nobody can argue against this. If this isn't 'canon', then absolutely nothing else in this game. The fujos won.

If their victory is so assured, then why do they throw a hissy fit every time some one has a different interpretation?

>some one has a different interpretation?
I guess because that interpretation is factually wrong?

For example, saying that 'Sorey is in love with Alisha/Rose' is wrong. There's no way around that. That isn't an interpretation, that's just someone being retarded. It's like saying 'Dezel can see'.

I guess because there are many people crying no homo, doesn't help that Alishafags and anti-incestfags (who are fucking idiots) tend to bomb their inboxes anonymously because they demand that the fujos stop shipping Sorey x Mikleo because "Alisha's obviously the main love interest", or "its gross and wrong because they're brothers". So they kinda want everyone to know that it's canon just so that those two groups will get BTFO'd for good and finally GTFO.

Still waiting on tickle scene.

I love how Sorey/Mikleo being incest is a common argument against it, as if Tear's title in Abyss after she trains Luke wasn't called 'Big Sister Tear' and she's 100% his love interest. Or just the fact that siblings can still fuck eachother. All they do is make Sorey a degenerate by implying he wants to fuck his 'brother'.

>anti-incestfags
wut? I will take a wild guess and said they think Sorey and Mikleo are brother because they were raised together?

>you will never have tiny nip feet
I want to order from them so bad but I have trouble finding shoes that fit me even at American stores. I am absolutely in love with Jude's shoes but can't bring myself to try and order anyway.

This is a hilarious argument to me since I´m a degenerated fuck who ship actual blood related siblings all the time.

Yup and hilariously the people who tend to do it have never even played the game. Some one just told them that Sorey and Mikleo are childhood friends raised together so therefore it's incest and that triggers them.

>I guess because that interpretation is factually wrong?

Hahahahahahaha. Sorry, it's just hilarious because fujos have been shipping straight characters together for decades despite it being "factually inaccurate." Now that it's some one else doing it they flip their shit.

The reason because incest it´s a taboo is because it result in retarded inbreed babies. Two non blood related persons of the same sex can´t reproduce at all.
People who use the "it´s incest!" argument are always insecure shits that know the relationship they are against, even if platonic, is stronger than the one they like.

Well that's true. But most fujos won't argue against canon when they ship two straight guys together. They just want to see cute dudes fuck. Compare it to people who sincerely believe Alisha is Sorey's love interest and that he's somehow not a faggot when he sleeps in the same bed with a pretty fuccboi

Incest is absolutely disgusting unless it's brother/brother or sister/sister. No exceptions.

You will be waiting forever, my friend. Even with Sorey being a big damn hero the show will still pivot back to Rose and Alisha and no one else. The Seraphs are basically color-coded autonomous power-ups. Also the anime is serious business, hardly any levity allowed so that the "epic story" doesn't get derailed by the things people actually liked the game for.

>the things people actually liked the game for.
So everything that wasn't the combat, story, or Rose? I'm glad the anime dropped the Rose is always right that seemed to saturate every cutscene when she came along.

Fujos don't go out and harass people for liking a het ship for the most part, though. They know that they're delusional from the get-go no matter how much the author teases them. The people who get upset over Fujos having a small, minor victory in Zesty are butthurt and insecure to the max. Let them have their fun, it doesn't hurt anyone. Sorey not being interested in girls means I can ship all the girls with whoever I want, which is much better than them orbiting his bland ass.

I think those people believe that fujos=otaku in vocality and presence within fandoms. Sure the western ones are loud, and japs tend to produce enough art to overstock an entire art museum, but they're otherwise harmless and are a guaranteed customer if given the slightest pandering.

They dropped that so they could do that for Alisha instead.

This. I don't understand why an Alisha/Rosefag would ship them with Sorey in the first place. They don't even have good chemistry to justify it, but people have the most bottom of standards when it comes to boy/girl interactions nowadays.

Zestiria is just a small victory for fujos, and only an implicit one made out of process of elimination and using multiple skits ingame. Bamco will probably never try to homo the main hero again after Zestiria's bad rep.

Why is Zaveid much more compelling as a character in the prequel? Zestiria did very little to make him seem more decent.

No, it was OP 2 and White Light

>Bamco will probably never try to homo the main hero again after Zestiria's bad rep.
The bad rep came from Baba waifu-ing Rose's VA and how he dragged production though the mud over it. There's also the factor of popping out a game every year giving less development time for something well done and original.

I want to say the fujoshi pandering began to build strength around Symphonia with Lloyd and Zelos. It's not explicit by any means, but it's very, very easy to take away from. It was, in my opinion, at its finest with Vesperia because while Yuri does take a physical interest in Judith, he doesn't commit to anyone. They know their audience, and being subtle is a strong point that makes it work without alienating people who aren't into that culture.

I think in the future it wont be discarded so much as balanced out to keep those fujo bucks pumping.

Can someone give me a rundown of this whole shitstorm? I'm a little uninformed on the whole situation with Zestiria and Baba?

I guess the devs liked him enough to expand on him. Too bad they couldn't do that with everyone else in Zestiria.

Yeah, I think Vesperia did it best too.

I wasn't really referring to Bamco not doing fujobait anymore, I think they will always continue to do that as it is incredibly profitable and will always be. Rather they won't make another homo pair as close to canon as Sorey/Mikleo was. I think they're experimenting alot lately by making boy heroines like Mikleo/Laphicet, but I don't think we'll get another Sorey/Mikleo anytime soon. They might go back to male/female trend with the next gam.

Or son topping father. Amen.

It's been discussed to death but basically Baba inserted Rose into the game for some reason (it's know he liked her VA, but there's no official word as to why Rose is a thing) and the game bent over backwards to make her right about everything. It's all based on circumstantial evidence such as Edna's VA remarking that they had to go back in to record tons of new lines 3 months after they had finished previously, the story being very solid up to the point where Rose joins then going to absolute shit, the way Rose was treated as a Mary Sue despite all her flaws, etc. Mostly people were pissed that the game was shit (more than just story - a lot of technical issues were present too) and Baba didn't own up to it. He was the Producer and he tried to blame the dev team and sent Rose's VA out to apologize while he hid.

Rose was absolute shit in the game, but the rest of the cast wasn't much better. Zesty failed to live up to all the hype it generated and Rose was the most glaring problem because of how obnoxious she was and how much Baba pushed her to fans.

>They might go back to male/female trend with the next gam.
Just hope it wont be as ham fisted as Graces. Asbel took about absolutely no romantic interest in Cheria at all in the main game. Then f.riendship happened and suddenly romantic main plot.

I want to say it was most apparent when Rose's VA sent out an apology on the behalf of her role and how it affected the game. Can't read moon runes though.

It was first started when Alisha was advertised to be the main girl. Promo art and the Episode 0 had her there the entire time. She came off as, if you're familiar, a lot like Estelle to Yuri. Potential love interest but more like a best friend type who would always be there. But Alisha just got deleted out of everything and suddenly Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, did I mention how perfect and pure Rose is?

Rose has no malevolence, Rose is pure, Rose can armitize, Rose can't hurt Sorey they way Alisha did.

As for the original VA for Lailah died during production time, so she had to be replaced. Dragging the title down even more.

Fujos can get really autistic about seme/uke divisions though. I read they were angry when Sorey played to be a girl on episode 2 preview because he's the man

Pretty much. Majority of nips Zestiria fujos are Sorey/Mikleo, but Mikleo/Sorey isn't exactly a minority. They get pretty autistic about who tops. The answer being obviously neither because 2pure

Lailah's VA died after the game had been released. It was the last work I could hear her cute and pleasant voice in. She wasn't around for anything else (notably, the anime).

Why is Alisha so cute?

>Fujos can get really autistic about seme/uke divisions though
>fan artist
>posts mini rant about how she didn't like how people tagged her work
>maximum butthurt over the order of the names
This was from a Korean at that. Lost a good deal of respect for her after that because her work really wasn't bad.

My bad. I thought the prolonged production was at the same time as her pneumonia.

Reminder that Berseria has a better cast and story compared to Zestiria.

You say this like it's a difficult feat.

I thought we all agreed on this and that every man's dream is to have secret hideouts and tunnels.

Or fluffy squirrels to pet.

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> See this,
What do?

Kurau her.

Who's the staff that caused this much shit to happen with the anime?

where did you find this?
Are there more of this?

Some unnamed Ufotable head

Ask her where Magilou or Eizen is.

Matsuki voiced that slut in Shimoneta like a year after her work in Zestiria.

Don't remind me, that was her last work before she went to the hospital hoping to get better and get hitched.

> Velvet doesn't drink because she's under-aged.

>It was first started when Alisha was advertised to be the main girl. Promo art and the Episode 0 had her there the entire time.
That's not true. Alisha was shown in less and less Promo art as the seraphim were introduced. And the only thing that Alishafags had to claim that she was there all the time was a very early trailer, which if you know anything about trailers have a habit of not resembling the final product. Even in the OAD Sorey makes it clear that he was going to leave Elysia regardless of whether or not he met Alisha that day.

Most people with half a brain cell realized that Alisha wasn't going to follow Sorey to Rolance. In fact it's after they introduced Sergei that it became obvious that Alisha wasn't going to stick around.

As for Rose there's nothing to indicate that the character wasn't always there.
>in before voice actors
Only proves that Rose's voice actor was chosen last
>b-but the ost
It's not uncommon for party members to not have a personal theme.

>b-but the plot holes
Only indicate that there was a late re-write not that a character was added. Alternatively Rose has way too many assets to be a last minute character.

>Just hope it wont be as ham fisted as Graces. Asbel took about absolutely no romantic interest in Cheria at all in the main game.

You obviously weren't paying attention, then. There were plenty of hints, it's just that Asbel was preoccupied with saving the world at the time. In L&L when that's over and his mom has him considering marriage, he can't help but compare all the candidates to a certain girl he knows...

Tales of Link smartphone game.

>LOOK AT ME I'M SO SMART I HAVE PERFECT HINDSIGHT, EVERYONE WHO DIDN'T SEE IT IS A RETARD
Fuck off faggot, there was no one at all who saw it coming, not even you. You probably weren't even there when it happened.
How about the plethora of sources that cited Alisha as the heroine, her being the first to get a figure and being pushed hard by marketing?
Rose's VA being revealed a full year after the other ones were really is a huge indicator for production issues as well as other VA's saying they had to retake lines.
She ended up basically the second protagonist, it would be retarded for her to not have a theme.
And did you forget that Rose's model is practically a reskinned Alisha up to the point that they share every outfit?

I paid plenty of attention. Cheria was just tsundere the entire game because childhood tsundere friend was her entire character and little else. Asbel was just retarded. Saving the world didn't stop the other Tales protags. He was clueless about everything. In a skit he didn't even know why he wore that stupid outfit.

>That's not true. Alisha was shown in less and less Promo art as the seraphim were introduced.
Less and less does not mean completely gone at the start. Wish I could find those death threats sent to Baba. I only heard of them, but don't recall any solid evidence.

>Alishafag gets upset that his conspiracy theory was debunked
Alisha was actually only cited as the heroine in one source not many, and those were third parties.

Not saying that I saw coming just that the hints were there that Alisha wasn't going to be sticking around. Alisha was pushed to get waifufags to give Jewco their money,
Also let me repeat myself:
>in before voice actors
Only proves that Rose's voice actor was chosen last .

last
>b-but the ost
It's not uncommon for party members to not have a personal theme. Tear didn't have her own theme either

The models for Alisha and Rose actually aren't the same, Rose's model has bigger tits and ass. Also this point also doesn't hold water when you remember that Zaveid and Dezel share the same model. Dies that mean that Zaveid was made last minute?