Bandai Namco surprised everyone when they announced the Tales of Luminaria game just days before releasing Tales of Arise. Even without a release schedule, the game is already making waves.
Unlike the precious smartphone Tales games, Tales of Luminaria seems to have the overworld exploration aspect compared to the battle system heavy gameplay. It seems that the story too will be compelling enough, given how it got an anime this soon.
Funimation has announced the anime adaptation of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s upcoming smartphone game Tales of Luminaria. The series is titled “Tales of Luminaria the Fateful Crossroad” and will be exclusively available on Funimation.
Studio Kamikaze Douga(Star Wars Visions) will produce the anime with the following main cast:
| Character | Cast | Other Works |
| Leo Fourcade | Ryohei Arai | Charlotte Newichi (One Piece) |
| Celia Arvier | Miho Okasaki | Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) |
| Hugo Simon | Kaito Takeda | Masaharu Chouji (Ahiru no Sora) |
Funimation has also revealed the full English dub cast for the anime.
| Character | Cast | Other Works |
| Leo Fourcade | Aaron Dismuke | Alphonse Eric (Fullmetal Alchemist) |
| Celia Arvier | Cristina Vee | Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter) |
| Michelle Bouquet | Dawn M. Bennett | Frosch (Fairy Tail) |
| Yelsy Tw’Elteu Huainaz’jin | Suzie Yeung | Vladilena Milizé (86) |
| Vanessa Morax | Jamie Marchi | Rias Gremory (High School DxD) |
| Lucien Dufaure | Micah Solusod | Bea (Space Dandy) |
| Maxime Hasselmans | Ricco Fajardo | Nozel Silva (Black Clover) |
| Lisette Regnier | Colleen Clinkenbeard | Nice Holystone (Baccano!) |
| Hugo Simon | Eric Vale | Trunks (Dragon Ball Super) |
| August Wallenstein | J. Michael Tatum | Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan) |
| Alexandra von Sonne | Caitlin Glass | Evergreen (Fairy Tail) |
| Bastien Forge | Christopher R. Sabat | Cross Marian (D.Gray-man) |
| Laplace | Monica Rial | Mirajane (Fairy Tail) |
| Gaspard Herbet | Daman Mills | Tomohiro Haba (Hyouka) |
| Amelie Laurence | Bryn Apprill | Ai (Zombie Land Saga) |
| Falk | Clifford Chapin | Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia) |
| Edouard Rouquier | Jason Liebrecht | Zeke Jaeger (Attack on Titan) |
| Lydie Delacroix | Cherami Leigh | Elizabeth (Black Butler) |
| Raoul | Brandon Potter | Shanks (One Piece) |
| Ana-Maria Marschner | Megan Shipman | Chinatsu Nishio (Tsukigakirei) |
| Charles | Brittney Karbowski | Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) |
This wouldn’t be the first of the Tales franchise to receive an anime adaptation. Symphonia, Abyss, Phantasia, Eternia, Vesperia, and Zestria all have either a movie or a full series adaptation.
Although most of them have been quite under the radar, let’s see how this one turns out.
About Tales Franchise
The Tales series is a franchise of fantasy role-playing video games published by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco), and developed by its subsidiary, Namco Tales Studio, until 2011 and presently by Bandai Namco Studios. First begun in 1995 with the development and release of Tales of Phantasia for the Super Famicom.
While entries in the series generally stand independent of each other with different characters and stories, they are commonly linked by their gameplay, themes, and high fantasy settings. The series is characterized by its art style, which draws from Japanese manga and anime, and its action-based fighting system called the “Linear Motion Battle System”.
The series has several anime adaptations like Symphonia, Abyss, Phantasia, Eternia, Vesperia, Zestria, and the upcoming Luminaria.
Source: Funimation
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