With the announcement of the production of the Tethe'alla Chapter of Tales of Symphonia: The Animation came the thought: "Oh crap, that means there will have to be more parts to Tales of Stupidity," and to be honest, I think it was kinda dying on part 4. While I already have some ideas that were thought up before I even made part 1 and never used because the opportunity never came up (in other words, anything involving Regal, Presea, Rodyle, Pronyma, Yggdrasill, and even Zelos to an extent). So...I'll be probably making another Youtube account for the old parts, just in case. Fans of the worst Tales parody ever (as Genius put it...strangely enough, in my voice 
), rejoice!
So yes, I'm taking ideas! You don't have to be overly familiar with the game to make an idea. Heck, you can come up with a random script consisting of "Girl: blah Boy: blah" and I'd figure it out from there. I wanna try to get as much original parts in there as possible (partially because my other two voice actors, Tasuke and Alicia, will love me forever if I did). I'll give credit where credit is due, of course. 
Cruxis Kratos, Presea, Regal, and Zelos say hi.
Or maybe it's more because "I don't really know where to look for updates on much else, so I just know the Tales ones." As I've already posted in my other, slightly more Tales obsessed, world the other day, the Tales of Symphonia OVA (known as Tales of Symphonia: The Animation) will be continued to include the Tethe'alla chapter. I, for one, am very happy. The initial announcement was at Tales of Festival 2008 and was added to the official website shortly after. We all figured this would happen from the beginning (last episode of the Sylvarant Chapter really made it obvious with the ending saying, "End here Sylvarant. Begin here Tethe'alla" in English).
Besides, as Konishi said as Lloyd at ToF08, "They only made up until the Sylvarant Arc! At this rate, I won't get Collet back to normal, and ToS the Animation will eventually be forgotten!" Fans and voice actors agree that it was a horrible place in the story to leave off. So yeah, the Sylvarant Chapter ended with Collet losing her soul in the Angel Transformation process in Cruxis' attempt to use her body as a vessel for "the Goddess" Martel. After a run in with Yuan Kafei (CV: Toshiyuki Morikawa) and his group called the Renegades, Lloyd and the others were taken to the other world of Tethe'alla by Shihna in hopes of finding a way to save Collet. We got teaser shots of Zelos, Presea, and Regal taking notice of the Rheabirds flying across the night sky, Yuan noticing the Rheabirds were gone, and Kratos in his Cruxis uniform reporting back to Yggdrasill, most likely saying the Miko (Collet) had escaped.
See those spoilerish things in the video below (and darn these fansubbers using the English version's names...I wish I could've found it raw). Also the song that starts playing is the song usually used as the opening:
One of my big questions is: Are they gonna use the same theme songs? I absolutely adore Negai (the ending song by Kaori Hikita...FOR ONLY TWO EPISODES! 
Episode 3 used Uchi e Kaerou and Episode 4 used ALMATERIA) and it would be a shame to lose it. Heck, I even hope the little clay models from the endings make a return! ALMATERIA by Eri Kawai (the opening, and RIP Kawai-san! I loved your song! ) is also really nice despite its being in a total nonsense language (although it does mention Sylvarant and Tethe'alla in it. Those two words along with "almateria" are the only ones that can be understood). Here's to more image songs by the characters, too. Omoi no Yukue by Nana Mizuki was really nice to listen to at times, although getting your hands on it means either buying the pricey Collector's Edition of volume IV of the Sylvarant Chapter (which is what I did) or downloading. And her other song, Uchi e Kaerou, that was used as an insert in episode 3, was just adorable.
As a reminder of the characters, here's a list (note: Pictures are for the game. Seiyuu listed are also from the game if they have not appeared in the OVA yet--in other words, the ones for Regal and Presea...They should be the same, anyway, since all the others were able to return and they've been doing the same characters in other projects recently, unless something weird comes up):
Sorry, guys, I was spending a little too much time over at the Tales Brigade forums (though there was a bit of a fiasco earlier involving someone putting a spoiler in the name of a thread and putting a spo...
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(I'm Suzu Fujibayashi there)
