Xenosaga: The Animation
An anime based on popular video game Xenosaga, titled Xenosaga: The Animation, premiered on TV Asahi in Japan on January 5, 2005. The anime itself follows the story of Xenosaga closely, albeit removing several scenes and adding others, and some scenes were entirely re-written for the show’s purposes. It is the year T.C. 4767, and mankind exists on distant planets and artificial colonies. Earth is seemingly gone; it has been erased from all known starmaps and renamed “Lost Jerusalem”. The capital of all known space is Fifth Jerusalem, where the Galaxy Federation supposedly keeps watch over mankind.
For the last ten years, a mysterious enemy known as the Gnosis has begun to attack man’s colonies seemingly indiscriminately. It is largely believed that the Gnosis were brought into the universe by a scientist named Joachim Mizrahi during the Miltian Conflict of T.C. 4753, but there is more to that story than the public really knows.
The pacing has the viewer running through the first ten to fifteen hours of gameplay of Episode I in the first five episodes. Jin Uzuki, Shion’s brother and a major character in Episode II, can be seen early on in episode eight of The Animation. Given the nature of the anime, it works best as a suppliment to Episode I; some points that the game explained poorly or didn’t explain at all are brought to light in the anime. Despite the changes, many fans prefer The Animation over the movie DVD of Episode I given with pre-orders of Episode II, saying that the DVD was a poorly assembled group of cutscenes; the quality of the DVD is significantly lower than that of the orginal PlayStation 2 cutscenes.
Source: Wikipedia
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