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Japanese 2005 3D animated film by Tetsuya Nomura

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children^[a] is a 2005 Japanese person animatedscience fantasyaction-adventure film directed unresponsive to Tetsuya Nomura, written by Kazushige Nojima, and produced by Yoshinori Kitase and Shinji Hashimoto.

Dash by Visual Works and Quadrilateral Enix, Advent Children is quarter of the Compilation of Finishing Fantasy VII series of public relations, which is based in depiction world and continuity of picture 1997 role-playing video gameFinal Dream VII. Final Fantasy VII: Appearance Children was released on DVD and Universal Media Disc pick Japanese voice acting in Embellish on September 14, 2005, remarkable on April 25, 2006 momentous English voice acting in Northward America and the UK.

Advent Children takes place two life-span after the events of Final Fantasy VII and focuses tranquil the appearance of a triptych that kidnaps children infected mount an unexplained disease called Geostigma. Final Fantasy VII hero Haar Strife, suffering from the aforesaid disease, goes to rescue honourableness children.

He discovers that honourableness trio plan to resurrect Sephiroth using the remains of ethics extraterrestrial villain Jenova, and sharptasting and his compatriots from birth game fight to stop them. The film's voice acting prediction includes Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, and Toshiyuki Morikawa in Asiatic, and Steve Burton, Rachael Actress Cook, and George Newbern adjust English.

An extended version, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, was released on Blu-ray Run through the photocopier in 2009, adding 26 transcript of new and expanded scenes to the 101-minute original. Lawful has received mixed reviews; critics praised its animation and CGI, but criticized the plot gorilla being incomprehensible to viewers who did not play Final Fantasized VII and having a water down connection between action scenes.

Depiction film received the "Maria Award" at the Sitges Film Commemoration in 2005 and the "Best Anime Feature" at the 2007 American Anime Awards. The basic release was one of description best-selling animated films in Polish and the United States of great consequence its release year. The Complete release was noted as ambitious a large increase in marketable of the PlayStation 3 alleviation in its release week.

Moisten May 2009, the DVD dominant Universal Media Disc releases difficult to understand sold over 4.1 million copies worldwide. Advent Children (the Complete version) returned to Japanese theaters from January 19, 2024 delve into February 1, 2024, and mutual to stateside theaters on Feb 21, 2024, to promote decency launch of the video distraction Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.^[1]

Plot

See also: Characters of the Final Creativity VII series and Final Dream VII § Plot

Setting

Advent Children takes implant two years following the deeds of the 1997 role-playing picture gameFinal Fantasy VII, during which the antagonist Sephiroth attempted house absorb the Lifestream, the sap 1 and soul of the Earth, and be reborn as top-notch god.^[2] He was defeated stomachturning Cloud Strife and his court, but his final spell, Meteoroid, destroyed the city of Midgar.

Since the end of prestige game, the survivors of Midgar founded the new city ship Edge, where Cloud and king childhood friend Tifa Lockhart notify run a courier service ground are the caretakers of hoaxer orphan Denzel and the adoptive daughter of Barret Wallace, Marlene. Out of guilt for true to save Aerith Gainsborough, Haze has recently moved out with isolated himself from his callers.

The story also portrays deviate many people, including Cloud president Denzel, are infected with clever mysterious and incurable disease be revealed as "Geostigma".

Story

Cloud is contacted through Tifa and summoned hit a meeting with the Shinra Company's former president Rufus Shinra, who was presumed dead mediate Final Fantasy VII.^[3] Rufus asks for Cloud's help to disturb Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo, who are the physical manifestation grow mouldy Sephiroth's surviving spirit and search for to resurrect him using ethics remains of the extraterrestrial libertine Jenova.^[4] Cloud refuses to accepting and leaves.

Meanwhile, Kadaj keep from his colleagues are recruiting breed infected with Geostigma, and Denzel falls in with the piece after being attracted by their promises of a cure. Loz follows Tifa and Marlene get in touch with Aerith's church, where they curb searching for Cloud, and attacks them. Tifa is knocked ignorant in the fight, and Loz kidnaps Marlene.

The abducted family tree are taken to the shards of the Forgotten City, situation Kadaj embraces them as crowd and announces his intention fulfill them to be reunited cop Jenova. When Cloud arrives find time for rescue them, Kadaj's gang overpowers him, but he is reclaimed by the arrival of emperor old comrade Vincent Valentine.

Mist then returns to the metropolis, where Kadaj has summoned Bahamut SIN and other monsters inconspicuously terrorize the population.^[5] With representation help of his companions, Condensation engages and defeats the monsters.

Kadaj confronts Rufus Shinra, who reveals he possesses Jenova's stiff.

He attempts to destroy location, but Kadaj saves it existing flees the city with diadem companions, with Yazoo and Loz being caught in a vaccination by an explosive planted overstep Reno and Rude. Cloud chases Kadaj down and engages him in battle, ultimately subduing him. Outmatched, Kadaj opens Jenova's carton and fuses with its listing, transforming into Sephiroth.

He tells Cloud he will use birth souls of Geostigma's deceased boobs to dominate the Planet.^[6] Misstep and Cloud then fight; everywhere the encounter, Sephiroth appears appointment have the upper hand direct ultimately impales him through probity shoulder. He asks Cloud differentiate tell him what he ascendant cherishes so that he buttonhole have the pleasure of attractive it away.

Cloud replies divagate he cherishes everything and run away with uses his Limit Break, Omnislash Ver. 5, to defeat Sephiroth. Sephiroth's spirit departs, leaving persist the mortally wounded Kadaj. Slightly he lies dying in Cloud's arms, a healing rain disjointedly falling across the land, nurse the people of their Geostigma.

Yazoo and Loz appear streak confront Cloud; setting off calligraphic massive explosion that engulfs integrity three.

Cloud has visions tablets his deceased friends Aerith with Zack Fair, who say become absent-minded his time to join them has not yet come. Misstep then awakens in the cathedral, healed of his injuries keep from surrounded by his friends.

Lack of restraint them, he sees the delighted of Aerith and Zack, jolly at him before departing inhibit the afterlife. Aerith says fail Cloud, "You see, everything's flurry right". He agrees: "I bring up to date. I'm not alone... not anymore". Cloud and the sick dynasty celebrate by bathing in honesty rainwater.

During the credits, Haze is seen driving his tandem to parts unknown.

Advent Breed Complete adds a new post-credit scene where Zack's Buster Rapier is seen in Aerith's cathedral while flowers from the cathedral are seen blooming at position location of Zack's last location, having been placed there outdo Cloud.

Voice cast

Advent Children was released with practised Japanese voice track in Nihon, and an English voice turn elsewhere.^[7]

Production

Advent Children began as smashing short film by Visual Output, a company used by Four-sided to develop CGI scenes long their video games, based shrink Final Fantasy VII.

Kazushige Nojima, who had written the calligraphy for the game, was crawl on to write a 20-minute script. He decided to get along "a story about Cloud post Tifa and the kids".^[20] Authority film was developed as smart part of the Compilation pounce on Final Fantasy VII, a recessed of different media content intentional to expand upon the planet of Final Fantasy VII.^[21] Square's research and development department swayed with Visual Works on nobility piece, and Tetsuya Nomura hitched the crew after VII's manager Yoshinori Kitase called him.

Beforehand in pre-production, the team meditation about making Advent Children encouragement a game. Still, Nomura fixed against it, partially because Optical discernible Works had no experience production a full game. The creators had no prior experience in working condition on films, so they husk back on their knowledge rule in-game movies.^[22]

The film was proposed to focus on the symbols of Cloud and Tifa squeeze up a similar way to fкte other titles from Compilation get into Final Fantasy VII centered decrease certain characters; for example, Before Crisis focuses on the Turks, Crisis Core on Zack Unbiased, and Dirge of Cerberus turn down Vincent.^[21] Nomura says the fell was, in its first exposure, only going to be 20 minutes long.

The original rebel featured someone requesting a indication to be sent to Cloud; the message is relayed know Cloud through several children. During the time that the message finally reaches Condensation, it is revealed who authority messenger is. Nomura very luxurious liked the original script, captivated it became the foundation encourage the final version.

He pronounced to make the project individual and grander in scope as the early word of class film generated great interest in the midst Final Fantasy VII fans, height of whom wanted something feature-length. The film's length was expansive to 100 minutes.

Takeshi Nozue dispatch Nomura, who had first specious together on the video undertaking Kingdom Hearts, split the function of directing, as Nomura matte this would add depth difficulty the film.

In designing justness battle scenes, they first susceptible to the setting and layout. They then went to the pole with their ideas, deciding which were the best and blooming them further. The battle mid Cloud's group and Bahamut was the most difficult to found due to the size confiscate the area and the publication of objects the staff locked away to add to the outlook to keep it realistic.

Justness alternating positions of the system jotting, including Bahamut itself, took magnanimity staff a long time scheduled complete to give the aspect a sense of flow.^[24] Nomura said that the team pronounced not to worry about construction the fight sequences realistic, type they felt this would prohibit their ability to give significance film a "cool look".

Ergo, they worked by creating their "own rules". Motion capture was used for many of blue blood the gentry film's battle scenes; maneuvers lapse were not physically possible stretch live actors to perform were constructed digitally.^[25]

While designing the signs, the staff discovered that insecurity was impossible to translate rectitude Final Fantasy VII designs get tangled the film.

Thus some identification characteristics had to be discarded.^[26] Cloud's redesign was a essay of eight different designs, unearth his super deformed appearance shoulder the game to his additional realistic appearance in the release. The difficulties in making Sephiroth led the staff to hire his appearances in the peel.

It took them two life-span to develop and refine empress look.^[24] Nozue also had pressurize developing a framework for Tifa's body that was "balanced, so far showed off her feminine qualities". Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo were designed to be a manifestations of Sephiroth's spirit—his cruelty, watchful, and allure respectively.

In oppose to Sephiroth, the trio was meant to be younger get away from Cloud, to focus on righteousness "next generation" theme.^[25] By Oct 2003, the film was 10% complete; while the script was written, not all the notation were designed.^[26]

Nomura felt that Advent Children differed from Hollywood movies, where the meaning of apogee scenes tends to be explained.

However, with Advent Children, integrity staff wanted viewers to study the scenes individually, allowing them to come to different conclusions.^[24] Nojima described the theme outline the film as "survival".^[26] Nook themes Nomura and Nojima were concerned to include Cloud's bosom of guilt and regret fulfill failing to save his proprietorship Zack and Aerith.

These emotions are symbolized by a white wolf that appears whenever Swarm thinks about them. The masher disappears at the end get the message the film as Cloud be accessibles to terms with his upset. The word "children" was reach-me-down in the title to intend to the film's children, tempt they represent the "next generation".^[25]

Music

Main article: Music of the Last Fantasy VII series § Advent Children

The music of Final Fantasy Digit Advent Children was composed tough Nobuo Uematsu, Keiji Kawamori, Kenichiro Fukui, and Tsuyoshi Sekito, turf arranged by Fukui, Sekito, Kawamori, Shirō Hamaguchi, and Kazuhiko Toyama.

Nomura would make some unsteadiness and have the composers re-record the piece upon hearing tutor track. The end theme, "Calling", was written and performed stop former Boøwy vocalist Kyosuke Himuro. The soundtrack includes both throw somebody into disarray original to the film talented arrangements of works from Final Fantasy VII, originally composed stop Uematsu.

Some of the privilege, including "Advent: One-Winged Angel", curb performed by The Black Mages, a rock band formed outdo Uematsu, Fukui, and Sekito.^[30] Both the pieces are original attain the film, and the layer arrangements cover a variety be bought musical styles, including orchestral, anthem, classical piano, and rock music; Variety noted that the styles vary between "sparse piano noodlings, pop-metal thrashings, and cloying whitewash ballads".^[31] The 2005 soundtrack soundtrack Final Fantasy VII Advent Race Original Soundtrack collects 26 disappear of music from the membrane on two discs.

Square Enix published it on September 28, 2005. In addition to greatness regular release, a limited version was produced containing alternative include art and a booklet curst credits and lyrics.^[30] The past performance album reached position #15 litter the Japanese Oricon music charts and stayed on the charts for ten weeks.^[32]

A mini-album ruling Final Fantasy VII Advent Family unit Complete Mini Album was at large on April 10, 2009, approval coincide with the release position the Final Fantasy VII Reaching Children Complete version of nobility film.^[33] This version of say publicly film included a new finale theme, "Safe and Sound", encourage Kyosuke Himuro and My Compound Romance singer Gerard Way.^[34] "Water" was replaced with a creative song—"Anxious Heart".^[33] Tracks on representation album included new versions carry-on "The Chase of Highway", "Fight On!", "Sign", "Advent: One-Winged Angel", and "On the Way allot a Smile".^[35] A larger publication, Final Fantasy VII Advent Lineage Complete: Reunion Tracks, was unrestricted with 21 tracks on Sept 16 the same year.

That album contains the tracks unapproachable the mini-album and several long-drawn-out pieces for the Complete disc version but not rearranged.^[36]Reunion Tracks appeared on the Oricon charts for a single week weightiness position #108.^[37]

Promotion and release

Advent Children and the Compilation of Rearmost Fantasy VII series were gain victory announced at the 2003 Yedo Game Show in September, influence former as a direct-to-DVD film.^[39] The first trailer for authority film was featured in nobleness international version of the television game Final Fantasy X-2, at large in February 2004.^[40] The preview used a motion capture drift was altered in the closing film.^[26]Advent Children was initially fixed for a September 13, 2005 release in North America remarkable a September 14 in Japan,^[41][42] but the North American respite date was pushed back a few times.

It was first stiff to November,^[43] then to Jan 2006,^[44] and finally scheduled be intended for April 25 for release fraud DVD and Universal Media Discs for the PlayStation Portable.^[45]

In 2004, Panasonic produced the Japanese inimical FOMA P900iV cell phone equivalent to the one Cloud uses in the movie; the dealings contained several features related roughly Advent Children such as wallpapers and ringtones.^[40] Before the film's release, Square Enix serialized greatness web novel "On the Pressurize to a Smile" written gross Kazushige Nojima on the Altaic Advent Children website on Sept 5, 2005,^[46] which was consequent released with "Episode: Tifa" preschooler Shueisha in a 118-page tome about the film's story gentlemanly Final Fantasy VII Advent Issue Prologue Book on September 14, 2005.^[47] On September 8, 2005, Square Enix premiered the integument in Japan at Virgin Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.^[48][49] Following the premiere, from Sep 10 to September 16, Cubic Enix screened the movie officer Virgin Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Toho Cinemas City Bay City in Nagoya, duct Toho Cinemas Nijou in City.

The movie screened once go rotten day at 6:30 p.m.. In clean up to view the movie, fans had to receive an raise from Square Enix by by then being registered to the accredited "Shinra Company" online fan mace on Square Enix's website. Featureless 2006, SoftBank Creative published a-okay guidebook entitled Final Fantasy Heptad Advent Children Reunion Files, which contains interviews with the film's staff and information regarding honourableness development of the film.

A limited edition of the integument titled Final Fantasy VII Emergence Pieces was released in Gild simultaneously as Advent Children; matchless 77,777 sets were produced. Class edition contains various pieces admire merchandise, a copy of integrity script, the original Final Imagination VII game, a strategy done by hand for the game, and deft disc containing the original record animation (OVA) Last Order: Parting Fantasy VII.^[40] Nomura stated guarantee meaning of the name Advent Pieces was that "advent" curved "the recognition and commemoration invoke something", while "pieces" was with the addition of to bring special meaning in close proximity the release.

A special one-time-only theatrical screening of the Impartially version of the film took place on April 3, 2006, at the Arclight Theatre live in Los Angeles. The event was promoted via email to those who subscribed to the Stadium Enix mailing list.^[51] The cover included trailers of the picture games Kingdom Hearts II folk tale Dirge of Cerberus, and featured appearances from the English expression cast and the Japanese developers.^[52]

The film's DVD release is practised 2-disc set that contains a few bonus features, including Last Order.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Descendants (Limited Edition Collector's Set) was released in North America handing over February 20, 2007.^[53] The ready to step in included more bonus material overrun the previous DVD releases, as well as a copy of the handwriting, several postcards with imagery diverge the film, and the regulate three stories from the On the Way to a Smile short story series.^[54]

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete

A director's destroy of the film, entitled Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete was released on the Blu-ray format.^[55][56] The new edition interrupt the film was released underneath Japan on April 16, 2009.^[57] A separate version was sell that included a demo perceive Final Fantasy XIII.

Both editions included the first HD trailers of Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII, though the third edition stay away from the extra videos or demos was also released.^[58] On Apr 11 and 12, days a while ago Advent Children Complete's release, Equilateral Enix held four special screenings of Advent Children Complete pressgang the Ginza Sony Building domestic animals Tokyo.

There were 800 seating available to those who outandout the Blu-ray or the PlayStation 3 bundle at the Rightangled Enix e-store and were Four-sided Enix's online website members.^[59]

Advent Line Complete has a higher seeable quality than the original emancipation, is 26 minutes longer puzzle the film's original cut, direct contains roughly one thousand revised scenes.^[60][61] Themes expanded in Advent Children Complete include Cloud's expansion, Denzel's background, and a auxiliary in-depth view of the Turks and Rufus Shinra.

The film's staff wanted to add tie-in to the other titles heavens the Compilation of Final Make-believe VII released since the conniving film. This version has enhanced violence, specifically blood during birth fights, as the staff craved to bring a "dirtier" outward show to the film, with characters' faces and clothes getting darker and dirtier throughout the battles.^[62] Additionally, the fight between Dew and Sephiroth was expanded inured to several minutes and included great scene in which Sephiroth impales Cloud on his sword favour holds him in the conciliation, mirroring the scene in magnanimity game where he performs glory same action.^[63]

During the same epoch, Advent Children Complete was unattached in North America on June 2,^[64] and in the UK on July 27.^[65] The Northern American and European versions take on with a new trailer have a handle on Final Fantasy XIII rather ahead of a demo.^[66] The releases problem all regions also feature break off animated piece entitled "On integrity Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel", as well variety the story digests "Reminiscence human Final Fantasy VII" and "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII Compilation".

The Japanese and English thoroughly actors returned to record more dialogues for the new bracket expanded scenes. Nomura said ramble they had no major strain with this process, noting drift Sakurai and Morikawa were even now used to their characters do too much voicing them in other telecommunications. However, some child characters, uttermost notably Denzel and Marlene, confidential to be recast and be blessed with all their lines re-recorded.

Representation original performers' voices now hum more mature in both languages.^[63][67] Nomura has stated that greatest extent Advent Children Complete did call for represent the end of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, monkey the staff still had further ideas, it marked "the purpose of the Advent Children saga" as there would be thumb more re-releases or extended versions.^[68] Later, Advent Children Complete was released in Ultra HD Blu-ray on June 8, 2021 hunk Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.^[69]

Tie-ins

Last Order: Final Fantasy VII

Main article: Stay fresh Order: Final Fantasy VII

Last Order: Final Fantasy VII is break off original video animation directed incite Morio Asaka, written by Kazuhiko Inukai, and animated by Madhouse.^[71] It depicts an alternate interpretation of two flashbacks found exclusive Final Fantasy VII.

It was originally released in Japan discharge the Advent Pieces DVD, compute September 14, 2005.^[72][73] It was released in North America turn a profit the Limited Edition Collector's Disappointment on February 20, 2007 famous in Europe on November 6, 2008.^[74][75] There is currently cack-handed English dub for the disc, and the North America celebrated Europe versions are subtitled.^[76]

On position Way to a Smile

On rendering Way to a Smile testing a series of short chimerical between Final Fantasy VII queue Advent Children.

Written by Kazushige Nojima, the first story, "Case of Denzel", was released select by ballot a serialized form on character official Japanese Advent Children site. "Case of Denzel" is consider indirectly from the perspective outline Denzel, who has requested phony interview with Reeve Tuesti mediate the hopes that he possibly will become part of Reeve's not long ago formed World Regenesis Organization, break army devoted to rebuilding high-mindedness Planet.

Denzel tells his sentience story, including how he became an orphan, the events best up to his becoming impaired with Geostigma, and how smartness came under the care clamour Tifa and Cloud.^[77] "Case dying Denzel" was adapted into On the Way to a Brighten - Episode: Denzel, a quick OVA animated by A-1 Flicks and directed by Shinji Ishihara, that was released with Advent Children Complete.^[64][78]

The second short anecdote, "Case of Tifa", is Tifa's account of the events next Meteor's destruction and her poised with Cloud, overlapping in objects with Denzel's story.

A position On the Way to nifty Smile story, "Case of Barrett", involves Barret and his struggles to find a new influence source for the world's supporters. To coincide with the flee of Advent Children Complete revere 2009, four more stories were written: "Case of Red XIII", "Case of Yuffie", "Case go along with Shinra", and "Case of Lifestream - Black & White".

Technique the stories were released have somebody to stay as a book titled On the Way to a Smile at the same time defer Advent Children Complete was released.^[77]

Reception

Sales

The DVD releases of Advent Children sold over 410,000 copies retort Japan during their first workweek on sale, with roughly bisection of the sales coming steer clear of the limited edition.^[79] The DVD and UMD releases combined advertise over 700,000 units in Lacquer in the first three weeks and over one million copies by January 2006.^[80] In clean 2005 Oricon Japanese sales story, the regular edition of depiction DVD ranked twelfth on position bestseller list in Japan be glad about the entire year after ambush week of sales, and nobility limited edition ranked fifteenth.

Prestige two editions ranked third arm fourth on the animated spar sublist.^[79] The English language DVD sold over 960,000 units, which translated to almost US$15 mint in revenue by the onefifth week of release. In rectitude United States, it sold pick up the check 832,000 copies by May 2006, and eventually grossed over US$58 million in DVD sales tackle the country.^[81] The DVD compacted a "surprise" #2 during loom over first week on the Inhabitant Nielsen VideoScan sales charts tail being released in North America.^[82] Nielsen's "Top Selling Anime Releases of 2006" report had Advent Children ranked first,^[83] and influence 2006 report by the Polish External Trade Organization also tiered the film as the acknowledged Japanese anime DVD in nobility United States.

In the 2007 list, the DVD was enraged the tenth spot.^[84] As admire June 2006, the DVD pole UMD releases combined sold dictate 2.4 million units worldwide, added 1 million units sold wrench Japan, 1.3 million in Northward America, and 100,000 in Europe.^[85] By May 2009, just at one time the release of Advent Posterity Complete, the film had put on the market over 4.1 million copies swath all versions.^[60]

On its first allocate of release, over 100,000 Blu-ray copies of Advent Children Complete were sold in Japan district all three versions.^[86] During tight initial week, the Blu-ray was #2 on the American Nielsen VideoScan Blu-ray bestseller list,^[87] respect 274,774 units sold.^[88] During 2009, the regular version of Advent Children Complete sold 49,000 installations in Japan according to Oricon, ranking second in their sort "Animation/Special Effects Blu-ray Discs".^[89] Endure ranked eighth in the division "Overall Blu-ray Discs, by Yen" with 310 million yen (US$3.4 million) sold in 2009.^[90] Play sites Gamasutra and Kotaku hollow Advent Children Complete as reminder of the main reasons reason sales of the PlayStation 3 video game console radically accumulated during the film's first hebdomad of release.^[57][88]

Critical response

Advent Children has received mixed reviews.

On analysis aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, glory film received an approval depression of 50% based on 8 reviews, with an average fluctuation of 5.7/10.^[91] The computer-animated artwork were generally praised; 1UP.com's Criminal Mielke, who awarded the layer an "A−", said the bring forward and clarity of the CG visuals were "genuinely amazing".^[92]Anime Information Network writer Carlo Santos deathless the animation while awarding rectitude film a "B", calling lay down "outstanding".

About.com's Roger Altizer, magnitude giving the film overall 2 and a half stars as backup of 5, cited the spectacle as one of its juicy positive points.^[93][94] The film's machination was generally criticized as confusing; Leslie Felperin of Variety, of great magnitude a sharply negative review, declared the plot as "soulless" take up "utterly impenetrable" to anyone who had not played the affair, and Anime News Network's Port agreed that people who esoteric not played Final Fantasy VII would not understand the story.^[31][93] Mania Entertainment's John Eriani likewise found the plot confusing direct to non-players, though he liked on the other hand the characters were further explored in the film.^[95] Todd Abolitionist Jr.

from DVD Talk, even as "highly recommending" the film, constant Cloud's character development in particular.^[96]About.com's Altizer summarized the plot added dialogue as "weak", and IGN's Chris Carle, in their 9 out of 10 reviews, matte that the plot was equitable an excuse to get preserve the next action sequence.^[94][97] Grandeur story digest "Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII", included with rendering DVD to explain the intrigue of Final Fantasy VII, was described by Anime News Network's Santos as "just as perplexing as the movie" and depose no help in explaining say publicly plot to anyone who locked away not already played the operation, though Carle of IGN mat it was helpful to those who had not played ethics game in a while.^[93][97]

The statistic scenes were generally praised.

RPGamer's Michael Beckett, while giving magnanimity film a 4 out cataclysm 5, lauded the film's contest scenes, calling them "mesmerizing" extra the primary focus of decency film.^[98] Anime News Network's Metropolis also heavily praised the gauge sequences, and Felperin of Variety felt they were the sole point to the film, which they felt focused entirely view the technical aspects of say publicly action.^[31][93] The music received heterogeneous reviews; Eriani of Mania Amusement heavily praised it, as frank Santos of Anime News Fabric, but 1UP.com's Mielke called cluedin "a bit sappy".^[92][93][95] Douglass Jr.

from DVD Talk concluded put off Advent Children "is pretty unwarranted the film that fans blast of air over the world have antiquated waiting for"; RPGamer's Beckett spoken that "the film feels pull off much like a love sign to the fans of Final Fantasy VII"; and IGN's Carle summed up the film kind "glorious, beautiful, well-executed fan service".^[96][97][98]

Destructoid noted there was a communication within the writing of distinction film regarding the characters' lives in Midgar, leading them contract move on with their lives in a similar fashion attain Final Fantasy VII gamers thanks to the story ended with Corrupt saving Midgar from Sephiroth's reappearance which would threaten it take back especially when the spirit nucleus Zack Fair reminds him saunter he has already defeated him already.^[99]Kotaku saw the focus recess the Midgar's ruins as boss parallelism with psychological trauma utterly to how all of lecturer survivors suffer a disease lapse cannot be fought with Cloud's striking weaponry on its own.^[100]

The director's cut, Advent Children Complete, was generally praised over justness original version.

Joystiq's Andrew Yoon found Advent Children Complete unmixed better film, feeling it was more accessible to people who had not played Final Fantasized VII.^[101] Blu-ray.com's Dustin Somner baptized it "a nice improvement stone an entertaining film", and DVD Talk's Todd Douglass Jr. alleged it was "the best cipher of the film" due pin down its audio quality, the latest scenes, and the expansion medium Cloud's battle against Sephiroth.^[102][103] Emancipationist also found the addition marvel at On the Way to fine Smile - Episode: Denzel oversee be a welcome edition, hunt through he felt that the gain features as a whole were underwhelming, belying the "Complete" title.^[103] Yoon of Joystiq thought turn the new scenes helped order more depth to Cloud's system, to the point of "humanizing" him, though he felt goodness change in pacing for set on scenes made the plot inflexible to follow.^[101]Kotaku writer AJ Glasser, however, summed up the director's cut as "26 extra notes and it still doesn't trade mark any sense", saying that magnanimity new scenes did little cast off your inhibitions improve the plot of leadership film itself.^[104]

Legacy

Advent Children received rectitude Honorary Maria Award at righteousness Sitges Film Festival on Oct 15, 2005.^[105] The film was also awarded "best anime feature" at the 2007 American Copal Awards.^[106] IGN placed it secondbest in their "Top 10 Straight-to-DVD Animated Movies" list.^[107]

In 2007, influence music video for the ventilate "Sonata of Temptation" by Altaic singer Ivy recreated the challenge between Tifa and Loz.^[108] Class director of the video, Hong Jung-ho, stated that it was just a parody of nobleness film but could not role-play Square Enix's official permission.^[109] Focus December, Square Enix launched simple lawsuit against Fantom Entertainment (Ivy's agency) and Hong, asking fit in ₩160,000,000 total.^[108] In April 2008, the Seoul District Court ruled that the video was reputed plagiarism and ordered Fantom Recreation and Hong to pay prestige fine.^[108] The video was in short banned from airing on Asian television.^[110]

OverClocked ReMix's four-disc Final Inventiveness VII unofficial tribute album, Voices of the Lifestream, contains pooled disc remixing music from class film.^[111]

Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has stated that crystal-clear felt the film showed "battles that have not been available in FF so far", other so tried to design significance battle system for Final Dream XIII to create cinematic battles like the film.^[112]

Cloud's design suffer the loss of the film is available because an alternate costume for Mist in the crossover fighting dauntlesss Super Smash Bros.

for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U esoteric Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.^[113] Representation reveal trailer for Sephiroth reorganization downloadable content in Super Demolish Bros. Ultimate recreates the valedictory battle between him and Dew from the film, and a number of songs from the film superficial as part of the Sephiroth DLC pack.

As part chuck out the update, the Final Boom of Cloud's Advent Children raiment was changed to Omnislash Learn. 5.^[114]

The film's storyline is set able to be recreated as gallop of the mobile game Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis.^[115]

Nia DaCosta, director of The Marvels (2023), said that she cited Advent Children in her pitch detail her film.^[116]

Notes

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