Ace Attorney 6 Japanese Trailer + ANIME! (#107)

OH MY GOD! Oh my God, yes. Today at the Tokyo Game Show (I completely forgot about that thing) there was a presentation on the upcoming and highly anticipated Ace Attorney 6, we learned a ton of stuff about the game, along with an announcement about another big thing, which I'll be talking about really soon. First of all, we got an AA6 trailer! It's in Japanese, but, thanks to the beautiful fanbase, we got an English-edited trailer. Click here for the Japanese trailer, or here for the English Edited trailer, which is a much, much better choice for most of you reading this. Kudos to Calios on YouTube for editing this. :)

We can learn a lot from the video, including the fact that the 'mysterious country' that Phoenix visits in AA6 is called 'The Kingdom of Kurain', (which will of course be associated with Kurain Village from Turnabout Trial 1-3 (not 1-3 as in case 3 in game 1 but as in games 1, 2 and 3) which is where Maya is supposedly at right now in the chronology! PLEASE GIVE US SOME MAYA! Even if it's just a side character. I'd even settle for some other spirit medium characters) where, as we already know, people are very superstitious and believe strongly in the spirits of the dead. Rightly so, it would seem, as you can apparently cross examine the actual dead victims themselves in court! Jeez, I know Nick's been in some pretty hopeless situations before, but it's beyond me how he's going to win a trial where the person who got killed is testifying that the defendant killed them?! This will be crazy, but it seems that even the victims will lie in the trials. And check how funky the judge looks! He even has a Magatama.

Some other stuff we've seen from the game is a new prosecutor who looks like Winston Payne (an inevitable yet beloved trait of each game) who I'm assuming will be the prosecutor for 6-1, as well as the Princess of Kurain, Leifa, a spirit medium who in court conjures up the final memories of the dead (i.e. the victim) as evidence (in a process called 'spirit vision'). This clearly showed the defendant, Bokuto, at the scene which seemingly proves his guilty. However, as always, there are contradictions to be found. And finding them is what I shall be doing when this thing gets here in 2016. Oh, and there are no defence attorneys in Kurain, which makes for another awesome 'Phoenix suddenly enters the court' moments when he declares that he objects to the lack of defence and the premature verdict.

Despite early beliefs, this is not Maya, but the new Leifa. I'm
thinking we might see Maya though, as Kurain Village
is where she resides and this is the Kingdom of Kurain.
A fan can hope.

As well as this hurricane of AA6 news, Capcom went and announced an ACE ATTORNEY ANIME, AIRING IN APRIL 2016! Yes, it's what all the fans have been waiting for, and, however unlikely it might be, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be localised and not just a Japan-only thing. Please, please, please, Capcom, have mercy on our English-speaking souls. The anime will feature Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth, along with Maya Fey, who hasn't been seen in any (non-crossover) games in the series since Trials and Tribulations.

YESYESYESYESYESYESMYFROND.

Oh. My. Freakin'. God. I just cannot get over this. I swear, this anime better be localised, and Ace Attorney 6 better not come out over here months and months and months after it comes out in Japan. If it does, I'm learning Japanese. I don't even care.

Update: Turns out that the Winston Payne-looking prosecutor is actually his brother, Gaspen, from Dual Destinies. Nice, it'll be cool to see his character explored more and find out why he's in Kurain. He even seems to be wearing gold clothes and a crown!

Kneel, peasants. 

Thomas