Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki The Animation

Ten years ago, a massive invasion by the Erebonian Empire almost shattered the Kingdom of Liberl, piercing to the heart of Capital City before being driven back by a determined counteroffensive led by Cassius Bright. Now, as the invaders pace behind the northern borders, coveting the small kingdom's magic and high technology, Liberl slowly rebuilds with the aid of the Bracer's Guild, whose mystical use of "Craft" is even more intrinsic to the nation's defense than its own army. For young Estelle Bright, daughter of Cassius, this is all just ancient history that she and her adopted brother Joshua learned as kids. But history has a way of repeating itself, and as they prepare to join the Bracers Guild themselves, sinister forces are preparing to thrust them into the familiar family situation of being in the worst possible place when mayhem breaks out. Because when their father's airship goes suddenly missing, of course it only makes sense to two green, but extraordinarily capable, young teenagers to strike out on a rescue mission of their own!

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Bright, Estelle Main

Kanda, Akemi Japanese

Bright, Joshua Main

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

Rinz, Klose Main

Minaguchi, Yuko Japanese

Crosner, Agate Main

Kondou, Takayuki Japanese

Harvey, Scherazard Main

Shioyama, Yuka Japanese

Bright, Renne Supporting

Nishihara, Kumiko Japanese

Lenheim, Olivier Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Leonhardt, Loewe Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Russel, Tita Supporting

Konno, Hiromi Japanese

Campanella Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Ogasawara, Muneki Producer

Matsuya, Yuuichirou Producer

Sakurai, Yuuka Producer

Oda, Tsuyoshi Producer

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Mar 4, 2019

BlueFox541

Recommended

As with a lot of video game adaptations, this one fails to bring the full emotion of the game to the table, that being said, I feel this animation was not all that bad.

They successfully recreated a few famous scenes from the game while ruining others completely.
Most of the characters feel "off", as in they act in totally different ways from the game. Some scenes have also been drastically changed in order to fit some plot points in such a small running time.

Overall I feel like if this was longer, they would have been able to fit the emotion the history deserved, however with only ... the duration of a film that was just not possible to do, hell, they did not even finish the history to be honest. Still though, I found the animation to be enjoyable, and if you played the game "The legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC" you will probably find it enjoyable as well, so it is still worth a watch, just do not expect anything too great out of it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 15, 2025

MagicalWendy

Mixed Feelings

NANDESUTTE?!
Even in anime, Estelle is still Bestelle.
Definitely don't watch this if you haven't finished the first two or at the very least the first game yet. It does skip 99,9% of the first game, and they changed some things to make it fit into 80 minutes, but it worked nicely, so while not as good as the game, it works nicely for this. I can only hope for there to be a full TV adaptation of Trails in the Sky at some point, but overall I quite enjoyed it still, especially seeing all these characters animated. The animation is also pretty good, and ... they really paid attention to some details.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 12, 2020

LadyAxeFace

Not Recommended

OVAs have a reputation for not being very coherent if you aren't familiar with the source material. Trails in the Sky is worst than most because this is actually an adaptation of the SECOND game in the series. Every emotional beat misses its landing, because it's missing the context of the entire previous game, and tons of stuff is rushed and insufficiently explained. Furthermore, the game's final act was entirely cut from this adaptation. As a result, there's also details that are left hanging with no payoff. I can't imagine anyone who hasn't played to entirely get what's going on, or if they did, ... I'm sure nothing would resonate.

On the other hand, if you're a fan of the games, you'll likely still hate this adaptation. The way the games are designed do not lend themselves to an anime adaptation. They made tons of changes.

What ticked me off the most is some changes to Estelle's characterization, which was one of the BEST things about the games, in my opinion. In the first game, she starts as a young teen, very silly, immature, and a little dumb. But her character experiences major growth. She really matures, and becomes really competent and independent. Sure, she wants to find Joshua, but she also wants to be good at her job. When she finally meets him, she tells him off for leaving her, as SHE SHOULD. Because he chose to leave her without giving her any say at all. He told her he loved her, drugged her, then left. She's pissed that she never got a say.

Meanwhile, in this adaptation, she's so weak. Her entire motivation is finding Joshua, then he appears just to rescue her, and she weakly begs him not to leave. But of course he does. They robbed the character of her strength, and she lost a lot of depth.

They also chose to not keep the translation consistent with the translation used in the English ports of the game. Enforcers are now the legion, Oroborous is mostly called the organization, and the Bracer guild is the association. It's very bland in comparison.

The only good point I can say is they used the stellar music from the games for the OVA's soundtrack. The downside is that the music is usually faded into the background because there's so much talking as they rush to forward the plot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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