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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fifteen years after the first game's debut, an animated adaption of Ace Attorney—known as Gyakuten Saiban: Sono Shinjitsu, Igiari! (lit. "Turnabout Trial: I Object to Your Truth!") in Japan—was finally made.The first season of the anime is based on the first two games of the series and first aired in Japan on April 2, 2016 as part of the Spring 2016 Anime season. The anime was produced by A-1 Pictures, directed by Ayumu Watanabe, and with music by Kaoru Wada. For those outside Japan, Crunchyroll officially streams and subs near-simulcasts episodes of the series, with two alternative subtitle options for the characters' original Japanese names and the Americanized names from the original games. Funimation also provides the show's English voice track, with Dub Name Change in full effect.A second season, based on the third game in the series, debuted on October 6th, 2018, with Crunchyroll returning to simulcast, and Funimation providing a simuldub a few weeks later.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Warning: This Anime contains unmarked spoilers ahead for the first three games of the series: You have been warned. | |
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Memento MacGuffin | |
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Memento Macguffin: During their childhood, Larry uses his newfound fortune (Edgeworth's unclaimed lunch money) to play a prize game and wins a 'Signal Samurai' keyring set. He splits each one with Phoenix, Edgeworth and himself as a token of their friendship. Years later, Phoenix still carries his weathered one while Edgeworth also has his one in better condition. It's also presumed that Larry still has his. | |
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Trail of Bread Crumbs | |
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Trail of Bread Crumbs: Young Edgeworth leaves a trail of dog food (twice) so that he can find his way back to his house. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Episode 9 has both Phoenix and Manfred von Karma raising objections strong enough to knock their opponent back (bonus Crucified Hero Shot for Phoenix). | |
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Edgeworth's most controversial moment, threatening to reveal Adrian's psychological problems to force her to testify, was cut out. He also doesn't stumble over his words when talking about how Maya got herself held in contempt of court to save him from being convicted on the first day of his trial, instead telling Phoenix that he owes her a debt. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The "Testimony" shots show what happened as the witness is describing it, even if it isn't actually true. For example, April May's testimony shows Maya killing her sister. | |
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Cheated Angle | |
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Cheated Angle: An anime staple. The most obvious example is Detective Gumshoe's hair spikes. | |
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David Versus Goliath | |
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David Versus Goliath: Phoenix and Edgeworth's first meeting in the courtroom plays up the contrast as much as possible: unheralded rookie attorney with only one win vs. famous, unbeaten "guilty verdict machine." Naturally, we see Edgeworth make a splashy entrance in his red sports car while Phoenix parks his bike in complete anonymity. | |
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The Cutie | |
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In the game, Regina Berry was The Cutie to such an extent that everyone wanted to marry her, even Maya, and the rumor was that Max Galactica visited Russel Berry to discuss the prospect of marrying her (along with his salary negotiations). In the anime, only Bat and Ben/Trilo had any romantic designs for Regina. | |
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Santa Clausmas | |
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Santa Clausmas: Christmas is mentioned a few times, but since this is Christmas in Japan, it's an entirely secular holiday and apparently not taken seriously except by children. | |
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Localized Name in a Non-Localized Setting: Probably due to the inherent differences between the two mediums, the English dub does not localize the setting from Japan to California like the games do. Despite this, the English names from the games are used instead of their Japanese counterparts. This is likely due to both audience familiarity (eg. Phoenix Wright vs. Ryuuichi Naruhodou) and to retain the meanings behind the name puns. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Manfred von Karma doesn't go for the Villain Ball like he does in the games: he moves the DL-6 evidence to his office before anyone thinks to go looking for it, sends a typescript letter with no identifying information to Yanni Yogi, doesn't taunt Phoenix into cross-examining the parrot, and sets a watch on his office just in case someone tries to get the evidence during the trial itself. Ultimately, he's brought down only because Edgeworth knows his ways and Maya is very, very brave. | |
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Remake Cameo | |
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Remake Cameo: When dubbing the second season of the anime, the studio secured Sam Riegel to play Furio Tigre, a Loan Shark who poorly yet successfully impersonates Phoenix. Riegel is the actor for the English dub of the video games, where he plays Phoenix. | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses: Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma strike this pose in the second opening. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In the games, Morgan Fey was merely Mimi's accomplice in the murder of Dr. Grey. Here, she is the one who comes up with the whole plan and blackmails Mimi into participating. Then again, it's not like it's below her. During the second trial, Luke Atmey acts much more Ax-Crazy than in the games. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The first "Turnabout Sisters" episode slightly expands the way Phoenix ends up defending Maya: Grossberg initially agrees to defend her, but then gets a call from Redd White and is forced to give up. In the game, he just refuses immediately. While in the game Phoenix directly goes to Maya after Grossberg refuses to defend her, in the anime, he spends hours trying to find someone willing to take Maya's case. The result is just a notebook with all but two names crossed out; it really helps to bring across a feeling of hopelessness. This act of kindness touches Maya so much that she asks Phoenix to defend her. The list of White's blackmail victims that Mia writes to take him down is more or less expanded in this adaptation. While the detail about his victims committing suicide is removed, the list is shown and stated to be the same piece of evidence that was inside The Thinker. This way, Mia writing that list has slightly more context than in the game, where it came across as a Deus ex Machina to most players. Cody's encounter with Jack Hammer in Steel Samurai suit is a bit different this time around: Instead of Cody's stalking without a word, he eventually appeared and asked for a photo. Hammer actually complied, but got the pose wrong since he was so used to playing the Evil Magistrate and did a Sword Plant instead. Phoenix and Maya, having binged the entire Steel Samurai series the night before in an effort to find something that might help their case, are able to recognize the pose as such, leading to the key deduction that the person in the Steel Samurai suit was Hammer instead of Powers. The anime-original episode "Turnabout Promise" details how the classroom trial started. On the day of the trial, Edgeworth unknowingly dropped his lunch money after Phoenix bumped into him. Larry later found the money in the mouth of a stray dog and, not knowing who it belonged to, gave it to the police. Later that day, while skipping PE due to a cold, Phoenix picked Edgeworth's empty money envelope right when a classmate walked in on him. Ironically, once he gained legal ownership of the money after a three-month waiting period, Larry later used that same money to get himself, Phoenix and Edgeworth the Signal Samurai keychains that symbolized their friendship. The adaptation of "The Stolen Turnabout" plays up the division between Maya and Phoenix when the latter decides to defend Ron. In the game, it was only Pearl who really got upset, but in the anime the two briefly go their own way (which Phoenix going to Atmey's office while Maya and Pearl go to Desiree) and don't regroup until the trial. The season 2 episode "Sound the Turnabout Melody" is a Sequel Episode to "Turnabout Promise" that highlights Edgeworth's life with the von Karmas, including his once loving relationship with Franziska before she became a ruthless prosecutor, and the hand Phoenix unwittingly played in pushing him towards becoming a prosecutor by requesting a song on the radio that played at exactly the right moment. It also shows Manfred's thoughts towards Edgeworth during this time: after three years, he initially just wanted to send him off to an orphanage and rid himself of the Edgeworths' "curse", but seeing his potential as a prosecutor made him curious to see where his "karma" would lead him. The game vaguely explains that Godot's visor can't register red on a white background. Here, we finally see what that means; his Murderer P.O.V. reveals he sees everything through a Red Filter of Doom. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The letter found in the safe is mentioned to be a sign that someone else masterminded Hammond's murder, but that plotline is never touched upon again. In the game, the letter identifies the plot's mastermind as von Karma, since Grossberg can recognize the handwriting — in this adaptation it's typewritten. | |
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Adaptation Deviation | |
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Adaptation Deviation: The courtroom layout is a bit different than in the games. The defense is on the left side and the prosecution is on the right, unlike in the game, in which the opposite was true. The court also features chairs for the defendants to sit during the trial. The games showed them on the witness stand regardless of whether they were testifying, except for when they were serving as the assistant or when Phoenix was defending himself. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Dahlia Hawthorne is nowhere to be seen in any of the preview trailers for Season 2. | |
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Related in the Adaptation: In the games, Celeste is Adrian's mentor. In the anime, they're sisters instead. | |
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Cruel to Be Kind | |
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While he was never any villainous in any means in the original games, in "Turnabout Big Top", Moe's reason to participate in the final trial was to help Phoenix replicate the scene of the death of Russel Berry, instead of his Cruel to Be Kind purpose of directly showing Regina the consequences of her oblivious innocence (although he does ask Phoenix to tell the court about the incident when Franziska asks about the motive, and tells Regina she needs to listen to Phoenix). | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Maya's schoolgirl outfit on the JFA episodes' outro (and in a flashback in Season 2) is the same as the one she wears in a piece of concept art. Phoenix finding out the truth about Matt Engarde in Episode 22 is met with the brief animation of several Psyche-Locks shattering. In the second "Bridge to the Turnabout" episode, Gumshoe tries to console a crying Bikini with a handkerchief, who ends up blowing her nose onto Gumshoe's own tie. A similar scene happened during Turnabout Reminiscence, which involved Edgeworth giving a sobbing Kay his handkerchief, only for Kay to blow her nose on Edgeworth's cravat. In "Song to the Turnabout" (also known as "Sound the Turnabout Melody"), Phoenix wears the exact same uniform as his ancestor, complete with the spark-shaped badge on the collar. | |
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Past Experience Nightmare | |
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Edgeworth has a DL-6 nightmare while imprisoned. Doubles as Past Experience Nightmare in his case, since until that moment he had been handling his situation with (apparent) aloof indifference. | |
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Accent Adaptation | |
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Accent Adaptation: The English dub gives Edgeworth with a vaguely German accent as opposed to the posh British accent he traditionally has in the localized games. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: In "The Lost Turnabout", an amnesiac Phoenix accidentally discovers that he can unleash Dramatic Wind in the courtroom and socks Gumshoe in the stomach with it. He then looks at his hands and wonders what he just did. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Justified in many cases (defendants are in custody and have no chance to change clothes; Maya is in an acolyte's uniform; the lawyers are usually on official court business), but there's no obvious reason for someone like Regina Berry to walk around all day in full costume. Averted during the "Bridge to the Turnabout" arc, in which the characters bundle up while visiting Hazakura Temple in the winter, and Phoenix is wearing a robe and Iris' hood on the night of the murder. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: In Episode 5, Phoenix's TV is a "RANYASONYAC". | |
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Face Fault | |
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Face Fault: Maya and Gumshoe do one simultaneously in episode 9, when Phoenix sternly interrupts Gumshoe's testimony to ask what ballistic markings are. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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During the second trial, Luke Atmey acts much more Ax-Crazy than in the games. | |
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Adaptational Late Appearance | |
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Adaptational Late Appearance: The DL-6 Incident gets this treatment. It wasn't mentioned at all in the Turnabout Sisters episodes, though Grossberg's involvement is alluded to. The Lost Turnabout case was missing during the first season, which covered Justice for All. Instead, it became the first case for the second season which covered Trials and Tribulations, possibly because it took place after "Reunion, and Turnabout" and had no direct links to the other JFA cases. Turnabout Memories, the first case of Trials and Tribulations is covered after the second and third cases of that particular game. | |
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Eyes Always Shut | |
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In a scene midway through the first trial phase of "Reunion, and Turnabout," Ini's eyes briefly open as she's speaking with her accomplice Morgan, hinting at her true identity as Mimi. | |
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Worldbuilding | |
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Worldbuilding: One of the anime's strengths is that, unlike the games, it isn't restricted to a few static backgrounds, and can show more in-depth the locales in Phoenix's world. For the first time in the main canon, we can see the exterior of the Wright & Co. Law Offices and many other places, and other locales that only appeared in the spin-off games (such as the interior of the courthouse and Edgeworth's office). | |
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Memetic Mutation | |
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Redd White, just like in the Japanese version of the games. He randomly uses English phrases in his sentences. WHATCHA NAAAAYME? | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: As in the games, Pearls immediately believes that Phoenix is Maya's "special someone" and starts cheering him on to defend her because that's what a man does for his special someone. He's pretty embarrassed about it all. | |
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Adapted Out | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_33d5b7f2 | comment |
Adapted Out: The anime skipped "Rise From the Ashes", though that was only a bonus episode in the DS port of the first game (and probably far too long to fit in the first season, seeing as it's more than twice the length of "Turnabout Goodbyes"). This is subverted with "The Lost Turnabout", which was the first case in the second game. It was skipped in the first season of the anime, which covered the first two games, only to show up as the case for the first episode of season 2, which otherwise covers the third game. The Magatama sequences have been cut from the anime, likely to save on time. Psyche-Locks are shown breaking when Matt Engarde reveals his true colors, though. Lotta Hart is completely removed from "Farewell, My Turnabout". Her role in the case is instead given to Larry. "Director" Hotti appears neither in "Reunion and Turnabout" nor in "Farewell, My Turnabout". Penny Nichole barely gets a few seconds of non heard screen time in a montage. Blue Screens Inc and Lisa Basil are completely removed in "Recipe for Turnabout", giving her role to Gumshoe. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: In episode 8, Maya pulls out a magazine talking about Gourdy (and later, the popper Larry gave her) out of her obi. In the first "Turnabout Big Top" episode, Gumshoe pulls Max Galactica's hat out of his trenchcoat. | |
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This Cannot Be! | |
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Like in the second game, Franziska still pounds the desk and yells "This Cannot Be!" when she loses; however, she doesn't go on a whipping fit and knock Phoenix unconscious. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_381855db | comment |
Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the second half of "Turnabout Beginnings," Dahlia smirks when Terry drinks the poisoned coffee. | |
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Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3936d715 | comment |
Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: If Phoenix is about to have a big moment, expect to see a glint off his attorney's badge. The big gold seal in the courtroom gets a lot of focus too when justice is about to go down. | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3a88a563 | comment |
Vocal Dissonance: In the flashbacks to when the main characters were kids, Edgeworth and Larry sound like they're 17 years old when they're supposed to be only 9. In the sixth episode of the second season, slightly older Edgeworth has his present-day voice. Averted in the English dub, where female actors were cast for all three boys to give more age-appropriate voices. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Subverted in "Song to the Turnabout" when the opposing attorney in one of Manfred's cases points out that the decisive evidence against his client wasn't in the discovery period, but Manfred convinces everyone that the attorney just didn't notice then. In the games, Mimi Miney can wipe her tears with her hat; in this adaption, it doesn't survive all the twisting and pulling. Max does his "throwing cards" animation, twice, in the detention center. The cards just smack against the glass. Acro's little birds don't follow him into the courtroom. Matt Engarde did not bring A Glass of Chianti anywhere he goes from the detention center to the court. In an episode, Gumshoe talks on his phone... while driving. He ends up getting in a car accident as a result. Franziska is taken completely out of commission the day she is shot, and when she turns up for her Big Damn Heroes moment the next day she looks a bit shaky and her arm is in a sling. | |
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Credits Running Sequence | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3f0ae6cb | comment |
Credits Running Sequence: The first opening has Phoenix-and then Maya, Larry, and Gumshoe-running down an (eventually) sunflower path during the daytime. Edgeworth, on the other hand, is walking alone on a beach at night. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3f11ef74 | comment |
"Bridge to the Turnabout" omits dialogue in which Iris says why she feels sorry for Dahlia after everything the latter did- neither of their parents loved them, but while Iris had Sister Bikini, Dahlia had no one of the sort. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_3f45f1e6 | comment |
Adaptational Heroism: Sal Manella had nothing to do with hiding or moving Hammer's body; Dee Vasquez did all of that on her own. Grossberg has his own share; see Adaptational Nice Guy below. It was never Mimi Miney's intention to kill Dr. Grey; she had approached Morgan Fey to see if she could somehow manipulate the channeling ritual so that Dr. Grey wouldn't realize the truth about her sister. Morgan then used her knowledge of this secret to blackmail Mimi into the plan to kill Dr. Grey and frame Maya. In the games, Celeste's suicide note was a fake made by Corrida to discredit Engarde. Here the note was real and Corrida merely intended to publicize it. Viola Cadaverini is a lot less creepy, and the running joke of her offering poisoned food to Phoenix and Maya is not present. Downplayed with Jean Armstrong. While his debts result in him being forced to help Furio Tigre stage Glen Elg's murder to frame Maggey (Armstrong's employee), his kleptomaniac tendencies never come up, and he never attacks Phoenix, so he mainly comes off as an incompetent restaurateur who got a loan from a Loan Shark and ended up being Forced into Evil. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4023b8c8 | comment |
First-Name Basis: In the dub, Mia calls Phoenix by his first name while he's her employee, as opposed to "Wright"note In the original Japanese, she calls him "Naruhodo-kun," a polite way to refer to a younger man or a subordinate in the localization of the first case. In the dub, Phoenix and Edgeworth occasionally use each other's first names. Maggey often calls Gumshoe by his first name, Dick. Since she's often cross with him over testifying for the prosecution whenever she's on trial, it vaguely sounds like she's calling him a dick. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: In "Sound the Turnabout Melody," Manfred von Karma tells the press, "I don't care about my record. I fight for justice. That's my duty," some time after he murdered Gregory Edgeworth for getting him a penalty. | |
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2D Visuals, 3D Effects | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_42cfbfc6 | comment |
2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The courthouse layouts, the courtroom audience, and any moving vehicles are all 3D models. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: De Killer's tone barely changes as he states that his new target is his traitorous former client. | |
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Flashback Nightmare | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4478c66d | comment |
Flashback Nightmare: Two in "Turnabout Goodbyes". Phoenix dreams about the class trial at the beginning of the case. Edgeworth has a DL-6 nightmare while imprisoned. Doubles as Past Experience Nightmare in his case, since until that moment he had been handling his situation with (apparent) aloof indifference. | |
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Saying Too Much | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4733b5a5 | comment |
Saying Too Much: In the final part of "Bridge to the Turnabout," when Phoenix tells Maya that there was a third party at the scene of the crime, who is likely the killer, Maya says, "No, he was only trying to-" then cuts herself off, realizing too late that she admitted that she saw the third party and knew his identity. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Wendy Oldbag in this adaptation is abrasive, but genuinely good-hearted. Although this applied to him in the original game, Max Galactica is even moreso in the adaptation. While the plot points of him being egotistical and abrasive towards the other carnies stay in, the anime reveals that he only acted like that to encourage them to improve their acts. It also reveals that the massive pay raise that he asked for (which, in the game, was assumed to be for himself) was actually to be distributed among the other carnies as motivation to do even better. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4aaffbd5 | comment |
I Never Said It Was Poison: A variant comes up in "Turnabout Samurai." Dee Vasquez mistakenly says that she knew there wouldn't be a rehearsal because Jack Hammer injured his ankle. In fact, Will Powers was the one with the injured ankle, and the only way Vasquez would know about "Hammer's" injured ankle was if she saw him dressed as the Steel Samurai, when he tried to kill her and she killed him. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: At the end of Episode 9, the parrot in the boat rental shop (Polly) says "Don't forget DL-6!". For those who don't know, DL-6 is a murder incident that has been unsolved for 15 years. | |
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Wham Shot | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: In a stark contrast from the game, in the final "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode, as Phoenix is about to prove von Karma killed Gregory Edgeworth in the DL-6 incident, the bullet is missing. The note reading "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death" at the end of "Turnabout Promise". | |
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The Atoner | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_4ef92d0b | comment |
Marvin Grossberg, in spades. In "Turnabout Sisters", Grossberg happily agrees to defend Maya, but he gets a call from Redd White shortly afterwards and is forced to give up. After the first trial, Grossberg goes to Phoenix's office to willingly tell him about Redd White, whereas in the original case Phoenix had to interrogate him for it. Then, the first "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode shows how he deeply regrets his part in the DL-6 incident (leaking Misty Fey's involvement to Redd White, leading to her disgrace) and tearfully begs Maya to forgive him, while in the game he awkwardly told Maya that he "helped" her mother, never admitting he sold Misty out. Oh, and in "Turnabout Memories" there is no mention of hemorrhoids, the main complaint people had of him in T&T. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_52d1f46e | comment |
The anime-original episode "Turnabout Promise" details how the classroom trial started. On the day of the trial, Edgeworth unknowingly dropped his lunch money after Phoenix bumped into him. Larry later found the money in the mouth of a stray dog and, not knowing who it belonged to, gave it to the police. Later that day, while skipping PE due to a cold, Phoenix picked Edgeworth's empty money envelope right when a classmate walked in on him. Ironically, once he gained legal ownership of the money after a three-month waiting period, Larry later used that same money to get himself, Phoenix and Edgeworth the Signal Samurai keychains that symbolized their friendship. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_557838d1 | comment |
Adaptational Attractiveness: The smoother art style here (versus the original games' pixelated graphics) allow Lotta Hart to come across as underratedly gorgeous. | |
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Luminescent Blush | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5586a766 | comment |
Luminescent Blush: Miles Edgeworth of all people blushes full red in Episode 5 upon being complimented by Oldbag, and in the "Turnabout Promise" episode because of his friends' goofiness towards him and the whole ordeal of the abandoned puppy. | |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5663a595 | comment |
Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Franziska's appearance in episode 13. She looks no younger than 4 years old, but she's supposed to be 2 at the time. This is corrected in Season 2, where she looks like her appropriate age in flashbacks depicting Edgeworth as a preteen. In episode 17, when Phoenix explains how Mimi Miney posed as Maya to frame her, he reasons that when she put Maya in the clothing box, Dr. Grey shot at her, creating the bullet hole in the sleeve of the costume Mimi wore. In the game, the lack of a bullet hole in the sleeve of the woman in the second photograph is used to argue that she and Maya are not the same person. In the anime, the lack of a ceremonial headdress Maya was supposed to be wearing is used for this purpose instead, with Mimi and Maya having switched costumes when everyone not in on the plot was out of the room, but in that case the bullet hole should be in the sleeve of the costume Mimi was wearing in the photograph. It inexplicably isn't, even though when the picture taking is flashed-back to later the bullet hole is there. During the Turnabout Samurai case, it is stated multiple times that the murder weapon is too heavy for a child or a petite woman to lift, and therefore the idea of either of them flat-out murdering the victim is completely dismissed. While in the game, it never goes into detail about the weight, the anime says the weight is 15 kg/about 33 lbs. While it might take a bit of effort, an elementary schooler could probably lift 33 pounds, and an adult woman would certainly be able to. Inverted with the final bit of evidence that convinces de Killer to abandon Engarde. In the games, you present a videotape, even though he can't actually see it and no one has verified the contents. In the anime, the radio transceiver also transmitted video, so de Killer could not only see the DVD but also watch part of the playback, demonstrating beyond all doubt that someone had filmed him taking Corrida's life. Plus he had a copy of said DVD on his person that Matt specifically ordered him to protect and not watch, so Shelley can verify its contents on his own. The anime cut out the dialogue in the game noting that Iris will still face jail time for tampering with a crime scene, which makes it rather strange when she completely vanishes literally the scene right after she's declared innocent of murder and outright confesses to Phoenix that she's in love with him. | |
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Chromatic Arrangement | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_59275ef7 | comment |
Chromatic Arrangement: Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Larry are blue, red, and yellow-orange, respectively, and apparently they've been like that since childhood. Atypically, Phoenix (blue) is empathetic and passionate but a bit Book Dumb, while Edgeworth (red) is composed and intellectual but standoffish. Larry is just a lovable doofus. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: The accident at Studio Two five years ago is pretty much glossed over in this adaptation, not even naming the dead actor. The game went into more detail about it, implying that maybe Hammer did it on purpose, and suggesting that Vasquez was close to the deceased actor. In the game, Regina Berry was The Cutie to such an extent that everyone wanted to marry her, even Maya, and the rumor was that Max Galactica visited Russel Berry to discuss the prospect of marrying her (along with his salary negotiations). In the anime, only Bat and Ben/Trilo had any romantic designs for Regina. In the game, Edgeworth passing out during the earthquake gave Dahlia the chance to switch places with Iris. In the anime, Edgeworth's earthquake-related trauma never comes up, so Gumshoe is held responsible for what happened. In the game, Phoenix and Maya have to track down Pearl, who's distraught over the role she played in the events leading up to the final case. In the anime, Franziska finds her offscreen and delivers her to Phoenix and Maya while everyone is in the lobby. | |
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Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5b0a14b1 | comment |
Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: Unlike the games this anime is based off of, this adaptation largely averts this trope because of the expanded set pieces the anime uses, as well as the first episode establishing the location as Japan as a plot point. That make it impossible for this anime to claim to be anywhere else but Japan. | |
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Lip Lock | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5c048cd9 | comment |
Lip Lock: In the director's commentary for the dub, the team mentioned how some of the dialogue had to be reworked to match the Mouth Flaps. One challenge they mentioned was translating Maya's nickname for Phoenix from "Naruhodo-kun" to "Nick", a reduction of four syllables which had to be accounted for on a regular basis. | |
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Sword Plant | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_5dbf4213 | comment |
Cody's encounter with Jack Hammer in Steel Samurai suit is a bit different this time around: Instead of Cody's stalking without a word, he eventually appeared and asked for a photo. Hammer actually complied, but got the pose wrong since he was so used to playing the Evil Magistrate and did a Sword Plant instead. Phoenix and Maya, having binged the entire Steel Samurai series the night before in an effort to find something that might help their case, are able to recognize the pose as such, leading to the key deduction that the person in the Steel Samurai suit was Hammer instead of Powers. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: While the anime is very faithful to the games, some changes in the progression of the cases were made due to time constraints, and others to better suit the story's pacing. This results in some gags (Sahwit hilariously throwing his wig at Phoenix's face) and optional content (the ladder/stepladder debate) being cut out, changes in locales (Cody's interrogation taking place during the investigation), and characters being switched around (Larry Butz replacing Lotta Hart in "Farewell, My Turnabout"). However, not every change was completely positive: the stun gun scene in "Turnabout Goodbyes" was a huge shock in the game (von Karma attacked Phoenix and Maya to steal a critical piece of evidence) but is less so in the anime (Maya is tased by a random officer but manages to grab the evidence anyway). | |
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Americasia | |
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Americasia: For once in the Ace Attorney series, this is practically Averted by the English dub, which is firmly set in Japan instead of a Japanese-influenced Los Angeles like the games. This can be chalked up to the very first episode, which explicitly illustrates the victim's Japanese passport and a photograph of her overseas trip to New York, and the two-hour time difference between countries as a decisive plot point, all of which was only mentioned in the games. Thus, the dubbing team didn't have the luxury of glossing things over in translation. And while the games had a limited amount of backgrounds from the visual side which could be passed off as America, the expanded environments shown here look very obviously like Japan. Despite this, however, it still retains the Dub Name Change for every single character. Obviously, this does raise the question of how it is possible that all characters in the dub are supposedly Japanese despite having very Western names like "Phoenix Wright" and "Miles Edgeworth" (except perhaps as a form of naming Translation Convention, as all the Punny Names would be completely meaningless to Western viewers). | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Cody has a bigger role in the story of the third case. In the game, he pretty much disappeared after revealing he had seen the Steel Samurai being killed in Studio 2. In this adaptation, he has an outburst in the last trial day which prompts Edgeworth to start helping the defensenote In the game, Edgeworth's helping you came almost out of nowhere, although it's implied that the Judge asking him to reconsider whether Powers is guilty played a role and convinces Oldbag to show the defense the photo from five years ago. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: When Redd White prepares to make testimony accusing Phoenix of Mia's murder. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Trucy Wright and a robot similar to Ponco can be seen briefly in the opening... as chalk drawings Phoenix jumps around. The first "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode shows Phoenix always was a fan of grape juice. In the episode about Turnabout Promise, when Edgeworth's money flies off, you can see that one of the bills has the judge's face. In the credits of the JFA episodes, you can see Pearl with Missile the police dog. But you'll also see Ghost Trick's Missile the Pomeranian. Redd White, just like in the Japanese version of the games. He randomly uses English phrases in his sentences. WHATCHA NAAAAYME? In Episode 15, Franziska says "No problem" in English, as does the Judge right after her, and then Phoenix says the word "problem" in English when the Judge refuses to have the whip taken away. (The English translation keeps the flavor of the exchange by turning it into "No problemo"/"Big problemo.") | |
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Thriller on the Express | |
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Thriller on the Express: The anime original "Northward, Turnabout Express" has Phoenix and Maya be invited to travel on the Silver Star, a luxury train, only for the train to be hijacked. The hijacker happens to be the train's owner, Avery Richman, who just happens to be a fugitive escaping a death sentence. He claims however he was falsely convicted, and planned the hijacking so he can hold a retrial on the train, with Phoenix as his lawyer. | |
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Super-Deformed | |
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Super-Deformed: By the time Season 2 rolls in, Adrian Andrews can end up in a downplayed form of this to show more of her new open and klutzy personality. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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The list of White's blackmail victims that Mia writes to take him down is more or less expanded in this adaptation. While the detail about his victims committing suicide is removed, the list is shown and stated to be the same piece of evidence that was inside The Thinker. This way, Mia writing that list has slightly more context than in the game, where it came across as a Deus ex Machina to most players. | |
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Murderer P.O.V. | |
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The game vaguely explains that Godot's visor can't register red on a white background. Here, we finally see what that means; his Murderer P.O.V. reveals he sees everything through a Red Filter of Doom. | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish: Episode 4 of the second season has a flashback to Gumshoe mentioning that the buzzer at KB Security had not been pressed on the night of the murder, a scene that had happened minutes ago. | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Unlike the game (which waited until the fourth case to elaborate on Phoenix's motivations), part of the class trial from Phoenix's youth is shown from the outset as being a major part of why he became a defense attorney. Likewise, Manfred von Karma briefly appears in episodes 2 and 5, whereas the game didn't introduce him until Turnabout Goodbyes. A young Franziska von Karma appears in episode 13 before her formal appearance in the Reunion and Turnabout episodes. The anime hints that Morgan Fey and Ini Miney are responsible for Dr Grey's death during the first trial, with a scene cutting to them together during the trial, during which Ini briefly drops her airhead facade and shows Mimi's eyes. In the game this revelation did not come until the second investigation. The Steel Samurai not only has skill with his spear like in the games, he also conjures up whirlpools that turn into mini hurricanes. | |
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Adaptational Intelligence | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_72455542 | comment |
Adaptational Intelligence: Redd White is not as incompetent in the final "Turnabout Sisters" court day as he was in the game, where he started getting nervous and falling apart rather fast. Overall, he's also considerably more frightening as a villain than in the game. Manfred von Karma doesn't go for the Villain Ball like he does in the games: he moves the DL-6 evidence to his office before anyone thinks to go looking for it, sends a typescript letter with no identifying information to Yanni Yogi, doesn't taunt Phoenix into cross-examining the parrot, and sets a watch on his office just in case someone tries to get the evidence during the trial itself. Ultimately, he's brought down only because Edgeworth knows his ways and Maya is very, very brave. To streamline the progression of cases and save runtime, Phoenix figures out the contradictions almost immediately, whereas in the game he stumbled in several spots. His infamous incident in the first game where he loses the damning Yogi's Letter to von Karma by presenting it to him was also changed to him discovering it with Gumshoe as a witness who immediately has it safely filed away as evidence, which is later presented in court proving that Yogi is involved in this crime. Matt Engarde seems to be less of an airhead. Some of his antics of "contacting his agency" still exist, but he loses his Surfer Dude personality and seemed like he could speak normally. For his masquerade anyway. He also still has enough sense to keep up his "good guy" charade in front of the public court rather than openly showing his Obviously Evil self before Franziska delivers the final evidence, only showing it for his Villainous Breakdown afterwards. Despite all this, he still makes the same fatal mistake he made in the game- blackmailing the assassin that he hired. Miles Edgeworth is no idiot in the games, but in the anime version of "Farewell, My Turnabout" he is in the courtroom and ready to prosecute Matt Engarde with almost no time to prepare. In the games he'd already done some research on the case and talked about it with Phoenix before he was called upon to replace Franziska. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_730d3664 | comment |
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Similar to the live-action movie before it, the anime expands on how DL-6 ruined Yogi's life, though not to the same extent as the film. A milder example, but in the game version of "Stolen Turnabout," while Pearl is distraught that Phoenix would consider defending Ron DeLite when it looks like he stole from Maya, Maya herself only gets only briefly annoyed and quickly has Phoenix' back, staying with him while Pearl runs off. In the anime, Maya becomes almost as upset at Pearl and bitterly leaves Phoenix' side to go off with Pearl alone. The adaptation of "Recipe for Turnabout" drives home the point of how Viola genuinely trusted Tigre and plays up her feelings of betrayal at finding out he doesn't care for her. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: In the game, Vasquez ended up killing Hammer by pushing him over the stair railing and into the spiked fence. In this adaptation, she frickin' tossed Hammer-in-Steel Samurai-costume above her head, in spite of her claiming the 15kg Samurai Spear was too heavy for her to handle. Compared to the game, Manfred von Karma's long vacations after the DL-6 Incident were reduced to a single day off job. Considering he had those vacations to heal off his bullet wound in the games, this means von Karma is Made of Iron in the anime. Franziska von Karma now has the willingness to whip people like Morgan Fey. Maya is more of a Plucky Girl in the anime — she risks a taser to retrieve a piece of critical evidence from Manfred von Karma, and when she is held captive by de Killer, she not only frees herself briefly (as in the games) but uses the time to swipe another critical piece of evidence, which she leaves behind for the police to recover. All of that is in addition to being the voice of encouragement driving Nick and others to have faith and keep fighting. And being a spirit medium, of course. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Manfred von Karma is heavily implied to have died in prison for unspecified reasonsnote While it's possible he was sentenced to death, his execution probably wouldn't have been scheduled for years after his conviction, like in the cases of Dahlia and Blackquill by the time of "Reunion and Turnabout". The anime makes no reference to his passing, and Phoenix simply says he's in jail. | |
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication | |
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The adaptation of "Reunion, and Turnabout" shows that Morgan is jealous of Misty and her daughters, but doesn't specifically mention that Morgan's ultimate goal is to make Pearl the next Master, since Morgan's spiritual power is too weak to become Master herself. "Bridge to the Turnabout" omits dialogue in which Iris says why she feels sorry for Dahlia after everything the latter did- neither of their parents loved them, but while Iris had Sister Bikini, Dahlia had no one of the sort. | |
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Whip It Good | |
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Manfred's daughter, Franziska, is less violent than in the games — her whip (usually) strikes near her victims without actually hitting them (though the intent to startle and intimidate is clear), and when she suffered her first loss, she didn't go on a whipping frenzy and knock Phoenix out (although this is helped by Phoenix not taunting a defeated Franziska, which had led to his whipping). Some of her Amoral Attorney traits are also removed, such as hiding one of Lotta's photos. | |
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7a08e8d1 | comment |
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: When Larry takes the stand in "Turnabout Goodbyes," he demands that Phoenix call him "Mr. Butz" in court. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: Phoenix asks one of Viola in "Recipe for Turnabout," when she insists that Furio Tigre loves her. | |
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Origins Episode | |
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Origins Episode: The anime-original episode "Turnabout Promise" opens with a more detailed account of how the classroom trial started. It's followed by Phoenix, Edgeworth and Larry bonding over their favorite Samurai-themed television series, and ends with their final meeting before Edgeworth moved away to become a prosecutor. For extra measure, it even throws in an Early-Bird Cameo from Franziska von Karma. | |
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Angst Nuke | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7c3bdd77 | comment |
In Episode 17, when Mimi Miney has been found out, she screams so intensely that she causes a mini nuclear explosion while inside the witness' stand. | |
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Sore Loser | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7cc8d769 | comment |
Sore Loser: Winston Payne wails, "That rookie beat me?!" at the end of Phoenix's first trial. | |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Giant versions of the Judge and Franziska attack Phoenix in the second opening. | |
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Ring of Fire | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_7d411ea2 | comment |
Ring of Fire: Phoenix jumps through several of these during the second opening, chased by Regina Berry on a lion. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The judge gives Matt Engarde one at the end of the first season, taken almost word-for-word from the second game's last case. The culprit in "Northward, Turnabout Express" gets one from multiple people. Godot gives Phoenix one during the "Bridge to the Turnabout" arc, in which he blames Phoenix for Mia's death and Maya's current plight. During the speech, he even gets visibly angry and grabs Phoenix by the shirt midway through. | |
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Reverse Whodunnit | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_8015df5d | comment |
Reverse Whodunnit: While it's played straight with Frank Sahwit, like in the game, it's averted with Redd White, since his murder of Mia isn't shown until after he confesses. | |
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Dramatic Wind | |
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Dramatic Wind: Punctuates big "Objections" and thus doubles with Make Me Wanna Shout. Sometimes coupled with the objecting character's Battle Aura. Von Karma can apparently create some by snapping his fingers. | |
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Sympathetic Murderer | |
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It was never Mimi Miney's intention to kill Dr. Grey; she had approached Morgan Fey to see if she could somehow manipulate the channeling ritual so that Dr. Grey wouldn't realize the truth about her sister. Morgan then used her knowledge of this secret to blackmail Mimi into the plan to kill Dr. Grey and frame Maya. | |
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Silence Is Golden | |
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In episode 2, Phoenix's desperation to find a lawyer willing to defend Maya is demonstrated when Phoenix—drenched in rain and covered in flower petals after an unspecified amount of time searching—shows her a list of over 40 law firms he's visited, all but two of which are crossed out. Maya, who was convinced Phoenix didn't believe in her innocence, is moved to silent tears and asks him to defend her instead. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_81ae2774 | comment |
In the games, Morgan Fey was merely Mimi's accomplice in the murder of Dr. Grey. Here, she is the one who comes up with the whole plan and blackmails Mimi into participating. Then again, it's not like it's below her. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Marvin Grossberg, in spades. In "Turnabout Sisters", Grossberg happily agrees to defend Maya, but he gets a call from Redd White shortly afterwards and is forced to give up. After the first trial, Grossberg goes to Phoenix's office to willingly tell him about Redd White, whereas in the original case Phoenix had to interrogate him for it. Then, the first "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode shows how he deeply regrets his part in the DL-6 incident (leaking Misty Fey's involvement to Redd White, leading to her disgrace) and tearfully begs Maya to forgive him, while in the game he awkwardly told Maya that he "helped" her mother, never admitting he sold Misty out. Oh, and in "Turnabout Memories" there is no mention of hemorrhoids, the main complaint people had of him in T&T. Winston Payne, while still somewhat smarmy, is much less abrasive and more professional in the courtroom, not taunting Phoenix for being a rookie nor excessively mocking Larry for failing to notice his girlfriend's sugar daddies. Cindy Stone appears to have been faithful to Larry while they were in a relationship, unlike in the game. Oldbag of all people gets this treatment as well. While in the game, Phoenix had to press her about Hammer's accident five years ago for her to talk, in this adaptation, she overhears Phoenix telling Cody that "as a fan, he can't avert his eyes from what's right". She's later shown holding the five-year-old photo, having an internal conflict with herself. After Cody has another outburst in the courtroom, she shows Phoenix and Maya the photo on her own will. Cody Hackins is not as abrasive or defensive as he is in the game. All it takes to get him to reveal the truth is for Phoenix to point out that he does not have a picture of what he saw. Jack Hammer is less of an Asshole Victim in this anime. While he was still out to kill Vasquez and seems to have tried to frame Powers by emulating his injured ankle, the plot points of his drugging Powers's lunch, his jealousy of Powers's rise to fame while he fell, and Vasquez's implying he killed another actor on purpose were removed. He also responded to a fan request nicely by posing for Cody, even if he got the pose wrong. Larry in the games actually stole Edgeworth's money; here, Edgeworth simply lost it and Larry found it. He even turned it over to the police and claimed it legally when no one spoke up for it. However, he never told Edgeworth that he had found the money or where he picked it up. Manfred von Karma, of all people. He's significantly closer to Faux Affably Evil here, being much less of a Jerkass than his original self and even invoking Pet the Dog more often than said original (not that it stops him from being just as ruthless as ever, of course). Manfred's daughter, Franziska, is less violent than in the games — her whip (usually) strikes near her victims without actually hitting them (though the intent to startle and intimidate is clear), and when she suffered her first loss, she didn't go on a whipping frenzy and knock Phoenix out (although this is helped by Phoenix not taunting a defeated Franziska, which had led to his whipping). Some of her Amoral Attorney traits are also removed, such as hiding one of Lotta's photos. Lotta manages to be less fiery and a little more on the warm side compared to the games. She's still got her moments, but she tends to team up more with Phoenix than cause him trouble. Particularly noticeable during the "Reunion, and Turnabout" episodes, where she helps Phoenix investigate the manor for evidence of Maya's innocence. While he was never any villainous in any means in the original games, in "Turnabout Big Top", Moe's reason to participate in the final trial was to help Phoenix replicate the scene of the death of Russel Berry, instead of his Cruel to Be Kind purpose of directly showing Regina the consequences of her oblivious innocence (although he does ask Phoenix to tell the court about the incident when Franziska asks about the motive, and tells Regina she needs to listen to Phoenix). Edgeworth's most controversial moment, threatening to reveal Adrian's psychological problems to force her to testify, was cut out. He also doesn't stumble over his words when talking about how Maya got herself held in contempt of court to save him from being convicted on the first day of his trial, instead telling Phoenix that he owes her a debt. Similar to the live action film, the teacher present during the class trial is a lot gentler with Phoenix in the anime, politely asking him to return Edgeworth's money, unlike in the game where she coldly orders him to apologize to Edgeworth. Adrian Andrews is a bit less cold than she was in the game version of "Farewell, My Turnabout," where she could be somewhat condescending towards Phoenix if you get an evidence presentation wrong, as well as standoffish when trying to hide something. | |
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The Anime of the Game | |
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The Anime of the Game: This anime is a retelling of the original trilogy, with the first season focusing on the first two games and the second season on the third. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Maya is more of a Plucky Girl in the anime — she risks a taser to retrieve a piece of critical evidence from Manfred von Karma, and when she is held captive by de Killer, she not only frees herself briefly (as in the games) but uses the time to swipe another critical piece of evidence, which she leaves behind for the police to recover. All of that is in addition to being the voice of encouragement driving Nick and others to have faith and keep fighting. And being a spirit medium, of course. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: Grossberg's painting. It's never verbally brought up in this anime, but attentive viewers will notice how it mysteriously went from Grossberg's office to White's office. In episode 2, Phoenix's desperation to find a lawyer willing to defend Maya is demonstrated when Phoenix—drenched in rain and covered in flower petals after an unspecified amount of time searching—shows her a list of over 40 law firms he's visited, all but two of which are crossed out. Maya, who was convinced Phoenix didn't believe in her innocence, is moved to silent tears and asks him to defend her instead. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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The Lost Turnabout case was missing during the first season, which covered Justice for All. Instead, it became the first case for the second season which covered Trials and Tribulations, possibly because it took place after "Reunion, and Turnabout" and had no direct links to the other JFA cases. | |
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Zig-Zagging Trope | |
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Zig-zagged with Edgeworth's hair color: In season 1, his hair was grayish as it was in the games, but in season 2, it was recolored brown. | |
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It Seemed Trivial | |
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It Seemed Trivial: Ron doesn't mention the fact that he was wearing his Mask☆DeMasque costume to KB Security on the night of Kane Bullard's murder. Both Phoenix and Godot are rather annoyed by this omission. The fact that he forgot to mention this until then ends up screwing over Luke Atmey when he's seemingly victorious and taunts Ron for showing up in his costume to the murder; something he shouldn't have known as he was in a different courtroom when Ron revealed this. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Jack Hammer is painted as even less of an Asshole Victim when he gladly agrees to pose for Cody Hackins while he's on his way to confront Dee Vasquez. Doubly so when you realize that he's playing the Evil Magistrate, when the fans would more likely cheer on Will Powers' character (Steel Samurai), but he's not playing grudges to Powers' fans. | |
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A Glass of Chianti | |
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Matt Engarde did not bring A Glass of Chianti anywhere he goes from the detention center to the court. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: Subverted with Franziska. She's after Phoenix, who destroyed Edgeworth, because she wants to beat him herself and thus surpass her brother. (And she believes Edgeworth isn't really dead). Played straight with Adrian Andrews, who frames Matt Engarde for murder to get back at him for ruining her sister's happiness repeatedly and driving her to suicide. | |
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Shaming the Mob | |
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Shaming the Mob: Edgeworth and Larry, as children, defending Phoenix in the class trial. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Many breakdowns are shortened/reduced in the adaption due to time constraints; notable examples include: Like in the game, Frank Sahwit foams at the mouth and faints when his guilt is proved. Instead of hilariously throwing his toupee at Nick's face, however, it comes off in the face of one of Phoenix's objections. His remaining hair falls off once Nick proves his guilt. April May also appears to power-up and go in a full-blown angry rant while looking scarily manic, as she demands for Maya's death like in the game, though her reverting back and eventually crying is taken out. Manfred still resorts to roaring in fury when he's been found out in Episode 12. However, he doesn't hilariously bash his head against the wall in this adaption, instead attempting to retort with a Badass Fingersnap and failing. Like in the second game, Franziska still pounds the desk and yells "This Cannot Be!" when she loses; however, she doesn't go on a whipping fit and knock Phoenix unconscious. Unlike the games, Ini Miney is given one where she rips her head through her hat, screams a Big "NO!", and combusts in a fiery explosion when it is revealed that she was really Mimi Miney. Matt Engarde's breakdown where he claws at his own face was shown twice, compared to the game showing it once. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Edgeworth briefly looks surprised/stricken in episode 7 when Cody interrupts the trial and screams about how it's not right for the villain to beat the Steel Samurai. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Manfred von Karma, of all people. He's significantly closer to Faux Affably Evil here, being much less of a Jerkass than his original self and even invoking Pet the Dog more often than said original (not that it stops him from being just as ruthless as ever, of course). | |
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Not Me This Time | |
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Not Me This Time: In a variant, Ron insists that while he wasn't the one who stole the Urn of Kurain, he was responsible for all of Mask☆DeMasque's other heists. | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Jack Hammer, while disguised as the Steel Samurai, poses for Cody when asked on the day of the murder. But he accidentally uses the pose for the Evil Magistrate, which clues Phoenix in on Jack's initial ploy. | |
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Finish Dialogue in Unison | |
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Finish Dialogue in Unison: At the finale of "Turnabout Goodbyes", Edgeworth and Phoenix deliver the fatal blow to Manfred von Karma in a single long statement which Phoenix begins, Edgeworth continues, and then they both finish together. | |
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On the Next | |
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On the Next: At the end of each case's final episode, there is a minor hint at what the next case will be centered on, such as the Steel Samurai intro at the end of the final "Turnabout Sisters" episode. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
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Sleep Cute: Maya on Phoenix at the end of "Reunion and Turnabout". | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: A small one. To prove Richard Wellington's motive to commit murder in "The Lost Turnabout," Phoenix asks Maya to call his own cellphone. It turns out Richard mistakenly retrieved Phoenix's when he called the phone before hitting Phoenix on the head before trial because they have the same model. Watching the pre-trial scene at the beginning of the episode will show that the light around the antenna of the cellphone Phoenix picked up didn't light up as demonstrated on the reveal, already hinting that it was Phoenix's phone. | |
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Head Desk | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_99156d7e | comment |
Manfred still resorts to roaring in fury when he's been found out in Episode 12. However, he doesn't hilariously bash his head against the wall in this adaption, instead attempting to retort with a Badass Fingersnap and failing. | |
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13 Is Unlucky | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_9a692ae9 | comment |
13 Is Unlucky: Dahlia Hawthorne makes her debut in the 13th episode of the second season. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Miles Edgeworth's involvement in the class trial is hidden from the viewer, initially painting Larry as the one who stood up for Phoenix at his darkest hour. In episode 1, attentive viewers might notice that the finger that enters the frame is wearing a sleeve while Larry is in a tank top. In a scene midway through the first trial phase of "Reunion, and Turnabout," Ini's eyes briefly open as she's speaking with her accomplice Morgan, hinting at her true identity as Mimi. The first opening of the second season shows Godot's visor glowing in the dark, a fact that becomes important to solving the final mystery in "Bridge to the Turnabout." This may have been because Furio Tigre's Villainous Breakdown didn't cause a power outage in the anime, thus removing that bit of foreshadowing. When Mia talks about how her first trial was a traumatizing experience, the judge, the prosecutor, Mia's co-counsel and the defendant are represented by dark silhouettes. The latter blurs and disappears, hinting at Terry Fawles' death. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Compared to the game, Manfred von Karma's long vacations after the DL-6 Incident were reduced to a single day off job. Considering he had those vacations to heal off his bullet wound in the games, this means von Karma is Made of Iron in the anime. | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
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Whole Episode Flashback: "Turnabout Promise" and "Sound the Turnabout Melody" are filler episodes set in the past involving Phoenix's friendship with Larry and Edgeworth, with the first being the event around and after the class trial, and the second being their middle school years, with a heavy focus on Edgeworth's life as a ward of von Karma. "Hear the Turnabout Waves" is has a couple lengthy flashbacks to Maya and Pearl's childhood in Kurain Village. As for episodes that were originally flashbacks in the original visual novels, only "Turnabout Memories" and "Turnabout Beginnings" retain their nature as flashbacks. "Reunion and Turnabout" lost its flashback nature when "The Lost Turnabout" was skipped over in the first season. | |
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Fan Boy | |
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Fanboy: Miles Edgeworth is not only one of the Steel Samurai franchise, as in the games, but it's more or less implied that he's been a fan of samurai series overall ever since Phoenix and Larry got him to watch The Signal Samurai. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Trucy and a robot similar to Ponco appear in the first opening as chalk drawings. Manfred von Karma is shown with the cane he is seen with in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. At the start of "Turnabout Big Top", Phoenix wears the same pink sweater he wore as a college student in the first case of Trials and Tribulations. | |
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Filler | |
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Filler: Throughout both seasons, there have been only four filler stories not based on the original games. Notably fans like them due to them being original stories that expand on the background of the characters. The first is "Turnabout Promise", the only anime-original episode of the first season, airing between the episodes adapting the first game and the episodes adapting Justice for All. It's a Whole Episode Flashback centered on the friendship of Phoenix, Larry, and Edgeworth following the class trial. The second is "Sound the Turnabout Melody", which aired in the second season between "The Stolen Turnabout" and "Recipe for Turnabout". Its another flashback episode, this time focusing on Edgeworth during his middle school years and his life with the von Karmas. The third is an original multi-episode case, "Northward, Turnabout Express", that features a trial conducted on a moving train. The fourth is "Hear the Turnabout Waves", which expands upon the relationship between Pearl and Maya, and Maya and Mia, with flashbacks to their life in Kurain Village. | |
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Production Foreshadowing | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_9eca61c8 | comment |
Production Foreshadowing: Since the anime was produced way after the games came out, the production team took the liberty of adding some additional foreshadowing, to make the entire story more cohesive. The pink sweater given to Phoenix by Iris can be seen in his apartment at the beginning of Episode 1. It shows up again in the first "Turnabout Big Top" episode, worn by Phoenix to a performance at the circus. Edgeworth's office (with the King of Prosecutors trophy) and red sports car show up in "Turnabout Sisters," but in the games they didn't appear until they became relevant in "Rise from the Ashes." His connection to Manfred von Karma is also established earlier than in the games. The first "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode briefly features the Blue Badger Panel from 1-5 and a newspaper article that shows Max Galactica from Justice for All. | |
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Smash the Symbol | |
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Smash the Symbol: In "Turnabout Big Top", Maximillion Galactica's giant billboard at the front of the circus was defaced with black paint in his absence by the furious circus performers. At the end when he begins making amends with them and Phoenix reveals that he wanted to split his salary with everyone, it's then completely replaced with one featuring the main stars alongside him. | |
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A Fool for a Client | |
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A Fool for a Client: Briefly discussed near the end of the "Turnabout Sisters" arc. When Edgeworth tells the Judge that Phoenix has been accused of the crime, the Judge asks who will serve as the defense lawyer. Phoenix says he will. The Judge asks if he's sure, and Phoenix says that there's no doubt in his mind. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Zig-zagged with Edgeworth's hair color: In season 1, his hair was grayish as it was in the games, but in season 2, it was recolored brown. Vasquez' shawl is slightly see-through in the game, but solid beige in the anime. Likely to simplify animation, the kanji pattern on Morgan's kimono has been removed here. Furio Tigre's skin tone is less reddish than in the game. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Halfway through the second "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode, when Gumshoe tells Maya and Phoenix that he was in the lake with the metal detector due to Edgeworth, Phoenix remembers the moment where Edgeworth tells him he paid Maya's bail because she spoke out in court and kept his trial going. The heartwarming moment ends when Phoenix, in an Inner Monologue moment, wishes Edgeworth also paid his office's rent that month. "Turnabout Promise" goes from Phoenix's contented musings on how his friendship with Edgeworth has been restored to the Wham Shot of "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_a5cfe2ac | comment |
And There Was Much Rejoicing: When Matt Engarde is declared Guilty by the Judge, everyone throws confetti and Phoenix cheers as if he won a case, despite this being a loss on his record which no one cares about due to who his client is. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Cody has a bigger role in the story of the third case. In the game, he pretty much disappeared after revealing he had seen the Steel Samurai being killed in Studio 2. In this adaptation, he has an outburst in the last trial day which prompts Edgeworth to start helping the defensenote In the game, Edgeworth's helping you came almost out of nowhere, although it's implied that the Judge asking him to reconsider whether Powers is guilty played a role and convinces Oldbag to show the defense the photo from five years ago. Grossberg's role is bigger in "Turnabout Goodbyes", compared to the game. He gets an appearance in the courtroom in Episode 11, whereas he only provided minor exposition in the game. | |
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Rule of Three | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_a6cda066 | comment |
In Episode 15, Franziska says "No problem" in English, as does the Judge right after her, and then Phoenix says the word "problem" in English when the Judge refuses to have the whip taken away. (The English translation keeps the flavor of the exchange by turning it into "No problemo"/"Big problemo.") | |
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Adaptational Jerkass | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_a91078ea | comment |
Adaptational Jerkass: In the anime, Morgan's Resentful Guardian status was hinted at, but it's fully shown in "Hear the Turnabout Waves." Not only does she berate Maya for taking Pearl to the beach without permission, but she insults Maya's mother and sister (the former of whom is Morgan's own sister), and reminds Maya that the only reason she's the successor instead of the more talented Pearl is that she's Misty's daughter. | |
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Off-Model | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_ac7b87df | comment |
Off-Model: The first version of the first opening had some animation errors. Most notably, the scene where Phoenix, Gumshoe, Larry, and Maya run together showed off really awkward run cycles. This was corrected a few episodes later. The rest of Season 1's animation in general got a heap of scorn and derision for being incredibly sloppy, with character proportions changing between scenes, ugly faces, and more than a few deviations from the official game art at times. The Blu-ray release (which is also the version used for the dub) improved the animation somewhat, although many off-model shots can still be found. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Matt Engarde becomes increasingly fearful of his situation the moment Edgeworth mentions de Killer's hatred of betrayal as he realizes that he is the infamous assassin's next target, eventually culminating in his Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Setting Update | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_af4d6174 | comment |
Setting Update: Some of the technology in the game was updated to 2016 standards for the anime. For example, the courtroom has monitors to show off evidence, all computers and TVs now have flat screen monitors, Cody's digital camera is no longer described as a novelty, and Phoenix and Maya record a YouTube video ad. This, of course, makes sense, as the series is set by the timeline as taking place in 2016 to 2019 (same timespan the anime aired in real life). However, everyone still uses early-2000s cell phones. | |
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CourtroomAntics | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b1d44353 | comment |
Courtroom Antics: Being the anime of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, there are lots of gimmicks in the trials that Phoenix uses to win a case. One notable example unique to this adaptation is in the final part of "Turnabout Goodbyes", where Larry stalls for time by impersonating Edgeworth, the defendant. | |
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Antagonist in Mourning | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b4dcdf5b | comment |
Antagonist in Mourning: Manfred von Karma after Gregory Edgeworth's death, or so Grossberg believes. Alas, the truth is more sinister. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: Luke Atmey's standard style of speaking. | |
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Internal Homage | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b545453b | comment |
Internal Homage: A bunch of the games' sprite animations from the DS games have been re-animated here in the shows anime style, and have very clearly been traced to some degree. Everyone does all of their movesets seen in those games; Edgeworths' smarmy hand lift, Franziska von Karma's use of a whip to whip Wright over the courtroom, Godot having coffee and a cup mysteriously entering frame (and no, they don't explain it here either), and so many more. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b8e38fc5 | comment |
Subverted with Franziska. She's after Phoenix, who destroyed Edgeworth, because she wants to beat him herself and thus surpass her brother. (And she believes Edgeworth isn't really dead). | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: The Bellboy in "Turnabout Sisters", whose only involvement in the case is confirming Redd White was in Gatewater Hotel alongside April May. April herself also has a minor role compared to the game, only appearing in the first trial day. Penny Nichols, already a somewhat superfluous character in the first game, is reduced to a non-speaking role in a single scene in episode 5. Sal Manella as well, though not as much as the previous two characters. He really only appears to come up with the Pink Princess (while giving us a Fanservice shot of Maya) and deliver a script to Dee Vasquez. Most notably, he seemingly has no role whatsoever in covering up Dee Vasquez's accidental murder of Jack Hammer in this adaptation. Missile the police dog only shows up in the ending credits of the JFA episodes, though it was possible to play through the first game without using him. While Will Powers is as important in "Turnabout Samurai" as he was in the game, in the adaptation of "Farewell, My Turnabout", he only appears at the beginning, despite being an ally to Phoenix and a witness in the trial's second day in the game. | |
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Extra-Long Episode | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_b96fdd94 | comment |
Extra-Long Episode: Season 2's Episode 13, the one where Dahlia makes her debut, is a double-length episode. | |
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Color Failure | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_ba0a370c | comment |
Color Failure: Furio Tigre turns completely white and collapses after Phoenix finally corners him. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: In "Turnabout Big Top," Acro, after telling the court about Regina's Deadly Prank on Bat, says Regina "was so damn clueless about the whole thing," then asks "How the hell could she not understand?" | |
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Slasher Smile | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Redd White gives us a rather disturbing one in Episode 4, complete with a toothy Slasher Smile. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_bdc94cd9 | type |
Compressed Adaptation | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation: Each 20-minute episode covers one or two game chapters. The anime manages to cover this much content in such little time by streamlining the progression of cases. In other words, the cases are shown without mistakes, and some pieces of evidence are taken out. In an example of Tropes Are Not Bad, "Turnabout Samurai" got reduced from a 3-day case to a 2-day case for this anime, which removed a Fetch Quest and overall made the case feel less dragged on. Similarly, the first day of the trial for "Turnabout Big Top" was reduced to a few minutes. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_be0ad6b7 | comment |
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Episode 6 of Season 2 shows that Franziska was pampered as a little girl, and did everything she could to make the gloomy Edgeworth smile. Note that this is before she formally dedicates herself to becoming a prosecutor, leading to their bitter sibling rivalry and her contemptuous attitude towards everyone else. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c145f69b | type |
Subverted Trope | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c145f69b | comment |
This is subverted with "The Lost Turnabout", which was the first case in the second game. It was skipped in the first season of the anime, which covered the first two games, only to show up as the case for the first episode of season 2, which otherwise covers the third game. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: The Steel Samurai show. Unlike the games, where it only gets described with some accompanying imagery, we actually get to see it in episode 5. There is also an earlier Samurai show called Signal Samurai, which Phoenix, Edgeworth and Larry watched together as kids. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c2c15b23 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Comment: Edgeworth asks Redd White to confess to his crime, but he doesn't mean murder- rather, the lesser offense of wiretapping Mia's office. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Unlike the games, Ini Miney is given one where she rips her head through her hat, screams a Big "NO!", and combusts in a fiery explosion when it is revealed that she was really Mimi Miney. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c4c9bb40 | type |
Inner Monologue | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c4c9bb40 | comment |
Halfway through the second "Turnabout Goodbyes" episode, when Gumshoe tells Maya and Phoenix that he was in the lake with the metal detector due to Edgeworth, Phoenix remembers the moment where Edgeworth tells him he paid Maya's bail because she spoke out in court and kept his trial going. The heartwarming moment ends when Phoenix, in an Inner Monologue moment, wishes Edgeworth also paid his office's rent that month. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Signal Samurai is basically a 'Steel Samurai' edition of two Super Sentai: Gekisou Sentai Carranger (themed about Traffic Safety) and Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan (Red-Blue-Yellow all-male roster) The way Edgeworth finds the way back home in "Turnabout Promise" (throwing dog treats on the ground) is reminiscent of the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel. The anime-original case "Northward, Turnabout Express" takes place on a train called the Silver Star. This is the name of a real passenger train run by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_ca69cb4d | type |
Adaptational Karma | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_ca69cb4d | comment |
Adaptational Karma: Downplayed with Shelley de Killer. The court sees his face when the recording of his killing Corrida is played at Engarde's trial, and Phoenix is confident that he'll be caught. Inverted with Iris. The anime removes a brief exchange between her and the judge that stresses that while she's not guilty of murder, she is guilty of tampering with the crime scene. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_cd83fa5b | type |
Spoiler Opening | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_cd83fa5b | comment |
Spoiler Opening: The first opening of the second season shows a younger Mia with a man shown from behind, strongly hinting at Diego Armando's ties to her over a dozen episodes before he's shown in the second half of the season. Attentive viewers will also notice that the man looks more than a little like Godot. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_cf48c17 | type |
Nightmare Face | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_cf48c17 | comment |
Nightmare Face: Redd White gives us a rather disturbing one in Episode 4, complete with a toothy Slasher Smile. Manfred von Karma gives one to the viewer at the end of Episode 8. With the shading on his face, it's pretty unsettling. Gumshoe, of all people, while being rather smug about his assertions that Max must be the culprit. Matt Engarde after his reveal in the last bits of Episode 22. The closeup of Dahlia testifying in court. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Phoenix has one of these nearly every case, where some little comment or a tip from Mia abruptly clarifies everything and gives him the insight to turn the entire trial around. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d24dc14 | type |
Badass Fingersnap | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d24dc14 | comment |
Badass Fingersnap: Courtesy of Manfred von Karma, just like in the games. He even manages to create a Dramatic Wind with it, knocking down Larry twice that way in Episode 10. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: Phoenix collapses upon catching the Samurai Spear (which, while certainly not light, is contrarily tossed at him by Edgeworth with relative ease). | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d52d28b6 | type |
Hypocrite | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Morgan Fey rants to Maya how the women of main Kurain family are embarrassment to the clan by mentioning how Misty and Mia broke the Kurain law by involving themselves with outsiders (the DL-6 case) during Waves of Turnabout. Later on, she gets caught for devising a plan to blame Maya for a murder involving an outsider and then plotted an assassination attempt which involves Pearl channeling her dead half-sister who got executed after committing multiple murders, both of which indirectly dragging Kurain Channeling School's name to the mud because they got revealed on court. Really, who are the truly embarrassing Kurain family women? | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d53ad027 | type |
Cheerful Child | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_d53ad027 | comment |
Cheerful Child: Just like in the games, Pearl tends to shift between this and Adorably Precocious Child. Both are cute. | |
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Security Cling | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_da1211b4 | comment |
Security Cling: Maya to Phoenix (and Phoenix to Gumshoe) in "Turnabout Goodbyes" after she was scared by Polly. | |
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| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_dae3844e | type |
Hidden Disdain Reveal | |
| Ace Attorney (anime) / int_dae3844e | comment |
Hidden Disdain Reveal: In Part 3 of the "Recipe for Turnabout" arc, Furio Tigre rants that "this is all that gloomy bitch's fault" loudly enough for Viola to overhear him. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Celeste Inpax's name was changed to Celeste Andrews in this adaptation. Justified, as she was changed from being Adrian Andrews' mentor to her sister. | |
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Voice of the Legion | |
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Voice of the Legion: Dahlia speaks with this when she finally snaps. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: The end of "Song to the Turnabout" (also known as "Sound the Turnabout Melody") ends with Manfred von Karma scrapping his original plans to just dump Edgeworth at an orphanage and instead takes him in as a prosecutor. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: After revealing Matt Engarde's betrayal to Shelly de Killer, Phoenix goes for a "not guilty" verdict, knowing that if he goes free, he'll likely meet his end at the hands of the furious betrayed assassin. | |
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Battle Aura | |
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Battle Aura: Phoenix and Edgeworth give off ones with their respective colors during the first opening song in the courthouse. | |
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Weapons-Grade Vocabulary | |
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Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: While this has always been a part of the franchise, the anime takes it up a notch, with characters being blasted backwards into the walls with each HOLD IT! and OBJECTION!. In fact, sudden gusts of wind blow in out of nowhere that everyone present in court can feel. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Phoenix gets into this while lecturing Max about an attorney's need to believe in their client, and his refusal to defend Max if Phoenix can't trust him. | |
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Enhanced on DVD | |
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The rest of Season 1's animation in general got a heap of scorn and derision for being incredibly sloppy, with character proportions changing between scenes, ugly faces, and more than a few deviations from the official game art at times. The Blu-ray release (which is also the version used for the dub) improved the animation somewhat, although many off-model shots can still be found. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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The season 2 episode "Sound the Turnabout Melody" is a Sequel Episode to "Turnabout Promise" that highlights Edgeworth's life with the von Karmas, including his once loving relationship with Franziska before she became a ruthless prosecutor, and the hand Phoenix unwittingly played in pushing him towards becoming a prosecutor by requesting a song on the radio that played at exactly the right moment. It also shows Manfred's thoughts towards Edgeworth during this time: after three years, he initially just wanted to send him off to an orphanage and rid himself of the Edgeworths' "curse", but seeing his potential as a prosecutor made him curious to see where his "karma" would lead him. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Franziska is taken completely out of commission the day she is shot, and when she turns up for her Big Damn Heroes moment the next day she looks a bit shaky and her arm is in a sling. | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Edgeworth doesn't suffer from his in-game counterpart's fear of earthquakes since this version of DL-6 did not involve one. In the game, Adrian Andrews being accused of the crime made her break down in court and begging for help in light of her dependency issues. In the anime, her issues are not present or not being forced to be exposed and she manages to be calm most of the time. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: Like in canon, Godot deliberately gets Phoenix's last name wrong, but he doesn't limit himself to just using "Trite." Instead, he uses a variety of nicknames that rhyme with "Wright," all varying degrees of insulting. He briefly switches to "Wright" when delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech blaming Phoenix for Mia's death and Maya's predicament. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: There are two Reginas in the localization- Regina Berry of "Turnabout Big Top" and Regina Locomoti of "Northward, Turnabout Express." | |
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Blow You Away | |
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Blow You Away: Coupled with Dramatic Wind, lawyers can cause winds to violently blow at will when objecting. Manfred von Karma actively exploits this to shut witnesses up, with a snap of his fingers. One egregious example has Phoenix blow a witness ''over'' the witness stand with his objection. The resulting wind has the judge covering his eyes his sleeve, and edgeworth trying to stop his papers from blowing away. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: We meet Franziska von Karma in a Whole Episode Flashback (Episode 13) as a child before she's shown as a prosecutor in court. The second opening credits (which first played before the "Reunion, and Turnabout" arc) show the key figures from "Turnabout Big Top" and "Farewell, My Turnabout." If you look closely at the opening credits for the first 13 episodes, you see Trucy Wright and Ponco as chalk drawings. | |
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Surfer Dude | |
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Matt Engarde seems to be less of an airhead. Some of his antics of "contacting his agency" still exist, but he loses his Surfer Dude personality and seemed like he could speak normally. For his masquerade anyway. He also still has enough sense to keep up his "good guy" charade in front of the public court rather than openly showing his Obviously Evil self before Franziska delivers the final evidence, only showing it for his Villainous Breakdown afterwards. Despite all this, he still makes the same fatal mistake he made in the game- blackmailing the assassin that he hired. | |
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Acting Your Intellectual Age | |
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Acting Your Intellectual Age: 10-year-old Edgeworth doesn't act much like a child. When he admits he wants to watch a silly samurai cartoon program instead of the news, his dad seems pleased to see him loosening up a bit. As seen in Episode 13, Young Franziska is far more articulate than a two/three-year-old should be. | |
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Sitting on the Roof | |
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Sitting on the Roof: Phoenix and Larry have lunch on the roof of their middle school in "Sound the Turnabout Melody." | |
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Loan Shark | |
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Downplayed with Jean Armstrong. While his debts result in him being forced to help Furio Tigre stage Glen Elg's murder to frame Maggey (Armstrong's employee), his kleptomaniac tendencies never come up, and he never attacks Phoenix, so he mainly comes off as an incompetent restaurateur who got a loan from a Loan Shark and ended up being Forced into Evil. | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl | |
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Franziska von Karma now has the willingness to whip people like Morgan Fey. | |
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Answer Cut | |
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Answer Cut: At the end of Episode 15 of the first season, Phoenix suspects that Dr. Grey's death was part of a plan to frame Maya for murder. Maya asks, "You think I was set up? Who'd do that?" Cut to Morgan Fey, ominously talking to a photo of her sister Misty and declaring that her moment has come. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: Reflecting his speech in the original game, some words in Sal Manella's subtitles are written in Leet Lingo. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Jack Hammer is painted as even less of an Asshole Victim when he gladly agrees to pose for Cody Hackins while he's on his way to confront Dee Vasquez. Doubly so when you realize that he's playing the Evil Magistrate, when the fans would more likely cheer on Will Powers' character (Steel Samurai), but he's not playing grudges to Powers' fans. Manfred von Karma is shown to have been fairly kind to Edgeworth while taking him in, giving him a scarf and permitting him to keep an abandoned dog he had as a pet. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: "The First Turnabout" shows the correct portrayal of an American CBP passport stamp on a Japanese passport page. (However, the passport itself is missing Cindy Stone's signature, and the serial numbers don't match up!) | |
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