To commemorate the release of Advent Children Complete and the Final Fantasy XIII demo, Mainichi Issho – the PS3 online game starring Toro the cat – has released a special FFVII-themed episode, featuring stuff like the characters acting out scenes from the original game.

Tetsuya Nomura also did a drawing of Toro and Kuro dressed as Cloud and Sephiroth for the game: (click for a full size image). In addition to this there’s also some videos of the game on youtube. Read more to view the images

Mainichi Issho Image by Tetsuya Nomura

Thanks to Suzaku for the news & Tennyo for the videos.

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Images of the Cloud Black PS3 have appeared online, showcasing the unboxing and displaying all the pieces inside. Click on “Read the rest of this entry” to check out the full gallery.

Update: For anyone interested in purchasing the Cloud Black PS3, it looks like Play-Asia has shipped out all of their pre-orders, and still has some units available. These always go fast, so best of luck to those who want one!

PlayStation 3 Cloud Black box

Source: Gigazine

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It’s after midnight in Japan, wich means it’s already April 16th, the release date of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete.

Watch this space for coverage and updates concerning its release.

A thread has surfaced in our forums that gives a list of scene changes in Advent Children Complete, as well as a listing of blogs and websites that have posted screenshots and reviews of Advent Children Complete. These threads – obviously- contain spoilers, and as such have been hidden behind a password so the people that do not want to read spoilers can avoid that section. In order to view the thread, use the password “fhtagn“.

We’d also like to remind you that, if you want to be one of the first to get the movie once it hits stores in the States, you can use The Lifestream Shop to pre-order Advent Children Complete through Amazon. Visit the Shop and pre-order Advent Children Complete, and you’ll help The Lifestream.net out too!

Hitoshura’s next profile translation from April’s Dengeki PS3 is for Rufus Shinra and The Turks, who play a prominent role in FFVII Advent Children Complete. With this profile, have the creator’s dropped a revealing hint regarding Rufus’s new intentions in ACC and DC? Well… we’ll leave that for you to decide.

Rufus Shinra

The son of President Shinra who created the Shinra Company in a single generation. An elitist and prideful young man, he is truly skilled and able. He is also very ambitious, and when he was younger he seemed to have done everything he could to overthrow his father, the head of the company. He also shows a ruthless side; for instance, when his father was killed by Sephiroth, he seemed not to care at all and was glad to take up the mantle of president.

In the battle for the life of the planet, while they were both pursuing Sephiroth, he stands opposed to Cloud’s team. In the end he appears to have died in an attack by the Diamond WEAPON, but it seems the luck of the devil was on his side, and he managed to make it out alive.

After the Meteor crisis, even though he is infected with Geostigma, he gathers the surviving members of the Turks and from behind the scenes works towards the revival of the world. He is honest in this motive. However, he is also not a man who would stop there. In the unseen corners of his heart, perhaps he sees a clear vision of the world restored, and under the control of the Shinra Company…

The Turks

The Shinra Company’s general affairs and investigative department, commonly known as the Turks. There are 4 primary members: Tseng, the calm and collected chief; Reno, who makes use of his speed during battle; Rude, a quiet and powerful man with his trademark sunglasses and skinhead; and Elena, the newest recruit and sole female member. Each are an expert in combat, and carried out any mission given to them without fail. In particular, Reno and Rude have often worked as a team since their early days, and together they show a brilliant display of teamwork. Previously, they had stood in the way of Cloud’s team, on the command of Rufus Shinra.

In the Meteor crisis the Shinra Company, for all intents and purposes, is destroyed, but even after that they follow Rufus. However, when investigating the Northern Cave, Elena and Tseng are taken prisoner by Kadaj’s gang. Meanwhile Reno and Rude, working together once again, fight alongside Cloud and the others. During the battle in Edge they corner Yazoo and Loz, but they leave the final battle in the hands of Cloud’s team.

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And of course we can’t forget our fearsome threesome- Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo. Here is their short and to the point profile for FFVII Advent Children Complete from Dengeki PS3 translated by hitoshura. Sans a Compilation of FFVII check since…they only appear here. Anyways, enjoy!

3 men who suddenly appeared before Cloud and attacked him. They are the remnants of Jenova, who operate according to Sephiroth’s will which has diffused into the Lifestream. There are filled with many contradictions: purity and insanity, cunning and childishness. Perfectly aware that they are simply puppets, they close in on Cloud and his friends with an overwhelming power. In their eyes Cloud, who was once a puppet just like them but escaped Jenova’s control, is nothing more than a traitor.

Their goal is vengeance on the planet which wouldn’t accept Jenova. For this end they sought to take back their “Mother,” the head of Jenova, and bring about the Reunion. Although this plan ends in failure, Kadaj’s final Reunion awakes a legend…

With FFVII Advent Children Complete less than a day from release, hitoshura has translated more of Dengeki PS3 profiles for ACC. This time, here is Zack Fair. Enjoy!

A SOLDIER for Shinra, and Cloud’s comrade. He was a considerate man who valued his allies, and was best friends with Cloud and Sephiroth. He participated in many missions for SOLDIER and served the company well, but during the Nibelheim incident he suffered serious injuries, and was confined in the Shinra Manor as a test subject for Hojo. He narrowly manages to escape with Cloud, but with Midgar right before him, Zack was killed. In a state of heavy mako poisoning at the time, Cloud superimposes Zack, who had died to save him, over his own personality.

Even after defeating Sephiroth and regaining his true self, images and memories of Zack turned to a sense of guilt which continued to torment Cloud. Suffering from this, images of Zack appear in his consciousness time and again. Zack will later become one of the driving forces to help Cloud move forward on his own feet.

As Cloud put an end to Sephiroth and broke that curse, Zack was there by his side, seeing him through.

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The Advent Children Complete Japanese Site was updated with info about an exhibit at the Ginza Sony Building. There is an event to celebrate ACC’s release and let people experience the world and visuals. It’s open from April 10th to May 17th. You can also watch the latest trailers on a 120 inch high-vision screen with powerful (surround?) sound. There’s also an ACC art gallery until the 17th of this month.

So if you so happen to be in Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, definitely check it out!

Also, the new Famitsu PS3 features an article about Advent Children Complete.  Here are the cover for the magazine and scans of the article:

 Some highlights of the article:

AC was sorta ignored for a while after its release since they wanted to focus on other projects.

They wanted to pushh back the release until the blu-ray market grew big enough, but never expected it to be such a long project.

Nojima wanted fantasy elements for AC.

They wanted to depict the contrast between Cloud and the children, as well as Cloud’s own growth after his meeting with Denzel and the kids.

The upped the depiction of blood and Geostigma quite a bit, since they believed a more realistic depiction would give a more realistic impression of pain.

Since they had quite a bit of time left over, they arranged the songs to fit the scenes better. In AC they tried to fit the scenes with the songs, while in ACC they had the songs tailored to fit the scenes. And created the ‘ideal battle scene’.

Most of the staff didn’t want to touch anything FF7 related in the beginning, but Nomura took the lead(and made them into his slaves. And made onigiri for them in Hawaii).

5 years passed between AC and ACC. Most of the technology they’ve used is different.

They had trouble deciding how much of the new technology used in Versus 13 should be used in ACC.

They’re pretty much done with FF7, saying that it’s hard to think of any other important events that might occur in the universe. They still have ideas, but there won’t be any compilation news for a while.

Thanks to Defade for providing the information about the Famitsu article.

Source: FF7AC Reunion

Here are some of the April Dengeki PS3 Advent Children Complete issue scans.

Source: Cloud 180

And we conclude the day with the true One Winged Angel himself, Sephiroth. Thanks again hito for translating this Dengeki PS3 character profile!! Enjoy!

The strongest SOLDIER created by the Shinra Company. Distinguishing himself in the military from a young age, he was heralded a hero. There were once a few he could’ve called his friends, but on an investigative mission to Nibelheim he encountered a life form bearing the same name as his mother, within its mako reactor. And there he learned the secret of his birth. Learning that he had been created, he seeks to carry on the will of his mother Jenova, and is gripped by a desire for vengeance against the planet.

Sephiroth has been defeated by Cloud twice: once in Nibelheim, and again in the Great Northern Cave. However, he did not diffuse within the Lifestream and continued to live on, and scattered his own genes across the world. This seems to be the origin of Geostigma. And reappearing once again after Kadaj’s Reunion, he faces Cloud for a third showdown…
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Today, the next profile we will cover is Aerith Gainsborough’s character profile for Advent Children Complete, from the Dengeki PS3 April issue. Once again, big thanks to hitoshura for this! Enjoy!

A young woman who lived in Midgar’s slums, selling flowers. She was a descendant of the Cetra, an ancient race who were said to be able to hear the voice of the planet, and for this reason she was continually monitored by Shinra from a very young age. According to legend, the Cetra would lead the way to the “Promised Land”, abound with supreme happiness, but by then no pure blood Cetra existed and Aerith, the sole survivor, was only a half-blood. However, the Shinra Company sought after the Promised Land and kept on relentlessly pursuing her.

Despite these harsh circumstances, Aerith never gave up hope and lived optimistically, and finally the day came when she left Midgar with Cloud, who she had met in the church. During her long journey she learned her destiny, and gave herself to stop Meteor.

She joined the Lifestream, but even then she carries on watching over the planet and Cloud. At all times, her first love Zack is always by her side.
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A new image from a Chinese magazine has surfaced showing Cloud in the OVA: On The Way to a Smile – Case of Denzel, as well as Sephiroth in Advent Children Complete with his single black wing spawning forth from his back.

Thanks to our member Dark & Divide for an update with higher quality images.

Edit: Also, Silent Tweak has translated some of the Chinese text for the scan! The textbox at the top left of the page next to the FFVII screenshot reads:

“In this work,[FFVII AC] Cloud and Sephiroth join the new scenario, the two’s show-down will be shown in a more intense way. The picture on the right is a new scene, Cloud’s body is surrounded by a blue aura, and that is the familiar Limit Break from [FF VII]. On the other side, Sephiroth expands his dark black-wing and prepares to fend off Cloud’s attacks. The two’s fated battle will be taken into a new height!”

Source: Cloud180
Update: FF Shores

There was a press screening of Advent Children Complete held at the Sony Building in Ginza, Tokyo. There are some images from the screening that show Final Fantasy VII on the PSP (from the Japanese PSN), an incredibly detailed physical model of Midgar, a Buster Sword replica, the Cloud Black PS3, and other figure models of Cloud on the Fenrir & Hardy Daytona.

Update: There’s now a huge gallery of 43 images from the press screening, including some new screenshots from ACC, and some more in-depth looks at what was shown off at the press screening. Click on “Read the rest of this entry” to check out all the images.

Source: FF7AC Reunion
Images: Dengeki
Images: Famitsu
Images: AV Watch
Images: Gpara

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