Advent Children
To read the On the Way to a Smile entries, which take place between the original game and Advent Children, visit our Novels & Novellas section.
Script transcriber: Morello
– ‘Advent Children’ Script
Script transcriber: Morello
– ‘On the Way to a Smile – Episode:Denzel’ Script
The animated feature released alongside Advent Children Complete.
Script transcriber: Morello
– Advent Children Staff Commentary
Translation of the staff commentary track only available in the Japanese Advent Pieces Limited edition of the original Advent Children.
Translator: Xcomp/LHYeung
– Changes of ACC
A comprehensive look into the changes and additions of ACC from beginning to end.
Author: Makoeyes987
– Visual Updates of ACC
Side-by-side comparisons of the animations between the DVD & the Blu-Ray edition. The article ends at the point where Vincent saves Cloud and is, therefore, incomplete.
Author: X-SOLDIER | Image provider: CloudStrife1992
– ‘Safe & Sound’ Official Lyrics
With lyrics that the ear can interpret as almost anything, an official print is necessary to know the true text.
Magazine: 3N Interview
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Interviewed: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue, Kazushige Nojima
Translator: Xcomp/LHYeung
Release Date: March 21, 2009
Interviewed: Tetsuya Nomura
Translator: hitoshura
Magazine: Dengeki PlayStation Vol. 444
Release Date: April 10, 2009 according to cover. March 27, 2009 according to Amazon.
Interviewed: Tetsuya Nomura
Translator: hitoshura
Magazine: Dengeki PlayStation 3, Vol. 445
Release Date: May 15, 2009 according to magazine. April 2, 2009 according to Amazon.
Interviewed: (re: ACC) Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue, Kazushige Nojima; (re: FFXIII) Motomu Toriyama, FFXIII and Nao Ikeda
Translator: hitoshura (key points translated)
Magazine: Famitsu PSP & PS3 Vol. 256
Release Date: March 30, 2009 according to magazine. May 1, 2009 according to other sites.
Interviewed: Tetsuya Nomura
Translator: hitoshura (key points translated)
Magazine: Famitsu PS3 Vol.17
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Interviewed: Tetsuya Nomura, Kazushige Nojima and Takeshi Nozue
Translator: Defade
SPECIAL FEATURE
Magazine: Dengeki PlayStation 3, Vol.445
*Advent Children Complete Character Profiles:
Tifa Lockhart | Cloud Strife | Aerith Gainsborough | Sephiroth | Zack Fair | Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo | Rufus Shinra and the Turks
Translator: hitoshura
*It is not clear whether the profiles were written directly by Advent Children Complete’s staff. What is clear, however, is that even if Dengeki’s staff wrote these, they did so with information provided by the film’s developers, as demonstrated by the mention of Cloud initially leaving home to seek a cure to Geostigma. This is a plot point not otherwise introduced until the film’s actual release.
Cloud’s Japanese voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, narrates this piece.