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3	Before ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', there was this.
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5	''Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals'', known as simply ''Final Fantasy'' in Japan, is a 1994 OriginalVideoAnimation spanning four episodes, and the first anime installment in the [[RunningGag medium-hoppingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' franchise. It is the direct sequel to the video game ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.
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7	For 200 years after the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', the Planet R has become peaceful and serene. However, dark forces aim to upset this tranquility, and have captured three of the four crystals that regulate the planet's elements. Linaly and Prettz, the descendants of the previous game's heroes, are given the mission to protect the last of the four crystals, The Crystal of Wind.
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9	''Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals'' is the very first sequel ever made to an existing entry in the ''Final Fantasy'' series, and the first animated installment of the ''Final Fantasy'' franchise. It was released in the United States on VHS by Urban Vision in 1997 (ironically, [[SequelFirst before the game it was based on]] [[AdaptationFirst was ever given a US release]]), but that release is now out-of-print.
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11	The OVA was not produced by ''Square'' themselves but rather by ''NTT Publishing'' with animation by ''Madhouse''.
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13	!!This OVA series contains examples of:
14	* AGodAmI: Ra Devil, to the sixteenth power. He even states himself as one at one point. [[spoiler: And he basically all but becomes one once transformed into Deathgyunos.]]
15	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Prettz has a massive crush on Linaly that she fails to notice. Mid, meanwhile, thinks that Linaly has a huge crush on ''him'' when she doesn't.
16	* TheAnimeOfTheGame: The first ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' anime, and sequel to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.
17	* {{BFS}}: Prettz wields a nodachi similar to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth's]]. Just ''how'' long it is seems to vary from scene to scene.
18	* BadMoonRising: Ra Devil and his army hail from the "Black Moon", and the final battle takes place there.
19	* BigBad: Ra Devil.
20	* BigDamnHeroes: Prettz is pretty good at this.
21	* BondOneLiner: After Prettz's first BigDamnHero moment where he slices a monster in half, he quips (in the English dub), "Poor guy, he had a splitting headache."
22	* BrainInAJar: Ra Devil stole Cid Previa's brain from his grave, then hooked it up to a machine to extract all of Cid's knowledge about the Crystals.
23	* ChosenOne: Prettz and Linaly are direct descendants of the heroes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''. As such, [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny dictates]] that these two must be the ones to protect the Crystal of Wind.
24	* ColdBloodedTorture: Subverted. Rouge subjects Prettz to the terrors of... ''a tickle machine''. Later when she tries to extract the Wind Crystal from Linaly, she opts to feed her prune juice rather than the gruesome vivisection that Prettz was probably imagining.
25	* CoolBike: Prettz owns a motorbike with a passenger sidecar. He tends to use this bike in [[CarFu some rather unique ways.]]
26	* CultureChopSuey: In the past 200 years, the world of [=FFV=] seems to have gone from MedievalEuropeanFantasy (that grew out of an old [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian quasi-Egyptian]] society of Ancients) to something vaguely Chinese, judging by Linaly and her grandfather's clothing and yin-yang... oh, and Castle Tycoon was rebuilt as the Taj Mahal with a minaret housing the dragon shrine.
27	* DeadGuyJunior: Queen Lenna of Tycoon, who is directly descended from the original.
28	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Since Linaly isn't an ActionGirl, Prettz deals with all the swording-related tasks of the quest.
29	* DissonantSerenity: Linaly takes the easygoing nature of her ancestor up a notch. Even when she's on a plummeting aircraft, she's enjoying herself because it's the first time she's flown through a cloud.
30	* DistressBall: Linaly gets kidnapped a few times and needs to be saved by monsters a few others.
31	* DubNameChange: In the english dub, "Bartz" is referred to as "Batz", and "Cid" somehow becomes "Shido".
32	* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Defied. The only Japanese sword around is Prettz's nodachi.
33	* FateWorseThanDeath: Cid had hardly been buried when Ra Devil shows up, exhumes his corpse, cuts out his brain, and keeps it alive to extract Cid's knowledge of the Crystals. Mid explains that this has somehow kept Cid's soul from being able to pass on, and he's been forced to use his knowledge in Ra Devil's service for ''200 years''.
34	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Linaly. She's already friends with a canal-dwelling serpent/dragon called Kisana and quickly befriends Hiryuu.
35	* GhostReunionEnding: [[spoiler:After Deathgyunos is destroyed, Cid's and Mid's souls are reunited with the spirits of the [=FFV=] heroes and are able to pass on to the afterlife together.]]
36	* TheHighQueen: Queen Lenna, regal and wise. Though she spends most of her time looking worried.
37	* InNameOnly: Shares the same setting and features some characters (or descendants of said characters) from [=FFV=], but other than that, it's ''completely'' different from it in terms of tone, plot/characterization, soundtrack, and [[YouDontLookLikeYou character designs]].
38	* {{Keet}}: Prettz, whose obnoxious, HotBlooded attitude is quite in contrast with his companion.
39	* LargeAndInCharge: Valkas, commander of Tycoon's air force, is far taller and wider than the rest of the cast.
40	* MechaMooks: Ra Devil's forces are made up of these.
41	* MyBrainIsBig: For some reason, Cid's disembodied brain has gotten ''huge'' in the 200 years Ra Devil was keeping it alive. It's never really explained.
42	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Prettz goes through ''several'' of these moments.
43	* ObliviousToLove: Linaly doesn't seem to notice Prettz's huge crush on her.
44	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Ra Devil's transformation into Deathgyunos, pretty much a given for a ''Final Fantasy'' villain.]]
45	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The poster is "Prettz is about to slice you in half."
46	* SchizoTech: Somewhat less so its predecessor. While technology has visibly progressed from mostly-medieval to something like the Industrial Age, with firearms and outboard motors, melee weapons are still commonly used.
47	* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Linaly is good at figuring out the puzzles they encounter along the way.
48	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Cid died in the immediate aftermath of the events of the game, and Mid Previa was murdered by Ra Devil very soon after that. Doesn't really count for the rest of the Light Warriors themselves, since there's no indication they died of anything but natural causes.
49	* TakingTheBullet: Prettz tries to intercept the Wind Crystal when Mid sends it back into Linaly's body, only it simply passes through him.
50	* UnfinishedBusiness: Mid's ghost joins Prettz and Linaly to stop Ra Devil and avenge the theft of his grandfather's brain.

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