Tales fans can revisit the world of Auldrant for the low price of free, thanks to Bandai Namco's YouTube channel.

The video game publisher announced that it will upload all 26-episodes of the anime adaptation of Tales of the Abyss to YouTube in order to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the launch of the franchise's official channel. The first episode is available to stream now, and the company will release an additional episode of the series every week. The second episode is scheduled to premiere on Jan. 1. The anime is available with its original Japanese language track with English subtitles.

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Tales of the Abyss began in 2005 as an action-RPG for the Sony Playstation 2. The game was praised for its addictive combat but criticized for the narrative's reliance on genre clichés and slow pacing. Despite that, it remains more of the more well-regarded entries within the franchise. A port for the Nintendo 3DS was released in 2011, which added stereoscopic 3D graphics and touch screen shortcuts to the game. Both versions of the game were a commercial success; the original PS2 version sold over 700,000 copies when it was released, and Namco boasted that it had to reprint the 3DS version "three or four" times to keep up with continued demand for the title.

The anime adaptation of the game premiered in 2008 and was produced by Sunrise, the animation studio behind the Mobile Suit Gundam series and Cowboy Bebop. The anime was directed by Kenji Kodama, an industry veteran who is best known for his work on numerous entries in the City Hunter and Case Closed (Detective Conan) franchises. The anime features many of the same voice actors who were in the game. Numerous other Tales games have also been adapted into anime, including 2003's Tales of Symphonia and 2008's Tales of Vesperia.

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The latest Tales anime series, Tales of Luminaria, is scheduled to premiere in Japan on Jan. 21, 2022. This entry in the series is based on a mobile game of the same name, and will be animated through the use of cel-shaded CG. The series is being produced by Kamikaze Douga, an animation studio that is known for its CG expertise and previously worked on the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime, as well as Disney+'s Star Wars anthology series, Visions. The Tales of Luminaria game is available now on iOS and Android devices, while Funimation has announced that it will stream the anime series outside of Japan.

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