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Final TOP OVA Volume Announced
Date: 10/22/2005
The 4th and final Tales Of Phantasia OVA has been given a street release date of December 22nd from Frontier Works. The animation is based on the popular Namco RPG sold for Nintendo's Super Famicom in 1995, and later ported to PSX and GBA. According to Wikipedia, TOP was the first SFC game to feature streamed audio voices, made possible by sound programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba. Specifically, this sound engine was titled the "Flexible Voice Driver," and overcame the SNES's small audio memory capacity by swapping short vocal samples on the fly. The voice actor's recording for the final OVA volume wrapped this week, bringing 10 years of the cast working together (on the games, drama CD's and anime) to a close. The cast included Takeshi Kusao as Cless Alvein, Junko Iwao as Mint Adnade, Kazuhiko Inoue as Klarth F. Lester, Kentarou Itou as Chester Barklight, Mika Kanai as Arche Klaine, Taeko Kawata as Suzu Fujibayashi and Toshiyuki Morikawa as Dhaos.
Source: Anime News Service