The Chrono Trigger Anime You Probably Never Heard Of

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If you ask most gamers what the best game Square Enix has ever produced is, chances are you’ll get one of the Final Fantasy games as your answer (with Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X being common answers). If the person being asked this question doesn’t name one of the legendary fantasy epics though, chances are they will respond "Chrono Trigger" with a huge grin on their face. Those who have played Chrono Trigger will likely respond with a smile of their own, a nod, and a fist bump. While Final Fantasy has been the flagship franchise of the company for years, for many gamers Square Enix's masterpiece is Chrono Trigger, a time travel RPG with multiple endings, an intuitive battle system, and character designs by Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama. The game was release in 1995 for the Super Nintendo. While it wasn’t a breakout success in either Japan or America at first, word-of-mouth kept the game selling consistently enough that it was frequently revisited by the company and eventually become one of their best-selling titles.

In 2001 the game was re-released for the Sony PlayStation as part of Final Fantasy Chronicles. This edition not only brought the game to a new audience, it received new anime cutscenes to further illustrate Toriyama’s excellent character designs. While these animated sequences were a nice touch, it did make fans wonder what a full-blown anime of Chrono Trigger would look like. What were the chances of Square Enix comissioning an anime of Chrono Trigger? Turns out, an anime of the game DID in fact exist…it’s just not at all what fans would expect or want.

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The Chrono Trigger OVA has no official title and would likely only be