Xenosaga: The Animation

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Xenosaga: The Animation
Runtime	January 5, 2005 - March 23, 2005
Episodes	12
Producer	Toei Animation

Xenosaga: The Animation is a twelve-episode anime series developed by Toei Animation which premiered on TV Asahi in Japan on January 5, 2005 and on Anime Network in the United States. The anime is based off the events of Xenosaga Episode I - Der Wille zur Macht, although there are differences.

Differences

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• Miyuki Itsumi is completely omitted, her role being filled in by Togashi Yukihira.
• Vanderkam is seen making his subordinates do pushups as punishment for mishandling the Zohar Emulator.
• Virgil survives the events on the Woglinde, with Andrew Cherenkov taking his place, being killed by a Gnosis.
• The entire Kirschwasser race is absent, their roles replaced by a single Kirschwasser, Kirsch.
• Albedo appears on the Woglinde to retrieve Kirsch by threatening Shion's life if she doesn't comply, something that doesn't happen in the game.
• Shion is nearly whitened by a Goblin Gnosis in a hallway, rather than a Golem in the Realian maintenance center.
• The Cathedral Ship section is omitted.
• During the party's stay at the Kukai Foundation, Jr. buys a life-sized Bunnie plush for MOMO.
• Pellegri has a more expanded role than she did in the game, even her E.S. unit, Issachar makes an appearance despite debuting in Episode II.
• Virgil is among those arrested by the Federation after the Kukai Foundation was framed by the U-TIC Organization.
• chaos makes a transmission to Jin Uzuki while the party is in the Encephalon in an effort to clear their names.
• Jin and chaos battle Pellegri in the Encephalon who defeats her with the Ice Brand Double Attack, prompting her to disconnect.
• Virgil dies by KOS-MOS's X-BUSTER attack during the Gnosis invasion of the Kukai Foundation.
• Albedo kidnaps MOMO while piloting Simeon who uses her as a human shield against Jr..
• The "Ma Belle Peche" scene is altered drastically, instead of Albedo dismembering himself to frighten MOMO, he abuses Kirsch and uses a gun to frighten MOMO and shoots his head off which quickly regenerates, replacing the knife he wields in the Japanese release of the original game.
• The Song of Nephilim section and the Proto Merkabah section are merged.
• Sophie Peithos is replaced by a transformed Simeon.
• Canaan makes an appearance despite debuting in Episode II.
• Kirsch takes KOS-MOS's place in detaching Proto Merkabah's sub-compartments and dies with it.

Characters

• Shion Uzuki
• KOS-MOS
• Gaignun Kukai Jr.
• Ziggy
• MOMO
• chaos
• Albedo Piazzolla
• Margulis
• Kirsch
• Luis Virgil
• Shelley Godwin
• Mary Godwin
• Allen Ridgeley
• Wilhelm
• Red Testament
• Blue Testament
• Black Testament
• Vanderkam
• Jin Uzuki
• Gaignun Kukai
• Kevin Winnicot
• Tony
• Matthews
• Hammer
• Andrew Cherenkov
• Pellegri
• Nephilim
• Juli Mizrahi
• Joachim Mizrahi
• Sakura Mizrahi
• Helmer
• Canaan
• Febronia
• Lapis Roman
• Kazuichi Moriyama
• Caspase
• Togashi Yukihira
• Calx

Trivia

• The Zohar Emulators in the title card in each episode contains a Hebrew numeral which denotes the episode's number.