Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ Released!

OK, we’re done. 1080p is a slower seed (10/2 connection instead of 100/100) unfortunately, since it’ll be faster to seed it out than to ul/mux it.

Oh, and this has 5.1 FLAC. I think this is not only our first completed movie, but also our first show with 5.1 audio. So, yay. :) 480p has 2.0 AAC @ 320 kbps, though, as you’re only DLing that for filesize or compatibility.

Big shout out to the staff for working so diligently on this. ^^

1080p: Seed will be a bit slow on this one.

720p: I’ll take the DFC.

480p: The rest of you can have the boob twin.

131 Responses to “Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ Released!”

  1. Hanzo Says:

    Cool been waiting for this to be subbed, glad its you guys who took up the task.

  2. Spectlze Says:

    nice! thanks for subbing this awesome movie.

  3. ReleasedNinja Says:

    Nice thanks for a great release :D

  4. Mega-Japan Says:

    I’ve been waiting for this. Thank you very much Mrs. Kristen and the other people who worked hard on this. You are very nice people =D.

  5. SpeedStar5 Says:

    You lot are just plain AWESOME!!! Really grateful you have subbed this and can’t wait for 1080p version :3

  6. HiHi67 Says:

    Absolutely awesome. I think I will wait for the 1080p though ^^. I need my Tales in HD+

  7. iruka Says:

    yay, bravo, cheer, just awesome

  8. Kuzu Says:

    @Mega-Japan:
    Kristen isn’t married afaik :\

  9. fuzzbucket Says:

    @Mega-Japan

    “Mrs.” is an acronym which means “missus.” This indicates the woman being addressed is married. “Ms.” is an acronym which means “miss.” This indicates the woman is not married.

  10. Finally here: Tales of Vesperia movie! « pandalin express Says:

    [...] waiting for the Tales of Vesperia: First Strike movie for about a year! ^_^ HUGE thanks goes to Chihiro subs for putting all the time and effort into this wonderful movie! [...]

  11. Van Says:

    You guys are brilliant, cant wait for the 1080 to go up!

  12. soo Says:

    you are great! but i’ll wait for the 1080p :)

  13. Mega-Japan Says:

    You know, you people think TOO hard xD. I say “Mrs.” just because it sounds funnier than saying “Ms.” :D .

  14. Niphty Says:

    Sorry Kristen, I claimed the DFC LOOOONG before you did. She’s a badass too, so definitely more worthy of me than you =D
    Hope everyone enjoys. It was quite the task, but we pulled it together pretty well, I believe. The 720p is absolutely beautiful. Can’t imagine the 1080. =D

  15. DHYohko Says:

    Huge thanks for this release, was waiting long for it…will you guys do Black Rock Shooter when it comes out too?

  16. hologram Says:

    Thanks, but slow seeding is sloooow..

    Also, I hate this release uses FLAC, only audiophiles or people with $2000 speakers and sound cards will be able to notice the difference. Retarded format imo. Still love you though. ( ¯‿¯)

  17. Fading-Dream Says:

    Really excited to watch this! 420p for me though :p

  18. Kanti Says:

    Woot, you guys are fucking awesome. I had wanted this for a long time.

    I just hope it’s alright to watch before playing the game (no 360…. 1500 kanji left to study).

  19. Spind Says:

    in no way whatsoever ill be able to play the game since i dont own a 360/ps3.

    Thanks Chihiro for the release! 720p for me xD

  20. Emz Says:

    Thank you so much for subbing it!

    Shame the torrent is being leeched a lot and not seeded enough so my ETA is currently 21 hours just for the 480p version. :<

    Though it keeps fluctuating up to 2 days remaining! :c

  21. solfan Says:

    YAY! Thank you :D
    i will now stop stalking this site :P

  22. ewafef Says:

    So, if I’ve never played the game, how will watching this movie affect any possible future playing?

  23. Niphty Says:

    The movie is a prequel and only leads into the story from the game. You don’t need to have played it, though you will miss a few references. The more important concepts are explained in the first few lines. From there, the movie is stand-alone.
    The scenes on the ending theme section are the opening cutscene to the game (so I was told). So there you go =D

  24. Kuzu Says:

    @Niphty,

    You faggot, the DFC’s mine.

  25. Juraigamer Says:

    Omg… RITA

    Thanks for the subs!

  26. Spind Says:

    ok… on second thought… 420p… 3gigs is a lot for a 720p… feels like im downloading 1080p xD

    nevertheless, thanks chihiro again for the movie! xD

  27. Spind Says:

    480p* xD

  28. Mr. B Says:

    Thank you so much!!!! ^_^!!!! I wish I could give you all a collective hug! <3 Thanks again for the hard work!

  29. Nada Says:

    thank you so much guys :3 finally the waiting came to an end xD !! u worked very hard we all thank you for that ~

  30. FinalEvangelion Says:

    Thanks for the work. Vesperia is my favorite game this generation so far, although I would love for the PS3 version to release in America.

  31. outlaw Says:

    I find the love for Rita disturbing. She’s easily the worst female character in the game. >_>

  32. failzattechnology Says:

    Are you going to post any other downloads for it, cuz some people are not able to work with torrents….[including myself orzz]???

  33. nomae Says:

    @failzattechnology

    If you don’t mind getting the 480p version, you can get it direct download from http://www.fansub.tv It should be in the list of episode updates at the bottom of the front page for a day or two. after that you’ll have to search a bit more to find it.

  34. hikikomori Says:

    3.74 gigs for the 720? That’s badass can’t wait for the 1080 :D Since I don’t think you were going for a certain size i’m gonna assume you used crf, if so, what level did you use? And if I don’t know what i’m talking about just say stfu noob. haha

  35. Kuzu Says:

    @outlaw

    There’s those of us that love abusive characters.

  36. Tarr Says:

    Thanks for the release, but it would be really nice if you could restrain yourself and do multichannel AAC for 720p.

  37. DmonHiro Says:

    If you don’t like FLAC, too bad, we at Chihiro like it.

  38. ur wrong Says:

    @fuzzbucket

    Mrs. is for maried women; pronounced “misses”
    Miss is for young, single females; pronounced “miss”
    Ms. is for any woman that may or may not be married; pronounced “mizz”

  39. Ren Says:

    Yaaaaaay~ Always bet on Chihiro. Also、Rita love!

  40. Freddy Says:

    Lol, i cant believe some people are still saying stuff like OMG 3.7 gigs for a 720p bluray movie and FLAC sucks i want AAC audio .And dmonhiro if you like FLAC so much why didnt you use it for your sacred blacksmith release ?

  41. Niphty Says:

    @Kuzu – haha, hell no. She’s all mine.

    @outlaw – Unlike him, I know she’s not abusive, just frisky =D I love fun girls like that, what can I say. Oh, and she’s a badass. If they can’t hold my respect, no interest. Regardless, I haven’t played the game, so I can’t comment on other women in the game.

    Also: Please seed this for a bit when you’re done. Don’t just leech and run. A lot of people have been waiting for this, so make sure to spread the love =D

  42. DmonHiro Says:

    @Freddy: You’ll be eating those words in a few day when I release the v2s, all with FLAC :D

  43. Somebody Says:

    Hey,

    thanks for the release, but one question/request: Could you maybe keep the original audio-format for the 1080p release, whatever it was (probably some version of DD or DTS) ?

    Since 5.1 FLAC doesn’t work via SPDIF or HDMI (if you don’t have the latest-gen GPU’s. That means at least an ATI Radeon HD5xxx).

    Thanks for the subs anyways!

  44. Havoc10K Says:

    Kristen, l know Chihiro did it cuz you held a 9 mm gun at their necks, l have pics and evidence, la dare you to do it more often :]

  45. hyourinnmaru Says:

    many thanks for subbing the movie, love the game, can’t wait for it to finish

  46. hyourinnmaru Says:

    finish dowsnloading that is i have completed the game already wwww

  47. aniluv Says:

    I really love this movie. Just wonderful. And this is all possible because of the staff working so hard on it. Thank you. Truly.

    Just a question though, is the scenes in the ending theme a hint of the second movie or is it just scenes from the games like Niphty mentioned above?

  48. HXH Says:

    YOU ARE THE BEST.
    chihiro = hero

  49. nup Says:

    Thank you, much appreciated.

  50. motz Says:

    nice gj chihiro :_)

  51. Master Shadow Says:

    Wow… the 1080p is horribly slow. Gunna have a 21GB series DLed long before this finishes. ; ;

  52. Red Liquid Says:

    I luv u guys!!! YOU ARE THE GREATEST FANSUB EVER!
    i’ve wait this since year!

  53. Ness Says:

    So, I’m having serious trouble getting the sound to work for this file. I’ve downloaded the FLAC codec to get the audio to work, but it’s just not coming through for whatever reason. I’ve tried the file in Winamp (it refuses to load), Divx and WMP have no sound (both say they’re missing the DirectShow recoder), and VLC simply crashes (though I think the sound does work; I wouldn’t know since it crashes in less than 3 seconds). Is there some specific codec you used for the file, or is there another player I can try this on? I’ve been toying around with this for the past hour and a half, using several programs to figure out exactly what I need, including MediaInfo, but I’m still coming up short.

  54. DmonHiro Says:

    DON’T USE VLC, FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN!

  55. Juraigamer Says:

    That was fucking awesome.

    Anyone know if this was just an OVA or is it going to continue?

  56. TheWingless Says:

    @Ness:
    Don’t use Winamp or VLC to play videos, use MPC-HC/CCCP/K-Lite(Wah wah wah K-Lite).

    @Juraigamer:
    It’s a movie. There won’t be anymore to watch. Actually, it’s the first Tales to be a movie, though it is a prequel.

    @Somebody:
    You do know that DTS is like lossy and still can be larger than the lossless FLAC right? Well aside from that, I don’t think you’re gonna get a DTS release, so you could just find a RAW and mux in some scripts.

  57. Somebody Says:

    @TheWingless

    Well it’s a little bit different. The original Blu-Ray uses DTS-HD according to 1*. As you can read at wikipedia 2*, DTS-HD is a lossless audiocodec (like FLAC). So the question should be in the first place: Why convert a lossless compressed stream to another lossless compression codec? It’s not like ffdshow, etc. couldn’t decode it.
    On the other hand the advantage for people like me, who watch their 1080p at a home cinema system, is that DTS-HD is backwards compatible to DTS. This means it’s usable (the lossy “core” of the bitstream) via SPDIF and HDMI connections which don’t support the latest bitstream codecs and 5.1/7.1 PCM yet.
    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bitch. I’m just curious for the reason why everyone seems to change the codec for apparently no reason – except for the loss of SPDIF support.

    1: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=BCXA-230
    2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS-HD_Master_Audio

  58. Sirby Says:

    Thank you for 1080p. I am hoping the audio will downmix to 2 channels though. If that’s not the case, I have to find 3 more speakers…I suppose I can leave out the sub.

  59. Somebody Says:

    @Sirby

    If you are using ffdshow (you should) go to “ffdshow audio decoder configuration”, check “Mixer” in the left, click “Mixer” in the left and choose “output speaker configuration”: “2/0/0″.

    Or just install the latest CCCP:
    http://www.cccp-project.net/beta/Combined-Community-Codec-Pack-BETA-2010-05-21.exe

  60. Ren Says:

    Who else votes on a Symphonia prequel movie? Mithos’ story!

  61. The Doctor Says:

    Thanks guys. I’ve been checking your site a few times a day since I started playing Vesperia about a week ago so it’s great to finally see it released.

  62. Hakainokami Says:

    720p for me – And you guys are awesoem for subbing this – ive been waiting since the movie came out hoping someone would. hope I can figure out which program to DL for watching vids w/FLAC .

    Does anyone have suggestions? My current comp has been so far behind the time I haven’t been able to watch subs unless they make a low quality release for over a year, but I got the parts now so as soon as I build it, I can watch this:)

  63. The Doctor Says:

    Download CCCP and use MPC which comes packaged with it.

  64. Kurausuki Says:

    Ah haha… Note to self, thay when I get my 2TB storage HDD to reformat it to NTFS instead of FAT32. Just realized I didn’t do that with my 1TB one, and it doesn’t like having 9GB files. To ‘My Documents’ this movie goes! XD

  65. Subaszek Says:

    Thanks for this awesome movie. And theboob win. You people are the best.

  66. Evinkuruga Says:

    You guys are freaking amazing, I’ve been DYING to see the movie!
    Thanks again~

  67. Black_Rabbit Says:

    Symphonia is such a good game, so I’ll check this movie out even though I haven’t played its game yet.

    @Ren, No, because then Presea wouldn’t appear in it. Period. Also, it’s OVA’s is good enough despite that I had my doubts on it.

  68. Zero Says:

    Am now playing the game over…..again…..>.>

    for some reason Tales are the only RPGs i can play over and over and ty for the subs u guys are awesome

  69. Greorgy Says:

    Thanks Chihiro

  70. Nick DaMan Says:

    wow I got lucky…first time searching for this movie and the same day i find it here….yesss

  71. ShinAzure Says:

    Hi there, I’m a european user, and I can’t get any of the versions to run, apparently there aren’t any peers for the torrent I can connect to. Is there any way i can still get this? because, like 40 of my best friends are watching it RIGHT NOW and they’re just laughing over spoilers. :/

  72. Lebon14 Says:

    Holy crap… 9GB for the full HD >_< I'm gonna burst my monthly bandwith limit for sure.

  73. CyberMirage Says:

    @ShinAzure
    If you can’t get it from the torrents you could try getting it off a bot from IRC. Or ask your friends for a copy.

  74. Anon. Says:

    awesome!! dloaded th 4gb 1 but as th movie was awesome MUST dload th 9-10gb 1 xDD

    thx!

  75. Rel Says:

    Subs aren’t working for me for some reason, no matter what player I try them on D:

  76. Shadow Dra Says:

    1080 download needs more seeds…

  77. Niphty Says:

    @Shadow Dra there’s only one seed right now…. the initial one. As soon as ANYONE is complete, practically EVERYONE who started this morning will be done all at once, lol.
    This was mentioned in the post. Patience.

  78. namednoob Says:

    Wonder if they will make a continuation to it … by the ending you get to see repede grown up and new characters and stuff …

  79. Zero Says:

    @namednoob

    the continuation would be playing the game itself which i am doing….again….right now waiting for the 1080p version to finish

  80. namednoob Says:

    well i was talking about a movie or tv series :)

  81. Oosran Says:

    @Ren: Screw Mithos, go go Sheena’s backstory instead~

    *clears throat* Anyway, will the 1080p be up for xdcc anytime soon? *puppy eyes*

  82. Zero Says:

    prolly not but here’s to hoping?

  83. Nelson Salazar Says:

    No Subs for the 480p? I don’t know what I am doing wrong but I do have the option for the subs on mkv but the only thing that shows having the sub is the Ending SOng. Pls help because I might be tempted to just dl the higher version.

  84. Niphty Says:

    Those of you having issues with the subs: please try getting the latest CCCP. They’re there and working fine for most people, and we can’t really tech support over comments, especially with no details. If you want to join the IRC channel, you’ll get better results.

  85. jester Says:

    how can i get the 720p to play on my ps3, mkv2vob wont convert cause of the flac audio :(

  86. Zero Says:

    go ahead and DL the higher pixel version? Its better for you. plus i bet there’s a lot of seeds for the 1080p version now…I’m one.

  87. Kuzu Says:

    @CyberMirage:

    That last one is quite creative for a solution :\

  88. N.R. Says:

    Thank you Chihiro. You really outdone yourselves this time. Can’t wait to watch this. Maybe It will make me want to actually get to play the game.

  89. jester Says:

    wait nevermind i found out how

  90. Juraigamer Says:

    I must retract my previous statement.

    It’s not just rita, is fucking LOLI RITA

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  92. Angel Says:

    Thank you so much guys!!! I was looking forward to this movie for quite some time now and you guys came at the right time!!

  93. Ren Says:

    @Oosran and Black_Rabbit: Well we will just have to compromise to have a prequel…. for eeeeeveryone. Hell, even Forcystus had a cool back story. Fund it namco!

  94. regretro Says:

    yay thank you so much!

  95. Nelson Salazar Says:

    Thanks Chihiro! Yup updated from K lite to CCCp now I am able to see the subs!

  96. Nelson Salazar Says:

    Also would you mind doing xvids again? anyway thanks again and God Bless! Gan~Ba~Re!

  97. Hetreatne Says:

    thank you, i’m so glad i didn’t have to wait to see if this was gonna be dubbed

    an awesome game And an awesome movie

  98. sage1210 Says:

    what is in the credit scene ?

    is that mean another movie will come or something ?

    what ever i think after tales of abyss the one is really good and must be great if they can release another movie not just leave fans to continue it on the game version (for me i think animation is far more lively and exciting than on the game).

  99. James Says:

    dang, am I the only one having issues w/ this? I DL’d the 420, it crashes VLC every time and is pixelated as hell in Media Player Classic

  100. Niphty Says:

    100th comment btw :P

    The credit scene is supposed to be the opening to the game, though no one’s confirmed that.

    @James – try a fresh install of CCCP with default options and see if MPC likes it then.

  101. sage1210 Says:

    @niphty

    If what you said is true.

    This is so sad.

    Even they can made animation this good but end up just another CM for game.

  102. Juraigamer Says:

    They should totally animate all of vesperia, then of course the others.

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  104. outlaw Says:

    @ Niphty

    Eh, she’s not really abusive. She’s just an very dull character who entire personality was built on cliches. In a game where the characters were a very high point, she was definitely was pretty bad.

    I’m not saying this to hate, I just find it odd after playing the game that people actually like her.

    P.S. She’s so far away from badass, it’s not funny. She’s about as badass as Karol.

  105. Ren Says:

    @sage and others: Yes, the credits is the opening to Vesperia the game. I don’t know how much CG they have in Vesperia but the openings to tales games always have you asking for more, huh. I only support animating full games if you give them a full 26 episode series they deserve.

    Otherwise, movie prequel >>>> heavily abridged game

  106. N.R. Says:

    @sage1210: I agree with you 100%. But historically speaking Namco only released 2 full tales series: tales of eternia (I never played the game but the anime was horrible), and tales of abyss which was very good. The problem is, if you watched a full 24/26 episode anime you will never play the game, and that means less money for the company. On the other hand I think they are very lazy people. Why couldn’t they realease a full tales of symphonia anime instead of dragging it for 10 years? We all know that when it is finished they will slap it on 3 blu ray discs and sell it as a complete series.

  107. Johnny Says:

    I downloaded Divx for this and it says something about DirectShow Decoder 4294967295, then I tried WMP to see it it worked and both case shows that its a FLAC file and is not supported, I did some research and ended up with an answer like Ac3filter or something, I’m not sure exactly how to apply it after download, any one care to enlighten me as to how I can finally watch this movie?

  108. lowhat Says:

    480p @ 320kbps?

    2.0 Stereo AAC (46 kBit/s)

  109. ZaMpa Says:

    Lol, guys all the comments you let in the subtitle script are just hillarous xD (aegisub <3)

    Works perfectly in MPC (satsuki decoder pack) !

    @Johnny : just get a codec pack like "satsuki" or "k-lite" it should works fine. (MPC FTW !)
    If nothing works, transcode FLAC to AAC (handle up to 48 channels) and remux with the original file.

    @lowhat : "480p @ 320kbps" horrible video bitrate Oo

  110. elmaton Says:

    Nice to see that something was done right this time.

  111. essiw Says:

    Could someone please tell me how to get the voices to work on a MAC? I hear sound but no voices (only background voices work). I use MPlayer OSX extended as you always recommended at chihiro.

  112. essiw Says:

    I have found the solution I had to select: “Virtual surround for headphones”

  113. Malice Says:

    Absolutely amazing.
    So glad this was subbed. It’s definitely a must see for any fan of Vesperia. This is a really well done movie.
    Great job on the subbing too. I think I saw a single bit of wonky grammar, but didn’t see anything else.
    Though, makes me sad that it’ll never see the light of western theaters. I’d watch the shit out of this movie in theaters.

  114. Shadow Says:

    Great movie!! Thanks, Chihiro and Kristen’s tenacious whip in getting this out! =)

    The only thing I wish it had was more Rita! From the little bit they showed of her, she seems like she’d be my favorite. I just wanted to see her go blastia nuts on people and things that get in her way or piss her off!

    Out of the twins, I think I liked the “smaller one” more. ;) And Yuri’s move where he spins his sword up over his head is bad ass!

  115. EgoToMoko Says:

    Thx for the beautiful release, i got myself to fix the causality/ casualty error, wonder why no one pointed that out? too much awesomeness?

  116. wow4tr5 Says:

    Can anyone tell me where i can download the subs.thnx

  117. arc Says:

    Having a problem with the 1080p version.

    There is occasional stuttering in the audio and video and also sometimes the subs come late or so, which means i’m unable to watch it. Tried watching with MPC which gives this stuff and with VLC its even worse. I tried re-installing CCCP etc. but it didn’t do any good.

    any advice?

  118. Myke Says:

    Good stuff mate. I’ve only destroyed half of my social life with this game so i’ve been anticipating this movie for about an eternity or two.

    Btw those of you who are encoding this to work on your 360 or PS3 or whatever you use, what encoder are you using.

    All of mine are nothing short of retarded and can’t even recognize this file as MKV.
    I’m talking Gotsent, All2Avi, virtual dub mod, Xvid4psp, I’m not having any probs with FLAC it’s just that i can’t some to hardcode the subs correctly. After i extract the subs and then try to hardcode them in it’s like someone wiped their ass with the subs then slapped them back into the vid. Either i’m wrong or my programs are weak. I’ve been using encoders and converting MKV to MP4 and avi for years never had this problem. any tips would be greatly appreciated.

  119. Kieven Says:

    Where can I watch this?

  120. Kaelin Says:

    OMG thank you so much! X3 i love this game and i’ve been waiting forever for this to be subbed! Yay!!!

  121. Mikaeru Says:

    I’m about to play through ToV again, but watching this before hand is going to be my lead in. Thanks a ton Chihiro for making this great fansub, it will surely spark some interest in the game, so it’s good for Nam Cobanda too.

  122. Fallow Says:

    Thanks a ton!

  123. SoulSlayer Says:

    Okay! I’ll have the boob twins XD

  124. BladeVll Says:

    I download it but it got no sound and sub. Is there a way to fix this? Im using LImewire btw.

  125. Doggy-kun Says:

    These are very awkward translations, the notes are annoying, and you don’t even put the dialouge for the spells. Mail me when you get a better translation.

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  127. Gabriel Says:

    Completly ASWOME!! 5/5!!! thanks for uploading this, i just watched it :`)

  128. XxanimefreakxX Says:

    im just downloading the movie by a friends recommendation, but i just want the game to be on the ps3 for the UST_T

  129. my lil blog Says:

    I feel asleep reading this.

  130. DarkEnforcer117 Says:

    If i click on any of the links it doesnt let me download them, i even post the url in bit torrent and it gives me this : Error ‘ An Attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. ‘while downloading URL. does anyone know why? cause i really want to see this movie Subbed thanks!

  131. Moose Says:

    I cant get audio ;^;
    Can someone tell me what program(s) they used to watch this in? Since Im and idiot and dont know shit.

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