Falcom revealed some of the plans set in motion to celebrate the 15th anniversary of theKisekiseries, known as theTrailsseries in the west.
An event titled the “Kiseki Series 15th Anniversary Memorial Festival” was announced. During the event, Tokyo Anime Center will sell new goods related to theKisekiseries. Many different subevents will be held at the center, like talk shows with Falcom’s staff. It’s likely that new information on the nextKisekigames will be revealed during these events as well.
The festival will last from June 14 to July 7 and is co-organized by Dengeki Online. Dengeki Online opened anofficial pagewhere more events will be announced. The page with all the goods listed can bereached here, but keep in mind that some illustrations are spoiler-ish.
The next biggest anniversary project revealed so far is a new artbook, the “Kiseki Series 15th Anniversary Sen no Kiseki Character Maniacs” artbook. It’s 352 pages long, priced 4500 Yen, and releases on June 24. The artbook includes a list of all the characters that appeared inTrails of Cold SteelI to IV, more than 1300 characters in total. It includes each character’s history, how they are linked to each other, and new illustrations. It’ll also include a new four-panels manga by Daisuke Arakubo, who also drew theFalcom Gakuenmanga.
The artbook’s cover, the logo and the key visual for theKiseki15th anniversary were revealed as well.
Falcom already revealed that two newKisekigamesare currently in development. The first one will be the start of a new saga in the series, set in the east of the Zemuria continent and might feature a female protagonist. The second one will be a “Gaiden” like game and cover events not shown in the fourTrails of Cold Steelgames. We’ve covered everything we know about both games so far in aprevious article.
Falcom also already stated that the Gaiden game will release before the next main game.It might come in 2019as part of the series’s 15th anniversary.
Meanwhile,Trails of Cold Steel IIIwill be launchingthis Fall in the weston PS4, and the first two gamesare now on PC.
