Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Japanese: ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン) is a CGI-anime movie based on the successful PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII that is set two years after the events of the game. It is slated to be released on DVD and on a UMD disc for the PSP handheld console. Its official theatrical release date was on September 10, 2005 as the grand public opening. It released in Japan on September 14, 2005, and is slated to be released in North America on November 29 2005. The movie received the Honorary Maria Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cataluña in October 15, 2005. The official Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children website had placed a countdown, showing the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds until the final release. Special Editions of this movie have been The following characters will be appearing in the film (Japanese names have also been provided):

Returning: Cloud Strife 　（クラウド・ストライフ） Barret Wallace 　（バレット・ウォーレス） Tifa Lockhart 　&12539;ハイウィンド） Yuffie Kisaragi 　（ユフィ・キサラギ） Cait Sith 　（ケット・シー） Reno 　（レノ） Rude 　（ルード） Elena Tseng Marlene Wallace &#*Rufus Shinra 　（ルーファウス神羅） Sephiroth 　（セフィロス）

New: Kadaj 　（ӝゼル）

Plot Summary

The information below was compiled using various sources such as the [http://www.imdb.com/of Final Fantasy VII'', the Planet has begun healing itself from the devastating attack from Meteor, but a strange disease known as "Geostigma" (Japanese: Star Scar Syndrome) has arisen. It is proving to be fatal, and children seem to be at greater risk. Cloud, who is also infected with the disease, has secluded himself from the world, haunted by the demons of his past. However, he has established a delivery service with Tifa. Tifa's bar, 7th Heaven, is now an orphanage for the infected children.

The survivors of Midgar have begun to build a new home on the edge of Midgar, aptly named 'Edge'. In the center is a monument to Midgar's destruction - Meteor. The president of the former Shinra company, Rufus Shinra, is confined to a wheelchair, though whether this is due to injuries from the destruction of Midgar or his advanced stage of Geostigma is not revealed. From his wheelchair he is coordinating searches by the Turks for the effects that Sephiroth had on the planet. of the trio, Kadaj, claims that Geostigma is due to the Jenova Cells corrupting the Lifestream and somehow knows Cloud, referring to him as "brother" and "traitor." Vincent suspects that the trio is seeking to obtain the remains of Jenova to create another Sephiroth, and suggests that Geostigma is the result of Lifestream inside one's body battling the Jenova cells within it. Loz attacks Tifa at Aerith's church while searching for the location of Jenova. After a hard fought battle Tifa is knocked unconscious, and Loz kidnaps Marlene Wallace, Barrett's adopted daughter, and steals Cloud's Materia. Cloud returns to this church where he discovers her and collapses next to her due to the effects of Geostigma. They are found by Reno and Rudeof the trio from Rufus, begins chasing them down on his bike, Fenrir. Along the way, he has flashbacks of his past and of Aerith. He finally locates the trio, where he confronts the leader Kadaj. Kadaj manages to "mind control" the children and they surround Cloud, ensuring that he cannot escape.

Kadaj begins calling him a "traitor" and is about to execute him when Marlene calls out Cloud's name, distracting Kadaj and allowing Cloud to grab his sword. This leads to a battle, in which Cloud is defeated, but Vincent arrives and manages to save Cloud. The two return back to Midgar, where they find it in havoc. Kadaj has unleashed numerous Shadow Creeper monsters to attack the people, and is seen in an incomplete building with the wheelchair bound Rufus. Loz and Yazoo have used the children as human shields while they search for Jenova's head. To add to the confusion, Kadaj then summons Sin Bahamut to look also (although he uses to wrong colour materia, as in the game Summon materia was red).

Bahamut wreaks havoc on the newly constructed Edge, but fortunately the entire party returns back for an all out brawl with it, and ultimately Cloud brings Bahamut down with the help of the entire party, including Aerith. under-construction highway, where Loz and Yazoo both try and stall Cloud, which fails due to a timely arrival of Reno and Rude, and some high-powered explosives. and healing Cloud of his Geostigma. He continues to pursue Kadaj, and confronts Kadaj again in a one on one battle, which is almost cut short due to the rest of the party arriving in the Sierra, a new aircraft, named after Cid's assistant Sierra (Shera in English localisations). However, Tifa and Vincent manage to convince everyone not to interfere, as it is revealed that Kadaj is in fact a "Larva of Sephiroth." Sierra flies off, which puts a small smile to Cloud's face, before he finally defeats Kadaj. Kadaj falls from the building.

Kadaj hangs from a building with one hand, with Cloud standing above him. Instead of admitting defeat, though, Kadaj opens the container of Jenova's remains, and absorbs it all as he falls. Cloud jumps down after him, and tries to finish him with one strike, but Kadaj stops him with his hands, at the same time transforming into Sephiroth while the Masamune forms in his grasp. (background music changes to Kata Tsubasa no Tenshi, the rock-orchestra version of One Winged Angel)

Sephiroth reveals to Cloud that that he can have the happiness of destroying it. Cloud removes Sephiroth's blade from his shoulder, and states "I pity you who understand nothing." Afterwards, Cloud and Sephiroth leap into the air and Cloud declares "everything is important to me" right before separating his sword into six pieces and performing a new Limit Break (translates to "Omnislash Version 5") to defeat Sephiroth. Sephiroth floats over Cloud with a newly formed black-feathered wing (see One Winged Angel), and says "I won't just be a memory..." before his wing wraps from Yazoo, who along with Loz has survived the Turks' blast. (Although they too are being taken by the purifying water) Cloud rises up again, ready for one last go. He turns, his lips distorted into a snarl as he charges them, scraping his sword on the roof of the building. They raise their hands, a blue aura surrounding both of their arms as he runs. Suddenly, just as he jumps and swings, theleave, their spirits finally at rest.

Bonus Ending
We see Cloud travelling through familiar landscapes on the Fenrir with the theme song, "Calling" by Kyosuke Himuro playing in the background. The scene pans toward Aerith in a field of yellow flowers, standing alone. Cloud hasn't passed by the field of flowers as he hasn't reached it. Showing Aerith again, she turns and gazes into the camera.

Finally, Cloud reaches the flower field, which seems to stretch for miles, filled with beautiful yellow flowers. The camera does not follow him any further.

The last scene shows Cloud's desk filled with postcards, letters and photographs of the flower field strewn about everywhere. A close up on of his desk shows the past photograph of Cloud, Tifa, Denzel, and Marlene. And now, in front reveals a photograph of the FFVII crew with a small bouquet of the yellow flowers from. Various fan translations are available online.

Episodes 1-4. Johnny, the bumbling regular of Tifa's 7th Heaven from the original game has opened up his own bar in a newly built town on the ren orphaned by the many recent tragedies. These episodes are told indirectly through the perspective of Denzel, the young orphan featured in Advent Children. His backstory, as well as recounting the events of that fateful day in which Lifestream emerged to save the planet from Meteor. He tells his tale to Reeve, in hopes of becoming a member of the World Restoration Order, a new army devoted to rebuilding after the crisis.

Image gallery

Image:Kadajcloud.jpg|Cloud Strife threatened by the new main villain, Kadaj Image:Turkbad.jpg|Turks; Reno and Rude confront the two new villains; Loz and Yazoo Image:Vincecloud.jpg|Vincent Valentinea dream sequence Image:ffviiadventchildren.jpg|Cloud helping Tifa Image:Redxiicait.jpg|Cait Sith riding Red XIII (Nanaki) with Barret in the back Image:Rudereno.jpg|Two of the Turks, Reno and Rude Image:Yazooloz.jpg|Two of the newest villains, Loz and Yazoo

Credits
Voice Actors (Japanese)
Takahiro Sakurai: Cloud Strife Maaya Sakamoto: Aerith Gainsborough Ayumi Ito: Tifa Lockhart Shoutarou Morikubo: Kadaj Toru Ohkawa: Rufus Shinra Keiji Fujiwara: Reno Taiten Kusunoki: Rude Yuuji Kishi: Yazoo Kenji Nomura: Loz Shougo Suzuki: Vincent Valentine Masahiro Kobayashi: Barret Wallace Kazuyuki Yama: Cid Highwind Yumi Kakazu: Yuffie Kisaragi Hideo Ishikawa: Cait Sith Masachika Ichimura: Red XIII Miyu Tsuzurahara: Marlene Wallace Kyousuke Ikeda: Denzel Junichi Suwabe: Tseng Megumi Toyoguchi: Elena Rina Mogami: Infected Girl with moogle-doll Banjou Ginga: Reeve Tuesti Kenichi Suzumura: Zack Toshiyuki Morikawa: Sephiroth

Voice Actors (English)

Wally Wingert: Rufus Shinra

- There are no other officially announced voice actors for the English language translation, though Chris Edgerly & Michelle Ruff to voice Cid and Elena. It is widely speculated that the characters that appeared in Kingdom Hearts will be voiced by the actors who did them in that game; however, the actors who were chosen to play the characters in Kingdom Hearts were not chosen by Square Enix, but Disney, since their actors were used in the game, yet SE could use them as the voices for the characters.

Walter Roberts was the narrator in E3 2004 and Steamboy trailers (according to iMDB).

Developers
Director: Tetsuya Nomura Co-director: Takeshi Nozue Producer: Yoshinori Kitase Co-producer: Shinji Hashimoto Scenario Writer: Kazushige Nojima Original music composed by: Nobuo Uematsu Art Direction by: Yusuke Naora Mechanical & Creature Designer: Takayuki Takeya

Motion Actors
Akihiko Kikuma Isamu Tachihara Jun Ishii Mayuko Aoki Masakazu Morita Tesshin Murata Yukiko Nakamura

Battle Motion Actors
Kenji Arai Masahiro Watanabe Miwa Hashiguchi Riichi Seike Yasuhiro Miyakawa