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[[Image:Ff7acposter.jpg|right|thumb|The official poster for AC]]

[[Image:Final Fantasy VII- Advent Children DVD Cover.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The DVD cover of AC - final design]]

[[Image:FFVII-AC Limited cover.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The DVD cover of AC Limited Edition]]

[[Image:Advent Children movie poster.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Cloud and Kadaj - the second official AC poster]]

'''''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children''''' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: &#12501;&#12449;&#12452;&#12490;&#12523;&#12501;&#12449;&#12531;&#12479;&#12472;&#12540;&#86;&#73;&#73;&#32;&#12450;&#12489;&#12505;&#12531;&#12488;&#12481;&#12523;&#12489;&#12524;&#12531;) is a [[Computer-generated_imagery|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 [[Universal Media Disc|UMD]] disc for the [[PlayStation Portable|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 [[January 10]] [[2006]] and the [[United Kingdom|UK]] on [[February 20]] [[2006]]. The movie received the Honorary Maria Award at the ''[[Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cataluña]]'' on 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 released, including the Ultimate Edition "Advent Pieces: Limited", which includes the anime, ''[[Last Order: Final Fantasy VII]]''. This was the first announced title in the ''[[Compilation of Final Fantasy VII]]''.

The following characters will be appearing in the film (Japanese names have also been provided):

Returning:

*[[Cloud Strife]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12463;&#12521;&#12454;&#12489;&#12539;&#12473;&#12488;&#12521;&#12452;&#12501;&#65289;

*[[Barret Wallace]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12496;&#12524;&#12483;&#12488;&#12539;&#12454;&#12457;&#12540;&#12524;&#12473;&#65289;

*[[Tifa Lockheart|Tifa Lockhart]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12486;&#12451;&#12501;&#12449;&#12539;&#12525;&#12483;&#12463;&#12495;&#12540;&#12488;&#65289;

*[[Red XIII]] (Nanaki) &#12288;&#65288;&#12524;&#12483;&#12489;&#12539;XIII&#65289;

*[[Vincent Valentine]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12532;&#12451;&#12531;&#12475;&#12531;&#12488;&#12539;&#12532;&#12449;&#12524;&#12531;&#12479;&#12452;&#12531;&#65289;

*[[Cid Highwind]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12471;&#12489;&#12539;&#12495;&#12452;&#12454;&#12451;&#12531;&#12489;&#65289;

*[[Yuffie Kisaragi]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12518;&#12501;&#12451;&#12539;&#12461;&#12469;&#12521;&#12462;&#65289;

*[[Cait Sith (Final Fantasy VII)|Cait Sith]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12465;&#12483;&#12488;&#12539;&#12471;&#12540;&#65289;

*[[Turks (Final Fantasy VII)|Reno]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12524;&#12494;&#65289;

*[[Turks (Final Fantasy VII)|Rude]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12523;&#12540;&#12489;&#65289;

*[[Turks (Final Fantasy VII)|Elena]]

*[[Turks (Final Fantasy VII)|Tseng]]

*Marlene Wallace &#12288;&#65288;&#12510;&#12522;&#12531;・ウォーレス&#65289;

*[[Aerith Gainsborough]]&#12288;&#65288;&#12456;&#12450;&#12522;&#12473;&#12539;&#12466;&#12452;&#12531;&#12474;&#12502;&#12540;&#12523;&#65289;

*Zack (ザックス）

*[[Rufus Shinra]] 　（ルーファウス神羅）

*[[Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)|Sephiroth]] &#12288;&#65288;&#12475;&#12501;&#12451;&#12525;&#12473;&#65289;

New:

*Kadaj &#12288;&#65288;&#12459;&#12480;&#12540;&#12472;&#12517;&#65289;

*Loz &#12288;&#65288;&#12525;&#12483;&#12474;&#65289;

*Yazoo &#12288;&#65288;&#12516;&#12474;&#12540;&#65289;

*Denzel &#12288;&#65288;&#12487;&#12531;&#12476;&#12523;&#65289;

== Plot Summary ==

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<blockquote>''The information below was compiled using various sources such as the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385700/ FF7:AC IMDB Page], trailers and the Japanese release.''</blockquote>

Two years after the events 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, and once lived in the bar. Tifa's bar, ''7th Heaven'', is now an orphanage for the infected children. Marlene Wallace, Barrett's adopted daughter, is entrusted to the care of Tifa. With them is a boy named Denzel, who Cloud, Tifa, and Marlene have taken in as their own.

The survivors of [[List of Final Fantasy VII locations#Midgar|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 [[Shin-Ra|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 [[Turks (Final Fantasy VII)|the Turks]] for the effects that [[Sephiroth_%28Final_Fantasy_VII%29|Sephiroth]] had on the planet.

Three unknown figures appear who begin searching for Jenova's remains to complete the ''Reunion''. The leader 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.

Tifa and Marlene wait for Cloud at Aerith's church. It is here they discover why Cloud left the bar: he has Geostigma and does not have the will to fight it, as there is no cure. Loz arrives at the church, attacking Tifa while searching for the ___location of Jenova. After a hard fought battle Tifa is knocked unconscious, and Loz kidnaps Marlene 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 Rude who bring them back to 7th Heaven.

The three members of Kadaj's gang begin kidnapping the children who are infected with Geostigma, including Denzel, and they take them to the City of Ancients, where Kadaj tries to persuade the children that the planet is inflicting this disease upon them and that they should rally together against the planet. He puts part his concious into the water nearby, drinking it and telling the children to follow suit. They do, turning into a tranced state. Cloud, after learning the whereabouts of the trio from Rufus, begins chasing them down on his bike, Fenrir. Along the way, he has a [[flashback]] of his conversation with Tifa prior to going to the Forgotten Capital (Ajit), along with conversing with Aerith about "wanting to be forgiven." He finally locates the trio, where he confronts the leader Kadaj. Kadaj "mind controls" 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. After having a discussion about their current situation, and about sins being forgiven, Marlene comes and yells at Cloud when he wants to back down from fighting again. It is here Cloud has a flashback, again, of what happened prior to ariving to the Forgotten Capital. Tifa is lecturing Cloud, speaking his thoughts of how he is pained by past failures, and how he really doesn't want to be alone, as he carries his cell phone with him everywhere, listening to the messages of people that called. She ends with the question "Have we lost to our memories?" Cloud, feeling responsible, thinks "But we just let her (Aerith) die.." Aerith suggests that he should forgive himself, to which he follows the advice. "I'll give it a try," he tells Vincent.

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 [[Bahamut_%28fiction%29#Final_Fantasy|Shin Bahamut]] to look also (although he uses to wrong colour materia, as in the game Summon materia was red).

All Final Fantasy VII party members show up at this point to battle Bahamut as Tifa protects the possessed Denzel. Denzel awakens from his possessed state after Tifa is knocked unconcious. The members each protect them in turn, finally with the arrival of Cloud on his motorcycle. Cloud tells Tifa that he returned Marlene to the shop, and that his burden feels lighter, to which she smiles. Denzel then says he'll go back to the shop too, asking Cloud if he'll return. Cloud nods as the boy turns to run back to the bar.

Bahamut wreaks havoc on the newly constructed Edge, and ultimately Cloud brings Bahamut down with the help of the entire party boosting him up toward it, including the deceased Aerith. Meanwhile, Rufus reveals to Kadaj that he really isn't as weak as he was leading everyone to believe, and that he also has remains of Jenova. He tosses it off the edge of a building, forcing Kadaj to fall in pursuit. Rufus uses his firearm to pierce the container, breaking its seal. Kadaj still manages to retrieve it, but with Cloud hot on his tail. There is a chase scene on an 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.

Cloud manages to catch up to Kadaj in Aerith's Church, in which Kadaj trys to attack Cloud with magic. He misses, but hits the flower garden. Magic water wells up from beneath and rises into the air, both physically harming Kadaj 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, because this is Cloud's fight. Vincent reveals 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 the spirits of people who died with Geostigma would stain the planet thus allowing him to control it, and use it to travel the stars, until he finds another planet and crashes into it, just like Jenova did. Cloud battles Sephiroth for some time, Sephiroth commenting that Cloud has become stronger.

A scene is shown of Marlene with Denzel at the bar, with a drop of water. "Sister?" she calls out, feeling Aerith's presence.

The scene goes back to Cloud's battle. Sephiroth defeats him, and stabs him in the arm. Sephiroth asks Cloud what is most important to him, so that he can have the happiness of stealing it from him. Scenes of Aerith, Zack, Marlene, Denzel, and Tifa are flashed by. Cloud removes Sephiroth's blade from his shoulder, and states "I pity you who understand nothing." Sephiroth leaps into the air and Cloud declares "For there isn't anything that isn't important" right before he leaps into the air, 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 around him and crumbles, revealing a near-death Kadaj.

Kadaj, dying in Cloud's arms, hears the voice of Aerith, telling him to return home. Mistaking Aerith for "mother", he joyfully returns to the Lifestream, leaving Cloud behind, victorious. It begins raining. Scenes are shown throughout Edge of the sick children with Geostigma getting cured with this rain.

As Cloud is about to rejoin his friends, he is hit from behind with a shot 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, they unleash it, and the explosion covers the entire roof.

A scene is shown on Sierra. Seeing the area where Cloud was fighting explode, Tifa calls out to him. Another scene shows, in Midgar, at Tifa's bar. Denzel and Marlene are shown holding hands looking out the window, Denzel asking "Cloud is coming back.. right?"

Lying in a blank expanse, Aerith puts her hand on Cloud's foreheard. Cloud calls out, "Mother?" Aerith then replies "Again! How many times must I be called that?" (as Kadaj called her "mother" earlier), to which Zack teases her it must be nice to be yearned for. Finally, he explains to Cloud that his place is not there, and that he must return.

He awakens in the slums church, surrounded by his friends and the children. He cures Denzel, the last child with Geostigma, using the water in the church. It is here Cloud begins smiling for the first time in the movie. He then turns, seeing Aerith and Zack standing in the doorway. They smile, and leave, their spirits finally at rest. Cloud smiles again. As he is surrounded by friends in the church, he realizes that he is not alone.

==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. The screen shows Cloud continuing to drive his motorcycle. Showing Aerith again, she turns and gazes into the camera.

Finally, Cloud reaches the flower field, driving onward toward the horizon. 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 the flower field placed in front.

==On the Way to a Smile==

A series of stories taking place between ''Final Fantasy VII'' and ''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children''. Written by Kazushige Nojima, they are being released in episodes on the Japanese Advent Children site, and are currently only in Japanese. 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 outskirts of [[Midgar]] called 'The Edge'. [[Tifa]] works there as a hostess, and is something of a feature attraction, but her attention is mostly focused on caring for the children orphaned by the many recent tragedies. These episodes are told indirectly through the perspective of [[Denzel (Final Fantasy VII)|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 [[Cait Sith (Final Fantasy VII)| Reeve]], in hopes of becoming a member of the World Restoration Order, a new army devoted to rebuilding after the crisis.

==Image gallery==

<center><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 Valentine and Cloud Strife discuss many things in the Forgotten Forest

Image:Sephac.jpg|Sephiroth's infamous scene from ''Final Fantasy VII'', redesigned in ''Advent Children''

Image:Aerith&cloud.jpg|Aerith & Cloud in a 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

</gallery></center>

==Credits==

===Voice Actors ([[Japanese language|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 language|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 [[Internet Movie Database|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

==External links==

* [http://na.square-enix.com/dvd/ff7ac/ Official Square-Enix English site] (English site for ''Advent Children'')

* [http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/ff7ac/ Official Japanese AC site] (Information and trailers in Japanese)

* {{imdb title|id=0385700|title=Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children}}

* [http://dmoz.org/Arts/Animation/Movies/Titles/Final_Fantasy_VII_Advent_Children/ ''Advent Children'' DMOZ Directory]

* [http://www.ff7acmovie.com/ FF7:AC Movie] - FF7:AC trailers direct download, searchable image gallery and fan works

* [http://www.adventchildren.net/ Adventchildren.net] - Resource database on FFVII:AC

* [http://www.unlimitedgamer.net/ff7ac.php Advent Children Unlimited] - AC trailers, character bios, over 2000 screenshots, and a huge scan index.

* [http://www.ffnet.org/adventchildren/ Final Fantasy Net] - Features a plethora of Advent Children material.

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