

The first DVD release of martial oppai anime Valkyria Chronicles brings two never before seen extras: full bikini beach action, and a look at the original and rather unflattering game character designs for Welkin and Alicia.
The DVD’s specials come in the form of both chibi and normal oppai service imagery, delighting fans…

And a look at early versions of the game reveals quite a change in character design (final designs are on top):




The final designs certainly show much improvement, though some might say the anime does not improve matters.
The DVD itself is available now.
Anime should give Edy-san moar screen time !!!! Goddammit
marina is sooooo kawaii too
Yeah, she is. And she's a kick-ass sniper to boot.
Hey, Artifact. Gives us more screenshots! And more Selvaria!!!
Dammit. If Selvaria was holding two melons I could say "She has nice melons".
Already saw them all in bikinis in one of the side 'missions' in the game. It was awesome.
Old Welkin looks retarded.
<3 Alicia.
I still need to translate volume 2 of the manga
I did the last four pages at least, hah
Fakking bullshit!
Take a great game and turn it into a faggety kawaii girls with guns school drama like anime romp
Even valkyria chronicles isn't safe from the stolen panty storyline that degraded the anime to sad depths.
Fuck this worthless anime, just give us a new ps3 game, not a fucking psp one.
wow, that is so cool.
Early charac design for Welkin is nice, but for Alicia, yuck. But still, I'd stick with the final designs. :)
The only thing I can think about that game, is the freaking funny Unskipable episode making fun of the cutscenes.
Aisha POWER UP !!
Valkyria = Selvaria, the others characters also the plot is a shit of adaptation.
psp..shit..Make a proper sequel for valkria chronicles please T_T
well, i'm delighted.
Is there anymore shots of the early character designs?
ahh this is intresting...looking forward to this.
the original dosnt look that bad. but alicia looks better with the twin tail.
i like the final version. although wavy hair welkin looks fine too.
The original Welkin character design is interesting, but the original Alicia has horrible eyes. Thank heavens they changed that.
Anime design killed it off for me. I was really looking forward. Then the preview came out...
cute. 1 vote for alicia and silver colored hair from 7 squad
so that's where the image in the ED came from...
I wonder how they'll draw Selvaria's jugs in Chibi mode? XD
Did the anime follow the plot of the game?
It follows the basic outline of the game's story, none of the major plot points are changed, though the actual execution of those plot points are changed, sometimes significantly, to make it work better for an anime. The biggest changes are the fact that Zaka doesn't join the party after Fouzen (which makes sense as he didn't really do anything after that point anyway, story-wise) and the expansion of the Welkin/Alicia romance subplot into a Welkin/Faldio/Alicia love triangle and the necessary ensuing alterations to the characters (Alicia is more tsundere and Welkin is more stupid.) The second one is where 90% of the bitching about the anime comes from.
Zaka joins in episode 19, it seems, so...
The anime makes tanks out to be fast, impressive and useful in combat, so no, it's nothing like the game.
Not very well. Writers seem to think Faldio is the main character, Welkin is marginalized to making Faldio look good, and this war story is mostly ignored for SUGOKU KAWAII RAABU DRAMA x3
I fucking raged.
Yeah!!! Fuck Faldio, also what the fuck is up with male mangakas these days trying to make reverse Harem by including 2 guys x 1 girl in their fucking manga reserved to boys ? No wonder Shonen manga sales keep decreasing these days... Honestly, if I wanna read that kind of shit, I can go grab a random Shojo shit that is so overflowing with sex these days and will ALWAYS get that kind of plot.
i believe the anime follows the manga and not the game.
The combat/war is phased out mostly and it is indeed more a drama and love interest. faldio, who is a minor role in the game, is given huge screen time in contrast to Welkin, who is made out to be a stupid fuck. Alicia...is always kawaii.
I wouldn't so much say that Welkin is stupid as that he has psychological problems when it comes to forming relationships with females.
If, I were a Freudian, I'd attribute it to him growing up without a mother. :P
But seriously, we're currently at episode 18. About the only normal relationship with a female that Welkin has been in, that we've been shown is/was his brother-sister relationship with Isara.
I mean, there was the babe at their university that everyone was after, even Faldio, and she went after Welkin and he turned her down. I mean, he's still in his physical prime, his hormones should be screaming at him to hump some lady, yet he doesn't.
So his reluctance to admit to Alicia that he cares about her, isn't that odd in that light.
Also he's not really the confrontational type. I mean, Faldio has usurped the command of Squad 7 on a number of occasions. Most professional officers would've had words with Faldio about this already. Once, might be tolerated, but not twice or more. And especially, not when it gets civvies killed. (Then again, iirc, Welkin didn't really want to be an officer either, but automatically became one, due to his university background.) *shrugs*
That original version of Welkin is classic.
I want to lick Alicia's delicious waki...
Chibi Valkyria Chronicles looks to be so much fucking win.
DP ALICIA !
god original alicia looks terrible ;;
I approve of this.
Uh-mazing.
Glad they changed those char models, looks much better with the final versions :D