Well,
I got an awesome Ys poster with my preorder of Ys II Eternal. I got it
laminated and everyone that sees it is green with envy. (It's Adol sword
drawn standing on the crest of Ys. Lilia is in the background, and dark
fact, and the two goddesses holding the pearl. And behind that, I think
Solomon Shrine is rising up.) Also, the bonus disc with Ys VI had music
videos of Popful Mail. You can't beat that :-)
About the Ys IV Anime ... yes it was never made ... I got this story from a
guy at Media Blasters. Remember back at MAG Fest 1 we got the US Premier of
the first YS DVD (basically because there weren't any Anime cons interested
in it). They sent us an advanced screener tape. I think it came out about a
week later. So we kept up discourse with the people over at Media Blasters
for a while. And we all saw the trailer on the third DVD and went crazy.
We'd all had the Ys fansubs for ages, how could we have missed something
like that. I scoured the net. My Vice Chair Sean had a better idea. He
called the people at Media Blasters. It was an Anime that was cancelled in
pre-production. The trailer was the only thing ever made.
BTW, I heard the PS2 remake of Ys IV is following the SFC version ...
bummer.
Joe
P.S. Is there any other PCE based anime out there? I have the Cosmic Fantasy
and Dragon Slayer OVAs. But that's all I know of.