Anima (summon)



Anima is a recurring summon in the Final Fantasy series.

Final Fantasy X
Anima is an aeon in Final Fantasy X that deals an immense amount of damage with all attacks. Pain, her special attack, is an instant kill, which also deals colossal damage to the few enemies immune to death spells. It also ignores defense and is actually more effective than her Overdrive, Oblivion, versus some stronger enemies like Dark Bahamut.

Pain is a magical attack, however, due to the high power and ignoring defense, it is likely to hit for maximum damage against any enemy not fully immune to magic. Anima is arguably the strongest aeon in the game; as Oblivion deals nearly 99,999 damage upon receiving her, and in the PAL or International versions, can inflict nearly 1,600,000 damage altogether.

Anima first appears during the game in Luca, when Maester Seymour summons her to rid the area of fiends that suddenly appear during the Blitzball final. Yuna is in awe of the aeon's power, which is exactly what Seymour wanted; as it is the first step of his plan to destroy Spira.

In order to receive Anima as an aeon, the player must have unlocked all of the treasures using the Destruction Spheres in each Cloister of Trials, including Zanarkand. At Baaj Temple, the player must fight a boss named Geosgaeno (the first boss Tidus faces when he comes to Spira) in order to gain entrance to a sealed underwater room. Afterwards, the player views a cutscene and Yuna harnesses Anima's power.

Anima's Fayth
Like all aeons, Anima is the physical manifestation of a dream of a specific fayth - in this case, Seymour's mother, whose real name remains unidentified. She could possibly be named Anima herself; Yojimbo implies the aeons' names are those of their respective fayth, but this is unconfirmed (Jecht in his aeon form is called Braska's Final Aeon). Other than Jecht, Anima is the only fayth to have significant details about her origin and past revealed.

It is revealed in a vision shown by pyreflies as the party travels through Zanarkand ruins that Seymour's mother brought Seymour to meet Yunalesca in order to become an aeon for Seymour to use and defeat Sin. It appears Seymour never did fight Sin with Anima, and Anima's fayth ends up in the Baaj temple. It appears Seymour's mother was acting against her son's wishes in becoming a fayth, as Seymour displays reluctance to go through with the plan in the vision the party views at Zanarkand ruins, not wanting to lose his mother.

Summoning Anima
Anima is called from an underworld of sorts: a portal opens in the sky, from which a chain falls into the ground. The chain rises and pulls Anima from the ground, revealing her further chain-bound form. Upon her first summoning, Yuna is usually heard saying "Let me share your pain".

Anima's Overdrive is even more extravagant than her entrance. She opens a gateway into her world beneath the enemy party, sinking them down. The world shifts to a crimson-red dimension, where an even darker form of Anima shatters the chains binding her fists and unleashes a devastating sixteen-hit combo on the enemy that can inflict a grand total of 1,599,984 damage in the PAL version, as each hit can deal up to 99,999 damage. In the original version, Oblivion cannot exceed 99,999 damage.

Battle
Anima is fought as a boss summoned in Macalania Temple. A dark version of Anima is fought as an optional superboss in the International and PAL versions of Final Fantasy X.

Final Fantasy X-2
Anima's fayth tries to stop Shuyin's apocalyptic plan, but she, like the others, ends up possessed by his hatred. Anima is the final aeon the heroines face in a battle on their way to the Farplane.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Anima appears as an enemy.

Final Fantasy: Unlimited After
Anima is one of Kaze's summons in the sequel of Final Fantasy: Unlimited called Final Fantasy: Unlimited After. It can be summoned by the Magun by using the following Soil Charge Triad:

Follow by saying: "Resonate! I summon you, ANIMA!"
 * That which falls into infinite darkness, Silent Black!
 * One that hates the pain of lament, Pain Blue!
 * And finally, to restrain all things, Chain Gold!

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Anima's Theatrhythm Final Fantasy appearance has a card in this trading card game.

Trivia

 * An action figure of Anima exists as part of Final Fantasy X Monster Collection series.
 * Anima's design in Final Fantasy X is similar to Ultimecia's final form from Final Fantasy VIII.
 * Anima is the only secret aeon who is controlled like a typical aeon.
 * Anima is one of only two aeons called by name in Final Fantasy X; the other being Yojimbo.
 * Anima's origin may lie within the concept of the Anima Sola, a Roman Catholic ideal of a soul in purgatory. Anima Sola images are usually depicted as female, wrapped in chains, and takes in the pains and suffering of the living. Anima Sola are usually used to illustrate female independence and various woman's rights movements.
 * Just as well, anima is Latin for "soul". It can also mean "mind".
 * Hanging from Anima's neck is a picture of her fayth, Seymour's mother.
 * If Anima is summoned during the Seymour Omnis battle, he will react with surprise that even Anima is against him, and decides to fight her regardless.
 * Gogmagog in Final Fantasy XIII-2 resembles Anima, with both their faces wrapped in bandages.

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