| abstract | - <default>Last Order -Final Fantasy VII-</default> Director(s) Producer(s) Writer(s) Music by Running time Distributor(s) Release date Rating Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- is an Original Video Animation based on events that occurred in Final Fantasy VII. The movie was released in Japan with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which is part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. The twenty-five-minute anime is about two events that happen in Final Fantasy VII: a flashback that takes place five years before the game begins, revolving around Zack Fair, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, and Sephiroth at Nibelheim, and another flashback, which involves Zack and Cloud on the run from the Shinra Electric Power Company. The anime cuts back and forth between these two events, with the Turk commander Tseng reminiscing on the Nibelheim Incident. Last Order forms the basis of the PlayStation Portable game Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- and serves as a tie-in with the mobile phone game Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-, as several of the game's playable Turk characters appear as minor characters. Although the anime was originally only released in Japan, it was released in the collector's edition of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in North America and Europe. This Limited Edition Collector's Set was released on February 6, 2007. The anime was made over a period of roughly six months, from Tetsuya Nomura's approaching Studio MadHouse to create the short to its completion. Nomura worked heavily with Studio MadHouse during this period making sure what they were making fit with the ideas he was trying to portray, and several scenes underwent numerous revisions, changing both major and minuscule points to meet with Nomura's approval. Though the events as depicted contradict Final Fantasy VII and are again contradicted by Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- has still been included as an important part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII in both the Crisis Core and 10th Anniversary Ultimanias, and several explanations - such as the contradictory events being the reports of the present Turk and Cloud and Tifa not consciously recalling their conversation until Cloud's memories are restored - have been offered to explain the differences in the Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- telling and the rest of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. The Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary edition, however, states that Last Order is "a work outside the Compilation" and an "interpretation" of the backstory from Final Fantasy VII.
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