Unpopular opinion: this series wrote villains better than the original games did.

Manfred's final scene gives him so much more depth beyond being a one-dimentional perfect prosecutor, it's ludicrous. It confirms that he geniunely cared about Miles like his own son, everything he taught him was because he believed that it was the way to raise a prosecutor that does his job - fighting crime. And as evil as he is, he truly wanted Miles to become an honorable attorney, and he spared no time and effort for it. After 15 years of his deceit have been for nothing, with nothing left to protect with his lies and corruption, Manfred, even if for a few seconds, is genuinely remorseful for what he did to Gregory, - maybe, just maybe, murdering someone over a penalty wasn't worth it?

And the way of showing his death was brilliant - instead of going with something cliche, like deathbed thoughts or execution, the camera just cuts to his empty prison cell. He's dead. He's gone. His 40 years of perfection won't be truly remembered. All of his actions were for nothing.

Someone already pointed that out but I still want to mention this: I absolutely love how you didn't go with the toxic relationship trope with Kristoph and Mia, it would feel cheap

50:33 Love the small detail of Mia looking stressed out from the sound made by the metal detector. Must've reminded her of Diego's cardiac monitor beeping

"If you call me that one more time, I'll burn your coat and feed you the remains" made me wake up my whole family from laughter

Edgeworth's last scene is my favorite in this series. Edgeworth finally drops his cold prosecutor persona and the real Edgeworth comes out - a child, who lost his dad to a murderer over a penalty, looking the murderer in question straight into his eyes, and the murderer continues to lie

The song used in the montage is about unconditional parental love and their home - a place where you can always stay no matter who you are, a child or an adult. And this song plays when Edgeworth's wounds of losing that parental warmth and love is being reopened during the DL-6 trial, and the prosecutor is the one who took that love away from him. This series is pure brilliance

The legendary Manfred von Karma himself getting absolutely floored in court by a team of Phoenix (who won only 2 cases in this AU) and two Fey sisters just goes to show how OP spirit channeling would be in court if it was used as legitimate evidence and if it were not for what Redd White did.

30:46 I love how Karma, in a rare moment of fear, actually begins respecting the judge, since he realizes that he could lose the case.

Masterclass.

I really liked how Mia's idea of spirit channeling threw such a wrench in Manfred's case lol.

Watching the Fey sisters and Wright combined utterly SHRED Manfred and his schemes (Seriously, guy went from Final Boss to Villain of the Week) is both amazing, hilarious and bittersweet. Because we know from episode 3 that this dream team of 3 isn't going to last.

Finally watched all the episodes.
This series is... *Bold*, very bold. Somewhat edgy at times but even then, that's me trying to be objective about It now that I watched everything.

Really surprised how such a crazy idea would basically f**k over the entire AA timeline to a point where Kristoph is getting a character development arc, Imi K*lling Diego and Phoenix ending a case against Manfred before the FIRST recess. And that GTA5 or Blender idk segment was pretty interesting, pretty cool. Also you making a montage to skip the DL-6 segment of the case through the eyes of Edgeworth with that terrifying sprite was GENIUS.
But when the trial started, with that initial speech from the judge about Edgeworth, that was... something else, truly. And the ending of episode 3 with Diego, THAT caught me off guard, almost thought It was a setup for a toxic relationship arc between Mia and Kristoph, but him dying because of Ini? Jeez... Also that scene in episode 4 with Morgan leaving the Village, with Maya crying on the floor, man....

My criticism that mainly applies to the previous episodes is: the lack of music on the background for most of the series annoys me a little. Either a stylistic choice or an oversight, probably both anyway but I do wish at least we could hear the birds on Gourd Lake or Kurrain Village, something like that for the calmer moments. Another thing is that there are perhaps too many shots of characters looking around without any text box, that becomes a bit awkard when there's soo many of them and most of them don't have any song on the bg. Perhaps add a text box with little dots like in the official games to break the silence every once in a while.

But this episode... THIS episode has many genuinely amazing moments, loved how Manfred was handled here.
Overall, this series is awesome. Some of the best fanfics I've ever seen from the AA community, and you using what I presume to be that AA case maker fangame was also a REALLY good choice cuz It allows for some incredible shots that'd probably be Impossible on Objection Lol.

Personally, you've become my second favorite AA youtuber, just below Debastian Sebest but above everyone else

"If you call me that one more time, I'll burn your coat and force feed you the remains" was unironically one of the funniest comedy moments I've ever seen. Fits perfectly for this new, corrupted Mia

You know, I'm starting to wonder. If Diego Armando was the one of the 14 victims of the poisoning incident instead, then one of the victims who died in canon are alive in this timeline.

44:20 Phoenix took a level in jerkass here

better call saul music is at its peak here. my favorite part yet

The last scene, imo, was one of the most powerful ones in the series. Only after being put behind bars, only after getting that facade of perfection torn away and after everything Edgeworth says to him and leaves, Manfred finally shows geniune remorse on his face. But Edgeworth will never see that remorse, and he doesn't wish to see it. And a few seconds later, the jail cell is empty - Manfred is gone.

43:24 Imo, this scene is Mia at her worst. She indirectly confesses to Phoenix that it was her who killed Redd White in order to manipulate him into letting her be the one to solve the DL-6 case.

I didn't know what to expect from this series but this is such a high quality AU for this franchise. I love the way you make pauses between dialogues and using ambient sound.

Keep up the good work!

This series is a masterclass at using simple objection .lol elements to improve its visual storytelling.
The entire red montage sequence of the DL-6 trial with all the characters being fully black, and that animation of spinning pistols, just... hats off to you.
When Mia yaps to Phoenix about her reasons why she's taking the lead defense attorney role away from him and for herself, it's not Mia who's on the screen - it's Phoenix. The scene accents his shocked reaction to what the hell Mia is even talking about.

My favorite episode in the series. It's so amazing because it shifts the focus from the courtroom drama and the feeling of catharsis from defeating von Karma and focuses entirely on how Edgeworth feels instead. That red and black sequence lives free in my head now.