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Fire Emblem (Japanese:ファイアーエムブレム　紋章の謎Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem) is anoriginal video animation adaptation ofFire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, produced byKSS andStudio Fantasia and released in 1996. It consists of two episodes, adapting the first three chapters and some of the backstory of Book 1 of the game, and by extension, ofFire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light andFire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. In Japan, it was released on LaserDisc and VHS, while in the United States, it was released only on VHS.

The two episodes were dubbed into English and released in the United States byADV Films, under the title of simplyFire Emblem, five years before the western world was introduced to the series in 2001; an odd result of this is that the English box states that the anime is based on "the hit game". Further dubs for European countries were also produced. With no officially defined name translations to go by, many of the translated names differ from those used in the localizations ofSuper Smash Bros. Melee andFire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, such asMarth being translated as "Mars".

Though almost all of the anime's cast have not had speaking roles in any subsequent productions, Marth's Japanese voice actor,Hikaru Midorikawa, did resume the role for theSuper Smash Bros. franchise, and continued to voice him since; his dub voice actor,Spike Spencer, was replaced byYuri Lowenthal as ofCode Name: S.T.E.A.M.. Some of the other Japanese voice actors reprised their roles forFire Emblem Heroes, but the English voice actors did not.