vs. The People. Mia has appeared in other media adaptations of Ace Attorney. She is a recurring character in the Ace Attorney manga series published by Kodansha Comics. Mia also appears in the Ace Attorney film, which loosely adapts her role from the first game, and the Ace Attorney anime series, which adapts the events of the original trilogy. Concept and development Ace Attorney series creator and director Shu Takumi created Mia as a mentor for Phoenix to contrast with her sister character of Maya Fey,. In the first draft of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Takumi created the second episode, "Turnabout Sisters", as the first episode of the game, featuring Mia Fey as the victim of the opening scene. However, the development team decided that it did not work well easing players into the game and as a result, Takumi wrote a shorter episode, "The First Turnabout", which was used as the game's first episode, providing with Mia with more characterisation and "heart", wanting players to care and focus on the thrill of "nailing the culprit". When developing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Takumi came up with the idea of using a flashback to a case where Mia had just become an attorney; he later decided to develop this idea further, using flashbacks as a major theme for the game's story and featuring Mia as a playable character. Takumi additionally noted initially perceived problems in writing a case where Mia faces off against Edgeworth back when he was a rookie prosecutor, in that both characters had previously been established as never having lost a single case. Trying to come up with a way for a case in the past to work with neither of them winning or losing, he came up with the story for Terry Fawles, who dies during the trial. The game's main theme was "not everything is always what it seems on the surface". Design Along with the rest of the first game's characters, Mia Fey was designed and drawn by Kumiko Suekane and Tatsuro Iwamoto as a "glamorous, beautiful big sister type", with her death being used to explore Maya Fey's medium abilities. For situations when Mia's spirit is channeled by her sister Maya and cousin Pearl, she takes on her relative's hairstyles and clothing, which as is typical for traditional Japanese spirit mediums, includes a purple/pink kimono and a magatama bead, and