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, also known as , is a 2009 anime mystery comedy-drama film directed by Masakazu Hashimoto and produced by P.A.Works, OLM, Inc., and Robot Communications. The film is based on the ''Professor Layton'' video game series by Level-5, taking place between the events of the video games ''Professor Layton and the Last Specter'' and ''Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask''. According to Level-5, the film stays true to the games, with music, puzzles and characters. An English-language version was released by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2010 at the same time ''Professor Layton and the Unwound Future'' was. The film was released in the United States on November 8, 2011 by Viz Media. ==Plot== Not long after the events of ''Professor Layton and the Curious Village'', archaeologist and puzzle master Professor Layton and his young apprentice Luke Triton reminisce over one of their earliest adventures together from three years ago: Layton is invited by his former student Janice Quatlane to watch her perform in an opera at the Crown Petone opera house, which is built on the White Cliffs of Dover. The performance centers on the legendary lost land of Ambrosia and the secret of eternal life it holds, which will be rediscovered when its queen returns. Janice believes recent strange occurrences are somehow connected to the opera: girls have disappeared from London and the opera's composer, Oswald Whistler, has recently adopted a young girl who has claimed to be his deceased daughter Melina. Whistler plays the entire opera on the Detragon, an elaborate one-man orchestra machine. Once the performance is complete, a mystery man informs the audience that they are to play a game, the winner of which will receive the secret of eternal life. The Crown Petone is revealed to be a ship, which breaks off from the cliffs and sets sail. The mystery man unveils a series of timed puzzles intended to progressively eliminate the players until one winner remains. Layton's prolific puzzle-solving prowess allows him and a group of eleven others to quickly deduce the answers. The remaining contestants leave the ship in lifeboats, which take the players to their next destination. The next morning, the group finds themselves on an island. After discovering a sculpted stone seal, amateur historian Marco Brock reasons they are at Ambrosia. Evading mentally-controlled wolves as they make their way towards the castle at the centre of the island, Layton, Luke and Janice become separated from the rest of the group and assemble a makeshift helicopter that allows them to fly to the castle quickly. There, they solve the fourth and final puzzle that directs them to the final room of the contest, but Layton leaves Luke, Janice and two other contestants (Brock and child prodigy Amelia Ruth) to enter it while he explores the rest of the castle. He's followed by two others, who are quickly claimed by a trap. After finding Melina in the castle and witnessing her talking to herself, Layton realizes that Whistler was behind everything, and has conspired with Layton's old foe, Jean Descole, to abduct girls from London and use the Detragon to implant them with his dead daughter's memories as a means of keeping her alive. This is the fate that befell the new Melina, who is actually named Nina, and it is the fate that Whistler has planned for another contestant, Amelia. Layton reveals that Janice also was a victim of Whistler's experiments, and that Whistler was unaware he had succeeded in implanting Melina's memories in her. Janice sought Layton's help in stopping her father from hurting any more girls. Descole then reveals a bigger scheme to use the Detragon in concert with Melina's singing to raise the island by playing a series of melodies found in the island's stone seal. After Descole's attempts fail, resorts to drastic measures: the Detragon destroys the castle and becomes the controls of a gigantic excavation robot, the Detragiganto, which Descole commands and begins rampaging across the island in a desperate attempt to uncover Ambrosia by force. During the fracas, Melina tries to stop Descole, but he knocks her over the side of the robot, where she holds on for her life. Luke rescues Melina and Layton duels with Descole on top of the Detragiganto, and reveals that Descole had overlooked a third melody hidden in the seal. Again, Melina sings as Layton takes the Detragon's controls, and this time, the ruins of Ambrosia do indeed rise, infuriating Descole even further. He lunges at Layton, believing that the ruins belong only to him, but merely damages the control panel instead, throwing the Detragiganto out of control and causing it to heavily damage itself and him to fall off it and disappear. In the aftermath of the island's rise, Melina decides she cannot take over Janice's life, and her thoughts and memories leave Janice's body. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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