History Anime / FantasticChildren

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Meet Palza, also known as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (badly misspelled, though, his family name is "Rugen," similar to the German island in the Baltic sea), discoverer of X-rays.

* BigBrotherInstinct: {{Inverted|Trope}} Duma to [[spoiler: Helga / Tina.]] He's actually her ''younger'' brother, but oh well.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Duma's one can qualify as this.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: A large part of the plot and have a big part to do with why he and she were reincarnated. He couldn't win her heart at the beginning and still couldn't by the end.

* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]: [[spoiler: Between this and ChildhoodFriendRomance, Seth never stood a chance with Tina.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Duma's mother was killed. However, [[spoiler: it turns out he isn't actually a villain. His father Georca, who was the one who killed his mother, is.]]

* MotherlyScientist: Gertha cares about safety of her subjects, not because they are scienificly significant, but because "they are humans." She keeps telling it to her coworkers, when they try to force the last of them into submission.

* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Having been reincarnated on earth another time, Tina meets a man that looks rather like Soran. She confirms this when she sees her name on his arm in Greecian, the language of their home planet during their previous lives. He responds with a smile.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place in 2012.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Almost every character, with the most notable examples being Sess / Sesu / Seth, Soran / Solan, Duma / Dumas, and Thoma / Toma / Tomas.

The story begins with the mystery of a group of five strange white haired children, who have been sighted at various points throughout history, stretching from the 1600's to the present day. A detective who has heard of this enigma discovers a strange connection between it and a missing persons case he's been working on. Meanwhile, an island boy embarks on a journey with a mysterious orphaned girl who rarely speaks but is constantly painting pictures of bizarre, incomprehensible landscapes. These plots manage to link firmly together into a complex, deeply moving saga. To explain further would ruin things, but let's just say it's a story that links equal parts adventure, coming of age, mystery, tragedy, history, the fantastic, and romance. Yep, there's [[MixAndMatch quite a bit going on in this one.]]

* BetaCouple: Palza and Mel.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Georca.]]

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Thoma.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Hesma.]]
* EvilUncle: Georca.

* [[HumanAliens (Giant) Human Aliens]]

* LivingShadow: Enma.

* AdultFear: Your 5 year old child disappears one night and police specialists are completely sure he / she left willingly. You wait the next 6 years for any news only to be informed that his / her body was just found along with other missing children, who died in mysterious circumstances. If you even accidentally meet your child during these 6 years he / she will immediately run away and disappear again.

* ConspicuousCG: Done for the robots and some machinery.

** ReincarnationRomance: Played with.

The story begins with the mystery of a group of five strange white haired children, who have been sighted at various points throughout history, stretching from the 1600's to the present day. A detective who has heard of this enigma discovers a strange connection between it and a missing persons case he's been working on. Meanwhile, an island boy embarks on a journey with a mysterious orphaned girl who never speaks but is constantly painting pictures of bizarre, incomprehensible landscapes. These plots manage to link firmly together into a complex, deeply moving saga. To explain further would ruin things, but let's just say it's a story that links equal parts adventure, coming of age, mystery, tragedy, history, the fantastic, and romance. Yep, there's [[MixAndMatch quite a bit going on in this one.]]

''Fantastic Children'' is an {{anime}} that, despite its older art style, ran from 2004 to 2005. It's an original 26 episode story with plot twists galore, and has received high praise from critics.

* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]: [[spoiler: Between this and UnluckyChildhoodFriend, Seth never stood a chance with Tina.]]

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse?: Cooks and Alice get that. None of them are shown after Cooks is [[spoiler: knocked out by Demian during FinalBattle.]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Meet Palza, also known as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (badly misspelled, though, his family name is "Rugen," [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCgen similar to the German island in the Baltic sea]]), discoverer of X-rays.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The setting looks more like UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}}, but the map shows names picked from Northwest Europe (UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} UK.]])

** There is also an [[http://www.hirvine.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fantastic-children_ed_33167.jpg arc picture,]] which Helga is fixated on and draws constantly. This is [[spoiler: the water tower in Greecia, and all of Tina's reincarnations have been artists who drew this picture, although in different styles and with differing degrees of accuracy.]]
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The setting looks more like UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}}, but the map shows names picked from Northwest Europe (UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain} UK.]])

[-[[caption-width-right:294:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Don't believe anything the art style tells you.]]]]-]

''Fantastic Children'' is an {{Anime}} that, despite its older art style, ran from 2004 to '05. It's an original 26-episode story with plot twists galore, and has received high praise from critics.

The story begins with the mystery of a group of five strange white-haired children, who have been sighted at various points throughout history, stretching from the 1600's to the present day. A detective who has heard of this enigma discovers a strange connection between it and a missing persons case he's been working. Meanwhile, an island boy embarks on a journey with a mysterious orphaned girl who never speaks but is constantly painting pictures of bizarre, incomprehensible landscapes. These plots manage to link firmly together into a complex, deeply moving saga. To explain further would ruin things, but let's just say it's a story that links equal parts adventure, coming-of-age, mystery, tragedy, history, the fantastic, and romance. Yep, there's [[MixAndMatch quite a bit going on in this one.]]

!!This anime contains examples of:

* ABoyAndHisX: Tarlant and his robot Wonder, who will initially only respond to him and the other Children. [[spoiler:In the second ending, fully-human Tarlant is shown with a dog he calls Wonder.]]
* AdultFear: Your 5-year-old child disappears one night and police specialists are completly sure he/she left willingly. You wait next 6 years for any news only to be informed that his/her body was just found along with other missing children, who died in mysterious circumstances. If you even accidentaly meet your child during these 6 years he/she will immediately run away and disappear again.
* AlienAmongUs: [[spoiler: Subverted: the aliens don't care about humans. They're only on Earth because they had no other choice.]]
* ArcWords: There is a poem that appears several times in the series. It's always spoken aloud, and usually the one reciting it is Aghi. It turns out to be [[spoiler:well-known in Greecia]].
** There is also an [[http://www.hirvine.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fantastic-children_ed_33167.jpg arc picture]], which Helga is fixated on and draws constantly. This is [[spoiler:the water tower in Greecia, and all of Tina's reincarnations have been artists who drew this picture, although in different styles and with differing degrees of accuracy.]]
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The setting looks more like UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}}, but the map shows names picked from NW Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, UK).
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Meet Palza, also known as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (badly misspelled, though, the spelled his family name "Rugen", [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCgen similar to the German island in the Baltic sea]]), discoverer of X rays.
* BetaCouple: Palza and Mel
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Georca]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: {{Inverted|Trope}} Duma to [[spoiler:Helga/Tina]]. He's actually her ''younger'' brother, but oh well.
* BilingualBonus: The ending theme song, "Mizu no Madoromi", appears in three languages in the dubs: the dub language (when Aghi sings it to his sister), Japanese (as the first ending theme song), and Russian (as the second ending, because the singer Origa speaks Russian as a first language). In the Japanese version, there are only two, Japanese and Russian.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Thoma

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Hesma]]

* [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]: [[spoiler:Between this and UnluckyChildhoodFriend, Seth never stood a chance with Tina.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Duma's mother was killed. However, [[spoiler:it turns out he isn't actually a villain. His father Georca, who was the one who killed his mother, is.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Dr. Radcliffe became obsessed with unraveling the mystery of the Children of Befort. Needless to say, the more he found out, the madder he went. He could have been saved a lot of suffering if he knew that his theory was actually [[spoiler:as far from the truth as you could get]].
* HeroicBSOD: Just about every character does this, most notably when [[spoiler: they get their memories back,]] typically taking an entire episode to snap out of it. Seth also gets one after [[spoiler:Soran rescues Tina]].
* KickTheDog: Georca has done ''lots'' of them, but the most notable is when he [[spoiler:beats his wife ''in front of his own son Dumas'']].

* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:Sess, especially when Tina was saved by his rival Soran.]]
* MotherlyScientist: Gertha cares about safety of her subjects, not because they are scienificly significant, but because "they are humans." She keeps telling it to her coworkers, when they try to force last of them into submission.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Sess, to Soran]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Sess, after he killed Soran]].

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:The Children of Befort have been reincarnated on Earth many times. They only live for 11 years each time before being reincarnated again, but they were first seen on Earth in 1489.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:All of the main characters except for Cooks, his assistant, and Chitto are reincarnations of Greecians. The Children are Greecian scientists, Gherta is Mel having lost her memories, Helga is Tina, Toma is Seth, and Damien is Duma. All of these reincarnations except for Soran's were intentional.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Almost every character, with the most notable examples being Sess/Sesu/Seth, Soran/Solan, Duma/Dumas, and Thoma/Toma/Tomas.
* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:nothing on the grand scheme of things changes. The Children stay on Earth and lose their memories of Greecia, and Helga/Tina and Seth/Thoma don't leave either. This may seem like a DownerEnding, even though most everyone is happy.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Sess has these immediately after having killed Soran]].
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place in 2012.
* UnexplainedAccent: Despite everybody else speaking regular English without any noticeable accent, the English dub has Tohma (and to a lesser extent, his mother and father) speak in some strange unidentifiable accent.
* WhatHappenedtotheMouse?: Cooks and Alice get that. Non of them is shown after Cooks is [[spoiler: knocked out by Demian during FinalBattle.]]

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Fantastic Children is an {{Anime}} that, despite its older art style, ran from 2004 to '05. It's an original 26-episode story with plot twists galore, and has received high praise from critics.

The story begins with the mystery of a group of five strange white-haired children, who have been sighted at various points throughout history, stretching from the 1600's to the present day. A detective who has heard of this enigma discovers a strange connection between it and a missing persons case he's been working. Meanwhile, an island boy embarks on a journey with a mysterious orphaned girl who never speaks but is constantly painting pictures of bizarre, incomprehensible landscapes. These plots manage to link firmly together into a complex, deeply moving saga. To explain further would ruin things, but let's just say it's a story that links equal parts adventure, coming-of-age, mystery, tragedy, history, the fantastic, and romance. Yep, there's [[{{mixandmatch}} quite a bit going on in this one.]]

'''This anime contains examples of:'''

* StatusQuoIsGod: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:nothing on the grand scheme of things changes. The Children stay on Earth and lose their memories of Greecia, and Helga/Tina and Seth/Thoma don't leave either. [[YourMileageMayVery Depending on your viewpoint]], this may seem like a DownerEnding, even though most everyone is happy.]]
** Not really, IMHO, [[spoiler:the children stay on earth, but they accept to live full human lives, rather than continue to reincarnate every so many years in order to keep their original memories. Also, Georca is dead, so presumably no one will try to retrieve Tina's soul again. The premise of the story is no longer valid, how is that status quo?]]
** [[spoiler:The children didn't have that large of an effect on the world around them, aside from attracting the attention of a few scientists. On Greecia, the only of the royal family left is still Titus (they were on Earth for the entire story). Some future disasters were averted, but the actual result is much closer to the status quo than the goal of the children.]]
** [[spoiler: The children didn't WANT to effect the world around them, in fact the only two who did had to leave the group to do so. Their goal was to rescue Helga/Tina and atone for what happened in the past, and they did that, albeit not in the way they'd originally planned. More importantly, Tina finally gets to be with Seth after waiting centuries for him. That's a pretty important change.]]

* AnimeFirst

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Meet Palza, also known as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X rays.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Sess, after he killed Soran]].

* DidNotGetTheGirl: A large part of the plot and have a big part to do with why he and she were reincarnated. He couldn't win her heart at the beginning and still couldn't by the end.

* HeroicBSOD: Just about every character does this, most notably when [[spoiler: they get their memories back,]] typically taking an entire episode to snap out of it.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Subverted. Half the cast is this, but they're the good guys. For the most part anyway.

* BigBrotherComplex: Duma to [[spoiler:Helga/Tina]]. He's actually her ''younger'' brother, but oh well.

* MoralEventHorizon: Georca, when he [[spoiler: "activated" Tina and started a revolt culminating with a siege in the royal palace.]]

* NeedsMoreLove: Despite continued praise from critics, the show has never really developed much of a fanbase and sales of its DVD release were sluggish at best. Part of the problem may be the art style, or the unfortunate non-descriptive title.
** It also had the bad luck to premiere the same week as the then-highly anticipated {{Gundam Seed Destiny}}, which pretty much monopolized anime fan attention that week.

* TearJerker: Lots of them. Some that really stand out are [[spoiler:when Hiisuma dies]], Duma's DarkAndTroubledPast and pretty much the second part of the Greecia flashback arc.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The title and art style, plus the focus on young protagonists (even for anime) might convince some that this is a kids' show. Luckily, the series opens with some rather dark imagery which should help get the message across that this series isn't for the little ones.

* TheWoobie: Tina after TheReveal and Sess when [[spoiler: Tina is saved by Soran when she goes into a HeroicBSOD while he, despite his best efforts, can't bring her to normality]].