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7 [[caption-width-right:350:Revo, ''the'' [[IAmTheBand leader]] of the band--[[InsistentTerminology um, Kingdom]] of Sound Horizon, sitting in all his majestic glory. [[note]]Not pictured: his pet winged lion.[[/note]]]]
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9->''Although we do not share\
10The same place of birth\
11We embrace the same homeland in our hearts\
12And crown the same King[[labelnote:wait, who?]] [[CreatorWorship Revo]] [[/labelnote]]\
13[[FanCommunityNickname Laurant! Laurant!]]\
14Gloria! Oh... Gloria!\
15Sound Horizon Kingdom!\
16Gloria! Oh... Gloria!\
17Sound Horizon Kingdom!''
18-->-- '''[[AudienceParticipationSong The band's anthem.]]'''
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20Sound Horizon is a Japanese band consisting of songwriter Revo and [[IAmTheBand some other people]] (who tend to vary from one album to the next). Their albums are nearly all {{Concept Album}}s, if not {{Rock Opera}}s, usually with [[HeavyMithril fantasy or science fiction themes]]. The creator of the band has also done an [[ImageSong image album]] for ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' (translations of which can be found [[http://www.freewebs.com/penguinsjlyrics/anime.htm here]]), an Image Album for the Leviathan manga, a [[http://www.freewebs.com/penguinsjlyrics/vgame/aigfschwarzweiss.htm theme song]] for ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Iris 3|Grand Phantasm}}'', the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'', and the opening song for the anime adaptation of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' (the latter three under the brand Linked Horizon). They are known for their play-like live performances, and [[GratuitousForeignLanguage lots of foreign languages]].
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22They have quite a following in Asia (including UsefulNotes/SouthKorea and Taiwan), and numerous [[FanVid fan-made music videos]] have been made to their songs.
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24As of this writing (2016), almost ''all'' of the band's major albums [[note]]sans albums from the doujin era and singles, with the exception of ''Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido'', the plotline of which is integrated into ''Märchen'', and ''Vanishing Starlight''[[/note]] have been adapted into manga form by various artists such as Yukimaru Katsura, Sakura Kinoshita (of ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'' fame), and Arisaka Ako. ''Elysion'' and ''Roman'' have also been adapted into novels penned by Ao Juumonji on February 2014 and February 2016, respectively.
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27!!In the world of revolving horizons, the following <terminologies of story-telling> [examples] are used:
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31[[folder: ''The Band in General'']]
32* AlbumTitleDrop: From ''Lost'' onwards usually it goes [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming by this formula]], with some degree of variation:
33-->'''Narrator:''' "[Briefly describes the album's general concept]. The __th Horizon. [TitleDrop]."
34* AllThereInTheManual: Some instrumental pieces (such as "Yaneura no Shoujo" and "Raijin no Sawan") have lyrics printed in the CD booklets, not to mention that many of their songs will have references to songs or storylines in other albums.
35* AlternateCharacterReading: Every fucking song. Makes a natural translation [[LostInTranslation very difficult.]]
36* AudienceParticipationSong: Many of the songs. Some of them are "Asa to Yoru no Monogatari", "Yield" "Hiiro no Fuusha" and "Sunawachi... Hikari wo mo nigasanu ankoku no Chou← Juu↓ Ryoku↑".
37* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Revo, usually.
38* BattleCry: Originating from ''Roman'', this has since become one of Sound Horizon's RunningGag, present in ''every single'' subsequent releases. Here's a list for you, complete with a short explanation regarding the identity of each general:
39** ''Roman'', "Miezaru Ude": After General Alvarez! [[note]]Albers Alvarez, one of the protagonists of ''Chronicle'', nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Silver Reaper.]][[/note]]
40** ''Seisen no Iberia'', "Arasoi no Keifu": After General Ramirez! [[note]]He is the general of the Christian Iberian troops, described as a battle savvy.[[/note]]
41** ''Moira'', "Shiseru Eiyuutachi no Tatakai -Heromachia-": After General Amethystos! [[note]][[spoiler: a.k.a. Elefseus]], who evolved into a BloodKnight following his twin sister's untimely death.[[/note]]
42** A 3rd Territorial Expansion Tour live-only song, "Umi wo Watatta Conquistadores": After General Cortés! [[note]]Yes, you guessed it right. He is ''that'' [[UsefulNotes/HernanCortez Cortés]], who amidst the song is busy [[DeliberateValuesDissonance triumphantly toppling the Aztec civilization]]. [[/note]]
43** ''Märchen'', "Kuroki Okami no Yado": After General Gefenbauer![[note]] Gefenbauer is Alvarez's nemesis from Chronicle 2nd. Unlike the others, this particular cry is shouted by poorly-armed peasants trying to defend their village, [[DownerEnding only to end up being massacred by the invading army.]][[/note]]
44** ''Halloween to Yoru no Monogatari'', "Hoshi no Kirei na Yoru": After General Taylor! [[note]]None other than Mr. UsefulNotes/ZacharyTaylor himself, he was one of the leaders of the American troops in the Mexican-American War, which in the song was about to begin.[[/note]]
45** ''Nein'', "Namida de wa Kesenai Honoo": After General Laurencin! [[note]]If you have listened to ''Roman'' before, you might remember Laurencin as the man who murdered the Red-Haired Laurant out of the blue in "Miezaru Ude" and Hiver's friend in "Norowareshi Houseki". In this song he is the leader of the troops which the protagonist's husband belonged in.[[/note]]
46* BilingualBonus: The lyrics given in the CD booklets are all in Japanese, but parts are usually sung in another language (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek...). These foreign language bits often have a slightly (or very) different meaning from the lyrics as written in Japanese.
47* CharacterAsHimself: Revo is typically credited by the name of the character he plays in the album.
48* CharacterOverlap: As least implied character overlap. To list a few:
49** Abyss shows up briefly in ''Roman'' as the man who [[spoiler:kills Loraine de Saint-Laurant's lover]].
50** ''Moira'' has a minor character called Orph who suspiciously resembles Orpheus.
51** ''Elysion'' features Old Rose, the one-eyed "Crimson Witch" who was banished to the forest. Cut to ''Märchen'', in which a red-clad witch with one eye covered by her hair called Alte Rose ("Old Rose" in German) appears...
52** "Yaneura Roman" all but confirms that [[spoiler:Michèle Malebranche]] has trapped Hiver in a deadly EternalRecurrence much like the one she suffers.
53* CoolShades: If Revo isn't dressed as one of the album characters, he's wearing these.
54* CostumePorn: Revo enjoys himself some fancy outfits. The singer girls definitely also deserve a mention; it would be a crime not to, because their seriously pretty dresses can make one drool in envy. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/memorial29_746x1025.jpg These are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/memorial50_746x1025.jpg but]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/memorial166_746x1025.jpg a few]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/memorial146_746x1025.jpg examples]].
55* DeathOfTheAuthor: Invoked by Revo's infamous declaration of, "All interpretations are valid."
56* DoorClosesEnding: In the fourth horizon, five of the songs end with the sound of a heavy door (or, perhaps, a gate) being closed. Fans often interpret this as being the sound of the gates to paradise closing.
57* EpicRocking: Quite a few in their story albums. Märchen, for example, has a grand total of one song ("Gyoukou no Uta") under six minutes.
58* EternalRecurrence: One of the band's most prominent themes is how people are damned to [[HistoryRepeats forever repeat history]]. Most of their bonus tracks will end with a snippet of their respective album's first track, all but stating that the characters are trapped in an inescapable loop. [[spoiler: This trope is famously [[DefiedTrope defied]] by ''Nein'', since one of its two protagonists altered the course of history to a degree unexpected by many, and the other was motivated to break free of the loop by [[AuthorAvatar an alternate universe incarnation of Revo]].]]
59* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: It was Sublime, the band's erstwhile French narrator, who provided those seductive whispers in ''Roman'''s "Miezaru Ude" and "Tasogare no Kenja".
60* FantasyKitchenSink: For just one example, going by "The Witch and Lafrenze" and "Princess Sleeping in a Rose-Covered Tower," [[spoiler:Literature/SleepingBeauty's daughter is abandoned and raised by the fairy who cursed Sleeping Beauty. Eventually, she falls in love with [[Myth/GreekMythology Orpheus]], but is used by him, so she curses him so that his OrpheanRescue will fail]].
61* {{Gamebooks}}: The 2021 single ''Ema ni Negai wo!'' was relased on Bluray, rather than cd. This was done as a way to let the listener choose their own route through the songs. As it is only a ''Prologue Edition'' there is only one choice to make, which determines which song you get to hear later on. But there are several different versions of some of the tracks and it's random which one you get on each replay. Also, there's a special track with a lower probability of being played and each time a song starts, there's a 0.1% chance that you'll get a version where the character dies.
62* GenreMashup: Don't be surprised takes a brief turn from SymphonicMetal to jazz in the middle of a song.
63* GenreRoulette
64* HiddenTrack: An age-old tradition since the band's infancy. From ''Roman'' onwards, they can be unlocked by solving a certain puzzle. ''Seisen no Iberia'''s has become a RiddleForTheAges for ''years'' because its solution [[MoonLogicPuzzle defies logic itself]], and so nobody has ever gotten a chance to listen to it.
65* InfoDump: Many, many instances in ''Chronicle 2nd'', due to the album's concept as a [[GreatBigBookOfEverything massive historical record]]. Its narrator can take up a good few minutes of one song explaining its plot's background, and a few (most notably "Seisen to Shinigami -Rekishi wo Tsumugumono-" and "Aoi Me no Kaizoku") can practically be called short drama [=CDs=] due to the minimum presence of actual singing.
66* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Some of the albums can feel like this.
67* TheKlutz: Revo - just ask the other members.
68-->'''Mio:''' What I like most about [Revo] is that he falls down a lot.
69* LargeHam: Jimang. If there's an over the top character in a song, you can bet he's the one playing him (or, in one case, [[CrosscastRole her]]).
70* LongHairedPrettyBoy: As of late Revo fancies having smooth, billowy long hair that seems to change style every month. [[TheDandy He's just that kind of guy]], you see. [[http://www.syncmusic.jp/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Linked-Horizon.jpg Case]] [[http://c.okmusic.jp/interviews/images/1539/large.jpg?1368676646 in]] [[http://cdn.ipetitions.com/user-images/petitions/revo-sdm-bcn/sIKjXTaTSzGlrF3fEaV3_SHX-wfinal.jpg point]].
71* LyricalDissonance: A lot of the songs fall to this category, although it's not so extreme in the recent albums. Most obvious example is "Yurikago", "Yield", "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi", "Stardust", etc, etc.
72* MindScrew: This is what the stories may seem like sometimes. The greatest offender of all may be ''Roman'', due to how the album's plot is [[JigsawPuzzlePlot structured]].
73* MoodWhiplash: Changing the mood of a song on a whim seems to be Revo's hobby recently. It began to show first in ''Moira'', became more prominent in ''Märchen'', and came to be in full effect in ''Nein''. Predictably, fan reactions are...[[BrokenBase mixed]].
74* NewSoundAlbum: Many fans agree that ''Roman'' heralded Sound Horizon's "Second Era", in which the songs began to gradually become less experimental like it did in Aramary's era to better attract newcomers. (Notable examples: multiple new singers are hired to better accomodate for Revo's wide array of ranges, the duration and presence of spoken dialogues are ''massively'' minimized, more emphasis are put on singing for storytelling rather than [[InfoDump info dumping]] in the narrations like the case with ''Chronicle 2nd'', and LyricalDissonance is increasingly avoided.)
75* OnlyOneName: Revo, Jimang, Aramary, and a large number of the vocalists (REMI, MIKKI, KAORI, etc.)
76* RearrangeTheSong: Frequently in their live shows, sometimes out of necessity (as with all of the Aramary songs), but mostly just because they can.
77-->'''Revo:''' So why is REMI singing Utsukushiki Mono? Because she said she wanted to. And Hiiro no Fuusha's violin solo was changed to Acchan's bass solo since he wanted to do it. This is something new we tried this time. We don't need consistency!
78* RevolvingDoorBand
79%%* RockOpera: Many of their story albums.
80* SelfBackingVocalist: Most prominently during the Aramary era.
81* ShownTheirWork: Although most Sound Horizon stories are ostensibly supposed to take place in a fantasy world, Revo inserts a lot of random Western history into the songs. They are sometimes [[ValuesDissonance viewed through the lens of Japanese sensibility]], but the research is superbly spot-on, considering how...liberal Japanese media can be with history, especially Western ones.
82* SongStyleShift: Particularly in post-Aramary songs.
83* SpokenWordInMusic: In recent times the presence of this has been greatly minimized, limited to short narrations and faint dialogues spoken in the background while the singer is performing. In Aramary's era this trope can take up ''minutes'', with several being composed of nothing but narration/dialogues. ''Chronicle 2nd'' is the worst offender of this trope, and "Baroque" from ''Elysion'' is composed almost entirely of the protagonist's monologue.
84* {{Supergroup}}: In a fashion. Revo frequently borrows singers, musicians and voice actors for the band. These include everyone from Creator/SakiFujita[=/=][[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] to Creator/NorioWakamoto to [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Marty Friedman]] to Creator/MotoiSakuraba.
85* TheBandMinusTheFace: Averted. Sound Horizon gained even more popularity after Aramary left. Although, there are of course still those who believe that the band died with her.
86* ViewersAreGeniuses: TheLawOfConservationOfDetail is in full effect in this band's songs; you are expected to be astute enough to be able to spot them all and form your own interpretation of their meanings. What's awesome is that it doesn't matter if yours are different from others; there's a reason Revo almost never gave us a single WordOfGod.
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91'''Story Albums/Singles:'''
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93[[folder: ''Chronicle'']]
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95* AllThereInTheManual: If you want to know what these instrumental songs mean, you'll have to read the lyrics booklet.
96* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the world will end like the Black Chronicle foretells, there's a hidden message on its back cover that says the world will be reborn]].
97* BlessedWithSuck: The girl doll in "Shoujo Ningyou" has the ability to foresee the future. Unfortunately, this only makes her mother use her as a tool to grab cash.
98* BrokenBird: The girl doll, treated by her [[AlternateSelf mothers]] as nothing but a money-grabbing scheme.
99* {{Determinator}}: The mother [[spoiler: of the King of Rime]] from "Juhjyou no Kun ~Itetsuita Majo~" is very close to having a frostbite, but she will not stop walking, all for her baby son's safety.
100* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What the Black Chronicle prophesizes will occur.
101* EternalRecurrence: As detailed in "Kimi ga Umarete Kuru Sekai"
102-->"History repeats itself. Don’t ever forget that. History repeats itself. You can’t ever forget that…"
103* ForDoomTheBellTolls: "Run, it's coming. The bells that toll in announcement of the finale, the flood of the end."
104* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen in "Shijin Ballad no Higeki" executes a hapless poet because his poem for her sounds [[StealthInsult too ambiguous to be taken as a compliment]].
105* AnIcePerson: The King of Rime, duh.
106* MysticalWhiteHair: The King of Rime is drawn with snow-white hair, IcyBlueEyes, and dull gray skin.
107* SnowMeansDeath: In "Juhjyou no Kun ~Itetsuita Majo~", the witch finally froze to death, [[spoiler: but not before saving her son from the same fate, turning him into the King of Rime]].
108* StartOfDarkness: The events occurring in "Alberge no Tatakai" can be taken as the start of Albers Alvarez's descent into the ruthless warmonger of a man he is in ''Chronicle 2nd''.
109* TimeCapsule: "Kimi ga Umarete Kuru Sekai" is a letter to those who will live in the new world written by those that lived in the one before it.
110* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: The Black Chronicle.
111* WaifProphet: The girl doll.
112* AWorldHalfFull: In "Kimi ga Umarete Kuru Sekai."
113-->Your eyes shall reflect… Both beautiful things and ugly things, all of them…
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117[[folder: ''Thanatos'']]
118* BeingWatched: "Thanatos is watching me from somewhere..."
119* BookEnds: "Soko ni Aru Fuukei" and "Thanatos no Gensou".
120* DeathsHourglass: In "Rinne no Sunadokei" (aka. "The Hourglass of Reincarnation")
121* DiedInYourArmsTonight: The dying character in "Rinne no Sunadokei", although he/she wants to die in the morning rather than at night.
122* DyingAlone: The same character specifically asks to have this averted as a last request.
123* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Both in "Soko ni Aru Fuukei" and "Thanatos no Gensou".
124* HearingVoices: The main girl constantly hears Thanatos's voice in her head.
125* MadnessMantra: The constant whispering of "Thanatos".
126* OminousMusicBoxTune: Once again, "Soko ni Aru Fuukei" and "Thanatos no Gensou".
127* TheOphelia: The main girl.
128* RecurringDreams: "A repeating dream embraced by Thanatos. The scenery seen by the girl who can’t sleep…"
129* SanitySlippageSong: Again, both "Soko ni Aru Fuukei" and "Thanatos no Gensou".
130* SnowMeansDeath: "Giniro no Basha", without question.
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133[[folder: ''Lost'']]
134* BenevolentGenie: "Mahoutsukai Sarabanto". [[spoiler:And she's really happy to be let out of the lamp she was imprisoned in for so long.]]
135* CatchPhrase: "Wasuremono wa arimasen ka...?" ("Haven't you forgotten something...?"), repeated in nearly, if not in every, track of the CD.
136* MadnessMantra: "Yurusanai ... yurusanai ..." ("Unforgivable ... unforgivable ...") at the beginning and the end of "Hiiro no Hana".
137* OminousMusicBoxTune: "Eien no Shounen"
138* StakingTheLovedOne: "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi"
139* StarCrossedLovers: "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi"
140* ThisIsUnforgivable: This phrase is repeated over and over at the beginning and the end of "Hiiro no Hana".
141* TogetherInDeath: After the protagonist of "Koibito wo Uchiotoshita Hi" slays the monster that used to be her lover, she uses the last arrow she has to kill herself.
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144[[folder: ''Pico Magic Reloaded'']]
145* AbusiveParents: Keeping your child chained in the attic sounds pretty abusive.
146* AndIMustScream: Michèle Malebranche, in Christopher Jean-Jacques Saint-Laurent's professional opinion.
147-->"She probably wanted to escape The narrow cage she was trapped in... To the point of monomania. ...but, regrettably her wish was not granted during her lifetime. ...and even now, one century after her death, she is still within that cage..."
148* ApocalypseMaiden: Rein.
149-->The moment that the girl’s closed eyes open, the world will bear witness to the worst kind of lunatic dream it can fantasize…a cruel reaper[god]…
150* BloodSucking: Michèle Malebranche
151* GoMadFromTheIsolation: In "Yaneura no Shoujo"
152* GratuitousEnglish: "They there said reloaded!"
153%%* MadwomanInTheAttic%%ZCE
154* NonindicativeName: "Pico Magic" isn't exactly the sort of name you'd expect an album about a torturous, inescapable cycle of death to have - It also has little to no connection to the first Pico Magic.
155* RecurringRiff: All tracks of the "cage trilogy" ("Yaneura no Shoujo", "Ori no naka no Yuugi", and "Ori no naka no Hana") all have a riff in common, indicating they're all part of the same story. This also connects them to ''Roman'', as the later album has a bonus track that also shares the riff.
156* SelfMadeOrphan: Implied in "Ori no naka no Hana".
157* ThatOneCase: Or, more accurately, Those Three Cases (all relating to Michèle Malebranche) in "Ori no naka no Hana".
158* ThirteenIsUnlucky: In "Ori no naka no Hana", the shriveled body of Michèle Malebranche is found under the decomposing corpses of thirteen young boys.
159* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: It's pretty easy to see why Michèle Malebranche is so screwed up.
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162[[folder: ''Chronicle 2nd'']]
163* AnachronicOrder: The chapters of the Black Chronicle (and thus history) isn't necessary recited in the correct order.
164* AnthropomorphicPersonification: We have Chronica, the incarnation of the Black Chronicle who narrates for a fair amount of the songs.
165%%* AnyoneCanDie
166* BlackCloak: The uniform for members of the Black Order.
167* TheCallPutMeOnHold: The boy in "Raijin no Keifu" lacks the emblem on his right arm that all of the other villagers bear, as well as the power that comes with it. [[spoiler:It turns out that this is because he has the Thunder God's ''actual'' arm, though he needs the help of TheChiefsDaughter to use it and not kill himself in the process.]]
168* CharacterDevelopment: Arbelge [[spoiler:at first seems like a ruthless warrior, as far as receiving the title as the Reaper, but later turned into a good man after saving a girl injured by his fellow soldier.]]
169* TheChiefsDaughter: in "Raijin no Keifu", though she ends up saving the hero instead of the other way around.
170* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Lucia was taken into the cult for this reason.
171* CycleOfRevenge: Arbelge asks the young girl he saves [[DeathSeeker to kill him, as that's the only way he can atone for his sins]]. The girl ([[spoiler:aka. [[TheHighQueen Rose Guine Avalon]]]]) refuses to in defiance of this trope.
172-->"You idiot! That won't solve anything! You might be satisfied with just that, but there might be people who want to take revenge for you. That line of logic repeats itself, creating new tragedies..."
173* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Arbelge successfully [[ScrewDestiny screws destiny]]... [[YouCantFightFate as prophesied in the Black Chronicle]], which ''also'' notes that he is quickly assassinated by a member of the Black Order for deviating from his destined path.]]
174* DistressedDude: The boy from "Raijin no Keifu" wouldn't would have been damned if the daughter of the village's chief didn't offer her hand (literally) to him.
175* DoomedHometown: Belge.
176%%* EternalRecurrence
177* EvilLaugh: Noah does this well, as does Roberia.
178* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Rose Guine Avalon expected that Arbelge would be a giant bear of a man.
179* FairestOfThemAll: The queen [[spoiler:executed Ballad just because his poem said that a withered flower is more beautiful than her.]]
180* FinalSpeech: Or poem, rather - Ballad writes his final poem as he waits in his cell to be executed. Only the prison guard gets to hear the final product.
181* ForDoomTheBellTolls: "The final bell tolls. The execution is carried out swiftly"
182%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
183* GratuitousItalian: "Shizunda Utahime"
184* TheHighQueen: Rose Guine Avalon, in stark contrast to the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen who ruled before her]].
185* InTheBlood: Noah stated that Lucia has the same traits as her parents.
186* IWillFindYou: "Tadoritsuku Uta" -- The blind poet Luna is searching for her lover. [[spoiler:Sadly, he's the poet executed in "Shijin Ballad no Higeki", and she eventually comes to discover this.]]
187* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:Arbelge, Gefenbauer, Roberia (though her fate is quite unclear on some parts)]]
188* LiteralCliffhanger: [[spoiler:Giulietta.]]
189* TheMistress: Beatrice
190* MurderTheHypotenuse: Roberia didn't want to risk Giuletta showing her up and winning the StandardHeroReward, so she [[spoiler:arranged for her entire family to be framed and executed for treason.]]
191* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Arbelge witnesses one of his soldiers trying to murder an unarmed girl.
192* ParentalAbandonment: Lucia only remembered that her parents were gone when since she was small.
193* PirateGirl: Laetitia, the blue eyed pirate.
194* ThePromise: Between Arbelge and Charlotte in "Yakusoku no Oka".
195* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Arbelge]]
196* RedOniBlueOni: Red Songstress Roberia and Blue Songstress Giuletta.
197* RuleOfSymbolism: White Crow
198* ScrewDestiny: Well, more like, "Screw the Chronicle", but the idea's the same when Lucia takes it up and defects from the Black Order.
199* TheGreatFlood: There's even a guy called Noa.
200* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:“It’s truly a shame, but you’re too late. Nobody can stop the beast of the book until the flood of the end massacres this old world and devours all of history…”]]
201* YouCantFightFate: This gets brought up a lot in the album.
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204[[folder: ''Elysion ~Rakuen Gensou Monogatari Kumikyoku~'']]
205%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited
206%%* BreakTheCutie
207* CainAndAbel: Initially in "Sacrifice."
208* CallAndResponseSong: "Elysion no Rakuen [Side: A]"
209* CatchPhrase "Kanojo koso watashi no Erisu nano darou ka?" ("Is that girl my Elys?") At the beginning of every one of the main girls' songs accompanied by a music box riff.
210* CreepyChild: Several, including El as depicted in the concerts with a creepy mask.
211* {{Cult}}: Soror joins one [[spoiler:which leads to her killing her brother. Or to ''him'' killing ''her'', as the manga implies the true sequence of events to be.]]
212* DownerEnding: El does end up in Elysion. Hooray! [[spoiler:Too bad Elysion is [[ThisIsntHeaven just another name for hell.]]]]
213* {{Elopement}}: In "Eru no Tenbin"
214* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: "Yield"
215* FunWithAcronyms: What's the second name for Elysion? [[spoiler:'''A'''rk '''B'''aroque '''Y'''ield '''S'''acrifice '''S'''tardust]]
216%%* GirlWithPsychoWeapon
217* LoveMakesYouEvil: Something of a theme throughout the album, or at least the Abyss tracks. Apparently, love makes you stab people, push people down stairs, cut people's heads off, set entire villages ablaze, and shoot people.
218* MedicalHorror: Ark, at a bare minimum in the manga.
219* NoNameGiven: Apart from El, Abyss, Lafrenze, and Orpheus, none of the characters have names; They are instead known by their track titles. The siblings from Ark are referred to as Soror and Frater, but that's just "sister" and "brother" [[GratuitousLatin in Latin]].
220%%* ParentalAbandonment
221* PunBasedTitle: Elysion is pronounced very similarly to illusion, [[spoiler:[[ThisIsntHeaven which is exactly what Elysion is]]]].
222%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath
223* SchizoTech: At least in Ark, Soror's brain is being experimented on (using really high-tech and futuristic computer stuff in the manga at that). However, in Sacrifice, people still seem to be in the BurnTheWitch DeliverUsFromEvil-believing era of human biology.
224%%* StalkerWithACrush
225* SurrealMusicVideo: El's Paradise: Side E.
226* ThisIsntHeaven: When [[spoiler:El]] dies, she wakes up in what she believes to be paradise. But then she hears someone crying, and she knows that people don't cry in paradise...
227* {{Yandere}}: So many. So, ''so'' many.
228[[/folder]]
229
230[[folder: ''Shounen wa Tsurugi wo...'']]
231* NoNameGiven: The main character of the story is known in Japan simply as Sword Boy.
232[[/folder]]
233
234[[folder: ''Roman'']]
235* AllThereInTheManual: The entire CD. It's impossible to tell, more often than not, what exactly is going on. In particular, "Norowareshi Hōseki" brings up a LOT of questions regarding practically everything, not like other songs (i.e. "11-moji no Dengon (Message)") don't, either.
236** It very quickly gets to the point where, the more you think about it and try to figure it out, the more brainpain you doom yourself to.
237** A lot of critical information (particularly relating to "Norowareshi Hōseki" and "Yaneura Roman") is in the much earlier Pico Magic Reloaded rather than in Roman itself.
238* ArtifactOfDeath: The eponymous diamond in "Norowareshi Hōseki", which brings death to anyone who possesses it.
239* BigFriendlyDog: Pleut.
240* BodyMotifs: In "Miezaru Ude", the main character is missing an arm, and this is brought up a fair amount of times in the lyrics. Heck, it's referenced straight in the title (translation: "The Invisible Arm").
241* CreepyTwins: Violette and Hortense, though arguably, they're also quite cute.
242* CatchPhrase: "Soko ni Roman wa aru no kashira", or roughly, "I wonder if a story exists there", which is the line that either Violette or Hortense or both will say in each song. Hiver gets his own variant of this phrase ("Soko ni Roman wa aru no darou ka") in the first track.
243* CypherLanguage: Somewhat. In the lyrics booklet, each song has a Japanese character replaced with a four digit number. This is important for "11-moji no Dengon (Message)", where a message in the lyrics is written out as a chain of these numbers. Since the vocalist only sings the line in "la" syllables, the actual message needs to be worked out using that code. [[spoiler: Not to say that's the only "message" to be found, however...]]
244* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:"Tenshi no Chōzō" and implied in "11-moji no Dengon (Message)". ]]
245* DrowningMySorrows: The blond Laurant in "Miezaru Ude" after the redheaded Laurant severs his arm and leaves him in constant, crippling pain. [[spoiler:When the blond Laurant finally encounters the redheaded Laurant for a second time, he seems that he's succumbed to the same fate after losing his own arm.]]
246* GratuitousFrench: ''Roman'' translates to "story", and there are French words and phrases scattered throughout the songs. The lyrics in the included booklet don't have the French written out however, but rather Japanese equivalents (which is typical for Sound Horizon). To Revo's credit though, the translations hold unless he's going for a double meaning in the text.
247* EvilRedhead: The redheaded Laurant in "Miezaru Ude".
248* IntellectualAnimal: Pleut; in "Hoshikuzu no Kawahimo", she sings with Étoile, even though she's a dog. It's depicted in the manga as a sort of dream experience where a blind Étoile can see her and interact with her.
249* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Hiver.
250* MadGod: [[spoiler:"Yaneura Roman" implies that the world in ''Roman'' was created by Michèle Malebranche. No go back to ''Reloaded'' and realize what that entails.]]
251* MeaningfulName: A few. To start off, Hiver is "winter" in French, the season of his death.
252** Violette and Hortense refer to "violets" and "hortensia/hydrangea". Also, with a little creativity regarding the flowers' imagery and kanji pronunciation wordplay, you get "death" and "life" respectively.
253** Étoile's name is actually explained and referenced right in the song title, through the song, and in the manga adaption many times. Heck, it's kind of the point of her song to begin with.
254** Étoile's black seeing-eye dog Pleut is French for "rain," and is implied to be the ancestor to an extremely similar seeing-eye dog in World of Rein (from way back in Pico Magic Reloaded). The latter dog guides a girl who traps anyone who sees her eyes in a torturous illusion of endless rain.
255* OneSteveLimit: Averted - there are quite a lot of Laurants running around. "Miezaru Ude" in particular features a man named Laurant confronting a man ''also'' named Laurant after the latter severed the former's arm. And then ''Laurencin'' shows up...
256* POVSequel: "Yorokobi to Kanashimi no Budōshu" is implied to be the same story as "Eru no Tenbin", only from the side of the eloping lovers, which is the interpretation the manga takes
257* PrettyInMink: Hiver once again. His coat's trimmed and apparently lined with the stuff.
258* RecurringRiff: A faintly playing musicbox shows up at the end of most songs when one of the dolls delivers the catchphrase. There are two brief tunes alternating depending on the doll speaking, but both are still recognizable from the first track's melody.
259** Also, there's no way to not recognize a slower version of the chorus' melody in "Asa to Yoru no Roman (Monogatari)" and in the final verse of "11-moji no Dengon (Message)". Plus, "Hiver's Message", a song exclusive to the Triumph III concert, uses a quick chord progression also found in the aforementioned chorus.
260* RunawayFiance: Implied in "Yorokobi to Kanashimi no Budōshu"; definitely the case in the manga adaptation.
261* SnowMeansDeath: As stated earlier with Hiver.
262* StoryboardBody: Hiver, Violette, and Hortense all. In the manga, it's shown that Hiver cloned (for lack of a better word) his facial tattoos onto the cheeks of his dolls. Violette, being the doll relating to death, gets the moon, while Hortense, as the one relating to life, gets the sun.
263* UnreliableNarrator: "Yaneura Roman" suggests that one of the dolls is not quite honest about the stories she finds. ("Reality…fantasy…the world of roman…who is the liar-").
264[[/folder]]
265
266[[folder: ''Seisen no Iberia'']]
267* AlbumTitleDrop: The last sung line in "Shinryaku suru Mono sareru Mono" is well..."Seisen no Iberia."
268* ArcWords: "The chronicles of history are as rapid as the blink of an eye."
269* BilingualDialogue: Shaytan speaks Spanish, whereas Layla speaks Arabic.
270* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or rather, dead girl meets demon.
271* DealWithTheDevil: With a demon, anyways. Seems to work out all right for both sides though, partly because OurDemonsAreDifferent
272* [[EvilCostumeSwitch Demonic Costume Switch]]: Layla.
273* EmergencyTransformation: Layla
274* EternalLove: Eternal ''Love'' is debatable, but Shaytan's willing to stick by Layla's side to make immortality more tolerable nonetheless.
275* FacialMarkings: Shaytan, Master Tsadi, and the Gitana sisters
276* ForeverWar: The Iberian holy war
277* GenghisGambit: [[spoiler:Implied to be the way Shaytan ends the holy war.]]
278* GratuitousForeignLanguage: English, Spanish, and Arabic.
279* GreekChorus: the Gitana sisters
280* HellbentForLeather: Shaytan
281* HornedHumanoid: Shaytan
282* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Shaytan and Layla, at least in the official art. This doesn't carry over into the live shows, as Revo isn't exactly a tall guy.
283* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Shaytan had been sealed away for so long that he'd forgotten his name. "Shaytan" is simply what Layla dubbed him.
284%%* Opera Gloves: Layla, post transformation%%%The trope formerly known as Opera Gloves disambiguated and there is not enough context to choose.
285%^* OurDemonsAreDifferent
286* PlayingWithFire: Shaytan
287%%* RecurringRiff
288* RedEyesTakeWarning: Shaytan and post-transformation Layla.
289* SealedEvilInACan: Shaytan - though he's grateful enough to be freed that he's willing to give his devotion to the decidedly not evil Layla.
290* TakeAThirdOption: As thanks for releasing him, Shaytan offers to destroy all of Layla's enemies. [[spoiler:Rather than either the Christians or the Muslims, Layla asks him to destroy the holy war itself.]]
291[[/folder]]
292
293[[folder: ''Moira'']]
294%%* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Leontius and Alexandra
295%%* AndThenJohnWasAZombie
296%%* AngstySurvivingTwin
297* AnimalMotif: Scorpius (scorpion), Leontius (lion), and Elef/Amethystos (wolf).
298* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:Just as Thanatos (hosted in Elef's body) is about to confront and duel with Moira, Eirene interrupts her husband's reading of the story to announce that she's pregnant with twins]]
299%%* AnyoneCanDie
300* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Eirene runs in at the end of "Shinwa no Shūen - Telos" to announce that she's having twins, which are implied to be reincarnations of Elef and Misia.]]
301%%* BadassCape: Elef, Leontius, and Scorpius
302%%* BecauseDestinySaysSo
303%%* {{BFS}}
304%%* BigBrotherInstinct
305* BlindSeer: Misia is blinded after washing up on Lesbos's coast, after which she is rescued by Phyllis and trained as a diviner.
306* BookEnds: The album's bonus track, "Kami no Hikari - Moira", repeats the first verse of "Meiou - Thanatos" before being suddenly cut off. [[spoiler:This, when put together with Eirene's twins, suggests that history is going to repeat itself.]]
307* BreakTheCutie: Thanatos spends the entirety of the album tormenting [[CosmicPlaything Elef]] [[spoiler:so that he will eventually give in to Thanatos and become his host to fight against Moira]].
308* CainAndAbel: Leontius and his half-brother, Scorpius, are warring against each other to hold the throne of Illion. [[spoiler:Leontius successfully slays Scorpius, only to be killed by his [[LongLostRelative Long Lost Brother]] Elef/Amethystos in his siege of Illion.]]
309* CallingYourAttacks: Orion, at least as a child. Elef thinks it's stupid.
310-->'''Orion:''' One-hit kill! 'The bow bends and a flame springs forth, freezing the night sky over' shot!
311-->'''Elef:''' The name’s too long, idiot!
312-->'''Orion:''' Hush you! This is the essence of Orion-styled archery!
313* CloserToEarth: Eirene, when compared to her erratic, over-the-top husband.
314* CosmicPlaything: Thanatos metaphorically rakes Elef over the coals [[spoiler:so that Elef will eventually rebel against Moira, the Goddess of Fate, and allow himself to be consumed by Thanatos]].
315* DarkReprise / TriumphantReprise: Dourei Ichiba ~Douloi~ wasn't exactly a happy song to begin with, but its reprise in Doreitachi no Eiyuu ~Elefseus~ tweaks a bunch of the lyrics slightly to a very different emotional pitch. Frankly, with this couple, it's difficult to judge which is darker because they're both dark for different reasons. The first one is more hopeless (with Elef and Misia as the slaves) while the second one is more nihilistic. The fact that you have something close to a VillainProtagonist makes it difficult to judge whether it's more of a DarkReprise or a TriumphantReprise.
316* TheDeadCanDance: They just love to party down in Hades.
317* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After Elef kills Leontius and Isadora, he is consumed by Thanatos and becomes his host so that the god can [[RageAgainstTheHeavens take the fight to Moira.]]]]
318* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Misia's death]] is the straw that finally makes [[spoiler:Elef]] snap.
319* DeusAngstMachina: Zvolinsky's backstory as claimed in "Jinsei wa Ireko Ningyou" is so over-the-top tragic that it's more played for BlackHumor than anything else.
320* DistantDuet: Elef and Misia in "Shiseru Monotachi no Monogatari - Istoria"
321* DivineParentage: Leontius is descended from the Thunder God. [[spoiler:As his siblings, so are Elef and Misia]]
322%%* DownerEnding
323* DuelToTheDeath: "Shiseru Eiyūtachi no Tatakai - Heromachia" has [[spoiler:Elef/Amethystos]] and [[spoiler:Leontius]] fighting to the death. [[spoiler:The former emerges victorious.]]
324* DualWielding: Elef/Amethystos
325* [[EccentricMillionaire Eccentric Billionaire]]: Alexei Romanovic Zvolinsky
326* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Thanatos.
327%%* TheEpic
328* EvilLaugh: Scorpius does this quite well.
329* EvilRedhead: Scorpius.
330* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Elef and Misia during the timeskip
331* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Misia]]
332* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Very frequently.
333* FauxActionGirl: Alexandra, queen of the Amazonians. She appears twice in the album. The first time, she appears just long enough for Leontius to defeat her and spare her life. The second time, she appears just long enough to [[spoiler:die]].
334* FourIsDeath: 4 minutes and 44 seconds into the bonus track of Moira, the sound of someone whispering "Thanatos" can be heard.
335* ForgedByTheGods: Elef's black sword was (probably) made by Thanatos, after all it is [[DarkIsEvil black]] and glows darkish violet in the stage version of "Doreitachi no Eiyū - Elefseus" performed in Triumph of the Third Territorial Expansion
336* FramingDevice: The main story is nested in a frame story of Zvolinsky, a Russian billionaire, who is excavating the ruins of Arcadia in order to discover the truth behind the Elefseyan epic, a translated copy of which he reads the story from. For bonus points, the song in question is named [[LampshadeHanging "Jinsei wa Ireko Ningyou -]] '''[[NestedStory Matryoshka"]]'''.
337* GhostSong: [[spoiler:Misia]]'s ghost sings a duet with Elef in "Shiseru Otome Sono Te ni wa Suigetsu - Parthenos".
338* GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath: The main theme of the album ([[PunctuatedForEmphasis "FREEDOM. OR. DEATH"]]). [[spoiler:Of course, if the ending is to go by, you're screwed either way.]]
339%%* GratuitousEnglish
340%%* GratuitousGreek
341* GreekChorus: Quite literally with the six sister goddesses of poetry.
342* Myth/GreekMythology: But [[FantasyCounterpartCulture re-interpreted]] by Revo.
343* HalfIdenticalTwins: Elef and Misia.
344* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:It's implied that the twins that Eirene is pregnant with are the reincarnated souls of Elef and Misia, and that Thanatos is going to attempt to RageAgainstTheHeavens once again.]]
345* HeroOfAnotherStory: The extent of Leontius and Scorpius's power struggle are only hinted at.
346* HighClassCallGirl: As stated on the first half of track 7, Cassandra, Melissa and Misia (temporarily, as an apprentice) are [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetaira hetairai]], which is a term in Ancient Greece that equates to 'courtesan' in modern history. They are highly educated, but not highly respected intellects like Sophia; they are not as strong as the Amazonian women, yet also not as 'uncultured' as regular prostitutes.
347* HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler: Alexandra]] reacts this way to [[spoiler: Leontius]]'s death at the end of "Shiseru Eiyūtachi no Tatakai - Heromachia".
348* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Misia]]
349* IAmSong: "Meiou - Thanatos" for Thanatos.
350* ISeeDeadPeople: In "Shi to Nageki no Kaze no Miyako - Ilion", Elef discovers that he can see shadows that come to take peoples' souls when they die.
351* IWillWaitForYou: Misia for Elef. [[spoiler:However, she finds that she can't bring herself to continue when [[SomeoneHasToDie another person's life is on the line.]]]]
352* IWillFindYou: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Elef finds Misia just a bit too late.]]
353%%* JerkassGods
354* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Misia, Scorpious, Orion and many more -- although Misia's soul comes and finishes a duet with her brother.]]
355* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Misia]]
356* LongLostRelative: Leontius had a younger brother who was taken away as a newborn in order to avert the prophesy that he would slay his mother. Leontius believes his brother to be [[spoiler:Orion]], but in reality his brother is [[spoiler:Elef]].
357* LyricalDissonance: "Jinsei wa Ireko Ningyou - Matryoshka" is a very cheerful song about how life can be a never ending parade of misery.
358-->Life is a gift, a Matryoshka doll filled with absurdity.
359-->No matter how much you open it up, you will find only pain.
360* MadeASlave: Elef and Misia
361* TheMuse: The Six Sister Goddesses of Poetry, who serve as the GreekChorus.
362* MusicalisInterruptus: Eirene does this in "Jinsei wa Ireko Ningyou - Matryoshka".
363* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler:Sorry, Isadora, but [[TakingTheBullet Taking The Spear]] wasn't ''quite'' enough to save your son's life.]]
364* NoodlePeople: Thanatos is over a dozen feet tall and spindly enough that Revo needs to use prop arms to play him.
365* OhAndXDies: The GreekChorus announces [[spoiler:Misia]]'s eventual death as early as "Unmei no Futago - Didymoi".
366* PedophilePriest: Elef is physically and sexually abused by a priest of the Wind God named Nestor after he's sold into slavery. When Nestor tries to rape Misia, Elef finally resists and kills him.
367* PowerDyesYourHair: [[spoiler:Elef/Amethystos's hair turns black when he's possessed by Thanatos.]]
368* PrimordialChaos: "In the beginning, Chaos fills the world. After a while, the mother of all life awakens."
369* PuppetKing
370* RageAgainstTheHeavens
371* RainOfArrows
372* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Elef, after Misia's death]] goes and kills everyone who once tormented them. Lastly he goes against [[spoiler: Moira, the goddess of fate herself]].
373* ScreamDiscretionShot: Elef's abuse by Nestro is only suggested by the sound of whips, Elef's screams, and Nestro asking where he likes it and if he's enjoying it. In the live shows, Nestro pulls Elef behind a wall to commit the act.
374* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Isadora attempts to save Leontius's life by [[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of the God of Thunder's spear thrown at him, only for the spear's magic to kill them both.]]]]
375* S{{he Who Must Not Be Seen}}: Moira
376* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Elef spends most of the album rallying an army to defeat Moira, only to be destroyed by her and accomplish nothing.]]
377* SkywardScream: Elef after [[spoiler:learning of his sister's death]].
378* SlaveLiberation: Amethystos embarks on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge by traveling across the country to free, eventually amassing an army of them to invade and destroy Ilion (which is where he was MadeASlave himself).
379* SomeoneHasToDie: So [[spoiler:Misia]] volunteers.
380* SonOfAWhore: Scorpius
381* SorryThatImDying: [[spoiler:Misia]]'s last words are an apology to [[spoiler:Elef]] for not being able to live long enough to see him again.
382* SummonBackupDancers: What else would Thanatos need an army of reapers for?
383* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:Misia]] offers herself to Scorpius as a sacrifice in Phyllis's place.
384* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:After discovering his sister's corpse]], Elef discards his identity to become Amethystos
385* TheTimeOfMyths: The setting is stated to be such in "Myth - Mythos"
386* TimeSkip: In the middle of "Haruka Chiheisen no Kanata e - Horizontas".
387* TitleScream: MOIRA YO!!
388%%* {{Tragedy}}
389* TwinTelepathy: Elef and Misia tell in Historia, how they can feel each other, even though they are apart. And they even [[spoiler: finish a duet together, even though Misia is already dead]].
390* VisualPun: Scorpius's hair resembles the tail of a scorpion.
391* WellIntentionedExtremist: Thanatos loves all people, living or dead, but he hates Moira and the suffering he brings to peoples' lives enough that he's willing to destroy Elef's life as part of a plan to RageAgainstTheHeavens
392* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Thanatos is [[CosmicPlaything dicking around with your life]] for a good cause, Elef. Really!
393* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: [[spoiler:Elef invades and destroys Illion in retaliation for the torture he had to endure there when he was MadeASlave.]]
394-->'''Leontius:''' [[spoiler:Amethystos]]...being a Hellenes yourself, why do you assist the Barbaroi in their invasion?
395-->'''[[spoiler:Elefseus]]:''' What did the motherland ever do for me? All it did was take away my loved ones! Don't make me laugh!
396* WouldntHitAGirl: "I, Leontius, do not possess a spear that pierces women."
397* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Elef does not take [[spoiler:Misia's death]] well.
398* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Elef arrives just minutes too late to prevent Scorpius's HumanSacrifice of Misia.]]
399[[/folder]]
400
401[[folder: ''Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido'']]
402
403[[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/93e5dc71_da59_4aea_9a4a_4b25d6dd4401.jpeg]]
404
405Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido is the Prologue Album to Märchen, which was released on June 16th 2010
406----
407* ArrangedMarriage: One's been arranged for [[spoiler:an older Elisabeth, as indicated by "Within this Small Birdcage".]]
408* BurnTheWitch: [[spoiler:Therese is burnt after being accused of witchcraft.]]
409* TheBlackDeath: What [[spoiler:a dying Therese]] cursed the world with. It ended up killing every villager in the village Märchen and Elise visit.
410* CallAndResponseSong: In a "Hikari to Yami no Märchen (Dowa)", where Elise asks Märchen about the deserted village März and Therese once lived in.
411* ChainedByFashion: Märchen's outfit is made of this and [[TooManyBelts belts]].
412* CreepyDoll: Being a sentient child-sized doll dressed in [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black attire]] who [[LadyMacbeth urged]] Märchen to begin his sick parade of revenge in the first place? Elise, you fit right in the bill.
413* DarkIsNotEvil: Therese dresses in dark attire, but she is overall a graceful and kind wiselady who stops at nothing to cure her patients.
414%%* DoubleMeaningTitle
415* DyingCurse: [[spoiler: Therese as she is burnt at the stake]], combined with [[LaughingMad madly]] CryLaughing and a [[SkywardScream piercing scream]].
416-> ''"But I have been wishing for naught\
417even my transient moment of light\
418has been plundered away for laughs.\
419Just look at this comical play!\
420[[ThenLetMeBeEvil In that case, I shall be a real witch to eternally curse this world!"]]''
421* GratuitousGerman: As the settings of this story is based on the medieval Germany, there’re quite a lot of German to spell out.
422* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Elisabeth stated this desire clearly in "Kono Semai Torikago no Naka de".
423-->''"I’ve always wanted to have friends\
424But I don't know what such things were"''
425%%* TheIngenue: Elisabeth.
426* LonelyRichKid: Elisabeth, enclosed in her home which apparently is a [[GildedCage metaphor of bird cage]] without knowing the outer world, does not even have any friends [[spoiler:until März arrives.]]
427* MamaBear: ''Holy god'', Therese. How could she not be after [[spoiler:engaging at once in a swordfight two men who threw her son down a well?]]
428* MeaningfulName: Both Elise and Therese take their name from "Für Elise" ("Therese" coming from the hypothesis that the name of the piece was transliterated incorrectly, and that its real name is "Für Therese"), indicating their connection.
429* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The crimes that got [[spoiler:Therese]] burned at the stake as a witch? Healing sick children, apparently.
430* PlagueDoctor: The characters disguised as Plague Doctors are actually [[TheWitchHunter Witch Hunters]]. Thank them that the story even gets started.
431* ThePromise: Elisabeth made März promise to her [[spoiler:that he'll come back one day, which sadly turns to be an EmptyPromise due to his death.]]
432%%* SeparatedByTheWall: März and Elisabeth.
433* ThrowingOffTheDisability: März used to be blind, but regained his sight "due to a mysterious incident". [[spoiler:This was one of the reasons Therese was accused to witchcraft.]]
434* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:März.]] Literally.
435[[/folder]]
436
437[[folder: ''Märchen'']]
438
439[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1ef9802a_78d6_4d25_bf0a_b9277fde0e62.jpeg]]
440
441Märchen is the 7th Story CD of Sound Horizon, the first Story CD to have a Prologue Album Maxi - Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido. The album is based on medieval Germany, commonly affiliated with {{Fairy Tale}}s. The album focuses on 7 different fairy tales with equivalent sin.
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443* AdaptationExpansion: "Kuroki Okami No Yado" expands greatly upon "The Man from the Gallows", which is only a few lines long.
444* AmbiguousGender: The Black Landlady's gender is listed as "unknown".
445* ArcWords: "Ido"[[note]]"well" or "id"[[/note]] is a very important word.
446* AmnesiacLover: Märchen recalls the faint feeling that he was once in love in "Yoiyami No Uta", but is told by the seven dead princesses [[spoiler:except Elisabeth]] that it must have been his imagination.
447* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Elisabeth [[spoiler:wished that she wouldn't marry anyone else, only to be crucified by her own brother/father.]]
448* BigNo: Elise's last word [[spoiler:is a scream of denial, after some {{Little No}}s of denial too.]]
449* TheBlackDeath: Gets its bonus track this time around.
450* BlindfoldedVision: All of the dead princesses seem to have this in the live performances.
451* Creator/TheBrothersGrimm: Some of the seven revenge songs are based on their version of the fairy tales, especially Literature/SnowWhite one. Granted that they’re in German.
452* ChainedByFashion: Märchen's new outfit still had his chains. It is significant.
453* ClingyJealousGirl: Elise until she was [[spoiler: spurned]].
454* CreepyDoll: Being a sentient child-sized doll dressed in [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black attire]] who is the vessel of [[spoiler:Therese]]'s vengeful soul? Elise, you still fit right in the bill.
455* CrosscastRole: Jimang plays the role of the Landlady, and Yume Suzuki plays both Princes.
456* CurbStompBattle: The "Swing Girl" narrates the background war between farm tools-armed peasants against General Gefenbauer's cannons in "Kuroki Okami no Yado" as "(even without wings), [[BlownAcrossTheRoom people roam the skies]]".
457* CuteAndPsycho: Once she's revived, Snow White has no trouble in reveling in her stepmother's torturous death with an EvilLaugh, while the Blue Prince can only look on and wonder what the hell he's gotten himself hitched to.
458* {{Determinator}}: Elisabeth [[spoiler:chose death over being tied into a loveless marriage]].
459* DisappearedDad: The father of the nun in "Kakei no Majo".
460* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Neither the Blue Prince in "Garasu No Hitsugi De Nemuru Himegimi" nor the Red Prince in "Bara No Tou De Nemuru Himegimi" seem to care that their brides to be are comatose, if not outright dead. In The Blue Prince's case, it can be justified with his [[ILoveTheDead "unusual preferences”]].
461* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Märchen
462* FairyTale: The seven revenge songs are based on one.
463** "Literature/HanselAndGretel": "Kakei no Majo"
464** "The Man from the Gallows": "Kuroki Okami No Yado"
465** "Literature/SnowWhite": "Garasu No Hitsugi De Nemuru Himegimi"
466** "Mother Hulda": "Sei To Shi Wo Wakatsu Kyoukai No Furuido"
467** "Literature/SleepingBeauty": "Bara No Tou De Nemuru Himegimi"
468** "Literature/{{Bluebeard}}": "Aoki Hakushaku no Shiro"
469** "Saint Kummernis": "Takkei no Seijo"
470* FantasyTavern: Kuro Kitsune Tei (Black Fox House), where the second song “Kuroki Okami No Yado” takes place.
471* ForeignCussWord: In "Kuroki Okami No Yado", the Landlady shouts "Scheiße!".
472* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Nun in "Kakei No Majo" is on a friendly term with the animals. [[spoiler:Well, they’re her only friends, though.]]
473* GenkiGirl: The main character in "Sei to Shi wo Wakatsu Kyōkai no Furuido". As her stepfamily embodies the sin of Sloth, it's only fitting that she embody the corresponding virtue, Zeal aka enthusiasm.
474* GhostAmnesia: Märchen [[spoiler:remembers nothing of his life as März, until Elisabeth causes him to.]]
475* GoIntoTheLight: A possible interpretation of the ending of "Gyōkō no Uta".
476* GratuitousGerman: Oh, ''yes''. For starters, the title of the album is German for "fairytale".
477* GratuitousPrincess: About half of the girls have no ties to royalty, but that doesn't stop Märchen from calling them the "seven dead princesses".
478%%* {{Grimmification}}
479%%* GroundhogDayLoop: Implied in the concerts.
480* HandPuppet: Märchen, of all people, makes use of them in "Sei To Shi Wo Wakatsu Kyoukai No Furuido".
481* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Märchen and Elise
482* HumansAreMorons: Elise stated this clearly in her revenge proposal to Märchen as humans never stop hating everyone.
483* IAmSong: "Yoiyami No Uta" - or a "I Have No Idea Who I Am" song, rather.
484* IGaveMyWord: Apparently [[spoiler:Märchen purposelessly fulfilled his promise as März to Elisabeth when he came to the church.]] During one of the lives, too, when there's a member introduction, März says to everyone that "März is a man of his word."
485* ILoveTheDead: The Blue Prince has, in Märchen's words, "unusual preferences".
486* ImAHumanitarian: The landlady in "Kuroki Okami No Yado" serves up human meat at her inn, although it's largely because there's not much else available.
487* IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]] is the only princess who turns down Märchen‘s revenge offer, being the same saintly, virtuous person she was years ago.
488* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Most of the villains (except the lazy stepmother and sister, Alterose, and Elisabeth's brother/father) who made the girls die, in the end gets killed by those girls (or anyone they use to kill back) in various ways.
489* LighterAndSofter: "Sei To Shi Wo Wakatsu Kyoukai No Furuido" could be considered the album's BreatherEpisode. Although it still starts with a girl's death, the song is much bouncier, and the heroine's revenge is nonlethal. Märchen lampshades this, musing how "cute" this revenge is.
490* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Märchen has long black hair which he ties into a Rococo ponytail.
491%%* LooksLikeCesare: Märchen
492* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:Elisabeth keeps her love for März, even though she must be crucified for that.]]
493* LoveRedeems: Apparently [[spoiler:Elisabeth's love is the one that makes Märchen remembers all of his past.]]
494* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: One way of looking at the album. "This story is fiction. But that doesn't mean everything was made up."
495* MeaningfulEcho: ''"Mother, the light is warm."'' Have we heard it from a certain young boy?
496* MusicalChores: The heroine of "Sei To Shi Wo Wakatsu Kyoukai No Furuido" sees her chores as so easy "like a dance".
497* MyOwnGrampa: One of the Seven Dead Princesses that Märchen helps to enact her revenge of is a nun, who manipulates Hansel and Gretel into killing her mother who killed her. Inspired by their action of killing the 'witch', Hansel and his friend Thomas then becomes witch hunters that will kill Therese and throw März into a well, both things that would give birth to Elise and Märchen respectively.
498* NoblewomansLaugh: Elise. Actually, Alterose and Snow White's step mother fit this trope better.
499* NoNameGiven: All of the seven dead princesses, save for Literature/SnowWhite and [[spoiler:Elizabeth]]. Fans have been making up a variety of names for them.
500* NumerologicalMotif: [[http://fyeahtrollingheika.tumblr.com/post/6555381080/submitted-anonymously-when-you-rip-this-album#notes Märchen sure loves the number seven.]]
501* OffingTheOffspring: The mother in "Kakei no Majo" does this, stabbing the Nun in the chest during an argument and making her a sacrifice.
502* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Märchen has been brought back into the world only to indulge in his impulses for revenge.
503* PainfulTransformation: If his screams are any indication, then [[spoiler:März]] turning into Märchen probably isn't a very relaxing procedure. The fact that he's integrating Id into himself at the same time doesn't help in the mental aspect.
504* PaletteSwap: The Red and Blue Princes are only distinguished by the color of their tunic. They're even played [[ActingForTwo by the same person]].
505* PoorCommunicationKills: Gretel's overactive imagination leads her to believe that the old woman feeding them is actually a witch [[IAmAHumanitarian planning to eat them]].
506* PrecisionFStrike: The ForeignCussWord scene in "Kuroki Okami no Yado".
507* PrinceCharming: The Red and Blue Princes. That seems to be [[FlatCharacter all they have as a personality]].
508* RecurringRiff: All of the sequences where the princesses get their revenge share the melody of the [[CallAndResponseSong call and response]] portion of "Hikari to Yami no Märchen (Dowa)".
509* {{Revenge}}: What this whole album is about.
510* RevengeSVP: Alte Rose, as per the "Literature/SleepingBeauty" fairy tale.
511* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In a manner of speaking. Elise encourages Märchen to take revenge on humanity in general (because [[HumansAreBastards they're bastards]]), which Märchen decides to do by granting the opportunity for revenge to those who've also been wronged in life.
512* RockMeAmadeus: "Yoiyami No Uta" features a snippet from "Ode to Joy", followed quickly by "Fantaisie-Impromptu" and "Pictures at an Exposition".
513* {{Tearjerker}}: "Takkei no Seijo" and "Gyoukou no Uta". The tears started during [[spoiler:Elisabeth and Märchen's reunion, but Märchen's reprise of "This brightly shining era~" in "Gyoukou no Uta" just drove the nail home.]]
514* TogetherInDeath: After his untimely death, Märchen and Elisabeth finally meet after Elisabeth is crucified.
515* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]], who was crucified and declared as a saint.
516* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]] is the only one of the seven dead princesses who decides not to take revenge.
517* SevenDeadlySins: The seven dead princesses' are based on this, from gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, pride, lust, ending on wrath.
518%%* StarCrossedLovers
519* StealthPun: The notes Elise hums at the beginning of "Yoiyami No Uta" are from [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven "Für Elise"]]. It also plays on Elise's connection to Therese, as it's been suggested that the piece's title is actually a mistranscription of "Für Therese".
520* SummonBackupDancers: In the live concerts in a similar vein to Thanatos' in Moira. There's often even one who will dance with Elise in spite of her... motion impairedness (due to being a doll).
521* WidowWitch: The "Witch" in "Kakei No Majo" - not that she hasn't done bad things in the past.
522* WickedStepmother: Schneewittchen's and the Well Girl's step mother fell into this category. The Landlady could be in here too. [[AmbiguousGender Or maybe not]].
523* WomanScorned: More like Doll Scorned for that couple of seconds in Elise's case.
524* {{Yandere}}: Elise could be considered this for Märchen.
525[[/folder]]
526
527[[folder: ''Halloween to Yoru no Monogatari'']]
528
529* AdaptationDyeJob: Diana has a beautiful, ethereal platinum hair in the regular edition cover art. In the concert, her actress wears a regular blonde wig.
530* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Sean's marriage proposal to Kathleen is, uh, [[ComicalOverreacting hysterical]].
531* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The path of the nameless man in the first track requires him to go from Ireland to presumably the east cost of the US (where most of the Irish coffin ships went, if only because it was the closest part of the country). So far, so good, but the next scene happens in the UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar, which was in... Texas. Why did he suddenly go from the East Coast to Texas? Never said. From there, he goes to the California gold rush, which was up in California, while he was dealing with a shattered knee from the Mexican-American War. Seems like a long trip for him to make while dealing with a bad leg. Look, it's never impossible that he ventured all the way across the country like that; just extremely improbable given that he's never given a motivation for doing so. The song seems to assume that all of these things occurred in the same place, when the US is a huge country, and any one of the necessary journeys would be a giant undertaking for someone completely on his own.
532* CuteWitch: The girls dress up as this when Trick-or-Treating.
533* CosmicPlaything: The main character of the first track is this ''in spades'', and so is his sister, to some degree. This can't really be avoided since they're, well, protagonists in a Sound Horizon universe.
534* EveryoneIsRelated: The protagonist of the first track, the nameless man, and the third track, Kathleen Livermore, are siblings, and later it is revealed that she also shares a surname with her husband, his son’s friend and his mother. [[spoiler:It’s implied that the latter two are, respectively, her nephew and sister-in-law.]]
535* GratuitousEnglish: Right on the first stanza of the first track. As this single was set in the Anglosphere, well…
536* HappilyMarried: Kathleen and Sean. The nameless man and Diana seem to have a pretty healthy relationship too despite the man's poverty, but their relationship status is not explicitly stated.
537* HistoricalFiction: Not the first time for Sound Horizon, but this single deserves a special mention in that it covers many aspects of 19th century American and Irish history with less fantastical contents compared to previous albums.
538* LargeHam: Sean can never seem to express his joy without SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUUUUNGS!! [[TearsOfJoy WAAAAAHHHH!!!]]
539* MeaningfulName: Diana, the lover of the nameless man, is stated to have “a smile like the moon”. Her namesake is the Goddess of the Moon in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Roman mythology.]]
540* NoNameGiven: Played with—the main character in “Hoshi no Kirei na Yoru” DOES have a name, but it’s left ambiguous upon which is the correct one. He doesn’t even want to bother with it.
541--> '''Nameless Man:''' ''"This is the unknown [Fifth story] {Roman} of a nameless, dying man''
542-->''Was his name Seamus? Was his name William?''
543-->''It’s already a thing of the past."''
544* ThePollyanna: Kathleen. Even though she had to go through the Great Famine, had a difficult childbirth, was separated from her older brother, and [[spoiler: lost said child she had tried so hard to bear to heart attack,]] she remained upbeat as ever and never put a grudge against anyone.
545--> '''Kathleen:''' ''"We have decided not to hold contempt against anyone''
546--> ''Not even [Fate] {God}, [(Lenny's) first friend] {Johnny}, nor ourselves"''
547** From what little we can see of her, Diana also seems to be this as well.
548* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: The main character in the first track, Kathleen, and Lenny. [[PhenotypeStereotype They're Irish]].
549* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Kathleen, Katherine or Catherine? The first one is generally more accepted by fans as it’s the Irish form of the name, given her origins.
550* TearsOfJoy: Shed by Kathleen and Sean in two instances, first upon rejoicing at Lenny’s first friendship, then upon discovering that the friend may be related to them.
551[[/folder]]
552
553[[folder: ''Vanishing Starlight'']]
554
555* AnimalMotifs: Birds show up all over the music video, presumably representing Noël.
556* AnimatedMusicVideo: For the very first time, it's official.
557* AuthorAvatar: To a certain degree, Noël is this to Revo. The two even meet face-to-face at one point.
558* ButNotTooForeign: Noël’s father is French. His mother is Japanese.
559* BeneathTheMask: Noël states that he used to put up a "tough guy" façade to cope with the persecution surrounding him. His interview session with Yamaguchi soon reveals that he's actually a very lonely individual desperate for someone who truly loves him.
560--> Noël: Powerful words…are much like a mirror…reflecting…a weak heart…
561* BilingualBonus: People used to mockingly call Noël [[PunnyName "Chris Masuo"]]. Noël is French for "christmas".
562* ContinuityNod: "Interview with Noel" ends with [[spoiler:another 11-letter message (The first one was in Roman), this one saying "Let Life Burn"]].
563* CreatorCameo: Revo is the one who gave Noël the book "Nighthawk's Star" and is the one who invited him to perform in the opening act of Sound Horizon's 10th Anniversary.
564* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: marie*marie.
565* ElegantGothicLolita: marie*marie, the interviewer for V-ROCK HEAVEN, dresses as such.
566* GratuitousEnglish: Scattered everywhere in the second track and then some in the third.
567** GratuitousFrench: Also used in some instances, though less frequent.
568* HairTriggerTemper: Noël in the manga, overlapping with {{Tsundere}}.
569* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The part where Noël describes his childhood to Yamaguchi in the third track is accompanied by a [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly bubbly children's chorus]] and, yes, [[ShoutOut the Tetris theme, Korobeiniki]]. Noël is apparently drunk with vodka at the time, [[DrowningMySorrows as it's hard for him to tell the whole thing while sober.]]
570* OneSteveLimit: Averted. As of this single, there are now officially two characters named Noël [[EpilepticTrees (possibly three)]] in the Sound Horizon universe, the other being Hiver Laurant's sister in Roman and the mysterious author in "Ori no Naka no Hana".
571* ParentalAbandonment: Poor Noël. His father died before he was born, and his mother abandoned him when he was a baby.
572** As if that wasn't bad enough, the letter he found in his grandmother's drawers [[spoiler:implies that his mother regretted giving birth to him. [[WildMassGuessing The letter's actual meaning can be interpreted in multiple ways, however.]]]]
573* ShoutOut: The single is filled with allusions to Kenji Miyazawa's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nighthawk_Star The Nighthawk Star]]''.
574[[/folder]]
575
576[[folder: ''Nein'']]
577
578* AlternateContinuity: This is the album's plot itself. R.E.V.O., a futuristic-looking [[spoiler:sentient sunglasses and]] [[CatBoy cat-eared man]], travels to past horizons with his four lady cat friends with the intention of recreating a "happy" outcome for stories we all know [[DownerEnding ended very, very badly]] by overturning their major plot points. Some of his efforts [[EarnYourHappyEnding turn out well]], while others turn out [[EsotericHappyEnding arguably]] [[FromBadToWorse much worse:]]
579** We meet the blind poet Luna Ballad from ''Chronicle'' again in "Na mo Naki Onna no Uta", and this time, [[spoiler: her lover Endymion]] is saved from his grisly fate by making up an additional verse to his [[StealthInsult ambiguous]] [[spoiler: poem]] for the Queen. Doing so, however, plunged him into obscurity. [[spoiler: In the end, [[StarCrossedLovers the couple did not end up meeting each other, either]],]] as [[spoiler: Luna came to be fed up with being alone for the rest of her life chasing shadows, thus ending her journey abruptly.]] Even if it's implied that she's going to live a happy new life [[spoiler: [[HerHeartWillGoOn with the baker]] [[RescueRomance who saved her from exhaustion, thus preventing her blindness]]]], this blatant surrender makes her fall into obscurity also, since her sheer determination is what makes the country of Britannia respect and hail her as a hero.
580** "Shokumotsu ga Tsuranaru Sekai" is an alternate outcome to the fate of the protagonist of "Rinne no Sunadokei" from ''Thanatos''. [[spoiler: A sudden realization about the infinity of the cycle of life encourages the protagonist to stop moping around, to make her vow to not starve herself to death again, and go on with her life, having learnt that her child could be reborn many times.]]
581** "Ienakatta Kotonoha", the alternate continuity to "Yurikago" from ''Lost''. [[spoiler: The protagonist's child is saved from dying by a proficient doctor named John, who gave the child aspirin.]] The protagonist becomes the doctor's assistant afterwards, living in bliss with the man she loves (but could never confess her true feelings to). [[spoiler: She may be saved from the fate of becoming a lunatic who carries her child's bones around in a cradle by this, but not from the looming [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Great War.]]]]
582** "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" prevents the protagonist of "Stardust" from ''Elysion'' from becoming a murderous madwoman by...[[spoiler:having her realize that she is a lesbian. After numerous heartbreaks she finally turned her interests somewhere else other than fruitlessly chasing love: taking care of abused children!]] Yay! Best outcome in the entire album...[[spoiler: up until you notice that without her, The Masked Man will never be able to be reunited with his daughter Elys.]]
583** In "Namida de wa Kesenai Honoo", the woman singing "Honoo" from ''Roman'' (who is supposed to be Hiver Laurant's mother) [[spoiler: perhaps unknowingly saved herself from dying in childbirth by choosing not to conceive (she is too old to do so by the time her husband came back from war anyway) and]] becomes a dollmaker, inspired by her love for twin dolls Hortense and Violette. [[spoiler: Naturally, due to this, Hiver will remain stuck for an indeterminate time in the boundaries of life and death.]]
584** "Ai to Iu Nano Toga". It begins by changing Misia's fate in ''Moira'' (becoming a VirginSacrifice for [[JerkassGods Hydra the Water God]]) at the nickest of time by [[spoiler: giving her the incentive to run into the forest, where she stumbles into her twin brother Elef.]] Phew, good! [[labelnote:But...]] Misia's friend/mentor Phyllis dies in her stead.[[/labelnote]] Thanks to an abrupt change of oracle from the Water God, [[spoiler: Misia and Elef are finally free of pursuers, and]] Elef, reunited with his old friends, becomes a pirate. Yay for Elef not becoming a bitter [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawn]] for the God of Death! [[labelnote:But...]] without any desires for revenge whatsoever, Elef automatically lost any passion he should have had for freedom, too. As a result, the slaves are never freed.[[/labelnote]] Thus, without Misia's death, and thus, Thanatos' intervention, [[spoiler: Scorpius, the BigBad of the original album, [[TheBadGuyWins succeeds in killing both Leontius and Orion]], and takes over the world!]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Thanks, R.E.V.O.!]]
585** In "Wasurena Tsukiyo", turns out that Elisabeth of ''Märchen'' [[spoiler: accepted her marriage offer...along with seemingly having forgotten her childhood promise. The marriage is shortly annulled by her husband for her (alleged) infertility, though. Out of shame, her brother kicked her out of the house, and she sought refuge in an abbey, where she later]] becomes a nun lovingly taking care of disabled children. This may be a good enough outcome for ''her'', but not for Märchen--[[spoiler: without Elisabeth to snap him out of his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], he will remain bound to the Well, never being reminded of who he really is.]]
586** [[spoiler: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Nöel at the last moment in "Saihate no L". His life may suck ass, but he would never give up the countless support he had received from his friends and fans for a better world.]]
587* AnachronicOrder: This is the ''9th'' album, everyone, not the ''8th''.
588* AnimeHair: Gino sports a pretty damn impressive mullet.
589* ArcWords: "(She is the) [[TitleDrop Nein]]", and "Is the cat in the box alive, or dead?", among others.
590** Track 4: "I'll try believing, once again!"
591** Track 5: "Turn your hatred into a bouquet!"
592** [[spoiler: "Welcome to the Attic-Hall 💋 of Western Antiquities!"]]
593** Track 7: "The flame continues to burn..."
594** Track 8: "Each of us have committed the unforgivable sin of turning against Moira."
595** Track 9: "The moon I look up to at the dusk sky seems somewhat nostalgic."
596* AristocratsAreEvil: Yep, Elisabeth's [[BigBrotherBully brother]] is ''still'' the same kind of asshole here. [[spoiler:Also, her husband's very reason for the annulment of their marriage pretty much shows what kind of a person he is without saying.]]
597* AuthorAvatar: Possibly, R.E.V.O. He's a...[[EpilepticTrees complicated]] example.
598** Though if you want to interpret it in an easy way, he can be a representation of [[AudienceSurrogate us, the listeners]] of Sound Horizon, who sometimes want to seek a way to make our favorite characters or pairings end up happily, [[FanWank consequences and plot holes be damned]]. [[FanFic Hmm...wonder how...]]
599* AutoTune: R.E.V.O. sings like this, as well as the Four Black Cat Sisters everytime they're with him. Otherwise they sound normal.
600* BattleCry: We encounter this yet again. "After General Laurencin--!"
601* BeachEpisode: Or beach sequence--Elef and Misia indulges in a brief one near the end of "Ai to Iu Nano Toga".
602* BitchInSheepsClothing: The "Girl with a smile like the moon" from Track 3 is initially the protagonist's first, and possibly only, friend. Then she realizes that the boy she has a crush on is more interested in our heroine...
603* BlandNameProduct: In the live version of "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete", the coffee shop Stella and Gino met at is named "Starducks Coffee".
604* CallBack: AND DEAR GOD HOW. This album is positively a Call Back Porn for many fans, especially those who have been following the stories religiously from the very first album.
605* CamelCase: The Four Black Cat Sisters' names are actually written in such a way in the booklet: '''SCH'''äu (the bobbed one in orange), '''RÖ'''hre (the wavy-haired one in yellow), '''DIN'''g (the braided one in green), and '''GER'''ät (the messy-haired one in turquoise). Yeah, it's very significant. [[GeniusBonus The reference is so obvious, it would be a crime for this troper to spell it out for you.]]
606* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Chronica, Hortense and Violette, Elise, the Masked Man, and, of course, Michéle Malebranche.]]
607* CatGirl: And boy: R.E.V.O. and his lady companions.
608* DeepSleep: [[spoiler: Nöel]] ends up in this state in the manga ending. It appears [[spoiler: his ''soul'' is the form of payment Michéle Malebranche prefers for [[ArtifactOfDoom the sunglasses he took.]] [[spoiler: [[ShaggyDogStory Just when he's getting his life and career on the right track]]...]]
609* DisneyAcidSequence: The music video for "Ori no Naka no Hakoniwa" is trippy and [[MindScrew incomprehensible]], on top of being making absolutely no sense in the plot's context whatsoever. At least, though, in Revo's own words, it fits the music's beats.
610* TheFaceless: Averted at last here by [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]], who, after having absolutely no "official" pictures whatsoever (excluding the manga) despite having appeared in four albums, finally gets one inside the box of the deluxe edition. This applies to a rather large portion of characters as well, such as Hiver Laurant's mother, Endymio, Luna Ballad, and the protagonists of track 3 and 4.
611* FashionableAsymmetry: The purple dress worn by [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]].
612* ForWantOfANail: The "deciding factors" that R.E.V.O. altered in each songs seem to be pretty minor things, such as the subject's decision of a moment or their timing, but their consequences are so ''massive'' if we take the songs' respective albums into context.
613* FunWithAcronyms: If arranged correctly, the first letter of all the album's titles spell out [[spoiler: "SHIAWASE NI ONARINASAI" (become happy)--the secret 11-lettered message from ''Roman'']].
614* TheGayNineties: Some of the aesthetics of "Ienakatta Kotonoha", such as the protagonist's attire, brings this era, or perhaps its [[TheEdwardianEra successor]], into mind.
615* GeniusDitz: John, the doctor who treats the child of the protagonist in track 4. He trips and spaces out a lot but when the time comes to save a life, he's going to make sure his patient is getting the best result.
616* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler: R.E.V.O.]] is literally a pair of sentient sunglasses from the distant future.
617* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her gracefulness is questionable, but [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]] appears in this album wearing an elegant purple dress.
618* GratuitousEnglish: The English narrations, obviously.
619* GratuitousGerman: The narration of the first track.
620* GreekChorus: The Four Black Cat Sisters replace the Harmonia sisters as this in Track 8, which is set in the album Moira.
621* TheHecateSisters: [[spoiler: Michele Malebranche]] is ''literally'' being this. Her appearance changes from that of a young girl, then to a mature woman, then to an old woman in a literal blink of the eye. Poor Noël.
622* HerHeartWillGoOn: Sorry there, Endymion Ballad, but it seems that your GF Luna [[spoiler: has a thing with that baker who saved her in the forest...]]
623* IncestSubtext: Track 8. A ton of them, but the most notable instance infamously remembered by many fans has to be ''that'' one where Misia daydreams about inhabiting an empty, deserted island with Elef... The fact that she appeared in certain days of the live tour [[spoiler: cradling ''a baby'']] certainly doesn't help.
624* IronicEcho: The title of the album itself as a whole signifies R.E.V.O.'s denial against the cruel endings of some stories in the Sound Horizon universe. [[spoiler: But in the last track, "Saihate no L", it signifies Nöel's denial ''against'' R.E.V.O.'s own denials.]]
625* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Stella.]]
626* LighterAndSofter: ...see above and you will know that it isn't really...that easy. It's still up to you to interpret each stories' implications, though, whether good or bad.
627* MayDecemberRomance: The protagonist of "Ienakatta Kotonoha" ends up falling in love with the doctor who saved her son. Thing is, the doctor is depicted in the cover art as a man with completely white hair and thick gray beard, while the protagonist is a ponytailed redhead (or strawberry blonde) with youthful features.
628* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There are two women named Luna in this album.
629* PunBasedTitle: "Nein" is [[GratuitousGerman German for no]], which clearly signifies R.E.V.O.'s denial against the cruel fates of the protagonists featured in this album. It's read exactly how "Nine" sounds, which is the number Revo gave to this album. When you reverse the words, the pronunciation should sound like "Nyan", the Japanese onomatopoeia for cat sound. Additionally, there's this common belief that a cat has ''nine'' lives.
630* RichBitch: In this continuity [[spoiler: Elisabeth]] unfortunately has to stay in the same roof with a young noblewoman preparing for her marriage by living with the nuns there. Everybody knows that persuading an entire abbey to skip morning prayers, badmouthing a woman desperately seeking shelter [[spoiler: a.k.a Elisabeth herself]], and verbally and physically [[note]](in the live version, at least)[[/note]] abusing disabled children are not things a normal, likeable person would do.
631* SpellMyNameWithAnS: When the album first came out, there was a bit of a transliteration conflict among fan translators concerning Gino's full name. One made it out to be "John Jolly Gino", while another one went with "Giorgio Leggiero". Thankfully, whoever edited the live concert DVD seems to be aware of this problem and displayed his official name, "Giorgio del Cielo", during the fashion show sequence of "Nikushimi wo Hanataba ni Kaete" with a huge, bright, generally hard-to-miss typeface.
632* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[InUniverse In-Universe]]--The first [[BitchInSheepsClothing (false)]] friend of the protagonist of Track 3 and the young noblewoman from track 9 looks ''too'' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/138488590@N02/25032000311/in/dateposted-public/ awfully]] [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/138488590@N02/25098951986/in/dateposted-public/ similar]]. Given that the universe of ''Nein'' is basically an artificial plane of reality created by a single...cat-man, well...
633* TakingTheVeil: The alternative outcome chosen by [[spoiler: Elisabeth]] in this album. Instead of [[spoiler: letting her persistence kill her in a CruelAndUnusualDeath]], she chose to [[spoiler: accept Rhein-Pfalz's marriage proposal]] this time. [[MortonsFork It still doesn't end well.]] [[spoiler: Her husband accuses her of being infertile and annuls their marriage, as a result of which her brother exiles her]]. She ends up seeking refuge in an abbey, where she spends her time taking care of the orphaned children there.
634* TallDarkAndHandsome: [[spoiler: Elisabeth]]'s [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rhein.png husband]]. Still doesn't change the fact that he's a major sexist prick.
635* TookALevelInKindness: You might remember [[spoiler: Stella from track 5 as that [[{{Yandere}} love-obsessed murderous maniac]] from Elysion.]] Here, she's a free-spirited young lady radiating with positive energy who devotes herself to child abuse prevention causes.
636* {{Troll}}: Clearly, [[spoiler: Michéle Malebranche]] is being this to both R.E.V.O. and Noël.
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640* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: All the characters' names allude to Shinto deities.
641* SadisticChoice: In the branching choice for Nami's story, you have to choose between [[spoiler:ensuring that Nami's baby is safely born, but at the cost of Nami's life]] or [[spoiler:saving Nami's life by making her experience yet another miscarriage]].
642* StoryBranching: The viewer/listener will have to make choices on certain plot points, which takes the narrative in different directions. The live concerts replicated this by having the audience vote on the plot points in question.
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