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"Cutting off your own head won't solve anything."
From the creators of Utawarerumono comes a somewhat similar story. In a fantasy world somewhat resembling Arthurian legend, the " Holy Empire" has taken it upon itself to crush resistance. Against them is a Demon Lord (in human form) who inadvertently becomes the leader of a tribe. As such, this is a tale of war, sacrifice and bishoujo.
Based off the PC Visual Novel by Leaf. Later re-released for the PlayStation 3 with art and technical upgrades. Anime now airing.
This series provides examples of:
- Accidental Marriage: To everyone on Earth, apparently. At least Hakuoro was just a chick magnet...
- All Myths Are True
- Back to Back Badasses: Arawn and Arthur in the opening while eating an apple. Also the 2nd episode.
- Badass Army The Rubrum. Also doubling as Elite Mooks
- Beauty Equals Goodness Subverted by Gaius and Lidia.
- Berserk Button: Arawn's usually a Deadpan Snarker. However, he really seems to hate it when people are willing to die for immaterial concepts like chivalry and honor and willingly enslave themselves because of those things. This is likely due to his Backstory (assuming it matches the one from the game): his creator/father Angel sacrificed himself to give humans the chance for freedom that the previous races of the world never had thanks to the other Angels.
- Big Bad: The Angel Lector in the game. And in the anime.
- Big Brother Mentor: A rare case where the mentor is the main character. Crosses over with Stealth Mentor since Arthur seems unaware of Arawn's plans to raise Arthur as a worthy king.
- Bokukko Rathty
- Cherubic Choir: The Song of Creation which Myrrdin uses to change the Ice Age into spring. Taliesin later uses it to stop a blizzard.
- Colony Drop - The Dragons' gotterdammerung was the Angels dropping the Earth's second moon on their city.
- Crowning Momentof Awesome: Riannon gets one in episode 24 when instead of blocking a drill that has the size of a Giga Drill Break, she INSTEAD uses a spatial manipulation magic to REDIRECT that attack to the Complete Monster Drwc. So who's The Chick now?
- Complete Monster: The High Priest Drwc. He convinces Riannon to become Arawn's sacrifice by threatening to chop off a little girl's fingers. There's also that whole "I want to summon a demon king to destroy the world so I can rule what's left" thing. Arawn's first Crowning Moment Of Awesome is to shank the evil bastard. Riannon gets one when she kicks his undead ass. See above entry.
- Cool Old Guy - Ogam, hands down. He gets even cooler when he's revealed to be the last Dragon.
- Council Of Angels - The 12 Angels who are of the Knight Templar variety.
- Cute Bruiser - Rathty: Little elf. BIG hammer.
- Defeat Means Friendship Some extent to Octavia
- Dark Is Not Evil - Arawn
- Depleted Phlebotinum Shells - The holy element Electrum burns Arawn on contact (getting shot full of it by a tank was what killed him the first time). In-game, any equipment made of this stuff doesn't enhance the stats of any elves, dragons, or demons it is given to. In human hands, however, they're the most powerful things available at the store.
- Depower - Happens to Arawn after High Priest Drwc resurrects him too early. As a result, the legendary Demon King is only slightly stronger than a normal human and actually hurts himself a little when he punches a skeleton so hard it shatters.
- Did Not Do The Research - Spoony Bard Taliesin uses a sword made of Damascus steel. However, the first of these didn't show up until at least 900AD, several hundred years after the game's implied timeline.
- Expy: Where to begin? The game is very similar to Utawarerumono; let's leave it at that.
- The Fair Folk - Subverted. When the boat first lands on Albion, Ogam mentions that they best be careful because of "the Good Folk". The actual Fair Folk turn out to be very friendly.
- It helps that most of them worship the party leader Arawn.
- Fastball Special - RATHTY MISSILE!
- Genius Bonus - Barring the obvious Arthur, Morgan, and Gaius, a lot of names and characters harken back to Welsh Mythology like Arawn, Rhiannon, Epona, Annwn, Pwyll, etc. Especially clever is the Sword In The Stone being named 'Danwyn' rather than the generic Excalibur.
- Taliesin is named after a poet who supposedly lived during the time of King Arthur, and wrote a bunch of poems about him.
- Genki Girl - Morgann. Original game shows this abit. Anime increases it tenfold.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man Arawn does this to Arthur when they lost against the Rubrum
- Giant Enemy Crab: A bunch of them appear in episode four. Reduced off screen into crab hotpot.
- Girl In A Box: Octavia
- Gratuitous English - "Apple Pie." When your city's name is a throwback to the fact that its orchard is full of apple trees, it only makes sense that this gets made... often.
- Heroic Albino
- Heroic Sacrifice: Taliesin, who was in turn inspired by Myrrdin's own sacrifice. He gets better, though.
- Honest John - Epona, and Rusty's Split Personality Thraty.
- Identical Descendant - Arthur is basically Pwyll with a different outfit and hairstyle. Justified, as Arthur is a reincarnated Pwyll.
- Idiot Hero - Arthur to some extent. Comes to a head when he leads a reckless charge against the Rublum against Arawn's warning and nearly gets all his men killed. This is frequently lampshaded in the game.
- Lady Of War - Octavia. Her self proclaimed rival Lidia is a more Ax Crazy Knight Templar example.
- Les Yay - Though merely really good friends in the game, that friendship
bracelet necklace Octavia gives Morgan in the anime makes you think otherwise, doesn't it?
- Lethal Chef - Subverted in the game. While Octavia and Morgan's cooking looks something like slop (they just ground all the ingredients and threw them into a boiling pot), it actually tastes pretty good.
- Light Is Not Good - the name Holy Empire....
- Not to mention the other Angels.
- Limited Wardrobe - Lampshaded the hell out of in one scene in the Visual Novel.
- Load Bearing Boss - Merkadis
- Meaningful Name - Arthur. Really, given the setting and host of other meaningful names, what else could he have become?
- Meido - Lymwris and Ermin
- Mighty Glacier - Rathty*
- Million Mook March - The Golmes, to the extent that Taliesin at first mistakes the army for terrain where the snow has receded, describing it as "70% black, 30% snow".
- Minor Injury Overreaction - The White Angel Lector in episode 25 goes completely off his rocker after getting a cut on his cheek.
- Mistaken For Pregnant - Apparently for Arawm the idea Llyr successfully milked a cow is more unlikely to come to mind than that he got her pregnant.
- Naughty Tentacles - The uh... magical elf cookbook from Epona's shop. It supposedly tenderizes elf meat by arousing them.
- Narm - The ENGLISH version of the original game's theme plays at certain points in the story....usually those where you would NOT want to be distracted at how BAD THE DAMN ENGLISH IS.
- Noble Demon Arawn plays this straight.
- Not Quite Dead - Taliesin
- Nothing Can Save Us Now - Taken to absurd levels after the defeat of Merkadis, where the gang is trapped inside the crumbling tower. After they give up on getting out, the ladies start asking Arawn to marry them when they get reincarnated. Cue the Big Damn Spoony Bard.
- Ominous Pipe Organ - Plays during every scene featuring The Emperor and White Angel.
- The Only One Allowed To Defeat You Lidia's relation toward Octavia. Taken to ....interesting levels of implication
- Our Angels Are Different - They are the ones responsible for the various Ages; when the dominant race of the Age fails to meet their incredibly high standards, they wipe them out (they used a meteor to almost wipe out the Dragons). Yeah, they're pretty much complete assholes. Except for Myrrdin and his son Arawn/Lucifer.
- The Other Darrin - There was a MASSIVE re-casting effort for the PS 3 version of the game and anime adaptations. Only four main characters and a few important minor ones kept their voice talents.
- Our Dragons Are Different - Ogam. Just... Ogam.
- Our Elves Are Better - More like different. House Elves, Seal Elves, Miner Elves, Merchant Elves, and others, each with their own (literal, except for Ermin) Hat.
- Palette Swap
- Pettanko - Epona, especially conscious about her size to the point of being so embarrassed as to having to resort to a Love Potion just to bed Arawn. Yes, she even rambles about it during her H scene. See Red String Of Fate below.
- Precursors - The elves came before the humans (age of bronze), giants before the elves (silver), and dragons before the giants (gold). Each of them met a gotterdammerung brought about by the angels.
- Prestige Class - Musician, Paladin, Sage, Hunter, Seer, etc.
- Red Oni Blue Oni - Morgan (Red) and Octavia (Blue)
- Red String Of Fate - One of these is for sale at Epona's shop for 99999. It has a Love Potion effect that she uses to get Arawn to "marry" her.
- Said red string becomes a Magic Feather, however, as Epona tied it to the wrong finger. The magic only kicks in when you tie it to your pinky.
- Reincarnation - Pwyll -> Arthur. Primula -> Rhiannon
- Samus Is A Girl: Rathty
- Satan Is Good - Arawn's True Name turns out to be Lucifer.
- Shout Out: Epona sells red shoes at her shop, which she claims makes you three times faster. It bestows a Fragile Speedster effect on whoever wears them. As far as This Troper knows, in the PC version, the AI takes, from the player, control of whoever is wearing those pair of shoes.
- Those are the Cockroach Shoes, which are different from the
Char Custom Red Shoes.
- Sixth Ranger: Taliesin
- The Slow Walk
- Spoony Bard: Taliesin. It's even the name of his class. The prestige classes like Hunter, Seer, and Druid also qualify.
- Straight Arrow: Morgan, though Arawn's a pretty good shot himself.
- Super Move Portrait Attack: Prevalent in the PS3 Game
- Surrounded By Idiots Arawn feels this way. He later extends this by saying Humans Are Idiots because they are obsessed with chivalry and honor and can't live freely
- Talking the Monster to Death: Arthur in episode two. More like Shouting the Monster to Death.
- The Unfavourite: Arawn to the other Angels. To the point where his face in the mural is rubbed out.
- Unwanted Harem Arawn. It's actually downplayed a bit in the anime,
at least for now.
- Video Will - Arawn leaves one of these in a prison located inside Mt. Corus. A thousand years later, Taliesin is led to activating it by a baby dragon. Somewhat subverted, seeing as the maker of the message is Back From The Dead.
- Warrior Monk - The Holy Empire employs Church Knights, Bishops, and Priests in combat, amongst others.
- Worthy Opponent - Gaius, if episode 12 is anything to go by.
- You Cant Fight Fate - Taliesin spends his life running away from the prophecy that he will befall him as Brigantes' chief. In the end, he decides to embrace it in a Heroic Sacrifice. Subverted when he survives the avalanche. However, it's implied be a double subversion, since his savior is a dragon who is quite attached to him.
- You Killed My Father - In episode 15, Seeing Arawn use Holy power reminds Arthur of the Angel that killed his own father. He also remembers that the Angel called himself "Arawn". In a blind rage he accuses Arawn of killing his father and tries to run him through even when Rhiannon gets in the way. This forces Arawn to protect Rhiannon and take a sword to the gut. Only then does Arthur calm down and realize what he's done. He apparently forgot that Arawn was asleep for the past 1000 years and couldn't possibly have killed his father. See Idiot Hero above.
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