History Anime / Windaria

* KillEmAll: Except for [[spoiler:Izu (Alan)]] and [[spoiler:Cail (Lagado)]], every other major character is dead by the end credits, and all because of one character's hubris and lack of foresight. ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', eat your heart out.

* LostWoods: ''Haunted'' Woods to be precise. It looks creepy enough but evil spirits live there too. They prey on fear and can lead to death and confusion.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:As Lunaria is flooded, its people can do nothing but stand at the palace steps and watch the water rise. You can clearly hear children crying during this scene.]]

* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: What we see of Paro's armed forces, at least their infantry and tankers, blows right past MildlyMilitary into this trope: It's hard to describe the guy at an army encampment who [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy lets Alan drive off in a tank on the flimsiest of pretexts]] as DrinkingOnDuty because nobody appears to ''be'' on duty, or interested in doing much except getting drunk. RealityEnsues when they march on neighbouring Itha, which appears to be at least three centuries behind technologically but whose soldiers are a lot more professional.

* PyrrhicVictory: In-universe for Roland's mother. Paro defeated Itha, but the queen lost both her husband and son.

* YouDidEverythingYouCould: Discussed by Veronica while she and Roland about to fight each other. She wonders if they could have done a lot more beforehand to prevent war. Roland says there's no point to "torture about the past. The present is torture enough."

* YouDidEverythingYouCould: Discussed by Veronica while they're about to fight each other. She wonders if she and Roland could have done a lot more beforehand to prevent war. Roland says there's no point to "torture about the past. The present is torture enough."

* YouDidEverythingYouCould: Discussed by Veronica, if she and Roland could have done a lot more beforehand to prevent war. Roland says there's no point to "torture about the past. The present is torture enough."

* YouDidEverythingYouCould: Discussed by Veronica, if she and Roland could have done something more to prevent war. Roland says there's no point to "torture about the past. The present is torture enough."

* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Juliet at the very end of the film, after finally coming to terms with the fact that she and Banbou will never be reunited.]]
* TaremeEyes: [[HouseWife Marie]]'s eyes are like this.
* TsurimeEyes: In sharp contrast to Marie, both Veronica and [[TheVamp Selenia]] have these.

** Played straight in both versions of the story with [[spoiler:Roland and Veronica (Jihl and Ahnas)]].

* KillEmAll: Except for [[spoiler:Izu (Alan)]] and [[spoiler:Cail (Lagado)]], every other major character is dead by the end credits. ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', eat your heart out.

* KillEmAll: Except for [[spoiler:Izu (Alan)]] and [[Cail (Lagado)]], every other major character is dead by the end credits. ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', eat your heart out.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Both WarriorPrince Roland and BadassPrincess Veronica personally lead their armies.

* TsurimeEyes: In sharp contrast to Marie, both [[BadassPrincess Veronica]] and [[TheVamp Selenia]] have these.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: As Lunaria is flooded, its people can do nothing but stand at the palace steps and watch the water rise. You can clearly hear children crying during this scene.]]

* BigBad: The king of the Shadowland appears to be this but it's actually [[spoiler: Lagado.]]

* CerebusCallback: Early in the movie Roland and Veronica meet in a forest for a little time together, during which she playfully steals his gun and prompts him to chase after her for it. [[spoiler: Much later, after everything's gone to hell for both their kingdoms, they meet at the same place presumably to run off together. He [[DeadlyHug pulls her into an embrace, during which she takes his gun one last time and kills him]] before turning it on herself.]]

* DrivenToMurder [[DrivenToSuicide And Suicide]]: [[spoiler: Poor Veronica saw no other way out for herself and Roland.]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Lagado]] wants to take over Lunaria. To this end, he gets Alan involved.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The key to Lunara's floodgates is guarded by an old man that sleeps most of the day in a guardhouse without a door. At the start of the film, a guy just walks in there, takes the keys and no one realizes anything until he opens the flood gates. Considering this could have flooded the entire city, it merges with TooDumbToLive. To be fair, this is the cause of the hostilities, so it's probably a case of 'what are the odds' before this point. Later on, [[spoiler: Alan opens the floodgates, which by this point, should have been heavily guarded.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Alan's justification for [[spoiler: flooding Lunaria to stop the war and save The Valley from being a warzone]] which becomes MyGodWhatHaveIDone when he realizes the magnitude of what he's done and how many lives he destroyed.

* InstantMessengerPigeon: Princess Veronica has a pet dove that she uses to send messages to Roland. [[spoiler: At least until the poor thing is shot down by a TriggerHappy soldier.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: To add insult to injury in an already depressing film, both Lagado and Selenia apparently get away with everything.]]

* OurSoulsAreDifferent / WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: In this story, the soul takes the form of a bird of red light, and flies off to a mysterious airship over the ocean.

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[spoiler: The song that plays over the end credits is a lighthearted and somewhat bouncy tune, but the first few seconds start playing over the sounds of Alan's anguished weeping.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Prince Roland and Princess Veronica. Her mother had hoped a marriage between them would neutralize the possible war, but they both ended up taking command in their respective armies, and [[FromBadToWorse it went downhill from there.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Veronica can't break her vow to her mother, nor can she fight her true love, so [[spoiler: she kills him and then herself.]]
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: Juliet at the very end of the film, after finally coming to terms with the fact that she and Banbou will never be reunited.]]

** In the rescripted version, [[spoiler: Alan's goal]] is to reunite with his true love in the afterlife. The opening shows he's succeeded. The original ending, however, subverts this; [[spoiler: Izu (Alan) is given the chance to rejoin Marin (Marie) but doesn't have the guts to go through with it and pulls himself back from the edge of the cliff Marin's spirit leads him to at the very last second. This leaves him, the broken betrayer, the only survivor at the end of the film.]]
** Played straight in both versions of the story with [[spoiler:Roland and Veronica (Jihl and Ahnas.)]]

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