Tears To Tiara Fanservice

Everything you need to know about Tears to Tiara. Nov 22, 2010  In this stimulating episode of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, the girls walk to a beach to unearth something that will restore their Toys. In the preview segment for this episode, it was expected to see some fanservice even though its not the amount most.

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We recommend listing the platform desired, past played/enjoyed games, and desired genres. These posts may also go in, or our.No Personal Streams or Let's Plays. These should go in our.No low-effort posts such as one line or one question threads.This includes memes and funny videos.Use spoiler tags when necessary. If in doubt, tag it. To tag: !X kills Y! Overall, I liked the story, but it had quite a few flaws, mainly slow pacing and lack of development for some of the side characters.

Since the pace is slow, the story doesn’t accomplish as much in terms of character development or plot twists as you would expect for its length, up to 90 hours depending on how fast you read. In my opinion, the story is above average but doesn’t reach the storytelling standards of the better Persona, Tales, or Final Fantasy games. The main thing that sets it apart is its interesting setting based on Rome and Carthage, and liking history makes the story a lot more enjoyable. The SRPG battle system is also excellent and has convenient features such as the ability to rewind a turn, which is the other big appeal. The game has Japanese voice acting. Battles are very infrequent at first but become more common later on.

More details follow:Plot: A fantasy version of the Punic Wars. The plot was interesting and had some good twists. It had some really poignant moments too. The pace is slow, though, and at times it feels like the game uses ten lines of dialogue to say what could have been conveyed in three.

Like many JRPGs, it also has many story and battle sequences that are just filler. The first chapter especially takes about five hours to get to the action, and many of the scenes during those five hours could have been shorter.The pace does pick up a bit later on in the game, but it’s never fast-paced, and the pace slows down again with the endgame boss gauntlet that most JRPGs have.

The actual ending is good though. The humor varies in execution. Some humor scenes are pretty funny, some are hilarious, but many are cliche or repeat the same joke too many times.Characters:.The main character, Hamil, is excellent. He’s not your typical idiot protagonist. He’s smart and sensible but he’s not flawless either.

He has a lot of self-loathing and constantly doubts himself. He has a bit of a martyr complex. These and his need for revenge are results of his traumatic past. He’s usually a nice guy, but he can quickly switch to being really harsh/commanding when he needs to be.

Whoever did his voice acting was really talented.Tarte is a likable heroine. She’s not a two-dimensional character, but I felt that she wasn’t developed enough for one of the protagonists. She doesn’t have that much backstory compared to Hamil and most of her motivation/role in the plot is centered around Hamil. The little backstory she does get is ultimately disappointing and does not adequately explain why she cares so much about Hamil at the start of the game. She does grow up a bit throughout the story, though, which was nice to see. She’s also voiced by Rie Kugimiya, so her voice is a delight to listen to.As for the other characters, Dion and Monomachus were both interesting throughout the game and showed some real growth, aside from the more repetitive jokes that Dion is subject to. Izebel is a fascinating villain with great dialogue who makes every battle involving her a real treat.

I was almost rooting for her to win at some points. Most other side characters are developed well when they’re first introduced but don’t get much story focus afterward, which was disappointing. Some side characters, like Charis and Kleito, are just never interesting or meaningful at all and left me wondering whether they existed for any reason other than fanservice.

The villains other than Izebel are also not very compelling, though the main one does do a good job of making you hate him.Romance: Simple but well-executed. Most romance stories don’t do much for me, but I felt pretty invested in this one. Hamil and Tarte’s relationship got a good amount of story focus without overshadowing the main plot. It also avoids the pitfall many games have of not progressing the romance until right before the ending.

The characters in general just have good chemistry and compensate for each other’s flaws, with Hamil making her feel better about her insecurities and Tarte forcing Hamil to stop being so hard on himself all the time. The only flaw is the backstory I mentioned in Tarte’s section, which makes Tarte’s immediate connection with Hamil feel implausible.Translation/Writing: Decent. Most lines are good, but some conversations follow a rather awkward flow that doesn’t read well in English or can be illogical/hard to follow. The translation might have been a bit too close to the original Japanese for its own good. There are also occasional typos/missing words.

My overall impression is that the translation would have been very good if it had more editing. There’s a lot of text so I can see how Atlus USA might have struggled with that, but it doesn’t have the same polish as Atlus’s translations of their own games.Setting: A fantasy version of the Roman Empire and Carthage. It’s interesting and there are lots of historical references to enjoy.

You can tell that the authors did a lot of research. Even things like the Roman Army not being allowed to come too close to Rome itself are reflected in the game’s Divine Empire. Most of the characters are based on historical figures too, so I highly recommend taking a look at the wikipedia page for the Punic Wars to get the most out of it. However, the characters act more like modern Japanese people than people of the time.

I go over that a bit more in the themes section.Themes: A bit of a mixed bag. The Divine Empire is straight-up evil so don’t expect too much moral complexity in the main conflict. It’s almost like they’re evil simply so that the main characters can look more like the want-to-be-pacifist good guys, a narrative that has more in common with modern Japanese moral sensibilities than the historical attitudes of the time. In the real life Punic Wars Hannibal sold all the inhabitants of cities he conquered into slavery and that was considered normal. It’s important to suspend disbelief here, and the fact that it’s an alternate history/fantasy version of Europe helps. The main characters do face some tough, morally ambiguous decisions, but they usually choose to risk trying to save everyone like most JRPG parties. Personally I’m fine with that kind of straightforward story but it would have been more interesting otherwise.

However, I did like the theme of responsibility and trying to be a good ruler, and balancing that responsibility to others with a healthy level of selfishness/enjoyment of life. It was nice to have Tarte as the voice of reason advocating against excessive self-sacrifice, especially since a lot of stories tend to idealize the Christ figure.

There’s also the theme of humans (even religious ones) needing to do things themselves rather than looking to gods for salvation. This theme is a bit cliche in JRPGs, but this game doesn’t rub it in your face as often as some other games. Regarding Tarte's instant connection to Hamil, I think Aquaplus was hinting that Hamil was Eshmun reincarnated.

From the fact that he turns into an exact look-alike of adult Eshmun when he goes into berserker mode, along with becoming the master of Tartessos like Eshmun and crossing the mountains through the hidden path that Eshmun discovered, he seems to be following in Eshmun's footsteps. Tanit's familiarity with Hamil in his dreams makes a bit more sense that way; in essence, the dreams are Tarte and Hamil's souls talking to each other. Their souls remember each other, even if Hamil doesn't. I enjoyed it, I finished it in three weeks.

The core story was good, I just felt like the execution wasn't as good as it could have been. If the whole game had been as good as chapter 6 then it could have been one of the best games I've played. Still better than most games I've played though and it's a shame that it seems to have flown under the radar even among JRPG fans. I had to make a post about it myself on when it first released because no one else had noticed it yet.

Come to think of it, I should probably crosspost this post there too. Glad to see someone else playing this game, it kinda flew under the radar with all the other releases last year.

I agree with most of your points, I really wish the game expanded more on Tarte and the other side characters like Charis and Kleito, maybe through side events or quests.That said, Hamil was fantastic protagonist and his hatred for the empire and Izebel really kept me hooked at the start of the game, they were easily my favourite characters in the game. The voice acting for Hamil was also incredible, I'm glad this game decided to use the native voice acting, I'm not sure how well an english dub would've worked.Probably one of my favourite releases of 2014, hopefully more people will pick it up after seeing this review.

AKA: ティアーズ・トゥ・ティアラ (Japanese)Genre: Fantasy, drama.Length: Television series, 26 episodes, 23 minutes eachDistributor: R1 DVD from.Content Rating: PG 13 (Light fanservice, warfare, death.)Related Series: N/AAlso Recommended: Utawarerumono, Record of Lodoss Wars, Tower of Druaga (both.)Notes: Based on the game of the same name by Leaf, creators of the equally well known Utawarerumono.Buyers beware: while this show DOES have a dub on its most recent release, the version I picked up is the two box sub only sets. If you're a dub enthusiast, make sure you get the version with the dub.Rating:Tears to Tiara SynopsisDriven by the desire for power, Drwc (yes, that's his name), a priest of the Holy Empire, tries to resurrect an ancient demon, Arawn, by sacrificing the Gaelic Priestess Riannon. While Arawn does indeed awaken, he is not particularly keen on playing into Drwc's plans. Staring down at the sword, now embedded solidly into his chest, Drwc probably reached the same conclusion before he died.Arawn then joins the Gaelic tribe, bringing the war towards the Empire into full swing. He and his comrades head to the island of Albion to reclaim Arawn's old castle, which will be the focal point in the upcoming war.ReviewA couple of years ago, I encountered the fantasy anime Utawarerumono, a show I came to like quite a lot. Despite its somewhat harem-ish build, it took a rather down-to-earth approach to fantasy anime, not only due to its adult lead, but also the lack of flash and glitz. Being made by the same creators - mostly - this was eventually to be the reason why I took a chance on Tears to Tiara.

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It's quite easy to see the similarities too. While Arawn looks a good deal younger than Utawarerumono's Hakuoro, he's easily as calm, cool-headed and collected as the latter. One could also say that the similarities the shows share isn't doing it any favors either.

Much like parallells can be drawn between the cast of. Say, Ranma ½ and Inuyasha, so can it be done with Tears to Tiara and Utawarerumono. Riannon is as much the priestess/motherly support as Elulu was in Utawarerumono. Riannon's brother, Arthur (and yes, you will get to see him pull a sword up from a stone), is a hotheaded warrior type like Utaware's Oboro.

Morgan, though, is less of a mirror of Karura, mostly because she's vastly less intelligent than her forerunner. Octavia serves as a female version of Benawi, while Llyr could probably be counted on as a sister-in-spirit for Touka, but that might admittedly be a bit of a stretch.Get used to the Welsh names, though, because that's where Tears to Tiara pulls a lot of its inspirations. Barring the naming process - Arawn, Riannon, Arthur, Epona, Pwyll, Llŷr and Taliesin - the whole show is a none-too-subtle interpretation of the late antiquity seen from the angle of the British fending off the Romans. Yes, you have a good deal of fantasy elements in here, like dragons and a 'final boss' you're simply not going to believe, but that's about as close to fantasy as you get. There is far more swords than sorcery in this show, even if there IS sorcery as well, and, like I mentioned, one of those swords WILL be pulled out of a stone. By Arthur, of course.

There's also elves, but due to the complete lack of pointy ears, they're virtually indistinguishable from regular human beings, save for the one who looks more like a gnome or a dwarf. (Or a little girl, despite the show insisting on trying to make us believe that the main characters mistook her for a boy, even though she looks so much like a girl that it hurts.). Also, unlike Utawarerumono's RTS build when it comes to the main story, Tears to Tiara plays out more like your average JRPG. The focus is still on the war, but if you expect the same kind of grand scale battles as in Utaware, you might very well end up disappointed. During my millitary service, one of the things I was taught was that war is 10% actual action and 90% waiting, possibly with a side order of strategies and stealth/covert missions.

Tears to Tiara has taken that to heart.For all its grandstanding and the mythological bent it has, what Tears to Tiara lack is subtlety, and that's the show's biggest flaw; it's not going to hold a whole lot of surprises despite the numerous plot twists and revelations, and that goes doubly so if you're familiar with the Suikoden game series, particularly the first two (which, incidentally, are the only ones I've actually played. But I digress.) I wouldn't go so far as to say the show is cliche'd - a few scenes, sure, but not the whole show.

Tears to Tiara is more like assembling a puzzle. The more pieces put together, the more of an idea you're going to get on what's going to happen later on, all the way up to the conclusion. Tears to Tiara isn't going to hurt to watch. White Fox/Oriental Light and Magic did a nice job with the art and the animation.

The settings in general are nice to look at, and the characters are all distinct and easy to recognize and keep track of. Being a younger and more recent show, Tears to Tiara also doesn't suffer from 'hilariously obvious CG' during the few all-out wars that takes place in the latter half. Some of the more dramatical moments in the show will probably have you rolling your eyes - the ones with Arthur in particular, but Arawn's steadily building harem might contribute to a few of them as well - but outside of that, Tears to Tiara is a perfectly serviceable fantasy adventure.A fairly strong three, I'd say. Which is good for a show that has little to do with tears and even less with tiaras. —Recommended Audience: While this show isn't quite as aggressive on the battles as Utaware was, people will still die by someone else's hand, often screaming. Outside of that, it's just about as clean as Utaware despite also having a H-game origin.Also, much like Utaware - except far more so - Tears to Tiara takes on a bit of a religious angle.

I'm not going to describe it in detail, except that it shares a few topical similarities with JRPG game Tales of Symphonia, and I honestly don't know how much they'll appreciate its treatment.Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD, bilingualReview Status: Full (26/26)Tears to Tiara © 2009 Oriental Light and Magic, White Fox, AQUAPLUS© 1996-2015 THEM Anime Reviews. All rights reserved.