Today, new Nana Mizuki single, Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord trailer pops, and Acid Black Cherry announce new album. Sources: Story 1 Story 2 Story 3
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Today, Sentai Filmworks adds Love Stage, the new Tears to Tiara II introduces characters, and Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso gets picked up by Viz. Sources: Story 1 – Press Release Story 2 – Press Release [...]
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Today, Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord, Sentai Filmworks announces anime, and Godzilla news. Sources: Story 1 – Press Release Story 2 – Press Release Story 3
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Vertex is going to release the Tart ( タルト ) 1/8 PVC figure from the game “Tears to Tiara II: Haou no Matsuei” ( ティアーズ・トゥ・ティアラII 覇王の末裔 ) published by Aquaplus. Will be released in June 2014. Around [...]
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Riannon and Arawn in the PlayStation 3 remake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This series is still continuing on Cable TV. @Solidad told me to swap this with Dog Days, but I refuse. It’s good. [[MORE]] We have this woman named Riannon, of which is threatened by some evil jerk to resurrect the “Demon King”, Arawn (say Eh-ra-wun). …only for the evil jerk to be snipped off his life. Riannon’s brother, Arthur (nice name) tries to save Riannon from the evil jerk but yes, he saw what happened: Riannon just said that Arawn will be his husbando. Arthur’s somewhat jealous. That’s the first episode for you. Although I won’t be able to continue this, I would like to reiterate that I prefer this over Dog Days, Tales of the Abyss (of which the retarded main character is a replica of someone; sorry PS2 players but I’m not into games), The Book of Bantorra, etc. - Aside from Hunter X Hunter (say it without a ‘X’. Why? Because…), of course.
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Subsequently after the kidnapping of Rhiannon and her return, the Gaels become increasingly concerned about the growing threat from the Empire. Eventually, they decide to do what’s best… Attempt to forge an alliance with another clan. From the start, I was a bit skeptical of Taliesin since he knew too much about the surroundings. He [...]
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While Rhiannon lays down a flower ring for the deceased Rubrum soldiers, she finds herself getting kidnapped by Gaius.  The resulting reaction from the Gaels was obvious… In comparison to Arthur, Rhiannon has always been kindhearted and rarely participate in any battles since she mostly serves as a healer through her magic. As a result, [...]
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Octavia has officially sworn her loyalty with the Gaels after realizing that she will never change the empire and wanted a different outlook in life. Since then, Lydia wants to resolve some unfinished business with her With Octavia looking after Conal and Elil, she is a very responsible babysitter while they look up to her [...]
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After the siege at the empire’s base, Octavia finds herself in a new place. This gives her the opportunity to change her allegiance to give her a better outlook. From the beginning, Octavia seems was a different woman compared to the rest of the empire. She faced a rather tragic fate and lost her entire [...]
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“When life gives you defeat, you burn down one of the empire’s base.” The Gaels just done that when Rathy came up with a genius plan to surprise them. From the last episode, Octavia uncovers a nasty secret with the empire storing corpses of dissidents rotting in wooden crates. After she got knocked out for [...]
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Arthur has become too confident in his recent victories that he didn’t foresee the next battle. This time, a white haired woman is in command of this small, but powerful force and they plan another attack on the Gaels. Before the planned attack, there is one notable lighthearted moment. Limwris shows Arawn a picture book [...]
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After the abuse Octavia went through because of Bubulx’s irresponsibility from the last episode, she finally gets to face him off to a duel. Also in this tournament, a mysterious elf participates in order to win the grand prize and eventually joins to help the Gael Clan. There is in no doubt that women with [...]
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Tears to Tiara is surprisingly exciting. I'm serious! Then again, that can be said for a lot of shows when you watch it at X2 speed. Seriously, I'm watching this only because it's one of the last shows I promised myself that I would complete, so that I would write a fair review. Or maybe I'm just finishing this so I could criticise it all the way to it's end. Anyway, this tells you a lot about my overall impression with the series; it's fucking boring. To be fair, the fight with Gaius and Lydia was kind of nice with the character development and it allowed me to take the series more seriously for a bit. But it's too bad the first few episodes was so dumb and boring that I can't help seeing the rest of the series in a very negatively light; so much that I actually dropped the series for more than a year. (I was watching it while it was airing) It pretty much runs on the same formula the more recent Shukufuku no Campanella runs on; a large number of female cast that has uniquely design RPG style clothing with different kinds of combat abilities, got close to the main character for no good reason, shows up every now and then fighting cannon fodders, and little to no personality. Characters like Morgan and Llyr are the very definition of these formulaic characters, although Morgan redeemed herself a bit with the friendship she had with Octavia. The story was even worst, and it was something that can be summarised in 30 words or less, but I'm not even gonna try. Basically it's a "good guy kill bad guy and save the world" kind of story. It won't be so bad if they can dramatise the story properly, but they didn't. The animation was, at best, mediocre. I do appreciate that the fight scenes are better than what I've expected and there are hardly any reused battle scene, but apparently that's where they blown their budget on. The songs are ok; not that I really took notice of them. I heard the game was good but it's a different case for the anime. Unless you really want to get more of T3 after playing the game... don't bother giving this a try. Plot/Concept: Poor Story Style: Fail Audio/Visual: Mediocre Value: 4
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With the Gael Clan leaving their village behind, Arthur, Arawn and Rhiannon finds ships so the whole clan can leave to Albion… Unfortunately, the forces from empire captured the ships, which makes the departure impossible… or is it? Episode 3 – Arwan’s Growing Harem and the Great Escape One of the funniest things in this [...]
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First off in the DVDs I have got, I decided to take a look at the first two episodes of Tears to Tiera, an eroge RPG game made by Aquaplus’s Leaf. Basically, it’s takes dark ages that involve an empire like Rome with various myths associated to the time period. From the first and second [...]
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  Sentai Filmworks have released their information regarding how fans can upgrade their sub only editions of Tears to Tiara for the upcoming dual language release. As per usual, the process simply involves going to the Right Stuf website, printing out a form and sending it in along with the appropriate amount to cover the change [...]
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In my review of Collection 1 of Tears to Tiara, I praised the series for having an excellent, albeit cliché, fantasy setting/plot with a diverse array of characters. These qualities continue to express themselves in Sentai Filmworks’ release of Collection 2 of the series. Containing the final 13 episodes, this release is one that fantasy [...] Related posts:Anime Review: Tears to Tiara (Collection 1: Episodes 1-13) Anime Review: To Love-Ru (Collection 1: Episodes 1-13) Anime Review: True Tears
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From the moment I played my first Final Fantasy game I immediately became a big fan of the fantasy genre. Ranging from video games to books to TV shows, fantasy is something I’ve always loved. Tears to Tiara is no exception to this rule. While it hits a few bumps in the road, it is [...]
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Before we start. Can someone tell me why is the title Tears to Tiara? No? Knew it… -.-” Tears to Tiara Set in a fictitious land during a medieval-like era of magic and fantasy, Tears to Tiara unfolds with the Divine Empire’s rise to power as it conquers and rules lands far and wide. On the island [...]
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