“The Young Emperor” or “The Adventures of the Lazy Gay Emperor in a Time of Peace” It’s another “peace time antics” episode of Utawarerumono, but it fares marginally better than the one before it. Hakuoro receives a visit from the emperor of Kunnekamun, Amururineuruka Kuuya, who reveals that she is a Kuneyetai of the Shakoporu tribe, who were blessed [...]
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“The End of the Bloodshed” Every time Hakuoro touches someone, I think he’s going to have sex with them. Watch out, Dori and Gura! Hakuoro surveys the reconstruction efforts of his people and Eruruu tells the children that, by the time they are adults, there will be no wars. Sure! Also Hakuoro has many nightmares about Yue and, [...]
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Okay, I was looking at my google referrals and I noticed that I've got someone coming here for the Utawarerumono "character list." Actually, I've had like five or six people come here. I'm assuming they are looking for the actual characters in the series and it's not some misguided attempt to find out how to write Utawarerumono in Japanese....(more)... I don't plan on doing a compete character
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“End of the Banquet” The engagements are booked through the end of the world So we’ll meet at the end of the banquet In Utawarerumono you can cut people in half and be stabbed in both arms and then go off to your next fight without a care in the world. With the end of this banquet, we have [...]
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   Hakuoro had that mask on even then??    So the battle raged on, and although it's hard to say, I would guess that Hakuoro's team is slightly winning. Sensing this, Touka strongly recommends that Kucha Kecha withdraw, something that they did with a heavy heart. And since their men are all riding Woptars (compared to Hakuoro's more [...]
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“Destruction” The design of nameless characters takes a hit so that the violence can be ramped up and the fluidity of the animation dazzle. The exercise smells of a build up to the final showdown, but we’re only halfway through the series. Shikeripetim must be another obstacle to the true goal. Tusukuru comes under severe attack by Shikeripetim, [...]
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“Battle of Bloodshed” At the halfway point, Utawarerumono kicks its arse into gear and decides that it doesn’t want to hate me any more. Go go go! Except I don’t know how the alliances are going to match up from now on, but that’s part of the fun. When battles are interesting like this, the show doesn’t [...]
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Attack, Genji, and show the world how utterly awesome you are and how pathetic the original game was for killing you off The Utawarerumono game is fair. It’s a fun, simplistic tactical RPG with more text than gameplay and severe dashings of hentai content that must be skipped through with one’s eyes clothes. This game from [...]
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“Unrest” And lo, Rak Shine cut loose on his people and mightily sliced them in two. And, in retaliation, Rak Shine was stabbed verily by his followers. Many, many years later, the venerable Oboro decided to graduate from solving his problems through vomiting by transferring this awesome power into headbutting walls. Spoilers: Rak Shine’s evil ways revealed inside! Touka, [...]
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Yue sends his forces to raid the Tsukuru countryside, and although the Shikiripetim parties take tremendous losses, the tactic gradually whittles away at the Tsukuru army. At the palace, Touka is freed, and she tries to pull a Benawi on Hakuoro. However, Touka is much too hot to die, so Hakuoro stops her [...]
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Touka survives, and the villagers of Tsukuru wonder if Hakuoro is evil (since the Evinkuruga fight against evil). Hakuoro is depressed about this, and tries to drink his problems away, but Eruru won’t let him. After some horrible quotes about how Eruru is like a mother to him (poor Eruru), Eruru embraces Hakuoro [...]
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Utawarerumono has quite a sizable cast of major characters, but among them certain people stand out. No, I am not at all referring to Afro Fugly, Mr. Worst-Laugh-Ever, Dii “I Have No Lines Because I Wasn’t In The Game At This Point” or Teoro and his haircut. What differentiates Utaware from many anime, though, is [...]
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“The Eternal Promise” I know that this episode was a deal breaker for some, but to me it was as a restoration of interest in Utawarerumono. Raising the stakes and throwing out revelations for mysteries are a prime method for continuing narrative support. I’ll get the best quote ever out of the way here, though: “If this [...]
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This is one show that could use a lot more existentialism (and a lot more heterosexuality). I mean, the whole dude-with-cursed-mask has been rather downplayed so far. Very few questions have been asked and very little time has been spent trying to figure out “WHOZAFUCK IS MASKMAN!!” And now they start going on about sins? … [...]
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I would rather not play H games, but each time an episode of Utawarerumono airs, the desire to play as Benawi, Karura, Touka and even Haku increases tenfold, and also my wish to find out what will happen next week is beginning to mount to levels not quite reached in the past. Thus, I have [...]
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Actually I lied. There’s nothing about Utawarerumono 12 here. This entry is all about Touka. It’s a bit hard to get shocked when you have already completed the game. I am partially regretting completing Utawarerumono the game since initially I wanted to just stick to playing as far as the anime brings per episode. But the game [...]
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We get a quick flashback of Hakuoro in his Rak Shine days (but still wearing a mask!), and he has just slaughtered some people in a dark room. He then laughs off several stabbings and proceeds to kill all the guards. This is what happens when you watch too much Gundam series before [...]
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