Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana

Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana is the sixth installment of the Atelier series of role-playing games which were developed by Gust, and the first game from the series to make the journey across the Pacific from Japan.

The story follows the exploits of Klein Kiesling, a young alchemist, as he explores the world, along with a group of friends he makes along the journey. Pretty standard RPG fare, narratively speaking.

Released in Japan in 2004, North America in 2005 and Europe in 2006, the game received decent reviews, but many of the innovations (which include item fusion/synthesis) earlier adopted by the Atelier series had already been adapted by other games which were released in North America before this chapter was introduced.

"Veola: I'll name it... the Blowmaster!
 * Battle Couple: Klein Kiesling and Lita Blanchimont. Also Delsus and Marietta Lixiss.
 * Berserk Button: As you may expect from a Tsundere, don't criticize on Lita's bust size.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: "You can't do that! The ESRB would go nuts!"
 * Catgirl: Norn
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Some seemingly minor supporting characters wind up directly aiding the party through the game. For example, Pamela the friendly ghost initially seems like a sort of comic relief character, but eventually helps you translate some writing in a ruin that she remembers from when she was alive.
 * Competitive Balance:
 * Glass Cannon: Klein, has some of the strongest attacks of the game, but can die really fast again stronger enemies.
 * Arlin whenever he uses the Berserker ability.
 * Fragile Speedster: Lita,
 * Jack of All Stats: Delsus, balanced and overall useful for most situations.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Arlin, fast, strong with physical and magic attacks also having good balance in Speed and Defense..
 * Squishy Wizard: Klein and Norn, both can do serious damage, but have the worst Defense value of everyone.
 * Mighty Glacier: Marietta, excellent physical attacks and she even has a healing spell, her Speed is depressing, though.
 * Crispin Freeman as Delsus
 * Crutch Character: Arlin to some.
 * He goes straight for a Game Breaker after he learns his Bull's Eyes. ability. With that tech, it makes the normally very long and hard final boss seems like nothing.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen/Kuudere: Veola, who initially seems a borderline Emotionless Girl but gradually gets to be friendly with Klein and (sort of) Lita.
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Duel Boss: Arlin, twice. The first one is a Hopeless Boss Fight, the second is a fight totally based on luck.
 * Exposition Fairy: Popo, who is hilariously enough an actual fairy.
 * Evil Counterpart: Mull to Arlin.
 * Fan Service: Lita gets naked on screen twice. Censor Steam and Modesty Towel included.
 * Five-Man Band
 * The Hero: Klein Kiesling.
 * The Lancer: Arlin.
 * The Chick: Lita Blanchimont.
 * The Smart Guy: Delsus.
 * Tagalong Kid: Norn.
 * Sixth Ranger:.
 * Heh Heh You Said X:
 * Heh Heh You Said X:

Lita: You do realize... never mind."


 * Heel Realization: Beggur after the final duel against him.
 * Hoist By His Own Petard:.
 * Ineffectual Loner: Arlin,
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Beggur. So very, very much. The EPIC Ham voicework really helps this, to boot.
 * Lady of War: Marietta Lixiss.
 * Love At First Punch: Lita does rescue him first, and then she calls him a weakling for traveling alone.
 * Nice Hat: Lita's
 * Power Gives You Wings: A bit inverted here.
 * Strangely enough, while sprouting wings drains  Max HP, it does raise the attack power.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Alkavana Knights.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Zeldalia to a T. The voicework makes this even better, since despite looking like she's twelve, she has the voice and mannerisms of a stately older woman.
 * Smug Snake: Good lord, Mull is terrible about this. You, although.
 * The Unfought:
 * Trailers Always Lie:
 * Trailers Always Spoil:
 * Tsundere: Type B. Lita bounces rapidly back and forth between being sweet and perky to Klein or raging about what a jerk he is. She's very much soften up when her back story kicks in.
 * Marietta is a clear Type A for Delsus.
 * Verbal Tic: Norn and her meow and nya for English and Japanese voiceovers respectively.
 * Whip Sword: Merietta's