Fantastic Children

Fantastic Children is an Anime that, despite its older art style, ran from 2004 to '05. It's an original 26-episode story with plot twists galore, and has received high praise from critics.

The story begins with the mystery of a group of five strange white-haired children, who have been sighted at various points throughout history, stretching from the 1600's to the present day. A detective who has heard of this enigma discovers a strange connection between it and a missing persons case he's been working. Meanwhile, an island boy embarks on a journey with a mysterious orphaned girl who never speaks but is constantly painting pictures of bizarre, incomprehensible landscapes. These plots manage to link firmly together into a complex, deeply moving saga. To explain further would ruin things, but let's just say it's a story that links equal parts adventure, coming-of-age, mystery, tragedy, history, the fantastic, and romance. Yep, there's quite a bit going on in this one.

This anime contains examples of:
 * A Boy and His X: Tarlant and his robot Wonder, who will initially only respond to him and the other Children.
 * Alien Among Us:
 * Anime First
 * Arc Words: There is a poem that appears several times in the series. It's always spoken aloud, and usually the one reciting it is Aghi. It turns out to be.
 * There is also an arc picture, which Helga is fixated on and draws constantly. This is
 * Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Meet Palza, also known as Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X rays.
 * Beta Couple: Palza and Mel
 * Big Bad:.
 * Big Brother Complex: Duma to . He's actually her younger brother, but oh well.
 * Bilingual Bonus: The ending theme song, "Mizu no Madoromi", appears in three languages in the dubs: the dub language (when Aghi sings it to his sister), Japanese (as the first ending theme song), and Russian (as the second ending, because the singer Origa speaks Russian as a first language). In the Japanese version, there are only two, Japanese and Russian.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Thoma
 * Conspicuous CG: Done for the robots and some machinery.
 * Crystal Spires and Togas: Literally. The whole of Greecia looks like this, and many things in the story are based on Greek mythology.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Duma's one can qualify as this.
 * Did Not Get the Girl: A large part of the plot and have a big part to do with why he and she were reincarnated. He couldn't win her heart at the beginning and still couldn't by the end.
 * Evil Uncle: Georca.
 * Freudian Excuse: Duma's mother was killed. However,
 * Go Mad From the Revelation: Dr. Radcliffe became obsessed with unraveling the mystery of the Children of Befort. Needless to say, the more he found out, the madder he went. He could have been saved a lot of suffering if he knew that his theory was actually.
 * Heroic BSOD: Just about every character does this, most notably when  typically taking an entire episode to snap out of it.
 * Kick the Dog: Georca has done lots of them, but the most notable is when he.
 * Living Shadow: Enma.
 * Love Hurts:
 * Motherly Scientist: Gertha cares about safety of her subjects, not because they are scienificly significant, but because "they are humans." She keeps telling it to her coworkers, when they try to force last of them into submission.
 * Murder the Hypotenuse:.
 * My God What Have I Done:.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old:
 * Reincarnation:
 * Reincarnation Romance: Played with.
 * Retraux: The series was drawn in an intentionally retro style.
 * Spell My Name With an S: Almost every character, with the most notable examples being Sess/Sesu/Seth, Soran/Solan, Duma/Dumas, and Thoma/Toma/Tomas.
 * Status Quo Is God: At the end of the series,
 * Not really, IMHO,
 * Tears of Remorse:.
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future: The story takes place in 2012.
 * Unexplained Accent: Despite everybody else speaking regular English without any noticeable accent, the English dub has Tohma (and to a lesser extent, his mother and father) speak in some strange unidentifiable accent.
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: Cooks and Alice get that. Non of them is shown after Cooks is
 * White Haired Pretty Boy: Subverted. Half the cast is this, but they're the good guys. For the most part anyway.
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: Cooks and Alice get that. Non of them is shown after Cooks is
 * White Haired Pretty Boy: Subverted. Half the cast is this, but they're the good guys. For the most part anyway.