Eien no Aselia: Difference between revisions

It's all advancing nice and well, looks to be a nice dating sim... and then Yuuto and Kaori are dramatically dropped into another world, where he is stabbed by a girl with wings and saved by another girl. Following this, he's nursed back to health by a gentle young woman whose language he does not even recognize and eventually turned into a slave soldier, forced to wield the sentient eternity sword 'Desire' which tries to force him to kill, maim and rape in its quest to destroy its enemy, 'Oath' Yuuto is then put in charge of the national army with his sister being held hostage. Seems the king has some expansionary ambitions and thinks with Etranger Yuuto on his side that he is unstoppable. And he seems to be right.

 

 

A [[Fan Translation]] was released for the all-ages version of the game by Dakkodango Translations, and the same all-ages version was officially localized by JAST USA in November 2011.

 

See also ''[[Seinarukana]]'', the first sequel.

* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: {{spoiler|Lesteena's route ends with Yuuto staying in Phantasmorgia to try and start up a relationship with Lesteena again. He does run into Lemuria but... all the original problems are still in the way of the relationship if not more. After all, they don't remember that he's the hero that saved the world anymore.}}

* [[Amnesiac Lover]]: {{spoiler|Lesteena can't become an Eternal at all, and Kyouko also gets left behind when Yuuto goes to become one. In both cases, Yuuto is genre savvy enough to not try reminding them (plus, he can't stay in Phantasmorgia after he saves it) so it's not a completely straight example. However, with Lesteena he 'accidentally' misses the gate out and plans to restart the relationship, and Kyouko has [[Wistful Amnesia]] and ends up following him.}}

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: {{spoiler|The last non Eternal enemies you fight are their minions, which actually aren't spirits but lower ranked Eternity swords given bodies.}}

* [[Anti-Magic]]: Ice Banisher, a blue support skill. You're going to need it if you don't want red spirits shredding you.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: {{spoiler|Eternal skills}} generally do an absolutely immense amount of damage, but have either low amounts of uses or have an incredibly low Mind range, limiting their real effectiveness. They're also pretty taxing on Mind, so even at the max you can only use the attacks about twice before falling out of it.

* [[Badass]]: Takios, Yuuto

* [[Beneath the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Lesteena honestly doesn't know whether Lesteena or Lemuria is her real personality, but it's probably much closer to Lemuria. Unlike the wise, noble Queen Lesteena, Lemuria is a selfish genki girl with an obsession for <s>waffles</s> yofwals.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Either Shun or Temuorin depending on how you look at it. Shun is more powerful and the final boss fight, but Temuorin is the one behind everything.}}

* [[Big Damn Villains]]: {{spoiler|After conquering Sardbart, Lemuria is convinced her father's ambition is going to destroy the country and decides she has to stop him. Nice timing for Ulruka to show up and assassinate him, huh?}}

* [[Bishonen]]: Yuuto is easily the prettiest male in the game, though still not quite girly with the muscles he has to develop.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Tokimi. Only Yuuto and his lover ever seem to realize it. To be fair, Tokimi's quite pleasant so long as you never mention {{spoiler|[[Berserk Button|her age]]}} or in Yuuto's case {{spoiler|have really bad sex with her}}.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: {{spoiler|After the king is assassinated, Lesteena proclaims him to have been a man of peace who wouldn't want to see the world ruined by ambition. Considering Rakios just conquered four countries overnight, Yuuto isn't the only one somehow doubting the truth of her claims.}}

* [[Bleached Underpants]]: The fan translated version only works with the Special Package version of Seinarukana, which included a backport of the Playstation2 version of Eien no Aselia... which means they had to cut out any sex scenes. (Likewise, the official translation from Jast will be based on this version.) However, it's pretty easy to tell when they occurred and occasional reference is made to them, especially Tokimi's.

* [[Captivity Harmonica]]: A small variant where Kaori uses a flute to much the same intent.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Temuorin, Tokimi

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Yuuto gains the love or at least deep respect of essentially every female character in the story and was quite popular at his old school. Not that he ever noticed. Kyouko and Kouin, on the other hand...

* [[Childhood Friends]]: A large part of the third chapter is based around the relationship between Kouin, Yuuto, Kaori and Kyouko. Kaori doesn't have much of the dynamic for the trope, and Kyouko is more of a romance, but Kouin and Yuuto definitely fall into this. Major source of angst on Yuuto's part.

* [[Child Soldiers]]: Spirits are raised from 'birth' to fight as shown with examples like Nelie, Shiah, Orpha and in Esperia's flashbacks.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: In battle, Blue spirits are the primary attackers, Green Spirits can defend and heal, Red spirits are magic users, and Black Spirits are more of a quirky jack-of-all-trades type.

* [[The Comically Serious]]: Desire occasionally. When he's not half killing Yuuto or urging him to murder, pillage and rape. Nanaru also drifts into this sometimes.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: This is what actually differentiates spirits from humans. Their hair and eye color are the same, and the color they are (Green,Red,Blue,Black) indicate what color spirit they are.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: Temuorin looks even younger than Kaori and is perpetually cheery, but has a tendency to say some rather disturbing things. And also be a completely vicious [[Omnicidal Maniac]].

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: The whole game occurs because of Yuuto's prayers that Kaori would recover, and Desire granting that wish in exchange for a contract to destroy Oath.

* [[Departure Means Death]]: {{spoiler|In Aselia's route, she quickly gets sick and nearly dies when she and Yuuto get sent to Earth. Turns out spirits require a certain amount of mana in the air to live.}}

* [[Determinator]]: Yuuto

* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Yuuto has to sleep with Tokimi to be able to undergo the test to become an Eternal. Esperia and Kyouko are not very happy about it in their routes. Then it is later revealed that the ritual was completely unnecessary, and Tokimi only lied about it so that she could sleep with Yuuto.}}

* [[The Ditz]]: Helion

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: Yuuto isn't very respectful towards the godlike Wisdom. {{spoiler|Then again, by this point he's bordering on being a god himself.}}

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Eternity swords

* [[The Empire]]: Sargios. Rakios has a king {{spoiler|and later a queen instead}} but doesn't qualify.

* [[Evil Weapon]]: Eternity swords of rank 4 and 5 are intelligent enough to be rational unlike the lower ranked swords, but not rational enough to control their natures. {{spoiler|Rank 2 and 3 swords ''can'' control themselves, but do not always choose to do so.}}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Against spirits and to a slightly lesser extent Etrangers. [[Straw Man Has a Point]], though, because they're all fantastically powerful and some are quite capable of destroying cities.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Soma

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Black spirits, especially Helion

* [[Full-Contact Magic]]: The red spirit melee skills appear to work like this.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: There is a '''lot''' of this. Oftentimes, that boss who is completely hyped up by the story turns out to be a complete cakewalk ingame. The best example of this is {{spoiler|Soma's spirit corp, who, on their first meeting with Yuuto in the story nearly kill him. However, gameplay-wise, they are actually weaker than the average spirits that you will face.}}

* [[Green Aesop]]: About non renewable resources. Throw in some disapproval of nuclear power as well.

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Lesteena is the only love interest that isn't a fighter, but the endgame is balanced around the buff Yuuto and his girlfriend receive. To make up for that, the game gives you Io instead. While she can't be an Allrounder like {{spoiler|Eternals}} she ''is'' a ''very'' powerful unit.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|During Aselia's route, she expresses a desire to bear a child for Yuuto, but neither is sure it's even possible. However, in the ending, it turns out that not only can spirits bear children, but they can even do so when both parents are ''Eternals.''}}

* [[Harmful to Minors]]: {{spoiler|Esperia's backstory.}}

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Kouin is willing to kill in order to save Kyouko

* [[Idiot Hair]]: Orpha and Aselia. Kaori's hair without the hat might be intended to be one

* [[Immortal Procreation Clause]]: {{spoiler|In Aselia's ending she and Yuuto a daughter named Euphoria to their surprise. Said daughter is ''also'' an Eternal, only she ages on occasion, being a hundred or so years old yet seeming like a six year old. They're not sure how they're going to explain it to the other Eternals.}}

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Yuuto has serious problems accepting assistance but while competent at his job (raising Kaori or fighting) is not quite good enough to do it alone.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It's not a waffle, it's a yofwal!

* [[Jerkass]]: Shun, Soma

* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Lesteena early on

* [[The Kingdom]]: Rakios. The king is a dick, but Lesteena is nice. {{spoiler|And later the king is assassinated.}}

* [[Kung Fu Wizard]]: Himika specializes in close range combat

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Yuuto's memory of contracting with Desire was wiped until it was time to fulfill it. {{spoiler|And his memory is also later wiped by Tokimi after Desire is destroyed so that he thinks he won and the fight is over.}}

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Aselia and Uruka have a liiiittle too much confidence for people who have never cooked before. Aselia at least starts learning after her initial failure.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Certain Etrangers and definitely {{spoiler|Eternals}}.

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: {{spoiler|Shun.}}

* [[Love At First Sight]]: {{spoiler|Esperia, though initially she's not sure in what way. And in Kyouko's route, she's forgotten Yuuto but still loves him, so when he appears before her again she's incredibly confused. Then when ''she'' becomes an Eternal as well, the same happens for Kouin!}}

* Miko: Tokimi

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Kotori

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Esperia being unable to protect Rask.}}

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Kind of, in the evil route. The evil route is not in the [[PlayStation 2]] release.

* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Everyone who fights is made of mana, and upon death their soul no longer binds their body together, so they dissolve back into mana.

* [[Norio Wakamoto]]: Wisdom and Takios

* [[Not Blood Related]]: Kaori and Yuuto, though any attraction is one sided.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: As many as four people can tell Yuuto they love him during a route while he was completely oblivious. Kouin on the other hand will instantly notice Helion's crush as well as Shiah and Nelie's attachment and Kyouko will be suspicious at all the girls calling him Yuuto-sama, though she tends to exaggerate.

* [[Power Born of Madness]]: A spirit that has been devoured by their sword gains immense power, but they have no real identity anymore.

* [[Power Gives You Wings]]

* [[Princess Curls]]: Lemuria

* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Yuuto is going to be your best unit. Near the end of the game, he gains the ability to be an all rounder, meaning he can do the attack, defense ''and'' support roles all at once, and he'll still be better than your normal units. He does start off a little slow, though. {{spoiler|Also, Eternals in general. In fact, they should be even ''more'' overpowered than they are!}}

* [[Quit Your Whining]]: {{spoiler|Selia to Yuuto if Kyouko and Kouin are killed instead of recruited.}}

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Orpha appears to be the blueprint for spirits and is at least ten thousand years old.}}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Lesteena, who may or may not do what Yuuto wants but will always listen.

* [[Red String of Fate]]: A story common to both worlds, to Yuuto's surprise. Lemuria is a big fan of fate.

* [[Three Amigos]]

* [[Through His Stomach]]: Helion learns cooking to impress Yuuto. Unfortunately for her, she A. lacks the confidence to do so and B. gets too easily distracted by the other spirits.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Lemuria sure loves her yofwals.

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|After Yuuto becomes an Eternal, the only thing left that survived the rewriting of reality was the necklace that contained the last fragment of Desire, which Yuuto gave to Kaori before she returned to Earth.}}

* [[True Companions]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Kyouko and Nimnthor.

* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: To be fair, there's no malice on anyone's part.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Kyouko, to an extent. That is, she's dating her other childhood friend Kouin but both know she likes Yuuto a bit more.

* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Yuuto tends to bulldoze through most of the game with sheer power until Uruka joins and starts teaching him actual technique.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Yuuto actually does realize that the situation is way too contrived to be mere chance, but is still helpless to act against it because his sister is still being held captive by his old school enemy.}} See [[Xanatos Gambit]].

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Kouin and Kyouko mutually except in Kyouko's route, where Kouin becomes unlucky. {{spoiler|Not that he'll remember it.}}

* [[Visual Novel]]: Mixed heavily with RPG in a fashion similar to [[Sengoku Rance]] or [[Utawarerumono]].

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It's actually a mild plot point that spirits have occasionally unnatural hair colors. One, they're often identified by them (though perhaps not always accurately; Kaori is told she might have to be careful with her red hair not to be mistaken for a red spirit) and two, {{spoiler|when Aselia is temporarily sent to Yuuto's world, her purplish hair is a dead giveaway.}}

** Oddly enough, Lesteena's green hair never seems to raise any eyebrows.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: If you pay attention to the timeline in the credits, you'll see that Esperia is 22. Believable enough. However, she's also stated to be the ''oldest'' Rakios spirit {{spoiler|not counting Orpha}} and there are gaps of years in between the training of those such as Selia and Aselia or Halion and Helion. It's quite likely the younger looking spirits are only a couple of years old.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: All spirits sport this excluding Esperia.

 

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