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Based off the PC [[Visual Novel]] by Leaf. Later re-released for the PlayStation 3 with art and technical upgrades. The Anime aired in 2009 and is now available in North America by Sentai.

 

 

* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Arawn to his harem girls (though reduced to three in the anime). At least [[Utawarerumono|Hakuoro]] was just a [[Chick Magnet]].

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Or running through the woods [[Idiot Hero|like a dumbass]].

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Arthur in episode 15}}.

* [[Call Back]]: Arawn is known as the "Great Demon King", presumably because he's {{spoiler|a [[Fallen Angel]]}}. Then a [[Flash Back]] reveals that {{spoiler|while Arawn was "dying" the first time, Pwyll utters the words: "...My friend. My Great King."}}.

* [[Cavalier Consumption]]: The characters pass around an apple while swordfighting in the [[Title Sequence]].

* [[Cherubic Choir]]: The [[Brown Note|Song of Creation]] {{spoiler|which Myrrdin uses to change the Ice Age into spring. Taliesin later uses it to stop a blizzard}}.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Morgan. The original game shows this a bit; the anime takes it [[Up to Eleven]] and adds a touch of [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]].

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Rafty in the anime.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Arawn does this to Arthur when {{spoiler|they lost against the [[Badass Army|Rubrum]]}}.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: A bunch of them appear in Episode 4, and are reduced off-screen to ''crab hotpot''.

* [[Glacier Waif]]: Rathty. Also a [[Cute Bruiser|cute one]].

* [[Gratuitous English]]: "Apple Pie". When your city's name is a throwback to the fact that its orchard is full of apple trees, it only makes sense that this gets made... often.

* [[Honest John]]: Epona, and Rusty's [[Split Personality]] Thraty.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Many of the Gael Tribe, but Arthur takes it up a notch. When told to duel a wounded foe, he ''dislocates his own arm'' to even the field. Arawn frequently remarks that Arthur's stubborn insistence on rules and oaths can do more harm than good, especially when dealing with human lives.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Arthur. A significant part of the plot revolves around the whole cast just trying to stop him from going overboard. Following [[Character Development]] though, he's definitely more matured and composed by the end of the series.

* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Descendant]]: Arthur looks like his ancestor Pwyll with a different outfit and hairstyle. {{spoiler|Justified, as Arthur is a [[Reincarnation]] of Pwyll.}}

** The same can be said of {{spoiler|Rhiannon, who looks like an adult Primula, Pwyll's human wife.}}

*** Not surprising, considering that in the very beginning of the game, she tells Arawn that {{spoiler|her [[I Know Your True Name|true name]] is Primula.}}

* [[Lady of War]]: Octavia. Her self-proclaimed rival Lidia is more of an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Knight Templar]].

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Arthur is worse off than [[Utawarerumono|Oboro]] in this, but at least he gets a clue quickly enough.

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: The Twelve Angels {{spoiler|are responsible for the various Ages that end in [[Omnicidal Maniac|near-total annihilation]]: when the dominant race of that Age fails to meet their incredibly high standards (as in [[Fantastic Racism|keeping the races from developing enough such that they equal or even surpass the Angels in their "perfection"]]), [[The Purge|they wipe them out]] and start over. The only good Angels are Myrrdin and his son Arawn/Lucifer, who would replace Myrrdin as the Twelfth Angel, and the latter would earn his kin's ire for believing in allowing the "inferior" races to develop.}}

** Even their God Watos isn't on their side anymore {{spoiler|(Merkadis is defeated by a prayer that invokes [[Death From Above|an powerful ray of light from the heavens]], and Lector is pretty much doomed when Watos doesn't answer his pleas for help)}}. It is also hinted that the Angels do not know the true will of Watos and that {{spoiler|Arawn/Lucifer was specifically created by Watos to free the world from his kin's control before they find another reason to trigger apocalypse}}.

'''Gaius:''' Ken Akiresu > [[Kenji Hamada]] }}

** Although anyone with a good ear and half familiar with the Japanese CV scene can tell who was really recasted, and who had just [[Bleached Underpants|used an alias for the original PC version]]

* {{spoiler|[[Satan Is Good]]: Arawn's true name is "Lucifer". The very beginning of the game shows a hint, as Rhiannon almost blurts his true name after figuring out that he is "Akaboshi" -- the Japanese name of Venus as the "morning star". [[Shown Their Work|Lucifer is also known as "Light-Bearer" and is attributed to Venus]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[She's a Man In Japan]]: Both Animax Asia and Sentai dubs mistakenly call [[Bifauxnen|Rathty]] a boy.}}

* [[Ship Tease]]: Taliesin and Epona.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Epona sells [[Memetic Mutation/Anime|red shoes at her shop, which she claims increases speed threefold]]. It bestows a [[Fragile Speedster]] effect on whoever wears them. In the PC version, the AI takes control of whoever is wearing those pair of shoes.

* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: Prevalent in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER48RHhnXhw&feature=related&fmt=18 PS3 version].

** The PC game has it too for every super move. All four of them.

* [[To Be Lawful or Good]]: Arthur faces this dilemma often. He's keen on upholding the laws of his tribe (which are not always good and tend to advocate death as solution to every problem), but he's also a good person. Other characters are more willing to bend the rules if they are to stay alive, and halfway through the series [[Noble Demon|Arawn]] convinces him to follow his conscience.

* [[Trojan Prisoner]]: Octavia tries this out with Morgan in order to sneak the two of them into Avalon, which is under siege by the Empire. It would have worked were it not for the fact that the unit she associates herself with is a unit that had been sent back to the mainland long ago. They get to fight their way inside instead.

 

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