THEME. The themes of this story was indeed not something to be awed for bewildering unexpectedness; The themes are not very new and are often discussed in many literature. Some of these literature are dated as far as back as the Egyptian and Babylonian times. Not telling what the themes are~~
CHARACTER'S MOTIVATION. Frankly, the motivation of the characters in Tears to Tiara was a cliche. I'll give you a hint, "mamoru" is a big key here and for otakus, this key word "mamoru" is very redundant because it's used in many of the animations currently distributed today to provide characters a motivation.
CONFLICT. I like the fact that the only conflict mentioned in the series is not restricted only to the Holy Empire.
Art: 8/10
FASHION. Although Gael is a group of a less developed native people, I believe that their sense of fashion was awkward when I had my eyes set on them. For instance, Arthur shows his abdomen, in current fashion, that's considered extremely awkward for males to dispose their abdomen despite wearing a shirt, but the animators sense of creativity that they put in to make the awkwardness contribute to the idea of their primitiveness.
As for the Holy Empire, Gaius wore the Romanian military uniform. Although, it's not original, his fashion clearly showed which era and country he comes from and clearer symbol he reveals about himself.
VIOLENCE. I believe the violence wasn't too extreme. Since the setting of Tears to Tiara is set in the medieval times, only swords, bows, catapults, spears, shields, arrows, and hammer are involved. There aren't many limbs cut off from sword fighting or beheading, but there are definitely scenes where blood is spilled when two sides cut one another to defeat their enemies.
Sound: 9/10
THE BGM. The intense music mainly supported by the strings and bass sounds, created the intensity of a bloody battle.
VOICES. Arawn's seiyu depicted a good example of his haughtiness, and Ogam had a low pitch voice which gave the idea that he is a normal humble old man. However, Riannon's moe voice of Goto Yuko do not match her charisma of Gael's female chief, even if it was provide her immature characteristics.
OP
The opening did not contain too much rock or hip hop characteristics making it so that the time setting set by the music does not upset and interfere with how the actual time setting the story should be set in.
ED
The first ending, blue sky true sky, although the ending of how the little girl running shows the entire cast of the story, I didn't like the fact that the girl running there gave spoilers. The ending did contained some energy to make the viewers still lively and be disappointed by the fact that they reached the ending. Moreover, the beat was allergro (120-168 bpm) making it a very fast and bright piece of music.
The second ending, weeping alone, makes a considerable contrast compared to the first song because it's a bit sadder. Since this story consists of violent scenes and would obviously have some mourning scenes, it was wise for the creators to create a song of a bit sadness to create a grieving mood.
Character:7/10
I believe that the names of each character gave away too much about what each of the character's roles were and what the next consecutive events would take place. Which takes away too much of the fun to predict what the next episode would occur. For instance, the protagonist Arthur's name and his personality clearly gives away the name of the famous British epic hero.Nonetheless, the exaggeration of the epic heroes made by myths and legends does not become the characters; they still form their realistic characteristics.
Enjoyment:7/10
I've enjoyed the series because it had a very witty method of using the names of other Welsh, Christian, Roman, Greek, British, Latin and other cultural names to produce some form of symbols for the characters. For example, the 12 white spirits was a clever representation of the arrogant 12 Greek divinities who believes that they are perfect even though they are not.
Overall Summary:8/10
I felt Tears to Tiara was very unoriginal but at the same time unique. What I mean is that the fruits are not unique but when you mix them you get a unique juice: the Tears to Tiara, the juice, was just a story that consisted of popular cultural tales, the fruits. Even though the tales were not their work, the story in which they used the tales to make a very ironically original plot deserves an applause.
