Tales of Eternia

DISCLAIMER: this review MIGHT have spoilers (depends on how you look at it, consider yourself warned)

Since the fansub’s done and I got to watch everything, then I guess I could write a review of it now. Tales of Eternia is basically about one… two… three… oh hell A bunch of people out to save the world. The story starts with 4 people, namely Rid (your barbarian type), Keel (scholar type), Meredy (little sister type) and Farah (nagging sister type). But these are very loose descriptions. And they will remain loose because of some of my complaints about the 13 EP “series.”

Anyways, the world (planet) Inferia will collide with the planet Celestia in what is called to be the “Grand Fall.” That’s the premise of their jorney and their mission is to prevent that by going to Celestia.

I wasn’t able to watch it a second time so just correct me if I’m mistaken or may have misunderstood the episodes. Still, I have a few complaints. One would be the development… or lack of it would be better, Character development is minimal, plus the fact that there were characters added along the way, and the development seemed that it revolved around those new characters. So the 4 primary characters didn’t get much attention and remained “loosely described.”

SPOILER ALERT Secondly, the whole story twists, first they’re out to save the world, but because of circumstance, the bulk of the story was focused on events happening on a blasted island. (NOW STARTING HERE WOULD BE THE MOTHER OF ALL SPOILERS) Everything happened at the last 2 episodes. Really, and it’s really disappointing because they had like 11 EPs to develop everything. And the ending was not saving the worlds from the grand fall. Aside from that, it was a very entertaining series. And it had a Love Hina-ish animation style. I guess in fairness to everyone who really liked it, I’d say it was too short for a 13 EP project. They should’ve extended it. Or maybe that’s really what they intended to do, so I’ll be looking forward to the conclusion.

My verdict probably would be this. It’s not a bad anime because the story is decent, the characters are decent, the animation is decent. Nothing worth condemning.

I want more EPs. I hope they make TOE2. Watch, it. I’m pretty sure it’ll make you beg for more… even after it’s done! (because it doesn’t resolve anything, so of course you’ll be begging for more.