Tears to Tiara
Tears to Tiara

Tears to Tiara

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Set in a fictitious land during a medieval-like era of magic and fantasy, Tears to Tiara unfolds with the Divine Empire’s rise to power as it conquers and rules lands far and wide. On the island of Erin, still ruled by the Ancient Kingdom, the Goidelic people are attempting to sacrifice priestess Riannon to revive protagonist and demon king Arawn to lead the resistance against the Empire. Although the ritual fails and Riannon survives, the seal imprisoning the demon king is broken and Arawn is resurrected. Armed with mysterious and devastating powers and a human’s demeanour, Arawn joins Riannon, her brother and battalion commander, Arthur, as well as their team of fighters comprising a swordsman, an archer and a quintet of magical pixies, in the epic struggle against the Divine Empire.

Overview

Set in a fictitious land during a medieval-like era of magic and fantasy, Tears to Tiara unfolds with the Divine Empire’s rise to power as it conquers and rules lands far and wide. On the island of Erin, still ruled by the Ancient Kingdom, the Goidelic people are attempting to sacrifice priestess Riannon to revive protagonist and demon king Arawn to lead the resistance against the Empire. Although the ritual fails and Riannon survives, the seal imprisoning the demon king is broken and Arawn is resurrected. Armed with mysterious and devastating powers and a human’s demeanour, Arawn joins Riannon, her brother and battalion commander, Arthur, as well as their team of fighters comprising a swordsman, an archer and a quintet of magical pixies, in the epic struggle against the Divine Empire.

Kenichi KOMORI

Creator / EP

Episodes

Season 1 of Tears to Tiara
Demon King Resurrection

1. Demon King Resurrection

Late night at the Gael village in Erin Island, an army of imperial soldiers under the command of the Priest Drwc invade the village only to find it empty except for the Gael Priestess Riannon. Despite her explanation that all of the villagers went hunting, Drwc threatens to have her torture until he realizes that she is the descendant of the Elf King Pwyll as he plans to use her as a living sacrifice to revive the Demon Lord Arawn so he may use his powers to rule the world. Riannon refuse to let that happen and tries to kill herself but is force to surrender when Drwc men captured two Gael children. He plans to have them killed unless she cooperates. She put under his mind control spell after she reveals her true name to him. Meanwhile, the Gael villagers return from their hunting trip lead by the tribe's First Warrior, Arthur, Riannon's older brother. When he learns on what happen to his sister from the children, Arthur leads a small taskforce to rescue his sister at the Demon Lord's Tomb. By the time Arthur arrives in the tomb's inner sanctum after fighting off the Imperial soldiers guarding the tomb, Drwc and his mages have finally revived Arawn who takes the form of an Albino man and approaches Riannon.

25m
People of the Covenant

2. People of the Covenant

Arthur tries attack Drwc but can't since he has his sister under his control. Unknown to both of them, Arawn has dived into Riannon's subconscious and releases her from Drwc's spell. Drwc orders Arawn to kill Arthur but he kills Drwc instead. Despite rescuing his sister, Arthur doesn't trust Arwan since he's the Demon Lord and fights him. To prevent both of them from killing each other, Riannon wraps her red scarf around Arwan and by her tribe's traditions, she has chosen Arwan as her husband and Chief of the Gael Tribe. Arthur is shocked by her sister's decision but has no choice to accept it since as the First Warrior, he is honor bound to serve the Chief of the tribe. As Skeleton Warriors start to emerge, the three of them try to escape until they meet an old man named Ogam, who both Arthur and Arwan know, who leads them to exit with the rest of the taskforce. Knowing there will be repercussion if the Empire knew about Drwc's fate, Arthur rallies his people for the upcoming war against the Empire. Somewhere in the Empire, General Gaius of the Imperial Army has learn on what the Gaels did to Drwc and must now crush the Gael's rebellion.

25m
Departure

3. Departure

As the the Gael's prepared to leave for Albion, Arawn is attacked by a girl with a bow and dagger named Morgan, which he easily subdues her. It turns out Arthur had assigned Morgan to prepared the ship to Albion but it was captured by Imperial soldiers, in order to save her honor, she tried to kill Arawn so would died honorably in battle. While both Arthur and Morgan wants to be punish for their failure, Arawn has no interest but Arthur is worried about setting a bad example for the others, Arawn proposes that, since Morgan lost a duel to him, he’ll take custody of her, effectively making her his "second wife". As Arawn leads the tribe to take over the ship and escape, he is confronted by Gaius himself who wants to confirmed that Arwan is the Demon lord himself. After revealing his reason for fighting the Empire, Arawn tries to escape into the ship but Gaius throws a dagger at him which he easily blocks. However, the dagger that hit him was made of electrum, the same material that killed Arawn a thousand years ago. As Ogam heals his wound, he reveals that the Empire came to be after a bloody civil war that ended the Albion kingdom when no heir was chosen after the King Pwyll died. Later that night Arthur has a duel with Arwan which Arwan beats him. Arthur admits that he's not fighting in the duel as the First warrior but as Riannon's brother as he wanted to know that his sister made the right choice of choosing him as her husband which Arwan promises him he will treat her well. As sunset arrives the ship has finally reach Albion.

25m

Cast & Crew

Yuko Goto

Yuko Goto

Riannon (voice)

Kaori Nazuka

Kaori Nazuka

Llyr (voice)

Mai Nakahara

Mai Nakahara

Morgan (voice)

Makoto Ishii

Makoto Ishii

Arthur (voice)

Rie Tanaka

Rie Tanaka

Octavia (voice)

Toru Okawa

Toru Okawa

Arawn (voice)

StatusEnded
Network
Netflix
Original Languageja
TypeScripted

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