Toki no Daichi: Hana no Oukoku no Majo
刻の大地 ～花の王国の魔女～
In the past, the world was bundled with demons by the evil dragon Diabolos, and demons were ferocious. However, 14 years ago, Diabolos is defeated by Zard, a boy who was called a hero at the age of seven at the time. He calmed down the demons, and returned the world back to its peaceful state. Four years later, however, Diabolos was resurrected and the demons began to attack the world once again. Zard headed to fight Diabolos again, but he never came back.... On 4996, Kai, Zard's best friend, traveled to see whether what Zard said about humans and demons coexisting together was possible. During the journey, he meets Izayoi, a strange boy who can speak to demons with his heart; and Gend, a brown-skinned swordfighter who seems to be a survivor of the Dark Elves race. Kai discovers that perhaps, they are the key to the coexistence of humans and demons, which led to him traveling together with them. (Source: TMDB)
Synopsis
In the past, the world was bundled with demons by the evil dragon Diabolos, and demons were ferocious. However, 14 years ago, Diabolos is defeated by Zard, a boy who was called a hero at the age of seven at the time. He calmed down the demons, and returned the world back to its peaceful state. Four years later, however, Diabolos was resurrected and the demons began to attack the world once again. Zard headed to fight Diabolos again, but he never came back.... On 4996, Kai, Zard's best friend, traveled to see whether what Zard said about humans and demons coexisting together was possible. During the journey, he meets Izayoi, a strange boy who can speak to demons with his heart; and Gend, a brown-skinned swordfighter who seems to be a survivor of the Dark Elves race. Kai discovers that perhaps, they are the key to the coexistence of humans and demons, which led to him traveling together with them. (Source: TMDB)
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Reviews(2)
lkevsan
May 21, 2019
Seeing that not many people cares about old OVAs has made me curious about these shows that are so low ranked in MAL that they don't even appear in the ranked list properly. So here we go, one more time for a show without a review and that the only way I could find it, it's in a raw state but it is really straight forward so let's go. Since the only synopsis MAL has is "Based on the manga by Yama Miyuki." Here I will tell you what it is about. This show is about a group of 3 guys in which 2 are warriors/knightsand the other is a kid that loves flowers and monsters that live in that world. So they travel through different towns and explore the world they live but one day they find this magician girl that escapes his home because some of his family members (I believe) want to revive an evil witch so they can control the world with the power of a mythical Dragon and all the other monsters around the area. Also there is a side story about a comic relief character that calls herself the "Queen of Darkness" but when she tries to be evil, she makes more good deeds than "evil" things, she supposes she is making. The story is not that amazing to say but it is watchable, the focus on this group that wants to find a way to stop the evil guys is interesting and has that feel of 90s RPGs. The adventures they face are enjoyable but the action scenes are too bland. They always end quick and seemed very rushed. Only when there is focus on the powers of the magician girl it is quite good with what spell they could help the guys. The characters are ok, but anyone could argue that the little kid can be annoying. Because he is always under the clumsiness and innocence of what is going on around him. He always tends to hug the monsters when clearly the monsters want to kill the people that go around them. The 2 knights/warriors are ying and yang. One is this cool outgoing guy that loves the adventure but always is clear that the risks are there for them and the other is like Raphael from the Ninja Turtles always serious and having no time to joke around and always angry if something fails. They are not bad, but do the job. The Magician girl is the character that enjoyed the most out of the group. She is very calmed and cares for the others around. Too bad that her personality is nothing more than that because they could have given her a bigger role on the show with the battles instead of just this protection amulet she has and spells. It could have made it a little better. With the animation, for some reason that I can't explain and pardon my bias here the 90s animation no matter if a show is bad, it always gets me hypnotized, for me the animation and artsyle is really great and the best that Anime has. This was done by Magic Bus, the same producers that did my favorite anime of all time, Cipher The Video, The dark palettes that they use are great and make a good the presentation look very adequate. Although the first OVA suffers some issues with the 3D Backgrounds they try to implement. They look like those demo techs from the 80s about the 3D images in computers and really outdated even for the late 90s but the other 2 they use a more traditional 2D background. Also as I said the action animation is bad. They just use the technique where they make a portrait after an attack or simply a slash sometimes and that's it. They were really lazy for action scenes. The music is enjoyable if you are into RPGs and medieval music. The opening is hit or miss, it is ok but nothing extraordinary. The voice acting is good but again with the little kid it could be annoying, because he has this cute high pitch voice that sometimes got me to a point of desperation. Overall If you are into medieval stuff and you like to weird stuff that you have never heard of from the 90s this could be for you. But again with many OVAs from the 20th century are hit or miss for some and the story is very straight forward don't expect big twists or shocking settings but if you have 1 hour and more minutes it could be watchable for you. Thanks for taking the time for reading this review. English is not my first language so sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes. Take care in whatever you do and see you around.
