Kyoushirou to Towa no Sora

Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora revolves around the life of Kuu Shiratori, a seemingly normal high school girl who enjoys her school life in the giant city Academia, which is thought of as a symbol of recovery for humanity since already ten years have passed since the greatest disaster mankind had ever seen, occurred. Kuu has recently been having a recurring dream where a prince meets her and takes her away. One day, while all the students at her school are preparing for the upcoming school festival, the prince, whom she has met several times in her dreams, appears. The prince, Kyoshiro Ayanokoji, requests of her just as he had done in Kuu's dreams, "Let's go... together..."

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Setsuna Main

Matsuoka, Yuki Japanese

Ayanokouji, Kyoushirou Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Shiratori, Kuu Main

Yahagi, Sayuri Japanese

Kaon Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Himiko Supporting

Shitaya, Noriko Japanese

Ayanokouji, Kazuya Supporting

Narita, Ken Japanese

Ayanokouji, Mika Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko Japanese

Valteishia Supporting

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Satou, Kozue Supporting

Satou, Rina Japanese

Tarlotte Supporting

Mochizuki, Hisayo Japanese

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Naya, Ryousuke Producer

Beniya, Yoshikazu Producer

Takechi, Tsuneo Producer

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Dec 19, 2013

junebug13

Recommended

I will admit the first time I watched Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora I actually dropped it a while after the first episode. The story did not draw me in. It came across as a typical romance to me, the whole concept of 'Absolute angels' just looked an excuse to throw some mechs in there, and DEAR GOD did the character of Kuu piss me off in the first episode. I picked it up again sometime later to pass the time and I'm pretty glad I did. Despite the boring high school romance vibe the show gave me after the first episode, the show actually ... did go off in a different direction than I expected and better one at that. The show is not all that great though and has a good number of flaws.

STORY: 7
If you're familiar with Kaisaku works then I'm pretty sure you'd be able to figure out how the story goes. Of course Kyoshiro has it's own story but it has many of the same cliches. I became gradually more impressed with the story as the show when on. Although some of the main plot twists in the story were predictable I found myself surprisingly caught of guard by some. The concepts of absolute angels were fairly interesting and it gave an appealing backstory to them. The romance however was… well not that great. I didn’t feel anything from the main couple’s relationship. The relationship just felt kinda slapped on and forced. There’s just a series of confusing moments between them in the earlier episodes that made me question if they’d really even be that great of a couple. Plus we can’t for get the oh so exciting and original love triangle.

The story however was decent enough to keep me interested after a few episodes though and if a story can do at least that then thats all I need to finish it till the end.

ART/ANIMATION: 7
I’ve never really found TNK’s art that exceptional. Of the anime’s I’ve seen animated by them the best ones would probably be Highschool DxD and this show, Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora. I have to admit the animation has improved greatly from Kaishaku last animated work “Kannazuki no Miko” who’s animation was below par. I enjoyed the artstyle of this show. The bright colors gave it a nice mood and the character designs were nicely done.
The animation was… “meh” I think some of the fight scenes in earlier episodes were beautifully animated and something worth watching. Some of the animation in the less exciting scenes did not have as nice of quality. I noticed more and more of these lower quality scenes show up the closer I got to the end.

SOUND: 6
To be honest there was nothing noteworthy about the sound. The opening and ending theme weren’t that great of songs. They weren’t terrible of course but nothing worth remembering. There was only one OST that even stood out to me and I do like it but well… it’s only one. The Dub wasn’t bad at all. FUNimation does do a decent job of dubbing after all. I prefer sub personally because Kuu’s voice in the dub just bugs me. It wasn’t bad acting infact the voice actually fit the character as she was rather annoying but hey I’ll get to that in the next section.

CHARACTERS: 6
I’d have to say the characters had to be both the best and worst part of this show. I personally found Kuu the main girl very annoying and I know she isn’t very liked by other fans. She herself doesn’t even develop much. She does a little bit but not as much as she could have considering her character’s personality. What develops most is her and Kyoshiro’s relationship instead of the actual characters. Kyoshiro actually becomes a different person than he was the beginning but his character is kind of a dull one. He’s a typical pretty boy and shares quite a few traits with a certain character from Kannazuki no Miko. Setsuna was pretty much the only main character I liked and the show wasn’t very kind to her. She comes across as one of the doll like characters, doing whatever she’s told but she does indeed have feelings of her own that become revealed as the story progresses.
And then of course the only notable side characters are Kaon and Himiko as you all know as Chikane and Himeko. The only reason they are noteable is because they are probably the reason why 90% of this shows audience came from. Seeing them again was definitely a treat and their relationship was 10000x better than the main couples in my opinion.

ENJOYMENT: 8
Obviously this part is a bit bias. I did enjoy the show quite a bit after getting a few episodes into it and It kept me interested. I’m glad I watched it to the end even if the show does have it’s flaws.

After averaging all the scores, I give Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora a 6.8/10 (rounded up to a 7) The least I can do is recommend you try the show if you’re into the Mecha, Fantasy and Romance genre’s (Especially if you enjoyed Kaisaku past works) but be well aware of it’s flaws. If the romance and stuff doesn’t sound like something that will interest you’re probably wouldn't like it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 21, 2022

Justykanna

Mixed Feelings

I ended up picking up Shattered Angels because it had some minor connections to Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, which I felt I liked more than most. However, Shattered Angels has some serious story-telling issues that I really couldn't overlook, despite a decent conclusion.

Story & Characters: We start out Shattered Angels with Kuu Shiratori, who is a pretty normal high school student in the city known as Academia. She frequently has dreams about someone she deems to be her prince, and Kuu feels that its fate that she fall in love with him. One day, when a new student is added to ... her class, she immediately recognizes him as the prince in her dreams. During her time in school, the school is attacked by Tarlotte, a girl who seems to have the ability to summon the powers of a mech unit. The new student, Kyoushirou Ayanokouji, rescues her with the help Setsuna, yet another girl who can wield the power of a mysterious mech. Kyoushirou tells Kuu that she can stay with him and that he'll protect her for as long as she needs. However, beneath this strange love tale, are much deeper stories that the series seems to hold back from its audience for entirely too long.

The story structure is really questionable to me here. We learn that a select few girls can wield powers that are similar to that of mechs pretty early, and those girls are known as Absolute Angels. They use mana, essentially magical powers, whenever they fight and are required to kiss their master on the lips to recharge. They can even summon just a limb, which allows them to fight in tight quarters without expanding their body to enormous sizes. I like the concept in theory. However, the series leaves every other interesting piece of story until the final few episodes. And I mean everything. The first half of the series focuses around, what the audience would deem to be, senseless fighting. We just have very little clue as to why there's so much conflict. I don't hate leaving details until the end, but you need to know why you're going on a certain pathway.

Kuu's rather ordinary and does nothing for most of the series than gush a prince that she saw in her dreams. When Kyoushirou rescues her, it's the only thing on her mind for pretty much half of the series. She doesn't really do anything remarkable until the end, but even then, her development is minimal at best. Kyoushirou grades out a little better, but is still pretty unremarkable. His backstory is actually pretty interesting, but they really don't utilize this as well as I would have liked. Setsuna might be my favorite in a series. She's obviously in love with Kyoushirou, but I really enjoyed her outward attitude towards Kuu. Their interactions were really strong and made the middle of the series a little more bearable. You can clearly tell that Setsuna is comfortable around Kuu and she doesn't seem to ever hold it against her.

One reason I was looking forward to the series was because of the presence of Chikane and Himeko's reincarnations, known as Kaon and Himiko in this series, both of which were initially seen in Destiny of the Shrine Maiden. The thing here is that there is very little connecting them to their previous selves. This isn't necessarily a problem on its own, but to barely even have similar personalities bummed me out a little bit. Kaon ends up not acting much on her own because of the circumstances she was in. She gets tortured multiple times, and she simply endures it. You really do feel bad for Himiko for the same reason though - the hand that she was dealt early on wasn't a pretty one. However, I really like where they took her character after the hardships she and Kaon go through. Mika is introduced as one of the villains not long into the series and I actually didn't mind some of the writing surrounding her. She feels that she owns one of the shattered angels and literally doesn't let up on that ideal. She comes off as very menacing, but her objectives are about as clear as dirt - I really didn't like that portion. Tartlotte just comes off as annoying and we really didn't get to see what she was thinking in any instance, which bugged me.

Shattered Angels eventually flushes out a bunch of details late in the series, but I feel it was delivered way too late. There were some solid plot points mixed in there, and I actually enjoyed the conclusion a fair bit. But by the time you get to that point, you almost feel like much of the content that came before it was mostly for nothing. The fact that we had two pretty bland main characters really didn't help the situation. (Story: 5/10, Characters: 5/10)

Art: This series looked okay for the most part. I didn't have much of a love for the mech designs here. The fights were equally okay, mostly because there wasn't much in the way of sustained usage of the Absolute Angels' powers. Sure, it's an old series, but I'm not entirely sure you can say the quality holds up to today very well. (6/10)

Sound: The sound itself isn't anything special either, with some OST tracks that didn't feel like they fit, and an OP and ED which were unremarkable. I think this might be one of Josh Grelle's (Kyoushirou) bests work that I've heard. They're in a lot of Harem roles and I really don't think it's a great fit. Brittney Karbowski (Kuu) and Maggie Flecknoe (Setsuna) are solid castings for the roles they had. The somewhat curious decision is to replace Michelle Ruff and Stephanie Sheh with Monica Rial (Kaon) and Luci Christian (Himiko) for the Destiny of the Shrine Maiden couple. My theory for this decision is that Funimation generally likes using their same people for their licensed series. Keep in mind that Shattered Angels was licensed by them, where as Destiny of the Shrine Maiden was not. The reason I believe this, is because the Japanese VAs remained the same for both series. Rial and Christian are obviously huge names so I'm not too upset by the recast, but I would have loved for Ruff and Sheh to return here. Much of the rest of the cast were solid in their roles. (7/10)

Overall Enjoyment: Shattered Angels ultimately was let down by both it's slow and questionable story, outside of the ending few episodes, and main two characters that I felt didn't bring enough to the table. If Destiny of the Shrine Maiden led you here, I can't say I necessarily recommend this show to that same audience. There are clear similarities, but the relationships here are not nearly as well written. (5/10)

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 7, 2020

kawaii123456

Not Recommended

"Even though i am boring empty and useless you still wanted to be with me"
---Kuu

No not really and yes it sucks to be you
---Kawaii123456

Man this was a steaming pile of garbage. I'm an old guy and in no way the target market for this but I think anyone will recognize it for the crap it is is. I'd have to go so far as to say it should probably be restricted from it's target audience. There's a lot of ideas that young girls could do without picking up.

Characters are the first place anime fail. If you like the characters, hate the characters or ... at the very least relate to their situation, even the worst of anime can be enjoyable. If they fail though the anime fails and shattered angel's doesn't have a single solid main character. They have not a single believable motivation amongst them.

The story is every bit as dreadful as the characters. Nothing makes the slightest bit of sense. Characters come out of nowhere, the entirety of the world is laughable.I just couldn't muster the suspension of disbelief to go along with it.

The presentation isn't as bad as the rest but it's still marginal. The art is rather generic the backgrounds are poor. Where it does work ia in the use of music to set the scenes. My sympathies to the musicians

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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