Blessing of the Campanella Season 1

Synopsis

Ert'Aria, a city known as the "Treasury of the World" is preparing for a harvest festival. Leicester Maycraft, a young item technician of the Oasis clan, encounters a shooting star near a party he is attending. Upon finding it, a girl appears before Leicester calling him her father.

Main Cast

Ari Yunohara

Salsa Tortilla

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Mai Kadowaki

Minette

Age : 43 | Popularity : 14%

Kaori Mizuhashi

Agnes Boulange

Age : N/A | Popularity : 54%

Asami Imai

Chelsea Arcot

Age : 47 | Popularity : 15%

Kimiko Koyama

Carina Verritti

Age : 45 | Popularity : 5%

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Leicester Maycraft

Age : N/A | Popularity : 74%

Mai Gotou

Ritos Tortilla

Age : 41 | Popularity : 3%

Episodes

Episode 1

03 July 2010 - Night of the Meteor Shower

In the city of Ert'Aria lives the young inventor Leicester Maycraft. He is part of a small adventuring clan called Oasis led by Carina Verritti, the daughter of the Archduke who rules over the city. Later that evening there is to be a regular meteor shower that comes once every seven years, and the clan is preparing a party. They meet a young puppeteer named Agnes Boulange who makes an impressive show of her magical automata puppets in the square. They also meet a young knight named Chelsea Arcot and the sisters Ritos and Salsa who run the Tortilla shop in front of their clan hall.

Episode 2

10 July 2010 - The World of Dragons

The young girl calls Leicester "Papa", which scandalises Carina, but it turns out that the girl, named Minette, is actually a highly sophisticated automaton created by Agnes's mentor, Mize Altowirz, activated by the burst of Ale energy from the meteor, and bonded with him as he was the first person she saw.

Episode 3

17 July 2010 - The Staff of Bonds

Agnes and Leicester are planning something secretly, and later they propose that the clan take on a quest to recover some rainbow flowers that absorb all the light surrounding them. They grow in a certain forest which is growing darker and more dangerous as they flourish. Carina accepts, and they travel to that forest, and Carina and Leicester use her staff Montecchia to survey the area and tell the rest of the clan where to go. Their aerial survey discovers the spot where the flowers grow, and they direct everyone else where it is, while the two of them investigate ahead. As Carina tries to reach for one of the flowers they are attacked by a crystal monster, and she uses her staff to fly to a safe distance so she can use her magic on it while Leicester tries to fend it off, but she suddenly loses magical energy and falls on top of him, and the two of them are tangled in vines in a compromising position when the rest of the clan arrives and defeats the monster, recovering its crystal.

Episode 4

24 July 2010 - Within the Darkness

The clan is going on another quest from an old woman who is one of Agnes's most avid fans. They are to obtain a supply of hot spring crystals and go to an abandoned mine to obtain some. While mining these crystals they happen upon a hidden chamber with a large crystal in its centre, which has a complex flow of Ale energy emanating from it. Before they can examine it further the mine experiences subsidence due to the rains, and the ceiling cracks, and they try to get out, but Agnes and Leicester are separated from the others by a cave-in. The two of them manage to find another way out, and see a rainbow at the exit, and rejoin the others.

Episode 5

31 July 2010 - Day Off for Oasis

Oasis has no quests assigned, but everyone is very busy, so no one is around to play with Minette, except Garnet, who suddenly materialises as she was getting bored in the dragon world. Nina asks Minette to buy the ingredients for the night's dinner, which she happily does, considering it as her own personal quest for the day. The Tortilla sisters have also been asked to silently watch her and make sure that she is all right.

Episode 6

07 August 2010 - Night of the Party

The Archduke has organised a party to honour the Knights for their service to the city. Leicester and Nick have been given guard duty for that night over the artefacts at the cathedral which the Knights are supposed to protect. Leicester sees a great sword known as the Sacred Celestine and feels particularly attracted to it, fascinated in its construction by the ancients. The Tortillas have been given guard duty outside the Archduke's palace, and as the party is going on, they are attacked by a crystal monster that seems to have the shape of a serpent. It can move so quickly when it attacks that its movements cannot be seen, so much so that no one can hit it. Minette summons Garnet who is sent to call for Leicester at the cathedral, and when he finally arrives he realises that the monster is attracted by light, so he uses a strong crystal-powered lamp to attract it and allow Chelsea to destroy it. How or why the monster could have appeared in the middle of the city is a mystery.

Episode 7

14 August 2010 - The Forest of Dolls

It has been some time but apparently the Ale meteor shower is still going on. This concerns the Archduke so he sends Oasis on a new quest to investigate the phenomenon. They are asked to visit the forest home of Mise Altoise, Agnes's teacher for possible clues. Agnes is familiar with the area and knows how to get through the maze of magical traps her teacher had set, but notices that they have been changed in subtle ways, so she expects Mise to be there, and is disappointed to find that she is not there. Oasis searches the house and finds a note for Agnes hidden in a secret compartment. Meanwhile, Nick, standing guard outside the house is attacked by a girl who proves to have exceptional fighting ability.

Episode 8

21 August 2010 - The Eighth Episode! Everyone Gets Together!

It is the Ert'Aria harvest festival, and to let Minette enjoy herself during the festivities, someone has to accompany her in case Aberdeen strikes again. The Tortilla sisters accompany her through most of the festival, and they see Agnes at her puppet show, Chelsea at the Knights' Cafe, and Carina at the cathedral looking over the artefacts. The Tortillas obtain an item from Leicester they need for the fireworks display that evening. Leicester brings Salsa back to Oasis to obtain an item from Nina, and is invited to join the rest of Oasis to watch the fireworks at the cathedral roof but instead opts to join Ritos to do the fireworks.

Episode 9

28 August 2010 - An Unusual Omen

Nagan, Leicester's father, explains about how the meteor shower activity that year is rather unusual, and how the previous shower was similar, and that Altoise had been aware of this and trying to investigate it. The letter she left for Agnes mentioned something called the 'Waterwheel of the Heavens', and how it was related to the mysterious meteor shower activity. Carina and Agnes research this mysterious artefact, but find nothing new. Meanwhile, Minette meets with her friend Miriam again, and she says that she wants to give a present to her cat. Leicester suggests they give it a bell that uses an Ale Crystal. The two of them help Leicester make these bells, but as they are finishing Miriam collapses just as a meteor shower falls on the city. It is seen that Miriam is an automaton, and Aberdeen's sister. He arrives with Avril to take her home.

Episode 10

04 September 2010 - Minette's Choice

Before leaving, Aberdeen says that he wants the Minette's core, the Anima Pearl, to save Miriam, whose own automaton core is being badly affected by the instability of Ale flow in the world. This leaves Minette conflicted, as she wants to save Minette but her own passing would leave many unhappy, Miriam first of all. Oasis then goes about attempting to find Aberdeen and protect Minette from him, while at the research into the Ale instability left to the Tortilla sisters, who find that the strange phenomena are concentrated around the old mine where they had found the chamber with the large crystal. That evening, Minette resolves to give herself up to Aberdeen to save Miriam, leaving the bells they had made with Leicester at everyone's door. She meets Shelley at the Cathedral who speaks to her briefly about her decision. Leicester awakens and realises that Minette has left, and he goes to find her.

Episode 11

11 September 2010 - Differing Thoughts

Leicester and the rest of Oasis search the city to try to find Minette. Carina and Leicester are the first to find Aberdeen's home. They are attacked by Avril, but Carina uses a spell to send Leicester ahead to the house while she fights Avril. He confronts Aberdeen and they do battle, and after Leicester makes his weapon produce an explosion that sends both of them reeling convinces him that there has to be another way, a way to save Miriam without needing to sacrifice Minette.

Episode 12

18 September 2010 - Blessing of the Campanella

Oasis and Aberdeen and Avril arrive at the mine, and are attacked by a horde of crystal monsters. Aberdeen and Avril remain nearby to repel as many of the monsters as they can as Oasis goes ahead. They appear before a great tower where the Waterwheel of the Heavens is. They are attacked by yet more monsters as they ascend the tower, so Nick and Garnet remain behind to keep the monsters from following.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Assistant Director	Kei Oikawa
	Series Director	Shinji Ushiro
Visual Effects	Character Designer	Mariko Fujita
	Color Designer	Sanae Kimura
Art	Art Direction	Yuuko Sugiyama
	Art Designer	Takehiro Ishimoto Masayuki Niitsuma
Sound	Sound Effects	Mutsuhiro Nishimura
Camera	Director of Photography	Hideki Imaizumi
Production	Producer	Masazumi Katou Hajime Maruyama
	Production Assistant	Taizou Oohara
Crew	Public Relations	Umihiko Mine
Editing	Editor	Takashi Sakurai
Department	Role	Name

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