Words Worth

Words Worth
ワーズ・ワース
Genre Erotic
Game
Developer ELF Corporation
Genre Eroge, role-playing video game
Rating 18+
Platform Windows
Released 1993-07-22 (PC98)
1993-08-27 (X68k)
1993-09-30 (TOWNS)
1999-03-25 (Win95)
2004-10-29 (XP)
Original video animation
Directed by Kan Fukumoto
Studio Green Bunny/ARMS
Licensed by NuTech (original licencee)
Kitty Media (new licencee)
Released 1999
Episodes 5
Anime and Manga Portal

Words Worth (ワーズ・ワース Wāzu Wāsu?) is a five-part animated pornographic direct-to-video series and a role-playing eroge. It also has a side story series, Words Worth Gaiden (in Western parts also known as Words Worth Outer Stories). The game's story is linear, with only one story decision near the end, leading to one of five different endings. The anime has the same general story, but the anime cuts out several characters and changes the plot mostly to create more sex scenes.

The original Japanese hentai fantasy video game was made by ELF Corporation in 1993. The game was remade for Windows 95 in 1999, with some changed character designs, full-voice added to the supporting characters, 3D polygon graphics, and an opening animation sequence. That same year, the anime adaptation was also released. The series was originally released in English by NuTech Digital in 1999. However, the license was lost due to NuTech being sued for failure to pay royalties. According to AnimeNation, that license was awarded in 2007 to Media Blasters, which will release the series under Kitty Media. However, imports of this series can not be legally brought into Canada due to its exploitation of sex.[1]

The English dub is notable for featuring real life porn actresses Jenna Jameson and Nikki Dial. The rest of the English cast remained uncredited.

Contents

Story

The skill of sword-fighting is known to two tribes, the Tribes of Light (which consists of humans living on the world's surface) and Shadow (largely part-human-part-animal creatures and monsters living in an underground city, who enjoy a lifespan five times as long as the Tribe of Light and age one-fifth as quickly). The two tribes lived in peace and harmony, their domains separated by the "Words Worth" tablet — a huge monolith slab erected by an almighty creator. Although the tablet has writing on it, neither Tribe can read the text. One day, Words Worth was mysteriously destroyed by an unknown entity; its fragments scattered among the domain of the Tribes of Shadow.

The two Tribes blamed each other for the tablet's destruction, and started a war that has continued for 150 years (100 in the anime).

Astral, prince of the Tribe of Shadow, desires to become a Swordsman of Shadow. However, his father, King Wortoshika, forbids him to do so. He is engaged to Sharon, a beautiful swordswoman and Astral's childhood friend, who has feelings for Astral but wishes he were stronger.

The story begins here...

Characters

Tribe of Shadow

Tribe of Light

Plot of the Anime

With the help of Nina, Astral obtains a Swordsman's license illegally. Before he can join the battle against the Light Tribe forces and their king Fabris, he has his first of many sexual experiences: first with Maria, who has been taken prisoner and whom he naively rapes, and then with Nina, who had always harbored a secret crush on him.

Eventually arriving on the battlefield, Astral sees Hyde die at Sir Fabris' hands, which ignites a powerful rage, and he races to rescue Sharon as she is about to be raped by Fabris. Astral surprises Fabris and manages to slice off one of his arms. But then Maria, who has managed to free herself, casts a powerful spell at Astral in a fit of vengeful furor, inadvertently blasting him onto the surface and 20 years into the future as well as obliterating his memory.

After many wanderings, Astral finally reaches civilization (i.e. the tribe of Light) and is immediately mistaken for Pollux, a famous Light swordsman who had mysteriously disappeared many years ago to whom Astral bears a striking resemblance. Finally, he is taken in by King Fabris, who recognizes both his attacker and his value in his schemes against the Shadow people, and successfully tricks Astral into opening the sealed gateway between the Light and Shadow realms.

Meanwhile, Wortoshika has nearly completed the tablet, much to the chagrin of his advisor, Tessio. As it turns out, both Tessio and his Light counterpart, Menza, are two parts of a monstrous entity which is responsible for destroying the Words Worth tablet in the first place. Determined to prevent the completion of the task, they attack Wortoshika in the cavern where he stores the tablet.

In the meanwhile, Astral confronts Sharon in combat and gradually recovers his memory. Together with her and a few other allies, including Nina and her daughter Ariadne, he reaches the secret cave where the incomplete tablet is stored. Fabris and his men also arrive for battle, but instead end up allying with the Shadow forces against the entity of Darkness, and a dying Wortoshika reveals Astral's true lineage: he was kidnapped from the Light tribe as a baby - though the fate of his real father, implied to be the late Pollux, is never shown - in order to fulfill the prophecy with the expected child from Astral's and Sharon's union. However, it is Ariadne — who, as Astral's and Nina's daughter, fulfills the terms — that manages to complete the tablet and read its message, which reveals both God's desire for both tribes to be progenitors of a "complete" race of mixed Light-and-Shadow blood. This revelation results in the end the century-long conflict and union of both worlds.

Words Worth no Hitobito

This game is a cross-over between Words Worth and The Mystery of Nonomura Hospital. In the first half of the game, Umihara, the main protagonist of The Mystery of Nonomura Hospital, enters the world of Words Worth as summoned by Wortoshika. The game takes place in the intervening 20 years between Astral's disappearance and reappearance. In the second half, Sharon from Words Worth comes into the world of Nonomura Hospital and has a sexual affair with Umihara.

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