Lost Song is a musical fantasy anime television series produced by Liden Films in collaboration with Dwango and Mages. The series follows Rin and Finis, two girls with opposite backgrounds and personalities yet sharing the commonality of performing miraculous songs worthy of healing, wind, water and fire. Rin and Finis each embark on an arduous journey during a time of war in the kingdom, and they must find each other in order to sing a duet that will restore world peace once again. The series was first released online in Japan through Netflix on March 31, 2018, [1] [2] [3] followed by a TV airing on Tokyo MX, SUN, TVA, BS Fuji and KBS on April 7, 2018. [4] Netflix began streaming the series globally on September 30, 2018. [5] [6] The opening theme is "Utaeba Soko ni Kimi ga Iru Kara" (歌えばそこに君がいるから, If I Sing, You Will Be There) by Konomi Suzuki, and the ending theme is "Tears Echo" by Yukari Tamura. [7] [8]
No. in series | Title | Original air date (JPN-Netflix) | |
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01 | "The Song of Healing" | March 31, 2018 | |
A young girl named Rin lives with her younger brother Al, older sister Mel and grandfather Talgia Hawkray in the faraway Dandera Village deep within a forest. Rin is devoted to go to the Capital and sing in the Court Orchestra, while Al is determined to show off his prototype inventions. However, Talgia refuses and even forbids Rin from singing. Rin and Al are given the opportunity to sneak out by venturing into the forest and picking berries, whereupon they stumble upon an injured knight from the Capital, later recognized as Henry Leobolt. Although Al wants to return to get medicine, Rin decides to treat Henry with the Song of Healing. After Henry formally introduces himself and tries to honor their wish of going to the Capital, ice mysteriously begins to spread throughout the forest, separating Rin and Al from Henry. As Rin and Al are trapped in the forest, they overhear a knight witnessing Rin's Song of Healing and reporting back to general Bazra Bearmors, who went to kill Talgia and burn down the village. Rin and Al hurry back to the village, desperately trying to save Mel from under the debris, but Mel ends up dying in Rin's arms. | |||
02 | "The Song of Departure" | April 7, 2018 | |
Henry returns to the Capital, only to be told that a war is upon the country in its competition for the power of their songstress, later recognized as Finis, whose songs can rejuvenate and heal soldiers. Henry refuses to see Finis as a tool to be used in war. Finis, a beautiful but clumsy woman, is forbidden to leave the palace tower, according to her maid Corte. The ruthless prince Rudo Bernstein IV intends to marry Finis and keep her bound to the castle. While Finis enjoys fresh air in the garden on a rare occasion with her attendants, she gets lost and almost killed by an assassin. Henry arrives to save her and earns the title of being her bodyguard. Meanwhile, Rin and Al reach a small town after a day of trekking, where they manage to get food in an inn. They meet Pony Goodlight, a former court minstrel from the Capital trying to pay her lodging fee by performing. Rin joins Pony in song, and Pony's lodging fee is free of charge. Pony eventually realizes that Rin is a songstress, warning her that she will be hunted down for her powers by the Capital Army. | |||
03 | "The Song of Love" | April 14, 2018 | |
The innkeepers sell out Rin, Al and Pony to some knights of the Capital Army. Pony attempts to stall them, but she is knocked out. Al then throws a Star Bomb, a type of firecracker bomb invention that can act as a smoke screen. However, Al gets stabbed by a dagger in the process, and Rin uses the Song of Healing to treat him. The knights promptly capture Rin, Al and Pony on boats. Al uses a knife to saw through his ropes before untying Rin and Pony. Also, Pony teaches Rin the Song of Wind. With Al's Star Bombs and then Rin's Song of Wind, the knights are successfully defeated. At the palace, Henry and Finis grow close after he protects her from more assassins, although Corte goes missing in the process. Later on, Finis and Henry camp out together in the woods, and Finis sings the Song of Fire to return his kindness and chivalry, despite shortening her lifespan by doing so. The next morning, Corte finds Finis and escorts her back to the palace tower, while an envious Rudo discharges Henry from his bodyguard duties and send him on the fiercest front lines of war. | |||
04 | "The Song of Depravity" | April 21, 2018 | |
Henry fights in the front lines alongside comrades Berrow and Snore. Finis later arrives on the front lines and put her life in danger to use her Song of Healing in order to revive the soldiers. Henry then hears word that Finis plans to use the destructive Weapon of Song against the enemy. In the countryside, Rin, Al and Pony find a wagon transporting military weapons along with a pair of female rhythm masters, who raise morale of the troops and increase their productivity. When the wagon hits a bump in the road, the rhythm masters are thrown out and introduce themselves as Monica Lux and Allu Lux before each group parts ways. Rin, Al and Pony soon lodge at an inn to eat and stay the night. Monica and Allu later enter the inn and reveal themselves to be daughters of the blind innkeeper. While Al searches for Monica, who has run off, Allu tells Rin and Pony that they are rhythm masters to earn money for their mother's eye treatment, instead of chasing their dream of playing in the Court Orchestra. Rin, Pony, Monica and Allu make music together, inevitably healing the innkeeper's blindness. | |||
05 | "The Song of Encounter" | April 28, 2018 | |
Corte realizes that a frail Finis is using her powers for war to protect Henry. Being told that Rudo would execute Henry if Finis did not use her powers against the enemy, Corte runs into the forest to gather herbs. When a knight tells Corte that Finis has gone to the watering hole, Corte instinctively runs back into the forest. Finis meets Berrow and Snore while wandering in the forest. Meanwhile, Rin, Al, Pony, Monica and Allu eventually encounter Henry at the western checkpoint of the Capital, as Rin uses the Song of Wind to rescue him from being shot with arrows. While imprisoned, Henry reveals that the purpose of the minstrel hunt was to capture Rin for her power of songs. After Henry reveals that another songstress has been manipulated into a weapon, later recognizing her as Finis, he unlocks the cell doors to help the others escape from the western checkpoint. Henry holds back the knights, while telling the others to seek refuge at a laboratory due west. Rin uses the Song of Wind to fly the horse-drawn carriage over the western checkpoint gate. | |||
06 | "The Song of Goodbye" | May 5, 2018 | |
Henry reunites with Finis, Berrow and Snore in the forest. Although Corte is relieved to find them, Rudo arrives to take Finis to the Montvale Fortress, but Henry proposes that it can be captured without the use of Finis. Henry, Berrow and Snore ultimately conquers the Montvale Fortress. Meanwhile, Rin, Al, Pony, Monica and Allu find a cottage owned by Doctor Weissen, who has all sorts of contraptions. Al finds a wooden box with a five-dial combination lock, as he deduces that the password is "Finis", despite Weissen claiming not to know her. The box contains the same military weapons on the wagon from before, which Weissen reveals that they are echo devices designed to amplify and preserve the power of the songstress in order to relax the burden. However, since he refused to cooperate with the Capital Army, his research was confiscated and his laboratory was sunken, leading him to give up on everything. Rin tells Weissen that she also suffered losses, giving her the reason to continue singing. Rin, Pony, Monica and Allu make music together, restoring Weissen's laboratory from the lake. Weissen offers Al to stay as his assistant while the others continue on their journey. | |||
07 | "The Song of Mortality" | May 12, 2018 | |
While the front line knights celebrate with a banquet in honor of their victory at their army camp, Corte sternly warns Finis and Henry to run away. Corte personally serves Rudo her wine, but Rudo sees through this act of kindness as a way of poisoning him, by which he forces her to drink the wine and kills her for good. Rin, Pony, Monica and Allu have made it to Ash City, where a mural depicts a goddess who destroys the world. However, they are concerned of a meteor that seems to be expanding towards them. They then approach the army camp amidst the heavy fog. Rudo takes Henry to see the prisoners at night for unknown reasons. In the morning, Finis bumps into Rudo, who brings her to burn the prisoners outside using the Song of Fire, but she is distraught when she unknowingly burns her beloved Henry at the stake instead, set by Rudo himself. Disheartened and enraged, Finis summons the last of her strength to unleash a portion of the forbidden Song of Mortality's destructive powers onto the Earth, killing Rudo and his men just as Rin, Pony, Monica and Allu arrive in the present. | |||
08 | "The Song of Eternity" | May 19, 2018 | |
In an alternate timeline, astronomer Henry predicts that the Moon has changed its orbit and will collide into Earth in about 60,000 years. When Henry and Finis meet, she tells him that she is an ancient songstress who was blessed with the great magical power to make miracles with her singing alone until she had used that very power to kill her dearly beloved. According to her, life is an endless yet hopeless cycle between past and future. Finis appears to be immortal and ageless after singing the Song of Mortality several times, no matter what era she finds herself to be in. She endured many sufferings from constantly resetting the world in hopes of reuniting with the man whom she once loved. Finis reveals to Henry that she was responsible for the change in the orbit of the Moon long ago. To end everything, she plans to sing the Song of Mortality one more time at the annual Starsong Festival, where people sing to the stars to grant their wishes. This is when the Moon will be at its closest to Earth. In the alternate present, Bazra is responsible for abusing Finis's strong mystical power of songs for his personal gain. | |||
09 | "The Song of Nostalgia" | May 26, 2018 | |
Finis, now in cloaked attire, is told by Bazra that her power of songs will achieve world domination, but she states that their prior agreement was for her to sing her Song of Mortality during the Starsong Festival. Rin, Pony, Monica and Allu realize that Finis has only been seen by a few knights of the Capital Army. A daring plan is concocted to pretend in bringing Finis to the knights while using a wind echo device, hijacking Weissen's stolen machine called the Symphony Killer and ensuing chaos to save the real Finis. The plan backfires when Monica, who was pretending to be Finis, is the only one allowed onboard the Symphony Killer. Monica subsequently falls asleep out of fear, accidentally activating the Symphony Killer at random. Pony, Monica and Allu are then rescued by Berrow and Snore. Meanwhile, Rin touches Henry's original sword containing black spirits, transporting herself into Finis's past. Rin discovers how Finis eventually abandoned her feelings for Henry after burning him at the stake. Finis discarded the Song of Healing, which represents hope, and it manifested itself as Rin, who was found by Talgia serving in the Capital Army at that time. | |||
10 | "The Song of Determination" | June 2, 2018 | |
Rin was taken in by Talgia and Mel as a baby. Talgia was against Bazra's views of using Finis's power of songs as a tool of war. While dueling, Bazra used a fire echo device to disable Talgia's right arm from wielding his sword. After Talgia later held Rin by his left arm, Rin sang the Song of Healing to treat his right arm, as he vowed to always protect her. In the present, Henry, revealed to be alive, sadly has no recollection of Finis. Pony, Monica, Allu, Berrow and Snore notice that the ash is moving despite the wind not blowing. Bazra confronts Henry, who finds himself near Rin. As Finis subconsciously tells Rin to help her, this purifies Henry's original sword. Pony, Monica, Allu, Berrow and Snore arrive, but Henry warns them that Bazra has a crossbow loaded with echo devices. When Bazra prepares to aim at Rin, she is saved by the timely arrival of Al, who launches Star Bombs while flying in a jet pack, causing Bazra to retreat. After Al advises Pony, Monica, Allu, Henry, Berrow and Snore to head to Weissen's laboratory, Rin vows to save Finis, no matter what. | |||
11 | "The Song of Silence" | June 9, 2018 | |
Al reveals that his jet pack is powered by wind echo devices, but the weight of Rin causes both of them to fall. While Rin, Al, Pony, Monica, Allu, Henry, Berrow and Snore camp out, they spot an airship, which they assume that Bazra is heading to the Capital. As Rin, Al, Pony, Monica, Allu and Henry visit Weissen, they reveal that Finis and Bazra have a common interest in using her power of songs. Meanwhile, as Finis and Bazra are heading to the Capital, he mentions that the Symphony Killer was just a prototype, so as long as she holds her end of the agreement. Upon his return, Bazra is waiting for the new model of the Symphony Killer to be ready. Henry tells Al that he laid eyes on a masked princess in the Court Orchestra five years ago, but she disappeared soon after. The eventual plan is for Rin to sing the Song of Healing before Finis sings the Song of Mortality. Weissen gives everyone mechanical flying horses as their way of transportation to the Capital, while Rin previously revealed to Weissen that she will ultimately disappear as she is Finis' healing song that was discarded many centuries ago. | |||
12 | "The Song of Beginning" | June 16, 2018 | |
Finis and the Court Orchestra perform the deathly Song of Mortality, forcing the moon to start falling towards Earth. Henry, Berrow and Snore fight against Bazra, who is equipped with the new Symphony Killer. Henry and Al ultimately combine their efforts to kill Bazra. Upon finding Finis, Rin reveals herself as the Song of Healing that Finis chose to throw away long ago. Pony reveals herself as the long-lost Princess Alea Golt, convincing the Court Orchestra and Rin's Orchestra to perform with Rin and Finis in singing the Lost Song; a combination of the Mortality and Healing Songs as they were originally one song. Weissen tells Al that this is the union between Rin's Song of Healing and Finis's Song of Mortality, which means that saving Finis will end in Rin's death. After the performance, the Moon crumbles over Earth, thus saving everyone for the better. Henry is appointed the new general and crowned the king alongside Pony as the queen. Monica and Allu return to their hometown performing in their mother's inn. Weissen spends his time in seclusion in his laboratory making experiments. Al is the youngest scientist ever seen and even succeeds Weissen. Now guarded by a knighted Corte, Finis is presumably pregnant with a reborn Rin. |
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