Madan no Ou to Vanadis

In a fantasy version of Europe, a war between enemy countries is brewing. One of these countries, Zhcted, has its seven regions ruled by War Maidens, known as Vanadis. Equipped with powerful dragon-carved weapons, Eleonora "Elen" Viltaria, one of the Vanadis, launches an invasion against their neighboring rival country of Brune. Eventually, Tigrevurmud "Tigre" Vorn, a young archer and an earl for Brune's region of Alsace, has his entire army decimated at Elen's hands. In a strange twist of events, Elen spares Tigre, and gives him the order, "Become mine!" What could be the meaning behind this new alliance?

Adapted from the light novel written by Tsukasa Kawaguchi, Madan no Ou to Vanadis is an epic adventure filled with complex war tactics and beautiful women. Trapped in a multinational conflict, Tigre and Elen are swept up in a war filled with dark secrets, conspiracies, and corruption.

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Vorn, Tigrevurmud Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Viltaria, Eleonora Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Lourie, Ludmila Supporting

Ise, Mariya Japanese

Limalisha Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

Titta Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Obertas, Sofya Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Glinka Estes, Valentina Supporting

Harada, Hitomi Japanese

Fomina, Elizavetta Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Alshavin, Alexandra Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Ester Loire Bastien do Charles, Regin Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Ueki, Tatsuya Producer

Oonuki, Kazuo Producer

Uema, Yasuhiro Producer

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Jul 22, 2024

ShibaTatsuya20

Recommended

Nice fantasy-war themed anime.

How a count brings stability to a war-torn empire where higher-ups plot devious schemes to attain power is the short summary of this anime.

This anime has sort of Fate : Stay Night vibes but here the hero is pretty talented and intelligent.

My main issue with the anime is that it's very short and seems rushed. Also, only two to three female heroines are highlighted where we've around 7-10 heroine cast probably due to compressing the anime to mere 13 episodes. And the show creators left out the background story of those powerful weapons and powers that we see in the anime too.

As ... such, despite having potential, the anime is betrayed by its own producers who just wanted to mint money rather than portray the story true to its light novel source.😤

Coming to animation, it's so-so. Could've been done better as the anime was released in 2014.🥲

Still, I liked the story, and I hope all echhi-harem-battle anime lovers too will like it.

9/10 from me as I'm partial to the above genres.🙃

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 29, 2022

ArchangelEST

Mixed Feelings

Ahhh... what a waste.

The show has a solid premise. A standard fantasy fare with a strong focus on powerful individuals and massive army warfare.

But execution? Terrible.

This anime feels like it omitted like 90% of its source material, because that's the only way it makes sense. Nothing is given enough time to develop on the screen. Characters are paper thin, lacking any real personality or motivations. Next to no backstory given on any of them. Each character is more meaningless than the other.

The story seems to revolve around a young count being drawn into a civil war as well as fighting off foreign invaders looking ... to take advantage, but we the viewers are given nothing to work with. No backstory, no explanations who all these different sides are and why they're fighting. Wars just happen, non-stop, no build-up, no planning, no warning, no nothing. It's war after war, battle after battle as if someone was playing Civilization on the smallest map size.

Characters are chilling one moment, and the next it's a full on fight between thousands of troops.

The world map barely gets any screen time to the point where you won't even know what country is being fought for and where the fights happen unless you pause and try to pay attention to the few seconds it occasionally flashes on the screen.

The warfare is extremely superficial as well. The show tries to put on big airs with higher quality CGI tactics and strategy screens, but it's all meaningless gibberish as none of the battle plans are actually explained properly, and battles that are described as taking days, are over in seconds of screen time. Wham bam, it's all over. Characters occasionally make a big deal about a battle being difficult and requiring crazy tactics to have a hope of victory, but they all play out the exact same way. They troops clash, they fight, then they randomly get reinforcements or one of the characters unleashes a new power and they save the day. It's nonsense.

This is an extremely frustrating anime to watch because the premise is solid, and it could have been a fun warfare focused fantasy show, but instead we get this watered down, rushed, content deprived slop that can't really please anyone.

There's even a harem of big breasted women all fawning over the protagonist, but even that isn't given any development time. It's literally just a bunch of boobs occasionally on the screen making doe eyes at the MC, and then it's back to a random fight scene with no real explanation.

This really doesn't even work as "fast food".

Avoid this anime unless you REALLY want to watch a completely mindless sequence of mediocre battle scenes and a few scantily clothed women doing some fancy magic moves.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 2, 2019

Omnimaniac

Not Recommended

This show is a result of the Japanese having sub-par knowledge about European history and culture. If you want to watch for the ecchi or battle harem type stuff then there are better shows to watch out there.

Story:

The story in itself is piss poor and makes zero sense logically. If you ignore every aspect of the story that doesn't make any sense at all then you can probably find some enjoyment in it.

The gist of the story is a count that for some reason isn't acting like a count or have the skills required to be a count is taken prisoner and for some ... unexplainable reason is let live by his captors. After his county is attacked by a duke within his country for no good reason he sets out to defend his county by killing everyone that oppose him and allying with his captors.

There's also some war maidens that only exist of ecchi purposes.

Vorn says he cares about Alsace, but after the first battle he could either have let Eleonora annexed his territory or called out to the duke ruling over him. He instead join Thenardier and Ganelon in committing treasonous acts, but unlike the two dukes he seems to wonder why he's branded a traitor after allying with the people they just went to war with.

Combat/tactics:

A major part of this show is supposed to be the combat and the tactics in war. However every single strategy that is used could be bested by a 6 year old with relative ease. Against an archer like the main character a large part of the enemy armies decides against helmets and shields, you know the things that could help against arrows for some mysterious reason. There are people carrying around quails with arrows for Vorn in battle, but largely Vorn is useless in battle. The war maidens seem to be the only ones doing work in battles and an honorable mention to Lim as she's the only character that actually seems to command troops.

Have an overwhelming force facing a tiny army? Let's get a couple thousand people killed and subsequently retreat!

A count for some reason not capable of using a sword. Gains magically powerful bow, fuck that shit. Let's just use a normal one instead and do almost nothing.

The best example of showing how stupid the combat is in this series is by using Vorn vs Thenardier. Big man Thenardier knows he's up against some scrawny kid that doesn't wear any armor and only knows how to use a bow. Let's not wear a helmet! Let's not use a shield! Big man Thenardier could have just thrown a fucking javelin at Vorn and he'd be dead unless he used his haxx bow.

Characters:

The women are the classic battle harem/ecchi type in falling for the mc for no real reason other than *plot*.

Nobody gives a shit about the majority of the soldiers

The dukes are conveniently both scheming retards incapable of taking down a single count. If Thenardier had a functioning brain he'd just destroy Alsace when Vorn was jacking off doing some dumb shit for no reason and he'd be destroyed mentally, easy win. Ganelon just comes up with some stupid schemes and does nothing noteworthy.

Vorn is just a dumb and spoiled pos. If not for the war maidens carrying him he'd be dead during his first fight. Arguably less likeable than Kirito which is quite a feat, but at least Kirito had some value in his series, Vorn has none. He has zero redeeming characteristics.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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