Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi

In a world of magic and monsters, Krylancelo Finrandi and his foster sister Azalie Cait-Sith were once promising students of sorcery, prodigies at the famous Tower of Fangs. But an experiment gone horribly wrong warps Azalie's appearance, trapping her in the form of a dragon.

Elders at the Tower—more interested in preserving their reputation rather than their students' lives—drive off the transformed Azalie and cover up the incident. Outraged, Krylancelo strikes out on his own, taking the new name of "Orphen" and vowing to return Azalie to her normal state.

Five years later, Orphen's quest has stalled. A chance encounter brings him face to face with Azalie again, but he still has no way to restore her body. And with a hostile group of sorcerers hunting her down, he may be running out of time. The past and present collide as Orphen tries to find how to save Azalie from their former teachers and friends.

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Orphen Main

Morikubo, Shoutarou Japanese

Everlasting, Cleao Main

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Lin, Majic Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Cait-Sith, Azalie Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Volkan Supporting

Mizuno, Marie Japanese

Leki Supporting

Allenford, Hartia Supporting

Ban, Taito Japanese

Powderfield, Childman Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Packingham, Forte Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Dortin Supporting

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Yoshie, Terushige Producer

Oomori, Shinji Producer

Yonemori, Hiroto Producer

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Mar 31, 2020

Harucchan

Recommended

Honestly, I can't understand all this hatred towards this series. As a Cinema graduate, I was taught to look at things objectively. This series is no masterpiece and, as I haven't watched the original, I have no grounds to compare.

The story is a bit confusing, so I don't know if the hatred stems from here. The story was very rushed - if I take into consideration the comments of those who watched the original. The script could've been better elaborated so that the story would’ve had a better flow - maintaining the interest and suspense.

It's really entertaining as a whole if you watch knowing ... what to expect. The story has a lot of elements which make it interesting (though confusing). Still, it’s a good way to pass your time if you do not expect much.

The action scenes are well made, and the art is fairly decent. The characters are quite captivating as well!

I enjoyed a lot since I did not expect much! The story has a lot of issues; still, I've seen many anime that had these kinds of issues (or worse), but did not receive all of this hatred - maybe because they had fanservice, ecchi and other cliched people love.

In conclusion, I do not get people at all: I just think there are a lot of hypocrites and horny guys in here who can’t watch a fantasy without those elements mentioned above. Honestly, I've liked this more than that I-don't-know-what-that-fuck-it-is Code Geass (which people seem to love). I'm sorry, not sorry!

Peace out!

Story - 6
Art - 8
Sound - 6
Character - 6
Enjoyment - 8
Overall - 7

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 7, 2024

ManoCustaff

Mixed Feelings

Animation: As a long-time fan of this series, I had high expectations but I feared Deen would reprise their freakshow of Nanatsu. I was dead wrong, but they didn't improve that much either. Deen is actually good with fighting scenes and effects, although they're too quick to get a taste. The first episode has an ok fight while the brawl with Salua was very good-looking indeed. The only good-looking frames are the close-ups. Background characters always look weird and badly drawn. Scenarios are mostly static and lifeless. So basically, animation-wise, this first season is a 5/10

Story: A good story on its own doesn't hold much ... longer, because it needs proper adaptation and Deen rushed the fuck out of it, damn. All the books up until 6 range from 140 to 190 pages, so at least 3 to 4 episodes by book adapted. The first book got 4 episodes, but they cut content and decided to drag on the 4th episode with tons of flashbacks so they managed to make the first arc look both rushed and dragged. Books adapted were 1,4,5 and 6. Book 2 has important lore elements, that's why they had to make an OVA to explain it. Book 3 doesn't add that much but it's one of the most gory and violent stories and it has a thriller feeling, so it wouldn't fit well in Deen's shoneing up of this series (Yes, Orphen is a SEINEN series). Book 4 had 2 episodes, rushed too. The story gets better with books 5 and 6 because they had more episodes to them and didn't commit the same mistake as the first arc, so I'd give the story adaptation an overall of 6/10, considering what was adapted.

Music: It's lackluster almost all the time if you ask me. It does its job, but it's not remarkable. I think it only stands out during very dramatic scenes and that's it, which is a shame since 98 and Revenge had a kickass OST, so I'd give this a 6/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 31, 2020

G_ifra

Not Recommended

I'm just writing this review to let you know not to waste your time watching this anime.
Some other reviews weren't clear on that in my opinion.

This anime seemed to have all the good ingredients, fantasy, drama, mystery but the final product is appalling.

Characters are not only generic they are also thrown in the episodes with unknown powers and motivations. Even the main character has this problem, but when needed something "magic" will save the day.
The fights are horrible as for some reason these become a narrative to tell about the powers and characters with flash backs and all.
And the fast pace wit massive ... material compressed in a small quantity of episodes can not be used as an excuse. There are a plenty of flash backs to the previous episodes, plenty of precious minutes wasted.

The art looks decent at first sight, but appearing/disappearing weapons/details totally ruins that too. And as there is nothing to work with music and voice acting cannot help.

Conclusion, only watch this to know how not to make an anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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