Alternative TitlesEnglish: Orphen Synonyms: Sorcerer Stabber Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Japanese: 魔術士オーフェン
Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 1998 to Mar 27, 1999
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 7.331 (scored by 5301 users)
Ranked: #18722
Popularity: #1326
Members: 11,310
Favorites: 86 1 indicates a weighted score
My Info
Popular Tags
action adventure comedy fantasy |
SynopsisSix years ago at the magic school known as the Tower of Fang, a grave accident happened involving the magical sword Baltanders and the magic user Azali. Unable to control the sword's power, Azali was transformed into the shape of a great dragon who since that day became known as Bloody August. Krilancelo, a young magician at the Tower who cared greatly for Azali found much to his disgust that the elders of the Tower of Fang were less than willing to save Azali and wanted rather to pretend the accident never happened. Angered by their stand, Krilanceloa swore that he would find a way to return Azali to her former self. Thus he forsook the name Krilancelo and declared himself Orphen, leaving the Tower and his magical studies behind to wander the world...
(Source: ANN) |
Related AnimeAdaptation: Orphen, Majutsushi Orphen
Sequel: Majutsushi Orphen: Revenge
Characters & Voice Actors
Staff
Reviews
|
|
PregnantOrc
27 of 44 people found this review helpful
|
24 of 24 episodes seen
|
| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
7 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
6 |
| Character |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Orphen is not something that will leave you thinking you just watched one of the greatest animes of all time. It's a good fantasy story presented in a nice way. The opening statement might sound negative but it's better to be blunt about it, it's not.
The story is enjoyable and the best thing about the anime. Some nice changes to pretty common story elements make Orphen get a story that is good and solid. The mix of humorus sceens and action and battle scenes it done very well and in a way that helps the story along and doesn't feel like it has been put there just for the heck of it. There are fightscenes but they are generaly not long. They are far from the battles of animes such as Dragon Ball or Bleach where they stretch on for several episodes with one episode dedicated to the yelling needed to power up. If you are a fan of these battles I whould not recomend Orphen to you for it's fight scenes. The battles mostly over after a few strikes. If you have read the Lord of the Rings trillogy you can expect the battles to be much in the same way when it comes to presentation. More focus on what happens before and after a fight than the actuall battle. They are not overly short but no longer than they need to be since they are not the main focus of the story. That is the hunt for the relics needed to transform Azalie back to her normal form before the Tower of Fang (called Talon`s Peak in the story synopsis) can kill her.
I like the art style of this anime. You can see that it's not a very new anime by just looking at it but with a fantasy story it doesn't hurt to think old. The backgrounds are detailed without having any real details. It might sound odd but it's the best way I can describe it. Everything has a good amount of colours in diffrent shades. Grass and stone are not one colour with another shade for shadows and highlights. They are done in the same style as paintings or the old disney films.
The characters are done in the three shades way mentioned above with the addition of another colour for lighting effects and fit very good onto the background.
The magic spells could have done with some more detail, they are very simply drawn but then it's pretty hard to add shadows to something that glows strong enough to make make all other shadows look weak.
The characters fullfill their roles very well even if they are very sterotypical in most cases. Despite that they are fun and fit into the story and they don't feel to sterotypical untill you start to analyze them. It whould have been fun to see a bit more character development from Majic and a bit more so from Cleo. It whould have been fun looking back at the anime but nothing I found myself thinking about while watching it. The others are done nicely enough.
The soundtrack did what it's supposed to. Be in the back but wasn't very intresting with the exeption of one track which was great. I also liked the opening and closing songs especially the closing ones. More personal taste than anything else in this case I'd guess since they are pretty standard. You'll like or love them while you watch but forget them after a while when they get replaced by the next thing you watch.
I whould highly recomend it to people who want to watch a good fantasy anime that has a good mix of story development, action and humor.
If you want a anime with lot's of actions and battles or a very deep and serious (in terms of theme) anime you should continue your search.
If you are looking for something good to watch in general, you could could easily do worse than watch Sorcerous Stabber Orphen.
Also for those who are not to elitist to watch dubbed anime. The english dubs are good. read more
|
|
Maha87
5 of 10 people found this review helpful
|
24 of 24 episodes seen
|
| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
i really liked this anime because its full of humor, action and plenty of fantasy. it was fun to watch but i'd personally enjoy it more if it had a little more depth into it. The storyline and ideas behind it, are amazingly well done but i think if they put some more dramatic moments (not the cheesy ones) it'd bring more attention. either way, over all, i'd say an 8 sounds good. the 2 points that are really missing are the lack of character development for cleo and maybe Orphens apprentice. but other than that, i'd recommend this anime to people who arent into a very deep story line. read more
Recommendations
|
|
Both Orphen and Slayers take place in a fantasy relm, but the similarities don't end there. Magic, Dragons, journeys, crazy side-kicks, wacky-ness & comedy along with a serious side flow through Slayers as much as it does Orphen. In Slayers the main character is an infamous Sorceress known for her most dangerous spell- (Dragon Slave).
-Both involve magic/spells done by the main character and support charris and a special sword
-The main characters travel in a group. In Slayers is two people traveling together(A guy and a girl) with other characters that come and go. In Orphen its three people traveling together(2 guys and one girl)
-Slayers had quite a bit more cheese then Orphen but both are entertaining
|
|
|
Fantasy with lots of sorcery and adventure are the things that define these anime's. Comedy is inevitable too. Battle evil with magical powers in these action packed anime's.
Hunters and Orphen share a very similar atmosphere when it comes to fighting creatures at least in season one of Orphen for sure. Both shows focus on a small group of people on a mission of one kind or another. They both have similar humor and battle styles as well as animation and even voices to a degree.
The main difference is in one anime they hunt sorcerers and in the other they hunt dragons. Orphen also has stronger tones of romance well serious romance anyway. I think if you enjoyed either you would find a great interest in the other. In Hunters they use a lot more risky character designs for the female leads.
Despite a lot of similarities the shows main characters are nothing a like really. One being very serious and confident and the other being clueless and perverted. They also have very opposite art styles one being minimalistic and the other being fairly well detailed.
|
Opening Theme#1: "Ai Just on my Love" by Sharan Q (eps 1-13)
#2: "Kimi Wa Majutsushi" by Hatake [Sharan Q] (eps 14-24)
Ending Theme#1: "Last Kiss" by Tanpopo (eps 1-13)
#2: "Doshiyou" by Yuka (eps 14-24)
| No posts for this board were found |
Fansubbing Groups
Which fansubbers do you like the best? Click + to approve of their subs for this show. Click - if you don't think they did such a great job.
Animax [Animax] (Brazilian Portuguese)
Related Clubs-Orange & Yellow haired-, ~* OKIAYU RYOTARO FANS *~, MAL Adopt a Pet! [CLOSED], Jouji Nakata Fanclub, Cleao Everlasting Fan Club, Vic Mignogna: The Club, Card Kingdom, Uncompleted.....To Completed, Horie Yui Fanclub, ☽○☾Book of Shadows☽○☾, Mascots, Old School Anime - Brasil , Cult of Spike Spencer, FG, Fantasy Anime Club!, Hero tv Anime club!, A.S.A (Adiktus sa Anime), ~Hello! Project FunClub~, Combat Club, English Dub Fanclub, I don't read/play/listen to/watch crap...Anime Recommendation and Help Center, Argentina, J.C. Staff see all
Recently Watched By|
5 hours ago |
10 hours ago |
12 hours ago |
Yesterday, 11:51 AM |
Yesterday, 9:57 AM | |
Yesterday, 9:05 AM |
Yesterday, 3:55 AM |
05-20-13, 10:10 PM |
05-20-13, 8:48 PM |
05-20-13, 6:42 PM |
|
|
