Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi: Kimluck-hen

For the OGs, if you want a classic magic/battle seinen anime with an OP main character that isn't entirely plot-protected, then this is the one. The side characters do their job; they're not amazing, but they each compliment the story in their own way. Action sequences are actually pretty well done, and the MC is already a mature adult so there's none of that beta-male-good-for-nothing MC that so many people seem to like for some reason.

This isn't a story where we follow each character from 0 to hero, but where everyone is already established as themselves. By this, I mean that characters have their own ... magic and attacks etc. without having to explain it to the audience beforehand or having to have brief descriptions of these characters, which is more realistic. If you battled a random person in a magic world, as if you'd know what the opponent's skillsets are / what spells they can cast, it would all be random and you'd have to fight for your life. I've heard a lot of complaining about the fact that we're just "thrown into" this story, but I prefer the fact that we don't have to waste 4 episodes on powering up and learning the basics, our MC Orphen is already established as one of the most talented wizards in the world at the beginning of the story.

I came of season 1 with low expectations, somehow got a pleasent surprise!

The pacing on this season 2 is much easier to follow, altough the main storyline is still overcomplicated at points, we get some actually interesting motivation for some characters, not so much for others wich makes this a pretty average anime I sorta cut it right in the middle in terms of enjoyability.

The art is actually really decent and the soundtracks are ok, I decided to write this review solely because the ending made me want to read the continuation to see where it goes, I would also enjoy a 3rd season!

In resume, ... if you have a couple hours to waste you shouldn't be too dissapointed by this, altough there is a lot of better anime you could be watching!

Hope I was helpfull somehow :]

Coming off the hedges of the reboot in 2019, I knew that this reboot which aims to be more faithful to the LN that it was based upon will be average, and guess what? Though the original 1998 Orphen is good on its own right, Season 1 is largely that boring and uninteresting (except that I love the OST there).

Come forward a year or 2, and we get the continuation of Orphen, conspicuously titled Kinluck-hen, or the Kimluck Church arc. This promises to be one of the better arcs in the LN, and Season 2 here is entirely dedicated to the long arc. Though back ... then trying to read this super long arc is a pain, at least give some credits to Studio Deen and the staff team for adapting this part that has somewhat of a right length of content...though I don't really care much for the plot as its lore was of some heavy exposition that only a minority will care about. I know I'm definitely not one of them.

Otherwise, everything here is just the same as Season 1, no changes whatsoever, except with a new OST that sounds fine. Once again, both Shoutarou Morikubo and Mai Fuchigami aces somewhat with the new OST, though I find that I jig better with Season 1's OST. A nitpick, but this is plenty fine.

A better showing than Season 1 overall, but to me, it hinges a lot like 1999's Orphen: Revenge that as decent as it could be.