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Dec 28, 2023
Greatest hits battle-shonen but little lore development
Ok, the first past arc started out good, well-paced with some decent lore bits to settle in and it kept like this in the Shibuya arc untill it turned out to be a nonsense power-scaling battle show for the fuck of it. So yeah, most episodes were purely made to show climax and fight scenes to power scale even more some characters, kill off some would-be-important-fellas and repeat the cycle.
The overall picture is good if you're into battle shonen, but I'd really like to see more world building and depth of character development instead of nonstop fights for almost
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10 episodes. I mean, at least Itadori had some protagonism after a while (and that's good), but still, this series needs more balance in between nonstop up to the sky power scaling fights with gorgeous sakuga and proper lore pacing.
Speaking of which, we shall thank and hope for the best for Mappa's workers: they are overworked with tight schedules and now are prohibited to talk about their poor working conditions, it was a miracle this anime didn't break and yet, more anime with no decent pause are on the making (CSM movie, new original anime and JJK season 3 was already announced today), so let's pray (and I'm not the religious type)
Leaving aside my criticism, as an anime, this season was overall solid, with lots of sakuga and tension moments, due to the overall personnel hired to do stuff in the nick of time. If you're into battle shonen with little plot development, you're in for a treat. Relive those Dragon Ball moments of when you were a kid but uh with a darker tone.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 6, 2023
Took me a long time to review this season. It's my favorite and the only one I actually think it's at least good to some degree. Well, let's delve into this review. This is originally from my Twitter reply to someone asking for a review. It's FOR ME an 8/10, but being honest and not doing value judgint, I thint 7/10 would be fair.
Although rushed (as all Orphen season by Deen), this one is less rushed than usual, not due to better writing and adapting but simply because the source material of this arc has less pages. Animation improved quite significantly, Considering the
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first season and it's the best looking season of all 4. Has the best (and almost only) sakugas of the newer series and a proper villain, something Orphen lacks quite often, specially during the despair arc (Urbanrama-Sanctuary).
The drawbacks are, logically, animation isn't still on par with the J.C Staff version, so is the direction and pacing, the show still feels rushed and it's the shorter of all 4 seasons with only 11 episodes long, at least 14 would benefit the plot a shitload better But the director still does a half assed job, mostly. The OST is the same from season 1: mediocre. So, I guess it sums up this season 2.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 7, 2023
Pretty much the 1st novel adapted into 2 manga. I'd add some more pages, some scenes felt rushed, but other than that, the best adaptation so far of Orphen is in this manga. Why not a 10, though? Well, along with some few rushed scenes, I didn't like Black Tiger's redesign and the girls in this were a bit sexualized, Cleo is not supposed to be curvy ffs. I don't have much to say over this to be honest, it's just the best adaptation of the light novel. Read this if you don't wanna read a book (although being a nearly 200 pages long, i.e.
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not a lenghty book) or if you didn't like the first 4-ish new anime episodes. You might as well be left uncanny if your only experience with Orphen is the first J.C Staff adaptation, which doesn't adapt faithfully at all the novels but unironically is the best Orphen anime so far.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 2, 2023
Bread and Butter slapstick, nonsense gag humor: as it should be.
Contrary to the main series, this one doesn't have any world changing events nor deep character development, it's pure and utter chaos and that's what I love about it. Set 6 months before the main events, Orphen is as miserable and angry as ever. He has mainly canned peaches for food and blasts anyone and everyone with magic. Living at Bagup's Inn "for free" (until he actually pays the old man) and spreading chaos across Totokanta City, he has different people around him this time. Constance Maggy, also known as Coggy: a sloppy
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and incompetent, as Orphen says, police officer who has the aim of a stormtrooper, but instead of laser blasters, she shoots poisonous darts (which she mistook for a muscle relaxant)..
Each chapter has a quick, funny and equally nonsense plot. When you think you couldn't be surprised anymore, the writer clearly said "hold my beer". I won't get into much detail but you can expect a magic and trickster butler, the old and known to the fans couple of dwarf brothers, Volkan and Dortin, some weird monsters, wrestlers wielding fish as weapons, Orphen demanding pay for his loans by threatening people with magic and of course, he constantly wreaking havok in the city, so much that people got so used to him doing so they have construction worker teams ready to rebuild asap what he destroyed (even though he could just use his healing magic but nay).
So, if you like unexpected nonsense gag humor, with no plot density whatsoever, this story is for you. And that's exactly why I rated this 8/10: I'm used to Orphen having thick plots and serious turn of events, but this score is also due to the mangaka cutting some content from the light novels, due to limited pages (he said so himself) and the Reckless novels are only in japanese, so as long as we don't get a translation or learn japanese, we'll never know how the story completely and truly is.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 28, 2023
What could have been a breath of fresh air amidst the sea of questionable quality fantasy isekai, turned out to be a generic and forgettable fantasy
A total of 6 novels were crammed into 12 episodes, volumes 16 to 21*, here they are:
16: Dance Across My Battlefield, Visitors! - 145 pages - 2 episodes;
17: Echo Through My Garden, Gunshots! - 174 pages - 2 episodes;
18: Wanter My Mansion, Falsehood! - 186 pages - 2 episodes;
19: Swing Wide In My Sanctuary, Gates! (Act 1) - 170 pages - 2 episodes;
20: Swing Wide In My Sanctuary, Gates! (Act 2) - 212 pages - 3 episodes;
21: The
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End Of Kiesalhima (Unnoficial translation) - 208 pages - 1 episode;
A total of 6 books for 12 episodes. This is the most rushed season of all 4 (or 3 if you count it as a second cour of season 3) and I think this last episode should have been a movie. I thought it would be, because Nanatsu had one and Sasaki to Miyano had one, so I thought Orphen, being a classic in Japan with over 14 million books sold, would have gotten a movie to at least finish the main series with a better material than the episodic anime. How wrong I was.
There's no way you can properly pace an adaptation this long, really. Production-wise I bet this anime was utter chaos, I mean, just look at how many revolving staff, directors and stuff it had. Good names, too, like Takayuki Hamana (Psycho Pass, Kuroko no Basket, Prince of Tennis), Reiko Yoshida (Ke No Katachi, Violet Evergarden, K-On!) but talented staff are no miracle workers if the episode schedule is this tight, if the budget is this low. They did what they could and the end result wasn't objectively bad, but mediocre, lukewarm.
This last season was the weakest of them all, even comparing to the first one, although being slightly better in animation and drawing. Anime adaptation are usually made so it can boost the original story sales and merchandising, as well as dvd/blu-ray discs, but how can an adaptation like this attract people to read the novels if they didn't like the anime? Or even buy the blu-ray (which by the way are only sold in the deluxe format, ranging from 200-300 USD) box?
I am disappointed overall, not 100% disappointed because season 2 was actually good, season 3 was ok-ish I guess and I expected the finale to be groundbreaking. So, as much as this may sound unadvised, given how bitter this review was, read the novels, at least the first volume. I promise it's way better than the anime.
*It's not quite a 21st volume cuz it was written 6 years after the 20th and it was not planned to be the actual closure of it, but it turned out to be nonetheless. It also doesn't have english translation, so the title may vary if it ever gets translated.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 1, 2023
This OVA is the bridge in between Season 1 and 2, so you must watch it before starting season 2. It was made to fill in the lore gap the novel "Obey My Command, Doll!" (volume 2) left, because it wasn't adapted into this season and it has important lore elements, so they decided to bring in those lore elements from book 2 without having to adapt it into the anime, while bridging both season 1 and 2. There isn't much to say about this episode, really, just watch it before going to s2. The animation is quite the same quality of season 1, same
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OST, etc etc etc.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 5, 2023
I'm a big time fan of Orphen but you may not expect sugar coating here. First things first, the following books were adapted into this season 3, cour 1:
11 - Sink Into My Dreams, Paradise! (Act 1) - 125 pages - 1 episode
12 - Sink Into My Dreams, Paradise! (Act 2) - 145 pages - 1 episode
13 - Guide My Faith, Magic Blade! - 117 pages - 3 episodes
14 - Lay Claim To My Heart, Devil! - 141 pages - 4 episodes
15 - Engulf My Despair, Verdure! - 181 pages - 3 episodes
So yeah, first point: rushed as hell. Deen did a better job with
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Konosuba, the first volume ran I think around of 170 pages and got 6 episodes. They also did a better job with animation but ever since Orphen season 2, it got way better but still didn't reach Konosuba. That's why this show keeps getting high 5s and low 6s: its rush thru the plot makes the story advance way too fast, looking like it's a confusing mess while it's not how the author wrote it in the novels anyway.
A total of 18 out of 20 books were (are in the course to be) adapted, volumes 2 and 3 were not, which is a shame because volume 2 has important details on the lore (details which were in the OVA, if you check it right, Azalie and Childman were in the ruins of the city Alenhatam, where book 2 is set) and book 3 is some sort of sidequel with little to add to the bigger picture but is a hell of a thriller mixed with magic and nice plot twists if you ask me, with a bittersweet ending that is very remarkable of Akita.
Voice acting: I'm no actor nor I have interest in this so it sounds like every anime ever to me, I can't complain, really.
OST: Most tracks are from season 1 and 2, if not all of them. They mostly sound generic, too.
Animation: Why is it not actually BAD but it's also not GREAT? The first thing to look in an animation right after characters is the background scene. How well detailed is it? How lifeful is it? How much of a character on its own is it? And Orphen's often look like crayon sketches, outlines, drafts, whatever you call it, they look rough and they don't have a wide variety of angles, leading to the same repeated pattern over the scene, making the visuals to look bland, generic. At least the magic effects look good to some extent. As of what changed from season 1 to 2/3: the characters. There's mostly a ton of weird frames, weird angles and background characters with odd shapes, some of them had 3 different head sizes in the span of 10 seconds! So those flaws got corrected in like 80% in both season 2 and 3 but they still happen here and there. Not as often and not as grotesque as season 1, but still not perfect in that regard.
Rant time: Orphen is one of the most important light novels in Japan, selling over 14 million copies (and that's a crapload for LNs, trust me) and ranking at the 9th place of most sold LNs of all time. This anime was made to commemorate the series 25th anniversary in 2019, season 1 aired in early 2020. I still can't fathom why did they choose post Nanatsu Deen to adapt this series but I guess it's doing well enough in Japan to have most books covered, even if it's rushed. I just think Orphen deserved a better adaptation. The 1998 anime by J.C Staff while not being faithful to the source material due to "there is not a lot of story to adapt as of now", did a way better job at turning the concept of "Orphen and his friends' adventures" to an anime. The animation is not perfect by any means but at least they had more passion. They draw the effin' pendant right.
Their background scenes are better, their art and photography direction is better, that's why some anime scenes made into dvd covers, like this one (or you can argue they were lazy to create new art, that's fine): https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/5184MJ2Q90L._AC_UF350,350_QL50_.jpg
An anime is an audiovisual media. So the looks, the art and the OST must be of utmost quality in order to have enough attention to gather a huge fanbase and be popular. This specific part must be more important than story I dare to say, but the story is not to be crappy either. That's the end of my rant and my review. Cheers.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 18, 2023
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 fist season is a 5/10
Story: A good story on its own
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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 to 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 thiller 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 adaptaion an overall of 6/10, considering what was adapted.
Music: It's lackluster almost all the time if you ask me. I 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: 6
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