Majutsushi Orphen


Orphen

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Sorcerer Stabber Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
Japanese: 魔術士オーフェン
English: Orphen
Spanish: Orphen
French: Orphen: Le Sorcier Noir
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 1998 to Mar 27, 1999
Premiered: Fall 1998
Broadcast: Saturdays at 17:00 (JST)
Producers: Kadokawa Shoten, TBS
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks
Studios: J.C.Staff
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, ComedyComedy, FantasyFantasy
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.081 (scored by 1631816,318 users)
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Ranked: #39522
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Popularity: #3324
Members: 48,086
Favorites: 181

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Synopsis

Six 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 Azalie. Unable to control the sword's power, Azalie 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 Azalie found much to his disgust that the elders of the Tower of Fang were less than willing to save Azalie and wanted rather to pretend the accident never happened. Angered by their stand, Krilanceloa swore that he would find a way to return Azalie 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, edited)

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Watanabe, Hiroshi
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Tsuruoka, Youta
Sound Director


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Opening Theme

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1: "Ai Just on my Love" by Sharan Q (eps 1-13)
2: "Kimi Wa Majutsushi" by Hatake [Sharan Q] (eps 14-24)
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Ending Theme

1: "Last Kiss" by Tanpopo (eps 1-13)
2: "Doshiyou" by Yuka (eps 14-24)




Reviews

Jan 15, 2021
After having watched all of the 1998 adaptation of Orphen, I felt compelled to sign up for MAL in an attempt to articulate my own review of this series. While this is by no means a perfect series, I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this first season. Little did I know that this would become such a lengthy review.

The majority of anime that I have watched is more recent, from around 2010 and onwards. I knew that this being a bit of an older series, there may be some things that are more dated. But this anime really worked for me. In ...
Jan 30, 2016
Mixed Feelings
Orphen is mostly your typical adventure/fantasy series. It doesn't stray far from it's genre, which in this case I don't really mind. It isn't trying to be more than it should be. However, that doesn't mean that it is a good series. Overall the series is slightly above average and has alot of the standard cliches that you would expect from a series in this genre.

The series stays close to the typical "I'm going to save the one I love" story. It isn't anything spectacular at first glance, but it does it's job pretty well by creating a goal and purpose for our main cast. ...
Jan 24, 2024
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The only good thing about the story was the whole twist of Azalie not being the damsel in distress but a borderline antagonist until the every end when she is persuaded to switch to the "good side" again.

Aside from that very specific core of the plot, everything else was bad, bad bad and bad.

The characters first of all are mostly rubbish:

Orphen is the generic MC with mostly no flaws aside from some teenager crisis there and there

Cleao is useless, totally, completely, utterly useless of a character, she does nothing except making the situation worse in some episodes even.

Majic... the only good thing about Majic that ...

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