Madan no Ou to Vanadis (Lord Marksman and Vanadis)

In a fantasy version of Europe, a war between enemy countries is brewing. One of these countries, Zhcted, has its seven regions ruled by War Maidens, known as Vanadis. Equipped with powerful dragon-carved weapons, Eleonora "Elen" Viltaria, one of the Vanadis, launches an invasion against their neighboring rival country of Brune. Eventually, Tigrevurmud "Tigre" Vorn, a young archer and an earl for Brune's region of Alsace, has his entire army decimated at Elen's hands. In a strange twist of events, Elen spares Tigre, and gives him the order, "Become mine!" What could be the meaning behind this new alliance?

Adapted from the light novel written by Tsukasa Kawaguchi, Madan no Ou to Vanadis is an epic adventure filled with complex war tactics and beautiful women. Trapped in a multinational conflict, Tigre and Elen are swept up in a war filled with dark secrets, conspiracies, and corruption.

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Background

Madan no Ou to Vanadis adapts the first 5 novels of Tsukasa Kawaguchi's light novel series of the same title.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Vorn, Tigrevurmud

Main

Ishikawa, Kaito
Japanese

Viltaria, Eleonora

Main

Tomatsu, Haruka
Japanese

Lourie, Ludmila

Supporting

Ise, Mariya
Japanese

Limalisha

Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka
Japanese

Titta

Supporting

Uesaka, Sumire
Japanese

Obertas, Sofya

Supporting

Kayano, Ai
Japanese

Glinka Estes, Valentina

Supporting

Harada, Hitomi
Japanese

Fomina, Elizavetta

Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuu
Japanese

Alshavin, Alexandra

Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako
Japanese

Rurick

Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Ueki, Tatsuya

Producer

Uema, Yasuhiro

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Nakamichi, Keigo

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Opening Theme

"Ginsen no Kaze (銀閃の風)" by Konomi Suzuki

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Ending Theme

	1: "Schwarzer Bogen" by Hitomi Harada (eps 1-9, 11-13)
	2: "Ryuusei Chinkonka (竜星鎮魂歌)" by Konomi Suzuki (eps 10)

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Apr 4, 2021

AnimeEnjoyer420

Recommended

Recommendation: Must watch for fans of trashy fantasy action harem shows. Others can probably take or leave it, but it's action packed and doesn't take itself too seriously, so it can be a fun time for anyone.

This is a show that presents itself as garbage and delivers exactly that. Please understand that I don't mean that in a negative way at all. Not everything can be brilliant and deep and critically acclaimed. Sometimes you just want to watch waifus chop dragons in half with a big sword, you know? This is a show that's just fun to watch and isn't ... overly serious.

The thing that makes this series unique compared to other harem action fantasy garbage is a tactical map of the battles that pops up to explain what's happening at important moments. It seems like a small addition, but it makes the battles so much more dynamic, and they feel more like real battles, with generals winning through tactical maneuvering more than the typical anime battles where the 2 leaders square off to determine the outcome and the other soldiers may as well not even exist. There is also a surprising amount of realism in the way it treats the political and economic aspect of the show's world, with asides about highways through the mountains and how they could transform the entire continent and that sort of thing. It's not exactly Game of Thrones, it can't be in 13 episodes, but it has far more depth than you would expect from a show like this.

The characters aren't particularly deep, they don't really have time to develop with so much of the runtime devoted to action scenes, but they're good and entertaining for what they are. It's got all your typical harem tropes, the devoted childhood friend, the tsundere, the meek and mild rescuee, and so on. The main girl, Elen, is the most interesting and unique of the group. The romance element is pretty downplayed overall, the girls occasionally display affection for Tigre openly but its not reciprocated. The girls are mostly there to either kick ass or be saved by Tigre, not to do romance scenes.

The two complaints I would have are that the CGI sometimes looks bad, and the series leans unnecessarily on lazy ecchi bits like the accidental titty grab for "humor". It would've been far better without that, or at least with something that was actually creative or funny or even mildly erotic compared to that same tired shit you see in every ecchi series.

There are of course more complaints you could make about this series than just that, but if you're judging it on its own terms, it's one of the better examples of this sort of show. It's fun and it delivers exactly the sort of entertainment you'd expect from the previews and synopsis.

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Apr 29, 2022

ArchangelEST

Mixed Feelings

Ahhh... what a waste.

The show has a solid premise. A standard fantasy fare with a strong focus on powerful individuals and massive army warfare.

But execution? Terrible.

This anime feels like it omitted like 90% of its source material, because that's the only way it makes sense. Nothing is given enough time to develop on the screen. Characters are paper thin, lacking any real personality or motivations. Next to no backstory given on any of them. Each character is more meaningless than the other.

The story seems to revolve around a young count being drawn into a civil war as well as fighting off foreign invaders looking ... to take advantage, but we the viewers are given nothing to work with. No backstory, no explanations who all these different sides are and why they're fighting. Wars just happen, non-stop, no build-up, no planning, no warning, no nothing. It's war after war, battle after battle as if someone was playing Civilization on the smallest map size.

Characters are chilling one moment, and the next it's a full on fight between thousands of troops.

The world map barely gets any screen time to the point where you won't even know what country is being fought for and where the fights happen unless you pause and try to pay attention to the few seconds it occasionally flashes on the screen.

The warfare is extremely superficial as well. The show tries to put on big airs with higher quality CGI tactics and strategy screens, but it's all meaningless gibberish as none of the battle plans are actually explained properly, and battles that are described as taking days, are over in seconds of screen time. Wham bam, it's all over. Characters occasionally make a big deal about a battle being difficult and requiring crazy tactics to have a hope of victory, but they all play out the exact same way. They troops clash, they fight, then they randomly get reinforcements or one of the characters unleashes a new power and they save the day. It's nonsense.

This is an extremely frustrating anime to watch because the premise is solid, and it could have been a fun warfare focused fantasy show, but instead we get this watered down, rushed, content deprived slop that can't really please anyone.

There's even a harem of big breasted women all fawning over the protagonist, but even that isn't given any development time. It's literally just a bunch of boobs occasionally on the screen making doe eyes at the MC, and then it's back to a random fight scene with no real explanation.

This really doesn't even work as "fast food".

Avoid this anime unless you REALLY want to watch a completely mindless sequence of mediocre battle scenes and a few scantily clothed women doing some fancy magic moves.

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Feb 2, 2019

Omnimaniac

Not Recommended

This show is a result of the Japanese having sub-par knowledge about European history and culture. If you want to watch for the ecchi or battle harem type stuff then there are better shows to watch out there.

Story:

The story in itself is piss poor and makes zero sense logically. If you ignore every aspect of the story that doesn't make any sense at all then you can probably find some enjoyment in it.

The gist of the story is a count that for some reason isn't acting like a count or have the skills required to be a count is taken prisoner and for some ... unexplainable reason is let live by his captors. After his county is attacked by a duke within his country for no good reason he sets out to defend his county by killing everyone that oppose him and allying with his captors.

There's also some war maidens that only exist of ecchi purposes.

Vorn says he cares about Alsace, but after the first battle he could either have let Eleonora annexed his territory or called out to the duke ruling over him. He instead join Thenardier and Ganelon in committing treasonous acts, but unlike the two dukes he seems to wonder why he's branded a traitor after allying with the people they just went to war with.

Combat/tactics:

A major part of this show is supposed to be the combat and the tactics in war. However every single strategy that is used could be bested by a 6 year old with relative ease. Against an archer like the main character a large part of the enemy armies decides against helmets and shields, you know the things that could help against arrows for some mysterious reason. There are people carrying around quails with arrows for Vorn in battle, but largely Vorn is useless in battle. The war maidens seem to be the only ones doing work in battles and an honorable mention to Lim as she's the only character that actually seems to command troops.

Have an overwhelming force facing a tiny army? Let's get a couple thousand people killed and subsequently retreat!

A count for some reason not capable of using a sword. Gains magically powerful bow, fuck that shit. Let's just use a normal one instead and do almost nothing.

The best example of showing how stupid the combat is in this series is by using Vorn vs Thenardier. Big man Thenardier knows he's up against some scrawny kid that doesn't wear any armor and only knows how to use a bow. Let's not wear a helmet! Let's not use a shield! Big man Thenardier could have just thrown a fucking javelin at Vorn and he'd be dead unless he used his haxx bow.

Characters:

The women are the classic battle harem/ecchi type in falling for the mc for no real reason other than *plot*.

Nobody gives a shit about the majority of the soldiers

The dukes are conveniently both scheming retards incapable of taking down a single count. If Thenardier had a functioning brain he'd just destroy Alsace when Vorn was jacking off doing some dumb shit for no reason and he'd be destroyed mentally, easy win. Ganelon just comes up with some stupid schemes and does nothing noteworthy.

Vorn is just a dumb and spoiled pos. If not for the war maidens carrying him he'd be dead during his first fight. Arguably less likeable than Kirito which is quite a feat, but at least Kirito had some value in his series, Vorn has none. He has zero redeeming characteristics.

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