Hortensia Saga

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Synonyms: Horsaga

Japanese: オルタンシア・サーガ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2021 to Mar 25, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: LIDENFILMS

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.82¹ (scored by 18,837 users)

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Ranked: #10315²

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Popularity: #2596

Members: 58,701

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A violent rebellion in the capital led by Duke Rugis Camellia wreaks havoc on the Kingdom of Hortensia, leaving every member of the royalty either dead or missing. Barely escaping with his life, knight Maurice Baudelaire flees the ensuing chaos after his brother, Fernando Albert, is killed by a werewolf in battle.

To honor his legacy, Maurice treks to Albert's house and delivers his son, Alfred Ober, his father's sword. Despite his grief, Alfred is reminded of a vow he pledged with his father—to become a knight so that he could protect his land, the Albert Dominion.

Under Maurice's tutelage, Alfred hones his combat skills to fulfill his promise. Training alongside him is Marius Casterede, an intriguing boy whose age seems to be more than meets the eye. Elsewhere, Pope Alexi Valdebron delivers the order to capture the missing princess and crowns Charlot D'Hortensia as the new king. Hortensia Saga is a tale of camaraderie and determination as Alfred, Marius, and Maurice work together with friends of past and present to bring forth light amidst Hortensia's dark times.

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Hortensia Saga is an anime adaptation of the 2015 mobile RPG game of the same name developed by f4Samurai and Sega.

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Ober, Alfred

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Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Casterede, Marius

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Horie, Yui
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Danois, Deflotte

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Umehara, Yuuichirou
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Olivier, Adelhied

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Kobayashi, Yuu
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Foly, Nonnoria

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Ueda, Reina
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Baudelaire, Maurice

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Tsuda, Kenjirou
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Valdebron, Alexi

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Horie, Kazuma
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Ober, Bernadetta

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Ootsubo, Yuka
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Vialdo, Didier

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Ikeda, Shuuichi
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Olivier, Leon D.

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Kakihara, Tetsuya
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Satou, Yoshiki

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Nishikata, Yasuto

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Seki, Tomohiro

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Tobita, Tsuyoshi

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"LEADER" by MY FIRST STORY

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	1: "Yasou to Hakuchuumu (夜想と白昼夢)" by Mafumafu
	2: "VEIL" by Marius Casterede (Yui Horie) (eps 8)

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Mar 24, 2021

Luubie

Not Recommended

What does an anime need to be interesting? Well, for some, it is enough to have a universe, characters and a story well combined to work. Animes that are adaptations of games are already expected the minimum of all this, because, because it is something that comes from an interactive material, it is necessary to keep the target audience, right? Hortensia Saga, no matter how hard he tried, managed to be the biggest failure of game adaptations in recent times.

I don't say Hortensia Saga's instruction is bad. In fact, it was surprisingly good to start. Marius is a runaway princess who, after an attack by ... an enemy kingdom, has moved away from the evils of what it would be to inherit her nation's throne. She meets Alfred moments after the massacre, the son of one of the warriors, who lost his father the same day. This premise is normal and even uncomfortable, especially when compared to isekais and other recent medieval fantasies. It is almost always a compilation of events that only exist to exist and occupy space in a pile of anime with each new anime season. However, the beginning Hortensia stood out for one factor, the initial development of the story. As much as it may seem, dealing with a revolution against the kingdom itself and exposing the ailments of the Church is something that many animes cannot do well. Most of these shows, present the religious figure as a more demonic than sacred obstacle, where the few differences between animes of this type are evident. Hortensia stood out for taking care to make an interesting and cool show to watch from the beginning.

"But ... Well, we're talking about Hortensia, an anime that, just by the cover, you can imagine that its continuity will ruin everything that was proposed, right?" ~ Yes, this time, this is correct.

The interest in anime is much more for the initial proposal, because the rest is totally poor. Anime like this is more common than it looks. "The 8th Son", "Im Standing on a Million Lives" and similar ones present nothing more than the beginning made especially to please the most silly viewers, who are content with an empty, poor and boring content (MY GOD , THIS IS VERY BORING). It's not like the anime doesn't try, after all, Marius has a drama that develops slowly, but you can understand the intentions of the show and what it may become in the future. However, the anime does not much explore the interactions of the characters with each other and focuses excessively on missions and events that are forgettable. Each next episode felt like I was rewinding the same video, the same text, the same problem ... the same lack of quality and exclusivity.

It is even easy to foresee a show like this, as well as a recipe for some food: take a fantasy world that has references to the European feudal period, add Templar knights and a troubled church. After that, put on a visually beautiful princess, a drama potentially dubious as to its quality. Mix everything and add creatures and mythological references (demons, dragons, legendary warriors, imposing names and magic) and there you go, here is another anime. Hortensia is literally that. The shows of the type practically only change the name of the title, the songs and the studio. The rest always have the same structure and it bothers anyone who wants to admire some novelty.

I am not going to fully criticize the show. As I said, the beginning saved much of what followed. Hortensia still maintained a basic quality. It was a better experience than many shows, of course. Lack of content and repetition are what hurt and heal a wound called a cliché. In fact, Hortensia was more than I expected. Since it is a very common anime, I do not imagine that it has great qualities, in fact, but what was shown managed to convey a little emotion. The apathy of these animes is quite frightening, so watching a show manage to stand out in the middle of so many series is very rewarding.

The production of the show is also not worthy of great merits, but I assume, it was competent. The studio knew how to use its investment in some things well and made an anime that, although simple and visually generic, remained constant. This turns out to be a positive point for the show. The opening and ending songs are also virtually good, I really enjoyed listening to them.

Finally, be careful to consume this type of show (or any other that has the same configuration), they are very doubtful and your final experience will depend exclusively on who sees the anime. Hortensia is weak, in fact. Is bad? Well, everything that was presented had a lack, it did not exhibit a quality even to be a game adaptation, as I mentioned at the beginning of this review, but you can feel some productivity coming from here. Was this a conscious guilty pleasure? Possibly yes (and this is better than the eternal disappointments of some popular shows, isn't it "Mushoku"?).

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Mar 24, 2021

Marinate1016

Mixed Feelings

Hortensia Saga is an odd one. On one hand, it’s yet another generic fantasy gacha adaptation. On the other, it was actually quite enjoyable for me.

I’ll be quick and brief with this one, everyone knows I am easy to please with anime. Story doesn’t have to be top notch or revolutionary, I like good character interactions and waifus. Hortensia has neither. The plot does nothing to actually draw you in and interest you. The characters are all shallow and have no real depth to them, other than the main antagonist whose motivations are still rather generic.

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Mar 24, 2021

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Just when you think that game adaptations like these will reach the above-average latency of Granblue Fantasy, it just fell short of its ambition to remit the exact same feelings of such.

For a context, I actually used to play a decent amount of Hortensia Saga, the 2015 mobage developed by f4Samurai and Sega. As is the case for such tactical RPGs of the genre, the story really is nothing special of the realms of claiming kingdomship and defeating evil, pretty bog-standard stuff. Granted, Cygames' mobage Granblue Fantasy launched the year prior in 2014, but to the average Joe, the feeling is mutual. Fast forward to ... years later with the surprisingly decent Granblue Fantasy: The Animation in 2017, we finally got the anime version of Hortensia Saga...so how is it from a fan's perspective? EHHH...it's pretty mid.

To say that I was expecting the same low-ball feelings from such a sub-standard genre of poor-to-mediocre game adaptations is just putting it lightly, because it is. The medieval fantasy story of a princess who has to go into hiding because her royal family has been rebelled against, opposed and threated by religion that superifically opposes such truancy, begets the undermining as a whole. As per usual, it's the "knight in shining armour" assigningly-decorated to protect her and seek justice across the lands from being a religious puppet of sorts. Pretty mid-tier stuff.

If you've watched enough game adaptations like these, you need not look far to connect the dots that somehow the male protagonist doesn't seem to have a brain for even the simplest of knick-knacks. I'm pretty sure he's just a dog on the leashes of people whom can understand situations and issues far better than him, and only strikes when there's saving needed to be done, and the protective knight Alfred Ober is one such example. Protecting the rightful princess Marius "Marielle" Casterede in what looks to be a cross-dressing attempt to deride detractors into thinking that religious "believers" have every right to exterminate her at first sight, that's a journey worth the heck of setting everything right. Along with the other characters that do make their appearance from the game (Nonnoria, Kuu, Maurice, Deflotte and many others), and you'll have all the ingredients for subpar environments that aren't as engaging as compared to similar contemporaries like it.

Of the 4 Liden Films produced shows this season, this show could've used some work to beat out the crunch, and that's where f4Samurai's production cooperation helps out in bringing the game to light on the anime side. The one thing that will set people off is once again, the CGI which does not look pretty at all merging on both the 2D foreground and 3D background, which Felix Film is helping out in the 3DCG space (similar to Urasekai Picnic in the same season). In fact I'll say that this production is the best of what we got from Liden Films (as depicted by the company logo in the OP), and to sum it all, the end curse to an already stacked Winter season.

If there's one thing to praise about this show, it'd be on the music side, and that's always the kicker pointer when other aspects of the show aren't doing so good. It greatly captures the medieval fantasy setting that's helmed by music composer Zenta Tsuchihashi (or more approriately, ZENTA), along with the OST to back it up from reputable artists like MY FIRST STORY and Mafumafu for OP and ED respectively. And God bless me, the music absolutely delivers the experience similar to when playing the mobage. That was as such the only good moment to grace and tease fans for Easter Egg moments.

All in all, it's easily forgettable, and even coming from an once-hardcore fan, this is just disappointing to say the least, a non-surprise indeed. With the story as bare-bones and such, even if the other facts going for the show are just as good or as bad, nothing can redeem the fact that it's just a boring show with nothing going for it, other than the progressive plot. The crude average just goes for this one, and you'd be wise to skip it. Not as horrible as I'd once thought at the start, but it just wears on your nerves right to the very end.

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