Majutsushi Orphen: Mubou-hen
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Reckless Journey

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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 ... 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.