The STORYLINE is good... but it's implementation is concise and lacks details. Watching it felt like 27 episodes weren't really enough to briefly describe the events, character development, which are the MOST SIGNIFICANT ISSUES with this show.
The CHARACTERS were really immature (especially SPARK), although the quotes they said from time to time were really motivating. The first 8 episodes has PARN as its main character, but after that the mc role is taken by SPARK. I would be fine with any protagonist, but the immature personality of SPARK stopped me from liking him as a character. SPARK didn't develop as a character till the last episode, although we saw many other characters who praised him for things he barely did, sudden romantic development, his desperate decisions...
ASHRAM and PARN matured a lot after episode 8, and they were my favorite characters in this show. DEEDLIT is also adorable when she tries to get attention of PARN. But their screen time just becomes less and less with the consecutive episodes, that it isn't enough to counter the dislike towards SPARK.
The background MUSIC has classic RPG theme, and it's really compatible with the desperate development of the story events. The Op & Ed songs are perhaps the best aspect of this show imo.
OVERALL : The show could have done better if not for its FAST PACING of the events which ruined the show significantly (from a perspective of someone who's watched this two decades later).
As a note, I am thankful for the fact that many 'fantasy' based shows that exists today are refined from this show ; In this sense, Lodoss-tou Senki can be considered as the predecessor of many fantasy shows. BUT as someone watching this two decades later, one may feel this show is far from even the decent ones that exist today. For that very reason, I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone. (Just my opinion)
(4/10)
Thank You!
