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Jan 14, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Watching Fantasy Anime part 1: The classics

I've been playing dnd and getting into fantasy books/series lately cause i like the worldbuilding,aesthetics and the story( when i'ts good of course). Decided to give a shot fantasy type anime so here we go.

Lodoss-tou Senki or Record of Lodoss war is you standard medieval high magic type adventure anime, you got your hero swordsman, elfs, dwarfs, wizard, evil warlods/witches/magicians trying to take over the world, orcs, goblins, kobolds, and most important dragons. Its inspired by a novel who also took inspiration from a tabletop game and it shows. With that out of the way lets dive into the aspects of the anime.

Story: Parn is a not so good swordman from a village that got attacked by a group of goblins, after helping fend then off with the help of Deedlit the elf, and others. He goes into a journey with his party members to save the continent of Lodoss from Marmo a evil empire that is trying to control everything, an evil spirit, and a crazy wizard that is trying to revive an ancient godness or something to destroy everything, thats pretty much it. I'ts old school dnd fellas, it doest not really have a very deep and interesting lore for you to get invested or a bunch of worldbuilding like other fantasy godfathers like Game of Thrones, LOTR, Narnia, Conan the Barbarian, etc. It doesn't help that the pacing very rushed and the characters barely have any time to develop, So what else does Lodoss has to to offer? lets find out.

characters:
Parn-> Anime protagonist short black-brown hair, green jumpsuit, brown armor, and holy shoulder pauldrons they are huge, thats all i can remember of him, because other then that Parn is pretty much a cardboard. He starts off like really shitty swordman, gets better and a little bit more mature and laters is able to defeat the villain that in earlier episodes could easily stomp him and his intire party if he wanted too, he doesn't have any other personality and really generic props for him for being one of the first cardboard protagonists.

Deedlit-> Honestly one of the best of the bunch in my opinion, she is a pretty elfy lady with a very kind personality, thats falls in love with our MC,their romance feels very forced again because of the rushed pacing. She is elven royalty that really cares about her people, uses nature based magic, and she is very cute i guess. Some peole i saw around here were bragging about how she was the 90s waifu or some shit because she was so hot, but to be honest other then her pretty face her design is not that sexualised. I feel like in the novels and the spinoff games there is more stuff about her backstory, more dialogue that shows more about her kind personality.

Etoh->carboard on cleric clothes, he is there

Ghim->grumpy dwarf that makes sometimes talks about how Parn is reckless and gets grumpy with Deedlit cause she is a elf, he had some backstory with some princess that made him go into a adventure to save world, i'ts not very fleshed out again because of the pacing.

Slayn->Very calm and colective wizard, i kinda love how everytime he casts spells he does a long chatting to summon then kind like in real dnd

Woodchuck->Rogue asshole, greedy and sometimes likes to annoy our MC

others: We got Lodoss Knight, Evil Knight, Evil Wizard, Evil Witch than wants to keep the balance between good and evil, and that hot black elven chick that was friends with evil Knight

Art/Animation/Music: thus far one of the best things about the anime( except the PNG moving dragon) is that in my opinion the art was really good, i love the weapon designs, the visuals of the monsters, the armors, the visuals of the dragons and for a old ass 90s anime the animation looks really good and doesn't suffer from being slow and static like a lot of counterparts. Music was alright some adult contemporary ballad for the opening, some good ambient and half decent battle music i guess.

Conclusion: it was pretty alright for a anime, loved the visuals and animations, but din't liked the pacing wich was very fast and it din't let the story breathe a little very much and the MCs dint feel very fleshed out and pretty generic.

Anyhow a 5/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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