October 09, 2014

Madan no Ou to Vanadis - ep 1

Another pleasant surprise.

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Yeah, the girls are gorgeous and this will definitely be plundered. But there's more here than that. I think the main point was that Tigre, Our Hero, is noble in all senses of that word. He's a valiant warrior but also a gentleman and a man of honor.

And there's Lim (above), aide to Elen (below).

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The animation is crisp and nicely handled. The voices are good: Tigre has the same voice as Ledo in Suisei no Gargantia and Elen is Haruka Tomatsu, who is very talented and versatile.

Worth watching more of.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 12:47 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Tatsuo Sato strikes again.

Posted by: Don at October 09, 2014 01:20 PM (Rr4UF)

2

I didn't notice that. (For those playing along at home, Sato was the director of Mouretsu Pirates and Martian Successor Nadesico.)

And this is anime-original as far as I can tell. Sato is a supreme story teller, and at least in the first episode it doesn't appear that it's primarily a harem show, so I think there's a chance this could be pretty good.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 09, 2014 03:00 PM (+rSRq)

3 Light Novel, it seems.  And this is most definitely a Breasts series.
Still, this seasons is producing a good bit of unexpectedly competent series, and this seems to be another one of them.  Though the Manga art is a lot better than the Light Novel art.  And the Anime art might be the best of the bunch.  That's actually a bit rare.

Posted by: sqa at October 09, 2014 03:38 PM (4TBVb)

4 As one of the dragon series this season (sort of), this one seems like it'll be pretty good. The premise of the rural lord in an oppressive kingdom being captured by a competent and benevolent enemy is interesting.

I admit, the other dragon series don't seem terrible either. Cross Ange had an interesting opening episode, though it may end up being too mecha for my tastes.  Bahumet, well, I'll hold my evaluation on that because I forgot the first episode entirely.

But sign me up for war maidens, feudal politics, and foot archery on this one.

Posted by: wahsatchmo at October 10, 2014 09:03 AM (r4uXE)

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