Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi: Seiiki-hen

A vision of heaven with a journey to hell. It sums up well a work with extreme potential, wonderful ideas, but all wasted by a wrong pace and low production. This is the fourth season, the anime closed the main plot and adding the special episode gives a total of 49 episodes. I haven't read the novel, but I know there are 200 chapters. Therefore, I believe that they must have adapted everything and that there should not be a fifth season. Even because I was informed by third parties that the anime adapted everything that was written in the novel. Maybe the plot was alreadygigantic for that amount of chapters in the novel and the anime only replicated the problem with an insufficient amount of episodes. I also don't know if something was cut from the novel, but regardless, the main problem with this anime is that everything seems absurdly compressed. Therefore, it becomes difficult to get involved with some characters, to understand the plot, and to accept the twists and turns as if they were natural. I know this was the case in other seasons, but in this last one the impression is as if they had put much more content than the previous three together in one. Everything is extremely fast and gets boring to follow. In one episode, a charismatic character is presented, and in the next he dies. In one episode an arc begins, for the other to end. Because of this, the purpose of many things seems meaningless and the resolutions are poorly explained. At least in the other seasons, even with the few resources, the fight scenes didn't seem fast-paced. Now, if someone blinks their eyes, they lose everything. The worst thing is the epic conflict season, the peak of the work, and the anime simply skips the decisive battle without showing anything. I understand that the work has been discredited, that the production is low budget, but this is the end. Even if it wasn't shown in the manga, since the anime hadn't delivered anything special before, it needed to display something grand and rewarding in the epilogue. One might believe that with all the problems that exist in this anime I should hate it, but I definitely can't, because a huge amount of excellent ideas are presented. The anime even starts to develop some of them well, the problem is that it just starts and already jumps to another wonderful idea that will again have the same fate. So I have a mixed feeling. On the one hand, I am extremely happy that they adapted this work into an anime and would love to recommend it. On the other hand, my eyes literally water and my heart sinks to see that something with such potential has not been adapted accordingly. Also, as much as it's not a great adaptation, it's just average, and when I think about the rubbish that comes out every season, my mood improves.

Finally, a journey that has been laden through its missteps at trying to celebrate a milestone in the original source material's work, the 25th Anniversary reboot of acclaimed author Yoshinobu Akita's Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi a.k.a Sorcerous Stabber Orphen has concluded after 3.5 years of subpar mediocrity that honestly, no one cares at all, even yours truly. Under the helm of Studio Deen and the variable "somewhere to go nowhere" director Takayuki Hamana, the series' reboot came at a time where seasonal Isekai shows were at its abundance, both for good and/or bad. And despite it not being an Isekai but a full fantasy of sorts,I feel that it still falls under the Isekai umbrella, because there's just no distinction at all. With the end of the final arc of Seiiki-hen a.k.a Doom of Dragon's Sanctuary (which technically should NOT have been Season 4, but the 2nd Cour a.k.a Part 2 of Season 3) which speedruns through the final stretch of the LN from Volumes 16 to 20, Orphen has been dealt the biggest challenge of his life: to solve what remains of the preceding 1st Cour's Urbanrama-hen a.k.a Chaos in Urbanrama, and into the sanctuary where all of the players collide in the biggest culmination of the series' finale, of Orphen and his namesake of Krylancelo, putting an end to the calamity that has befallen the lands, once and for all. And that journey, through its very low highs and very many lows, has to have an end somehow, and Orphen is the key to the entire ordeal: the Tower of Fangs where his master, Childman Powderfield, had first disappeared all of a sudden. The same mediocrity follows through season after season, making the adaptation slim and fast in quantity but at the expense of quality, which by this final season...is good riddance. Not even the OST is redeemable as the music aspect is literally the same as Studio Deen's low-budget, subpar adaptation. It just gets worse as time pases, to the point of becoming white noise. About the only consolation there is left, is that Studio Deen and director Takayuki Hamana's staff team has fully adapted the LN, so thank God that there's no more material left to adapt...or rather, a chunk of material was skipped entirely because we, the audience didn't care, so the staff team reciprocated in the same way. Overall, a coagulated mess of an anniversary celebration that no one remembers, and if you ask me what good can I find in all of this, is that we need no more of Orphen. Even at its worst, Season 1 was where the series peaked, that I initially give it a harsh credit for back in Winter 2020. And unsurprisingly, I still stand by my feelings that nothing has ever changed my perception since then. The whole reboot spanning 3.5 years, with 4 (technically 3) seasons and 50 episodes (49 + OVA) in total, it's effort embarrassingly wasted to oblivion.

I'm excited by this masterpiece and watched it just only 2 days from season 1 to 4, it has a great plot, story, character,unique theme and so fun but still on point. i hope there will be an another season 🔥🔥🔥, it can't end like this because i can see there is more potential and exploration according this S4 ending, feels like clifhanging if it ends here *sob. It sad knowing the anime has a low score despite it was a masterpiece. these weebs who rated low are so pathethic, this anime deserve to be scored like the other popular fantasy anime.

Orphen was a cool anime but if you think about it a little, it became a bad anime. It has nice fights, good characters and their goals are interesting. It has good animations and amazing Mai Fuchigami songs. But it’s only this. I could only recommend it if you want a medieval fantasy anime with some mysteries (unfortunately most of them don’t have answers). It’s only a cool anime with good characters and a lot of wasted potential. I’ll miss the anime, I won’t lie. I like this anime a lot but when I start to analyze it, we have a lot of problems.

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