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Orphen 2 - Revenge Collection

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Well, I will try to give a review as best as possible without spoiling it because I am also the first one to write a review about this show.

To begin with, the pattern of the storyline is similar to Orphen of the first season. As the story unfolds, people get the impression that the story is straightforward, me included. Surprisingly good, this is not the case because after a point in the anime the story unfolds not just forwards, but backwards as well, putting the pieces together with a lot of action, fun, love story, drama etc. Overall, the story was funny, dramatic, emotional and very interesting plus dark.

A few words about the story (SPOILERS INCLUDED!!!)
Before beginning with the story, I would like to apologize if I misspell or do not remember a few names correct.
Now to the story, it starts that Orphen, Clio and Magic, start for an adventure and through the episodes they encounter various monsters that are aiming for some reason to kill Orphen. At first it seems that a guy called Flamesoul (the brother of Flameheart) is seeking revenge. Additionally, they meet a young girl named Lucrice which claims that she belongs to a royal knighthood that wants to honour Orphen. Clumsy as she may seem she becomes best friends with Clio, and their bounds become so strong that they consider each other as sisters (which will play a great deal later in the episodes). Moreover, we will see that new magicians of the Tower of Fang (Magicians guilt) try to help Orphen.

Additional Facts about the story:

- After episode 12, Orphen is dealing with a Magician named McGregor, and viewers get the impression that Orphen, as strong as he is, he seems in front of him like a Rookie.
- Magic's girlfriend, is now something like a master in the Tower of Fang, who tries to help them, with the aid of Orphen's friend and Professor in the Guilt to solve the mystery, plus the love story between her and Magic evolves through the episodes
- The Trolls appear in the episodes and give a funny tone to the shows, especially when something like that is needed in the later episodes
- Magic becomes strong in magic
- Magic will be put into temptation to leave Orphen to study by someone else's side
- Magic and Orphen will fight against each other to "death"
- Clio in order to protect the ones she loves will mature and fight light crazy
- Lucrice will try to sacrifice herself to protect the ones she loves as well
- Orphen, as easygoing at the beginning as he may seem, he will show in the later episodes his true self
- After episode 18, the shows get really emotional. People die for the ones they love, fights till death and so forth
- After episode 15, the story gets really dark, and most of all you may think that you have figure it out but trust me in that: Until the last episode you will have figured out nothing
- Until episode 9, people get only a few clues of what is really going on. But be reassured that the peaces come together and the suspense is increasing constantly as the episodes continue
- You will see that a woman plays the piano in the middle of nowhere, Orphen and she kiss (lovy dowy stuff) and you may ask yourself what the heck is her part in the story. Which will proof in later episodes that she is one of the main figures.



Is the money worth of buying it?

I will be honest. Until episode 9 to 10, the story gets 3 to 3.5. Therefore, only people who really fell in love with the Masterpiece of Orphen first season should buy it.

When watching the show up to episode 14 to 15 the show would get 4 stars. Therefore, it is worth the money. Weird as it may sound that the show could change in only three episodes, however it is true because they are.

Last but not least, after watching the entire show the show gets 5 starts straight and is truly a masterpiece. Therefore, you can buy the show without regretting the money you have invested in it, because it is worth it.

The average of above is what made me give it 4 stars.

You see, people who watch the shows, will get the impression that after episode 11, it feels as if someone else took over the show, and all of a sudden from a light hearted show the show gets really, and I mean really good, the animation and storyline become superb and so forth. Take this into consideration, after episode 12 the show becomes even darker than Orphen of the first season, more emotional and you will not get enough of it.


To sum up, I hope that I could give you an inside of the story without giving too much away and overall, it is worth buying it. Because, as stated previously, after episode 12 the show becomes truly superb.

This season is drawn differently, but the same voice actors are used. Yes, the 1st season was better, but if you love the show you'll still like this one. The plot line through the whole season was a little weak. I was also hoping for a little more character development and interaction. Over all it was fun to watch.

First of all i would like to point out that not until the last remaining episodes was a somewhat sort of plot ever pointed out. Most of the time it was just oprhen and the gang + 1 getting attacked on the road by a random monster. The thing that kills me the most is that every time he killed a monster, he killed it the exact same way...oh wait but lets not forget the corny farewell line he always says before he vanquishes his foe. There was not much variation in the magic spells in season so even watching orphen cast magic became boring. It was good to see how some characters like majic progress but it would have done so much better as a movie because the repeditiveness of the same pattern of travel with no destination, fight random monster in the middle of nowhere and use same damn majic spell to defeat every monster was enough to make me think that playing in traffic could be fun. The season one of orphen is just something that cannot be topped nor immitated and nor should any further attempts be made.

Okay first of all if you haven't seen Orphen the original series don't watch this one. There's a lot of reference to the original series.

Now as for Orphen II, if you're a fan of Orphen because of its in depth plot like I was then your going to get a shock. There is a lot of light hearted fun episodes in this series. But there are episodes half way and at the end that are rich with plot. In the end I didn't care. I laughed and enjoyed these episodes.

When the creator wrote Orphen he made it serious and filled with 1 story but with this season he decided to just have fun with the charaters we all love. It also introduces some new characters.

If you've liked any of the Tenchi series like the OVA Tenchi Muyo then you will love this series.

The animation is how it was in 1999 when it was made (which i don't mind considering that was after other anime like Dragonball Z that are animated well) but the audio is fine because it was done in 2004. Plus it is ADV. Anyone who's new to the anime craze should know that ADV is the best voice acting studio with big names like David Matranga (Sanzo from Saiyuki), Vic Mignogna (Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist), Tiffany Grant (Asuka fron Neon Genesis Evangelion) and so many more.

I insist that any fan of the voices, characters or other anime like this one should get the Orphen series. If it was as good as the original Orphen it would've gotten 5 stars.

P.S. $35 is worth it. Mine cost me NZ$100 which is roughly US$50

When I bought Orphen the original I decided to get Orphen Revenge so I could have a complete set. This was truly a waste of money, not only is it not worth 35 + dollars it isn't worth 5 cents.

They took a wonderful program Orphen with stylish animation, characters you could feel for and root for and when you reached the end you were sorry it ended, then hoping the story would continue you buy Orphen Revenge and there they turned it into cheap animation just to make a buck.

There is no story line even the one liner jokes which were great in the orginal were really sad in this one. The animation is 3rd rate. I guess you really can not make a sequal that equals the original one.

Do yourself a favor and not waste your money on Orphen Revenge if you do you will be kicking yourself it is not worth one penny.

For a series that I genuinely liked because it showed so much promise. Season 2 is so different from Season 1 that it's barely the same anime. This is basically the Fumoffu (see Full Metal Panic) of the Orphen series. There isn't really a story to even follow it's just the team from the last series traveling around and getting into Dennis the menace type of trouble. It could still be fun because I liked all the characters but they added in a new 4th wheel called Licorice who is voiced by Luci Christian. Yes, Luci Christian 1 of 2 female voice actors in North America. At least you think of it that way because Funimation uses her voice for young female characters IN EVERY ANIME EVER CREATED! The only other female voice actor in North America is Laura Bailey. Together these 2 make up 100% of female voice actors because they are in EVERYTHING! and it gets old there are other female voice actors out there USE THEM!

I was very happy to first pick this series up because I got fresh voices I hadn't heard and I liked it. Then Season 2 comes and it's Luci Christian and her character never shuts up! What I don't like about Season 2 is that there really is no need for character. They already have Majic as the klutz and Cleo as the bimbo so having Licorice around is like having both those 2 characters in 1 character and it shows. Her parts just over shadow everything Cleo and magic do. It really takes away from them. The other thing about Season 2 is the art design. It's a mix mash of the old series and the newer direction of anime for that period but Leki really got screwed. He went from being drawn as a wolf to a cat that's far from Garfield.

This season was really a let down because Season 1 was so great and so mature. Get it if you want to see the Orphen gang fooling around but other than that it doesn't add anything to the story at all.