Madžucuši Orphen hagure tabi - Season 1

I am wondering whether I actually want to write anything about this anime series because it was definitely the most boring show I have seen in anime season Winter 2020. If it had not dropped on Tuesday, when my schedule was pretty much clear, I probably would have quit Sorcerous Stabber Orphen after the first few episodes. Most of this generic show is very pedestrian. The animation looks quite old-fashioned, because the manga is not exactly the freshest, most up-to-date series. The soundtrack is simply awful, it suits most of the scenes like kissing a lover passionately in the middle of a cemetery does... I simply cannot answer the question of whether it is so terribly uninteresting because it is a bad adaptation, because I am unfamiliar with the manga series, and I have never watched the earlier 1998-99 adaptation either. What I can say, however, is that this anime series feels very rushed, sometimes it over-explains things, and at other times does not explain enough, the atmosphere of the show is pretty bad and some of the twists are just bizarre... Add to that a not-so-interesting main male protagonist who calls himself Orphen although virtually no one else actually calls him that. Next up, there is a pretty ordinary sidekick and a girl whose purpose is unclear - I have no idea if she is there just for fun, or as an attempt at a romantic interest. Then there is Azalie who is behind everything (probably even the main male protagonist’s morning diarrhea), appearing out of nowhere so suddenly that I almost jumped out of my skin, and she just gets away with everything like it is nothing, plus she is probably not evil, just complicated... It is just rubbish, a mediocre, and bizarre fantasy, which probably would have had some potential if it had not been so stupidly directed... 3.5/10. (01.04.2020)