As I had talked about back in March of 2018, we’ve had an array of older projects getting new leases on life in anime form and one that I had been hoping for is now being realized with Sorcerous Stabber Orphen getting the nod. Set for debut in 2019 as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the original work, the official site has now revealed the first promotional video for it along with a new key visual of the main cast. We previously learned that Showtaro Moribuko will return to voice the character. Morikubo was twenty-four at the time back when the anime adaptation came out in 1998.
“It was around mid-twenties, I met with an orphan,” said Morikubo on the site last year. ” Works that I can not remove absolutely on telling my career as a voice actor. There is not such a nice thing to be able to play it like this again in time. I can meet that man again. I can travel with my friends. And I can not cry again! It is feelingless! “White blades of light that I release!””
The property started as a series of light novels from Yoshinobu Akita with artwork by Yuuya Kusaka that kicked off in 1994 and finished in 2003 with twenty volumes. A manga was published alongside it that ran for six volumes. Two seasons of anime for a total of forty-seven episodes were also produced and released domestically by ADV Films. Sentai Filmworks recently released the anime (which can be streamed here) while the light novels were never licensed – though hopefully, that might change now.
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Plot Concept: A sorcerer who was once the top student of the famous Tower of Fang, now spends his time chasing around his hopeless clients as a moneylender, at least until his client comes up with a plan to make money: marriage fraud. Unwillingly being dragged in to the plan, Orphen encounters a monster who has long been his goal since the day he left the Tower of Fang. Between those who seek to kill the monster and Orphen, giving everything to protect the monster, his lousy but peaceful days end. Trying to turn back his sister, Azalie, back to her true form leads to many more mysteries and the key to the secret to the world.
