"Noble Phantasms are against the rules!" "I am the rules. Uahaha! RULE BREAKER! Haha!" "That's my line!" "What's yours is mine!" "He really is the oldest bully in human history..."
@merc1136: I haven't watched Big O so I can't say anything about it (I'm not much of a giant robot genre fan)... But I heard positive comments so it should be good.
And here is a fun tidbit. In the manga story Parn is not actually skill-less (lvl 1 character ))). In the begining of the story he returns after serving as a mercenary in kingdom of Flame and is a decent fighter (let's say lvl 5 or 6 ))).
There are a lot of minor deviantions in plot lines of anime and manga. I prefer manga since it's story has a lot more d'n'd'esque elements. The artwork is different though. Some people may consider it "uglier" but I actually like it (some people might get turned off by it though).
You can read all of the Lodoss manga series online over here
@Grayvie is it me or did the anime seem to hint that King Cashew was Parn's Father? I always seemed to get that impression...
One of these days I'm going to learn enough Japanese to watch my favorite anime in their native format. :-)
Also there are several more animes taking place in the same "world" but not the continent of Lodoss.. the names escape me tho.
I believe your talking about Legend of Crystania? Has characters from Lodoss but is indeed set on a different continent.
I really liked Record of Lodoss War, more so the OVA as it felt better made, but the TV series has possibly the best openings around and i wish the animation in the show was as good quality also.
@Grayvie is it me or did the anime seem to hint that King Cashew was Parn's Father? I always seemed to get that impression...
One of these days I'm going to learn enough Japanese to watch my favorite anime in their native format. :-)
I thought that, too! Cashew's silhouette looked like Parn's father, Parn couldn't stop looking at Cashew as though he were familiar, Cashew had a soft spot for Parn, and both Parn's father and Cashew were disenfranchised knights.
@merc1136: @Schneidend: Yeah I also got that feeling after watching anime for the first time... Though Parn's father and king Kashue are actually entirely unrelated:
Parn's father was a holy knight of Valis who disobeyed his orders and singlehandedly protected a village from a bandit raid. He felled every attacker but afterwards passed away himself (It is a lot like Keldorn's ending in Throne of Bhaal).
King Kashue was a gladiator who won his freedom and afterwards united the tribes to create kingdom of Flaim (My memory about Kashue's bio is pretty hazy... so I might've got some parts wrong).
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For those that like it, you might like Fate/Zero too, as it's a prequal to F/sn.
Watch Fate/Zero on CrunchyRoll
http://www.crunchyroll.com/fate-zero
"I am the rules. Uahaha! RULE BREAKER! Haha!"
"That's my line!"
"What's yours is mine!"
"He really is the oldest bully in human history..."
One of these days I'm going to learn enough Japanese to watch my favorite anime in their native format. :-)
I really liked Record of Lodoss War, more so the OVA as it felt better made, but the TV series has possibly the best openings around and i wish the animation in the show was as good quality also.
@Schneidend:
Yeah I also got that feeling after watching anime for the first time...
Though Parn's father and king Kashue are actually entirely unrelated:
Parn's father was a holy knight of Valis who disobeyed his orders and singlehandedly protected a village from a bandit raid. He felled every attacker but afterwards passed away himself (It is a lot like Keldorn's ending in Throne of Bhaal).
King Kashue was a gladiator who won his freedom and afterwards united the tribes to create kingdom of Flaim (My memory about Kashue's bio is pretty hazy... so I might've got some parts wrong).