90s fantasy medieval hentai9/2/2023 I can say that it is very loyal to the story and style of the manga, and much better than the old anime. Regarding the manga, I started reading it when it came out in the 90's to my country and that's the reason why I watch this show, so I don't know anything about how it was advertised. Now, he protects humans against the dark army with his dark power and exhibiting some of his prior personality traits, like lust and egocentrism. One day, in a danger situation, Dark Schneider manages to manifest in the real world, but he is no longer so evil, as his soul has been affected by the pure soul of the body in which he was captured all those years. But the dark army has come back with its old commanders and the baby has become a teen. In that new world there was a war against a dark army led by the infamous sorcerer Dark Schneider, who being impossible to be killed was captured in a baby and the army was defeated. I expected a heavy metal dark fantasy story about a wizard and his women (it was what the trailers all promised) and what I got was a by the numbers shonen action show with sprinklings of ultra violence and photocopies of better characters from other shows.Īs a summary of the plot, society as we know it was erased from the Earth after some people uncovered dark powers and the show follows a future in which humans live in a medieval style and magic and monsters are a common thing. I won't be watching this again and it's not really that good in a first watch on its own. That smacked of desperation to me, that the creators could pretty much steal designs and traits of characters from other series and use them as a message to trick you into thinking its good annoyed me. I nearly quit the series the moment the Band of the Hawk appeared in the series in episode 2 - not a joke, we have virtual copies of Guts, Griffith, Casca and Pippin. (add to this that some of the powers used are just a use of Rock and Roll bands doesn't make it Heavy Metal anymore than Jojo is a Heavy Metal story) Now to the bit about Berserk. Add to that the near total lack of thematic music that's meant to be Heavy Metal music and that this series is inspired off of the actual movie Heavy Metal that had nearly constant music as the theme and the animation done to match the songs that are woven into a story and you have a bad mix. This is meant to be a Dark Fantasy, meaning that innocence and kindness is something of a rarity, for examples think Ninja Scroll, Hokuto No Ken or Berserk (there's a tiny bit I'm going to say on that later) for examples of a Dark Fantasy that's done right. That's traditional Japanese Shonen storytelling and I want to give it a pass but I just can't. What I didn't like was that a second kiss reverts Schnieder back to Lucien and its like a power up to activate him to save the day each episode. That in itself isn't a problem, that's actual classic fantasy tropes and I liked that. The main character "Lucien" is a young boy who has the soul of a Dark Wizard trapped inside him, they're two-sides of the same coin, Schnieder is Lucien as much as Lucien is Shnieder and to activate him, a pure maiden has to kiss Lucien and his caretaker is just such a pure maiden. See the spoiler tag goes on here so I have to announce it to make sure it is allowed as I won't break the rules but still explain there's going to be spoilers here. It has one element to it that has ruined it for me. I want to love this anime, it's got lots of things that I love about the ultraviolence anime genre, big muscle guys fighting with swords in a post-apocalypse world that has demons in it, what's not to love about that? Well to start with the description that this is a "heavy metal dark fantasy" is a stretch, yes there's metal in it and its in fight scenes and its in a fantasy setting with bad guys all over the place. Wow, that titles rather a bad omen, especially with IMdB being part of amazon huh? Oh well, let's begin.
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