Today's post is on Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Vol. 1: Heed My Call, Beast! Part 1 by Yoshinobu Akita, Muraji (Illustrations). It is 180 pages long and is published by Seven Seas Published. The cover has Orphen in the canter looking cool and dramatic. The intended reader is someone who likes fantasy and adventure manga. There is mild foul language, no sex, and action violence in this series. The story is told from the third person close of Orphen. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- He calls himself Orphen: a rogue sorcerer who turned his back on the Tower of Fangs, the powerful academy that trained him. In those hallowed halls, a terrible curse fell upon his best friend Azalie, twisting her into a monstrous beast…and the teachers decided to simply cover it up. Forsaking his studies and even his own name, Orphen now wanders the land searching for Azalie, and a cure for what she has become. It won’t be easy–a quest brimming with adventure, spells, and swords awaits!
Review- This is a great first volume. We get everything we need for a series start, the hero, the quest, some mildly funny/annoying sidekicks, and a girl with more strength than brains and it is a good start! Orphen is a classic manga that is having new life breathed into it and I am very pleased with the results so far. Lots of action in this volume to off set the very dark story about magic gone wrong. Lots of world building, character introductions, and plot threads going on in this volume so we should get going really fast from here now. I am looking forward to the next volume.
I give this four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this manga with my own money.
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