Anime Pick: Louie the Rune Soldier
A humorous fantasy action adventure awaits with Louie and his babes!
Another cool anime I was able to acquire and watch recently is Louie the Rune Soldier. Seen the first two episodes, and I think this one's a winner like Scrapped Princess.
Set in a D&D type fantasy world, the adventure begins with a trio of female adventurers; Genie is the Kanna Kirishina lookalike who's the team's buffed-up swordswoman, Merill is the cute, underaged, knife-throwing thief and Melissa is a high-ranked priestess. Their party however is missing a mage, so when they meet a roadblock in the form of a magically-sealed door, they set out to find a female wizard to join their company. Unfortunately, all the women wizards in the area are little more than library-lurking dandies. In fact, the only mage willing to go with them is a MAN. His name is Louie, a musclebound goof who's prone to drinking, brawling, offending girls and getting into more trouble than his inadequate magic skills can handle. Yep, in terms of D&D stats, Louie is probably a magic-user with 12 or so INT, and 18(50) STR. Which pretty much means that he's more used to using his fists for punching and his wand for bashing instead of spellcasting. So it's quite understandable that the girls back away from Louie as fast as they can kick him.
But by a quirk of destiny and a seemingly mistaken command from Melissa's god, Louie suddenly becomes the priestess' champion, whom she must serve without fail from now on. Thus Louie eventually does get to adventure with the girls. And incredibly enough, despite his incompetence and horrible magic skills, he just MAY turn out to be a hero after all... or not.
This is a fun, hilarious series that can boast of pretty and colorful visuals, some slick animations and an interesting premise. It's great to see the characters bicker and bash, and Louie's a likeable oaf. Character designs are slightly derivative, but that's to be expected since this series is from Ryo Mizuno, the same creator as the ultra-serious Record of Lodoss War. It's a refreshing change though. Not as wacky as Slayers, but laugh-out-loud funny at times. For lots of beautiful anime babes, two-fisted action and lots of cool D&D-themed adventuring, go on a journey with Louie the Rune Soldier.
A humorous fantasy action adventure awaits with Louie and his babes!
Another cool anime I was able to acquire and watch recently is Louie the Rune Soldier. Seen the first two episodes, and I think this one's a winner like Scrapped Princess.
Set in a D&D type fantasy world, the adventure begins with a trio of female adventurers; Genie is the Kanna Kirishina lookalike who's the team's buffed-up swordswoman, Merill is the cute, underaged, knife-throwing thief and Melissa is a high-ranked priestess. Their party however is missing a mage, so when they meet a roadblock in the form of a magically-sealed door, they set out to find a female wizard to join their company. Unfortunately, all the women wizards in the area are little more than library-lurking dandies. In fact, the only mage willing to go with them is a MAN. His name is Louie, a musclebound goof who's prone to drinking, brawling, offending girls and getting into more trouble than his inadequate magic skills can handle. Yep, in terms of D&D stats, Louie is probably a magic-user with 12 or so INT, and 18(50) STR. Which pretty much means that he's more used to using his fists for punching and his wand for bashing instead of spellcasting. So it's quite understandable that the girls back away from Louie as fast as they can kick him.
But by a quirk of destiny and a seemingly mistaken command from Melissa's god, Louie suddenly becomes the priestess' champion, whom she must serve without fail from now on. Thus Louie eventually does get to adventure with the girls. And incredibly enough, despite his incompetence and horrible magic skills, he just MAY turn out to be a hero after all... or not.
This is a fun, hilarious series that can boast of pretty and colorful visuals, some slick animations and an interesting premise. It's great to see the characters bicker and bash, and Louie's a likeable oaf. Character designs are slightly derivative, but that's to be expected since this series is from Ryo Mizuno, the same creator as the ultra-serious Record of Lodoss War. It's a refreshing change though. Not as wacky as Slayers, but laugh-out-loud funny at times. For lots of beautiful anime babes, two-fisted action and lots of cool D&D-themed adventuring, go on a journey with Louie the Rune Soldier.
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