Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Madan no Ou to Senki, The King of the Magic Bullet and Vanadis Japanese: 魔弾の王と戦姫 (ヴァナディース) English: Lord Marksman and Vanadis German: Lord Marksman and Vanadis Spanish: Lord Marksman y Vanadis French: Madan no Ô to Vanadis More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 13 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 4, 2014 to Dec 27, 2014 Premiered: Fall 2014 Broadcast: Saturdays at 20:00 (JST) Producers: Media Factory, Movic Licensors: Funimation Studios: Satelight Source: Light novel Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Ecchi Themes: Harem, Military Duration: 24 min. per ep. Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) StatisticsScore: 7.101 (scored by 184,128 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #38382 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #666 Members: 371,417 Favorites: 1,039 Available AtResourcesStreaming PlatformsMay be unavailable in your region. |
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Dec 28, 2014 PyraXadon Recommended War. It's a grueling way to help your country. The lives of several thousand men sacrificed to help benefit one country's benefits. You hear about all the sorts of things wars have, but have you really understood the inner workings and tactical strategies? Well, that's where Madan no Ou to Vandis comes in. Let's take aim! Story (6.00/10): The story of Vanadis follows from the perspective or Tigrevurund Vorn, or Tigre. On a battlefield one day, amidst the corpses of his fallen comrades, he takes aim at a woman riding on a horse, a war maiden, who has just demolished ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 31, 2014 BanjoTheBear Not Recommended (This has been adapted from my reddit thread) War, when diminished to its base components, is sadly tragic. It's hard to justify the killings of thousands of people for any kind of cause. But some are better than others: bringing about peace, saving a subjugated group, or protecting one's home. For as long as humans have lived, war has not only shaped the past, has not only persisted in the present, but will most likely never dwindle in the future. An almost inevitability, war brings out the best and the worst in people. For Madan no Ou to Vanadis, it certainly brings out the worst in ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 5, 2015 ReiRei19 Recommended I won't include a summary because it is already provided so I'll just dive into the other categories of which I graded this anime. Please note that I have NOT read the manga nor do I have any previous knowledge of this series. Thus my judgement is entirely unbiased. Let's get to it then! ^_^ ART: Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 31, 2015 BlackPrism Not Recommended Madan no Ou to Vanadis is a light novel adaptation set in a medieval fantasy world with magic, dragons and heroes. If that was the most generic story you've ever heard of, then that's probably 'cause the story IS pretty god damn generic. I watched this anime because I had a craving for medieval fantasy after seeing another, far better medieval(ish) fantasy story, Hitsugi no Chaika - ending in a rather rushed and disappointing way. I had hoped that another one like it would wash off the disappointment and it certainly worked! I'm not disappointed anymore, just plain pissed. Yay! Story (25%) - 3/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 29, 2022 ArchangelEST Mixed Feelings Ahhh... what a waste. The show has a solid premise. A standard fantasy fare with a strong focus on powerful individuals and massive army warfare. But execution? Terrible. This anime feels like it omitted like 90% of its source material, because that's the only way it makes sense. Nothing is given enough time to develop on the screen. Characters are paper thin, lacking any real personality or motivations. Next to no backstory given on any of them. Each character is more meaningless than the other. The story seems to revolve around a young count being drawn into a civil war as well as fighting off foreign invaders looking ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 21, 2015 musica123 Not Recommended As someone who has read the light novels (LN), all I have to say is....wow, and not in the good way. I've read the, and continue to follow, the light novel and was quite excited when I found out it was going to be animated. That excitement disappeared quite quickly after I was 3 episodes in. Aside from the first episode (which quite thoroughly covered the first chapter), everything is rushed. Obviously when you use up 10 volumes **edit: 5 vols** worth of material and jam it into 13 episodes its not going to look pretty (12 eps in reality cause ep 1 was ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 2, 2015 Dragnor123 Recommended The light novels are fantastic. The characters, plot, and story line were incredible. The only part that might of lacked a little would be where he temporarily lost his memories but besides that one part everything else was extremely well written and good. As for the anime, in my opinion the art, character design, and basically the entire animation was great but the one big problem I had with the anime was that it was too rushed. Currently there are ten light novels with Madan no Ou to Vanadis and they are by no means short on details or plot and the anime took up ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 2, 2019 Omnimaniac Not Recommended This show is a result of the Japanese having sub-par knowledge about European history and culture. If you want to watch for the ecchi or battle harem type stuff then there are better shows to watch out there. Story: The story in itself is piss poor and makes zero sense logically. If you ignore every aspect of the story that doesn't make any sense at all then you can probably find some enjoyment in it. The gist of the story is a count that for some reason isn't acting like a count or have the skills required to be a count is taken prisoner and for some ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 13, 2015 Rhysc24 Recommended This is a SPOILER FREE review! Well... I have personally enjoyed Madan no Ou to Vanadis from episode 1-13 which I was not really expecting at all and looking back at the overall score on MAL I must say that the anime is pretty UNDERRATED. The "Ecchi" and "Harem" tags of the anime is pretty misleading causing a lot of people to believe that the story is comedic and just like the same conventional one involving one male protagonist who does stupid stuffs that easily cause a lot of girls to go crazy about him and that there must be also a lot of nudity. I ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 27, 2015 Jebus_Kreist Not Recommended Preliminary (11/13 eps) I heard about this anime relatively early on and decided to watch it after the season was finished and done with, so I could watch it all in one go. I only made it through 11 of the 13 episodes because it was easily one of the worst modern anime's I've seen in my growing list. I only watched so far ahead and almost completed the series because I had a vague hope that it would somehow do a 180 degree turn and become something good. But it just progressively kept getting worse to the point of me questioning if I was a masochist for ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 11, 2015 xgunawan Recommended First things first, I want to say that I have read the light novel before I watch this show. So, most things I will review is about the adaptation itself. Despite saying that, I still will try to review the show as an anime though I can’t promise it much. Madan no Ou to Vanadis is a show about a Vorn named Tigrevumurd of a small village name Alsace that is involved in a civil war as a major commander. He asked help from a Vanadis – A warmaiden whose power is said equal to a thousand soldiers – named Eleonora Viltaria from another country. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 22, 2024 ShibaTatsuya20 Recommended Nice fantasy-war themed anime. How a count brings stability to a war-torn empire where higher-ups plot devious schemes to attain power is the short summary of this anime. This anime has sort of Fate : Stay Night vibes but here the hero is pretty talented and intelligent. My main issue with the anime is that it's very short and seems rushed. Also, only two to three female heroines are highlighted where we've around 7-10 heroine cast probably due to compressing the anime to mere 13 episodes. And the show creators left out the background story of those powerful weapons and powers that we see in the anime too. As ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 27, 2015 Ferria Recommended Before I start, I am reviewing this personally as the anime itself, with no comparison to it's former adaption whatsoever; Light Novel etc I actually had this on hold for a short moment before freeing up some time to watch it, not a fan of extreme fan service or ecchi in every episode, assuming it had a lot of unneeded content. The beginning started off simple with Vorn appearing immediately then seemingly looking like the typical useless Hero playing cool and trying to aim an arrow at a War Maiden, who obviously destroys the arrow. That's how they met, she wanted him as her "slave/prisoner". Skip the boring ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 20, 2017 DScribe492 Not Recommended With every genre there is a piece that serves as the marker for rock bottom. If people could say that your piece is worse than that, then you are the new rock bottom. I say this because when it comes to the harem genre, this show is that marker. Which sucks too because there was a lot, and I mean a lot, of potential here. So let's rip this apart piece by piece. Story: 1 Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 27, 2017 Trident11 Not Recommended Preliminary (8/13 eps) Only show I've ever dropped/made a review for, no clue how I managed to force myself through almost 9 episodes of this garbage. Characters are fucking terrible, MC is a shitty Mary Sue with no personality beyond the fact that he's a nice guy with a bow. I get that it's a shitty harem anime but honestly there is zero characterization for any of the (female only of course) supporting cast either. They could have at least made the girls likable but it's just shoving one pair of tits after another in your face over and over again. The only character with any potential ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 16, 2015 MagicSlurpees Recommended I really liked the anime, the tl;dr of this is pretty much: Solid fantasy anime with good characters, good story, excellent music, good animation, and good adaptation quality. Special mentions to the protag as it's the main charm point to this series imo, being that he is an archer, and we don't see enough archer protags, especially as leaders. I did watch the anime before I read the novels, and this review is solely about the anime. It's a very solid medieval fantasy anime revolving mostly around a war campaign led by the main character. Since it's a midieval fantasy though, don't expect elves, dwarves, orcs, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 20, 2015 hoeze Recommended This anime is a special one. Not necessarily in the sense that it does anything in an original fashion but more so in the way it manages to fail being unoriginal. This is pretty impressive in its own right. Now before anything i would just like to say that this anime was most definitely what i would call axed. Now I'm not sure if there planning on having a second season but for now i see no such thing . Therefore for now you should know that a lot of things end up being forgotten and many plot lines just kinda not finishing, maybe left ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 4, 2021 AnimeEnjoyer420 Recommended Recommendation: Must watch for fans of trashy fantasy action harem shows. Others can probably take or leave it, but it's action packed and doesn't take itself too seriously, so it can be a fun time for anyone. This is a show that presents itself as garbage and delivers exactly that. Please understand that I don't mean that in a negative way at all. Not everything can be brilliant and deep and critically acclaimed. Sometimes you just want to watch waifus chop dragons in half with a big sword, you know? This is a show that's just fun to watch and isn't ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 26, 2016 Joby05 Recommended Summary: This is a fairly typical fantasy anime except that it adds in quite a bit of large scale war and political elements that IMO only detract and generally confuse. It has excellent art and solid sound and characters, but the story is a bit confusing and I found it fairly boring and long winded, even though it only had a single season. One thing I found weird is that it is classified as ecchi/harem but that is mostly not the case. There is very little nudity (if any full topless nudity) and though there is a bit of a love interest between the MC ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 7, 2016 SucsubaG Mixed Feelings Man I feel like I'm the only one annoyed with how overpowered the main character and that princess are. I don't care how bad of a person Zion was, it sucks when they write characters that are op and never lose. It's to the point where I don't like the main characters. With what i have watched the best shows are where the main characters lose fights. They struggle with personal loss that ends up making the viewer wonder "How can they possible come back from this?" This show doesn't have that with what i have seen so far. True the main character is now ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
