Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight

Remember when I talked about the straight to video series this is basically a sequel of and said it felt like it was a retelling of someone's role playing game campaign? Well it turns out that's exactly what it is. Well, a retelling of a book series which itself is a retelling of a game. You can definitely see it when watching, as it follows the basic formula of a party of adventurers containing warriors and sorcerers pursues a quest and occasionally messes up before emerging victorious. The structure's a bit odd as it begins a few years after the last series and has a little story with the familiar main characters before it jumps again another decade and has a new main plot, with a new main cast. The old characters still show up frequently, but the focus is on the new ones, who are neither as capable nor as interesting.

And that sort of describes the entire show for me. It wasn't terrible, I just didn't care about the story or any of the characters too much. The animation never really impressed and I was basically slightly bored the entire time. Each episode ended with a couple minutes of cute versions of the characters engaging in poor attempts at comedy. Uh... I really don't have anything to say. Thoroughly unremarkable.