History WebAnimation / QuestOfLaizen

''Quest of Laizen'' (or "Quest") is a Website/YouTube-hosted {{Fanime}} series by Anthony W.H., started in the fall of 2011. Chosen by fate, Nero, [[TheChick Raine]], and her brother, [[RunningGag Nero's best friend]] [[TeamMom Abel]] set out to defeat the Evil Rulers and save Laizen from apparent oppression.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Notable for being one of the few instances of actual animation

[[caption-width-right:350: L to R: Raine, Nero, and Abel. [[TheyFightCrime They fight Evil Rulers!]]]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Episode 6, which centers on the Evil Rulers.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Abel has blue hair, while Raine's is purple.

* [[spoiler: BestServedCold: Evil Ruler of Grass vows his revenge in episode 3 after the Evil Ruler of Fire burns his forest. Guess what happens in episode 5...]]

* [[spoiler: EyeBeams: Apparently, Abel's power for his covered eye. Seems to take a lot out of him, though.]]
* EyepatchOfPower: Abel.
* TheFaceless: All of the Evil Rulers.

* FreudianExcuse: Evil Ruler of Water.

* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: The finale. A giant computer jargon-spouting robot appears and wipes out Laizen, claiming it's all an error because [[TechnoBabble something about timelines]] and must be destroyed. Then all the principal characters indulge in FauxlosophicNarration about the nature of life and existence or something. Then Nero restores the world by asserting it exists, before defeating the final boss. Then all of the principal characters, including the Evil Rulers, all of whom are [[UnexplainedRecovery somehow alive]] congratulate Nero. Yay?]]

* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode 4.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Evil Ruler of Fire, Evil Ruler of Water, and Evil Ruler of Shadow.]]
** [[spoiler:Or so it seems, [[UnexplainedRecovery until the finale]].]]

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Raine, who had a relationship with her adoptive sister, Natsu before meeting Nero. The relationship ended after Natsu left to go train alone.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Raine, Nero, and Abel. They fight Evil Rulers]]

* PettingZooPeople: Legendary Horse Master Sensei (though really it's only his stock photo head that counts).

* TheUnintelligible: The three Demon Gods. One of them sounds like the adults from {{Peanuts}}, while another clucks like a chicken.

* FiveBadBand: [[BigBad Evil Ruler of Shadow]] is said to lead the evil rulers, and also counts as TheDragon to [[TheUnfought Demon Gods]], speaking directly to them in episode 6. Evil Ruler of Fire [[TheDragon is second-ranked]] and [[TheBrute the most violent evil ruler]]. [[EvilGenius Evil Ruler of Water]] shows his skills in psychologival manipulation, and spends his screentime as a NonActionGuy. [[DarkChick Evil Ruler of Grass]] is the least active of the evil rulers, and has the most disagreements with them, with some obvious tastes of TheStarscream in his [[spoiler: murder of Evil Ruler of Fire after spending the first arc at odds with him, and convincing Evil Ruler of Shadow to [[WhatAnIdiot use his massively powerful shadow powers in the middle of a scorching desert]].]]

* FiveBadBand: [[BigBad Evil Ruler of Shadow]] is said to lead the evil rulers, and also counts as TheDragon to [[TheUnfought Demon]] [[BiggerBad Gods]], speaking directly to them in episode 6. Evil Ruler of Fire [[TheDragon is second-ranked]] and [[TheBrute the most violent evil ruler]]. [[EvilGenius Evil Ruler of Water]] shows his skills in psychologival manipulation, and spends his screentime as a NonActionGuy. [[DarkChick Evil Ruler of Grass]] is the least active of the evil rulers, and has the most disagreements with them, with some obvious tastes of TheStarscream in his [[spoiler: murder of Evil Ruler of Fire after spending the first arc at odds with him, and convincing Evil Ruler of Shadow to [[WhatAnIdiot use his massively powerful shadow powers in the middle of a scorching desert]].]]

* CaptainErsatz: Nero's physical appearance is basically [[TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld Emil Castagnier]].

!!Tropes that ''QuestOfLaizen'' provides an example of:

* AnimeThemeSong: The intro being from ''LightNovel/{{Denpa Onna|To Seishun Otoko}}''.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[TsukiDesu Najika Tsuki and Yukari Bueno]] are both visible in a flashback in episode 12.

* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Started a bit at episode 6 when Evil Ruler of Fire died, and more so in episode 8 when Evil Ruler of Water died.]]

-->Plot summary from the official website

* [[spoiler: MismatchedEyes: Abel.]]

''Quest of Laizen'' (or "Quest") is a YouTube-hosted {{Fanime}} series by Anthony W.H., started in the fall of 2011. Chosen by fate, Nero, [[TheChick Raine]], and her brother, [[RunningGag Nero's best friend]] [[TeamMom Abel]] set out to defeat the Evil Rulers and save Laizen from apparent oppression.

It was uploaded to Youtube and Nico Nico, where it was met with mixed reactions of horror and amusement. To quote the author "The quality itself is not striving to be good or enticing, but is relying on its cheap production values to create a feel of 'this is so terrible, it's actually pretty [[SoBadItsGood entertaining]]!'"

** [[spoiler: Evil Ruler of Shadow's true appearance looks strikingly like Vegeta from {{Dragonball}}.]]

* AnimeThemeSong: The intro being from DenpaOnna.

The creator claims it will be a 13 episode series. Current episodes you can watch on [[http://www.youtube.com/user/QuestofLaizen the series channel]], [[http://questoflaizen.webs.com/episodes.htm the official website]], or on [[http://video.niconico.com/tag/laizen English Nico Nico]] for commenting enjoyment.

* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: The finale. A giant computer jargon-spouting robot appears and wipes out Laizen, claiming it's all an error. Then all the principal characters indulge in FauxlosophicNarration about the nature of life and existence or something. Then Nero restores the world by asserting it exists, before defeating the final boss. Then all of the principal characters, including the Evil Rulers, all of whom are [[UnexplainedRecovery somehow alive]] congratulate Nero. Yay?]]

* GratuitousJapanese: "Get out of here you Baka-Idiot!"

** [[spoiler:Or [[UnexplainedRecovery so it seems]], until the final episode.]]

** [[spoiler: the identity of Evil Ruler of Grass being Raine's pet snake, Slimy.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Abel.

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Magical Girl Masked Lightning/Raine, it would seem.]]

* FauxlosophicNarration: Episode 8 had a good minute of this from some of the Evil Rulers.

* HannibalLecture: Evil Ruler of Water gives one to Nero in Ep. 4. How much of it was true remains to be seen. They are called "Evil Rulers" after all.

* MindScrew: Much of episode 8 is this. Also the end of Episode 10.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: the true appearance of Evil Ruler of Fire is shown as he dies in episode 5, though the significance of it has yet to be discovered.]]