Line #10 YMMV/SorcererStabberOrphen


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: While ''Orphen'' admittedly isn't as popular as most shows are today, very few people who are ''fans'' of the show to at least some extent even realize that this began as a light novel series.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The 1998 series' first OP, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI68GeT-aYQ Sharam Q's Ai Just On My Love]]'' and the first ED, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YLOKhSNJmY Tanpopo's Last Kiss]]''. The second OP, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfaZEaVAKTI Sharam Q's Kimi wa majutsushi]]''.
3	** Revenge has a pretty dope first opening in the form of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC9KhkD_4E 7HOUSE's Sondemotte KISS]]''
4	** The opening of ''Battle of Kimluck'', the hard-rocking ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4fJ6Un_lw Light of Justice]]''. Even better, ''[[DoItYourselfThemeTune it's sung by]] [[Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo Orphen himself]]''.
5	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Lycoris has both fans and detractors. Her haters say she's a generic moe klutz who does nothing useful during the entire second season, which as it turns out, [[spoiler:completely revolves around her.]] Her fans reply saying that she may not be an ActionGirl but [[PluckyGirl still tries to do what she can]], and [[spoiler: the deal that the season is about her]] [[TheWoobie is not exactly good for her.]]
6	* CatharsisFactor: For anyone who didn't like how Azalie got away with a lot of shady things in Childman's body and despite it all, Orphen still puts her on a pedestal in the first anime, watching the 2020 anime where Orphen finally stands up to her, calls her out on her bad behavior, and beats her in a sword fight can be immensely satisfying to behold.
7	* CompleteMonster: [[CreepyChild Escalena]] from ''Revenge'', the second season of the anime, is a sorcerous beast [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by the Heavenly Beings countless years ago for the havoc she wreaked upon the world. Escalena makes a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain]] with a sorcerer named [=McGregor=] Nielsen [[DespairEventHorizon when he and his daughters are at their lowest point]], saving the girls from a deathly illness and resurrecting one of them in exchange for [=McGregor=] sacrificing five sorcerers to her to free her. Escalena erases the memory of [=McGregor=]'s youngest daughter Lycoris and forces her big sister Esperanza to constantly edit her memory to use her as a pawn, dispersing her to lure Orphen himself into her clutches. Once she's finally outed as the mastermind behind the plot, Escalena murders Esperanza right in front of the rest of her family and cruelly gloats she never intended on keeping either of [=McGregor=]'s daughters alive, her true goal simply being to break from her seal and destroy the world for nothing more than [[ForTheEvulz her own amusement]], even managing to spitefully kill [=McGregor=] himself in the throes of her own death after Orphen defeats her. By far the most evil of Orphen's usually-sympathetic enemies, Escalena is a deceitful monster, both literally and figuratively.
8	* SeasonalRot: ''Revenge'' suffers from decay of all kinds, and not because it's LighterAndSofter. Though it goes better towards the end, according to some.
9	* ValuesResonance: The deal with [[spoiler: Stephanie being a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} person]] isn't handled for cheap and offensive laughs. When Orphen explains [[spoiler: how she went from the male-bodied Stephan to the female-bodied Stephanie]], he does it in a matter-of-fact way and doesn't think less of her for it, and later no one's supposed to side with Cleao when she [[InnocentlyInsensitive makes a careless comment about it]]. Not to mention [[spoiler: Stephanie herself is portrayed as a normal and kind person, and her gender identity [[DealWithTheDevil is not the]] [[CoolBigSis only character trait]] [[NiceGirl she has]].]]

Context YMMV / SorcererStabberOrphen