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Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Wayward Journey (魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅, Majutsushi Ōfen Hagure Tabi; lit. "Sorceror Orphen Wayward Journey") is a Japanese light novel series written by Yoshinobu Akita released from May 1994 to September 2003 and resulted in 20 volumes. A followup light novel series Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Reckless Journey (魔術士オーフェン 無謀編, Majutsushi Ōfen: Mubō-hen) as a collection of side-stories that depicted more light-hearted and comedic adventures as sort of a prequel to the main series was released from February 1996 to October 2003 and resulted in 13 volumes.
It was adapted into manga (with illustration by Hajime Sawada) with the same title as the light novel series released from December 27, 1997 to January 27, 2001 resulting in 6 tankōbon volumes. A side story manga known as Sorcerous Stabber Orphen MAX (魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅MAX, Majutsushi Ōfen Hagure Tabi) was released from May 27, 2002 to Feb 27, 2003 and resulted in 2 volumes.
A video game titled Orphen: Scion of Sorcery (魔術士オーフェン, Majutsushi Ōfen) was released in Japan on August 3, 2000.
An anime television series by J.C.Staff known as just Sorceror Orphen (魔術士オーフェン, Majutsushi Ōfen) or Orphen premiered on October 3, 1998 and ran for 24 episodes and ran for 23 episodes to March 27, 1999. Sorceror Orphen Revenge (魔術士オーフェンrevenge, Majutsushi Ōfen Revenge) or Orphen 2: Revenge premiered on Oct 2, 1999 to March 25, 2000. A reboot anime series by Studio Deen titled Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (魔術士オーフェン, Majutsushi Ōfen) premiered on January 7, 2020 and ran for 13 episodes to March 31, 2020. It was followed by a 1 episode special Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Celestial Artifacts (魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅 天人の遺産, Majutsushi Ōfen Hagure Tabi: Tennin no Isan) that premiered on May 8, 2020. A second season to the reboot series titled Sorcerous Stabber Ōfen: Battle of Kimluck (魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅 キムラック編, Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi: Kimluck-hen) premiered on January 20, 2021 and ran for 11 episodes to March 31, 2021. A third season to the reboot series titled Sorcerous Stabber Orphen -Chaos in Urbanrama- (魔術士オーフェンはぐれ旅 アーバンラマ編, Majutsushi Ōfen Hagure Tabi: Urbanrama-hen) premiered on January 18, 2023 and ran for 12 episodes to April 5, 2023.
Plot[]
Krylancelo Finrandi once attended the most prestigious school of sorcery on Kiesalhima continent, the Tower of Fang. He was sent there as a young child from an orphanage, along with another orphan girl called Azalie. Throughout the years, the two were very close, with Azalie becoming more and more powerful and Krylancelo looking up to her as a sister/mother figure and a best friend. It isn't until one day, Azalie's thirst for knowledge and extracurricular experimentation backfire, and she is horribly transfigured into a hideous creature, a dragon-like beast that departs the Tower in an animal fury, leaving Krylancelo behind. The Fang Tower, however, is unsympathetic. They promote the belief that Azalie is dead in order to cover the grievous error that resulted in her unimaginable transformation, a terrible scandal that would surely destroy the school's reputation and authority. People whom Krylancelo thought were his friends suddenly seem as though they are strangers, even enemies, going along with the Tower's pretense rather than challenge their authority. Furious that they will do nothing to help her and are instead determined to track down the Bloody August and destroy it before the truth can come to light, Krylancelo renounces his former self, declaring Krylancelo to be dead and that he is, instead, Orphen.
After five years, he finds himself living in the quiet town of Totokanta and taking on a student - Majic Lin, his landlord's son. Life is quiet and fairly lazy until the day Cleao Everlasting comes home from boarding school, and stumbles into Orphen's quietly laid plans for the sword that sits on her family's mantle: the Sword Of Baltanders. It turns out that the sword is actually one of three magical artifacts that Orphen will need if he is to save Azalie, and, in fact, was the very sword Azalie used in her experiment that ended with her unfortunate transformation. Before he can obtain it, however, the Bloody August assaults the town looking for the sword, and soon after, Tower's forces show up as well.
To find the other Baltander's relics, Orphen sets off with his apprentice, little miss Everlasting and two short-statured misfits, but at all times they need to stay ahead of the Tower of Fang and its sorcerers, who all believe that bringing Azalie back to her former state would reveal their oversight in containing her increasingly dangerous magic, a mistake so great it could bring the Tower down - and, of course, ahead of Azalie herself who, as the dragon is more powerful than both Orphen and the Tower. Orphen is driven solely by the need to transform Azalie back into her human self at even the cost of his life. But restoring Azalie ends up being only the beginning...
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