Orphen

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
Cover of the first DVD of Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Spell of the Dragon.
魔術士オーフェン (Majutsushi Ōfen)
Genre	Adventure, comedy, fantasy
Light novel
Majutsushi Orphen Haguretabi
Written by	Yoshinobu Akita
Illustrated by	Yuuya Kusaka
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
Magazine	Dragon Magazine
Original run	May 1994 – September 2003
Volumes	20
Light novel
Majutsushi Orphen Mubouhen
Written by	Yoshinobu Akita
Illustrated by	Yuuya Kusaka
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
Magazine	Dragon Magazine
Original run	February 1996 – October 2003
Volumes	13
Manga
Written by	Yoshinobu Akita
Illustrated by	Yuuya Kusaka
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
English publisher	US ADV Manga
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Dragon Magazine
Original run	1998 – 2001
Volumes	6
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Watanabe
Written by	Masashi Kubota
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Original network	TBS
Original run	3 October 1998 – 27 March 1999
Episodes	24
Anime television series
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen 2: Revenge
Directed by	Tōru Takahashi
Written by	Mayori Sekijima
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Original network	TBS
Original run	2 October 1999 – 26 March 2000
Episodes	23
Light novel
Slayers x Orphen
Written by	Hajime Kanzaka & Yoshinobu Akita
Illustrated by	Rui Araizumi & Yuuya Kusaka
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
Magazine	Dragon Magazine
Original run	2005 – present
Volumes	1
Game
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
Platform	PlayStation 2

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (魔術士オーフェン, Majutsushi Ōfen^?, lit. "Sorceror Orphen") is a series of Japanese fantasy adventure novel and manga, two anime television series (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen 2: Revenge), and a video game.

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.