Wakfu Season 1 Review

Sorry for this not being on time with what I said, but i had a lot to do with school starting this week. I am aiming to get a new review every Saturday night or Sunday morning. I will, and I truly mean WILL, not only have this up tonight, Friday, but also the one on Saturday.

Without further a do, the review I promised you. (I did not mean to rhyme, I apologize to those of you who are offended).

I really enjoyed this first season, it perfectly married humor with action with an affair with drama (get it, drama). The personalities of all of the character truly adds definition to the show, you get the naive youth (Yugo), the tsundere (Evangelyne), the thick headed dimwitted loving warrior (Sir Sadlygrove), the selfish but loyal princess (Amelia), the stingy skinflint (Ruel), and the loyal pet (Az); there is one other main character the makes up the Brother of the Tofu (the gang I just mentioned) and his name is Adamai and he is the loyal dragon brother of Yugo the Eliatrope. This is as far into the characters as I am going to go since I already talked about them in one of my earlier posts.

The story follows the gang on their quest for Yugo's true family, the long lost Eliatropes and their dragon brothers, through the vast and magical lands. It also follows many small side quests, a few of them have to do with finding funds for their adventure, even though Ruel is load which is revealed in the episode "Ruel's Bag"(episode 9). My favorite side quest would have to be the Boufbowl tournament, because it had the most action and suspense out of all of the side quests, this lasts through three episodes (episode 10-12). After getting the prize money from the tournament, the gang buy a boat and set sail to an island hidden by magic in hopes of finding Yugo's family. There Yugo meats his brother the dragon Adamai and half-brother (or rather just his brother, it was a little confusing to me) Grougalorgran the old, wise, and mighty dragon (episode 15). The Brotherhood of the Tofu is formed in episode 18 whose title is the same. After this point the show starts to decline with the brotherhood splitting so that Adamai can train Yugo and so that they could retrieve Grougalorgran's dofus (since dragons and their Eliatrope siblings are immortal [the original six that were born first] their wakfu [life force] returns to an egg called the dofus where they will be reborn as babies) also for the rest of the brotherhood to warn the Sadida Kingdom, where Amelia is from, that Nox is going to attack. From there it gets sadder when Grovy (Sir Sadlygroy), under control of Rubilax the shushu (unholy demon) that usually resides in Grovy's sword, breaks Eva's (Evangelyne) bow. Having her bow broken is the most dishonorable thing to happen to a Cra, she becomes heartbroken and hates Grovy for it, but she really loved him so it was an even bigger blow to her. Grovy is able to regain control and after realizing what he has done he leaves the Brotherhood of the Tofu and flees to the desert.

Now the story starts to pick up again, Yugo has finished his training and with the help of his brother they retrieved the dofus. But back in the desert, Grovy finds his old master believed to be long dead and gone, but it turns out he is quite alive. At Grovy's bafflement he simply says that "being dead is overrated" (episode 22). Grovy is then involved in one of his greatest fight scenes against Rubilax to take full control as the shushu's guardian. He then dons a cape made of his old shirt that was riped down the middle and heads off to the battle against Nox. Yugo and Adamai also return in the nick of time to save the Sadida Kingdom against Nox, but Nox attacks with his strongest clock-based robot-puppet, Razortime. Yugo and Adamai bypass Razortime to confront Nox himself and take part in the final epic battle of the series.

Warning the next paragraph describes the very end of the season! I sugest you watch the first season first, but if you do not intend to you may read on at this time.

Yugo is able to defeat Nox and with his defeat Razortime is also defeated but not before he kills Grovy, who jumped in front of an attack that was meant for Eva. Grovy died in her arms, Eva's true love for Grovy as more than just a friend is finally and truly revealed. After Nox is defeated he escaped and his helmet and armor lay in a pile of ash next to three grave markers believed to be his wife and kids, who he hoped to travel back in time to see again and make things right. This Season had a sad ending and I'm sure you are wondering how the next will start, well you'll either have to wait for me to get off my lazy ass and wright the next review in a few weeks (I plan on doing one review per week, but already have plans to do others first) or just watch it yourselves, I suggest the earlier one so I can have more views on my page.

Thank you for waiting and I know it is technically Saturday morning, but give me a break its close enough. See you all tomorrow night.

 

This a link to a playlist on YouTube by a fellow YouTuber named Morgie Corgie that contains the entire first season of Wakfu, check it out and subscribe to his channel: http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS7gBe322Ttawhx-4eK11xfnIZ6_1okr8.

 

I very much enjoyed the over all plot line to this season and the simplicit flash animation style was a nice touch. I liked how the writers were able to merge romantic drama with action adventure. I give this anime season a 9/10. I would have liked a little more character development from our tsundere Eva and also from Amelia.