The other character that gets the most attention is M-21, a white-haired, former member of the union. Yusuke does seem more like a protagonist than anyone else, being athletic, caring, dopey and a badass in a fight. It’s more like Yusuke and his diminutive best friend Manabu adopt him, as their bright and endlessly cheerful personalities seem the sort to just adopt an introverted type character and bring them into their peer group.
Although it’s difficult to really call them friends considering how stone-faced and emotionless Raizel is, he barely speak more than a handful of lines these whole episodes, just staring off into space most of the time. The characters who get more attention and development are Yusuke a red-headed high school student who becomes Raizel’s first friend upon stumbling back into civilised society.
Noblesse ova series#
And to be honest, he seems like a background element in his own series based on the OVA and the first three episodes I’ve seen. The Noblesse that the title refers to is the character of Raizel, a noble who stands above all others, having woken up suddenly in an unfamiliar present day after being asleep for over 800 years. Except it’s for a Japanese audience in this case. Which seems like a weird, 4kids style brand of “Americanisation” like we got back in the early day of anime imports. Something I found odd between the Manhwa, the OVA and the anime series proper is that the setting and character names change from the South Korean of their source material to being Japanese for the sake of the anime. Although all of these come from a nefarious organisation called The Union, whose true purpose can’t be anything but sinister based on the total creeps that make up their number. Where humanity were once a servile, weak species, now they’re experimenting on themselves, creating genetically engineered superhumans. Although a long time has passed since then and humanity has outgrown the need for its former protectors, seemingly forgetting all about them. But I watched the damned thing, so I might as well talk about it.īased on the Manhwa written by Son Jeho and illustrated by Lee Kwangsu, Noblesse is a dark fantasy series that takes place in a world where a powerful race called nobles once ruled over humanity as their protectors and savours. Guess I’m stupid and this entire series has fallen on its arse.
But anime is weird and sometimes you don’t realise these things unless they’re outright stated to you. As it turns out, The anime adaptation I decided to started watching for this was a sequel to the OVA Noblesse: Awakening, which I kind of feel like a dope for not realising beforehand, especially when the events depicted were obviously following from a story already told.