Arc the Lad
アークザラッド
“Bounty hunter Elk battles chimera-making conspirators in a tech-magic world with his rescued beast-master companion.”
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Synopsis
Bounty hunter Elk battles chimera-making conspirators in a tech-magic world with his rescued beast-master companion.
The story follows Elk, a bounty hunter in some strange futuristic world. On this world archaic but advanced technology exists side by side with primitive attitudes, beasts and magic. In other words it's got a bit of everything. It also has an evil conspiracy who are able to produce powerful monsters called chimera, who can also appear as human. Naturally it is not long before Elk has rescued a young female beast-master and gained himself some serious enemies. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.3/10
What 3
viewers
settled on.
50% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
MixedMostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 ptsRecommenders 7.0 · others 3.0
Yes
7.0
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3.0
Score over time
1.67Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7/10 “Arc the Lad delivers a mature adventure story that handles themes of revenge and character growth with surprising sincerity, particularly in Elk's development and his bonding with Lieza. While the...”
- 3/10 “At age 12, Arc the Lad felt revolutionary—animation and storytelling unlike anything I’d seen. After finishing it and moving straight to .hack//sign, I had to admit the series is complete trash....”
- 6/10 “Arc the Lad surprised me with its dark themes and emotional substories in the middle episodes, particularly the stories involving a blind girl and Elk's childhood friend. However, the animation...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Arc the Lad begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-0037
- Format
- 26 × 22′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 9h 32m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Apr 1999 – Oct 1999
- Spring 1999
- Source
- Tv
- media type
- Rated
- R
- 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref.
- BS-0037
- catalog