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“Bounty hunter Elk battles chimera-making conspirators in a tech-magic world with his rescued beast-master companion.”
Arc the Lad
アークザラッド
6.69
7,052 rank · 18,564 viewers · 34 favorites
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Horror
Sci-Fi
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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)
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Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.3
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 3
σ 1.70
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.70 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.67
Running avg · Jan 2014 → Jan 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “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 “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 “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...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
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- 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
Produced by
- Sony Pictures Entertainment Producer
- Aniplex Producer
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Producer
Licensed by
- ADV Films Licensor