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“Amoral swordsman Rance and abused slave Sill defend village from oversexed sorceress summoning demon.”
Rance: Sabaku no Guardian
ランス ~砂漠のガーディアン~
6.39
8,612 viewers · 21 favorites
Fantasy
Hentai
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Synopsis
Amoral swordsman Rance and abused slave Sill defend village from oversexed sorceress summoning demon.
Based on the game by Alice Soft. While Rance might well be one of the best swordsmen in the world, he has the personality of a rancid turd. He is narcissistic, lecherous, abusive and almost without any redeeming social graces. And his underclad and overabused slave Sill knows this, but she is still in love with him. One day Rance is hired to defend a dusty and forsaken desert village from the repeated attacks of scantly clad and oversexed sorceress intent on the resurrection of a long forgotten demon. (Source: AniDB, edited)
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 4 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 6
σ 1.12
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.12 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.50
Running avg · Jun 2009 → Mar 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “"What a nice woman... Someday I'll rape her." Story: A guy and his female slave get hired by a hot dark-skinned girl to take out the bandit leader who's been abducting girls from the oasis village....”
- 7 “Based on a series of games, with the original, "Rance: The Quest for Hikari" (Rance 01: Hikari wo Motomete The Animation), being released in 1989 for a Japanese line of computers called the PC-98...”
- 8 “Ahh, the dreaded hentai anime. Once upon a time, I might have been ashamed to have the 'stain' of such a title in my list. But that was a long time ago, when I was but a fresh young lad with a...”
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Short · 25%
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Long · 25%
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A Ova Production
animate Film.- Format 2 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 48m all episodes
- Aired Dec 1993 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated Rx Hentai
- Ref. BS-4041 catalog