I loved the art and the tone this show sometimes achieved, but Christ did the writing

make it
unwatchable. Every character is a flat stereotype of their race or something like "being evil." The
world building is childish with a king of goodness and puppies, king of being mean and stinky and a
chaos lady “because balance” being the full extent of it. It has less moral dimensions than He-Man.

Those could have been great ideas. Having an objective model of good and evil that move on a
cosmic level to be balanced or swing to and fro *could* be interesting if it were ever questioned
what good and evil mean. If it could make those concepts relevant and personally challenging to the
characters and people living in the world… But Record of Lodoss War refuses to expand on
anything, leaving nothing to care about. Flat characters, a flat world and if you’ve so much as
glanced at swords and sorcery before, you’ll find absolutely nothing new.