Featuring in many episodes focused on the past, the Ouginak is sometimes seen as a prize, sometimes as a companion, and sometimes as a disgruntled lover to win back. Lou is the lifelong love interest of Kerub, and also a capable adventurer in adulthood. Despite working as a maid, she is fearsome in a fight and secretive about her past. She develops a romantic relationship with a local Ecaflip hairdresser named Julie, but her sexual orientation is never treated as out of the ordinary or used to make a point. She also befriends Luis quickly, which allows her to set both the house and the household straight. Although she plays a secondary role in most episodes, she becomes a member of the family after a fashion despite being aloof toward most people, with the notable exception of Joris, with whom she sometimes behaves like a nanny. Simone is an Osamodas maid that is hired by Kerub in the second episode, although her arrival is based on a misunderstanding. His pet flea Flifli is often helpful in situations of need, frequently acting like a guard dog. He is very curious and obedient and clearly loves his adoptive father. He is always pressing his "Papycha" for more stories, asking about the various magic items in the shop, all of which were acquired through adventuring. Joris, 7 years old, is the second focus of the series, a young boy whom the target audience can relate to with his mischief, disdain for chores and love of stories and (child-scale) adventures. Having left many flaws in his past, he often delivers morals to Joris, but he still displays mischief and other traits that children may identify with. These different periods of heroism, conquest and bravado are contrasted by his current wisdom, melancholy and care for Joris. Through his many stories, viewers get to know him as a child, a teenager and an adventurer in his prime. Most episodes focus on stories of his past, and he often maintains the leading role in present-day episodes as well. So while a younger person might find the voices fun, it actually makes it quite difficult for someone to understand them.Kerub takes the leading role as head of the house, father figure, shop keeper and storyteller. Even though it was aimed at a younger audience the characters here all have distracting accents that make it very difficult to understand. Like with Wakfu, I tried to practice my french while watching the shorts but it was even worse here. I do like that it tried to show how the characters had evolved over the years however. It doesn’t help that the movie drags and there aren’t as many memorable characters nor a very compelling plot. The story is a little more in the vein of something from Wakfu and I think the movie suffers a bit for it as I didn’t expect this tone for the movie. Here you have a slightly older Jaris and it’s his adventure this time. The animation is even nicer than in the show, which for a bunch of shorts the animation was as good as Wakfu’s so it is impressive for both. The show spawned a movie which judging by the title they were planning for more but didn’t quite get to doing them. Not to mention that the show actually has an ending. The show really has a little bit of everything including comedy, action and good stories. It is true the majority follow this format but not that also doesn’t discredit the stories as some are nice.īut we do get a nice mixture of stories, you have a multi-part episode, you get to meet recurring characters, you see the origin of events and items that are in the background or described in other episodes and you even get some stories that are in the “present” day which are just as fun. The first few episodes set up the status quo and after that we star getting a few episodic shows and if you don’t watch much more than that you may very well think that all episodes are like that. While most of the show is indeed episodic which is one of the main criticisms this show offers a lot.
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