Noblesse: Awakening (노블레스) is an OAV based on the long running super natural action manhwa Noblesse by Jeho Son and Kwnagsu Lee. The OAV was made available worldwide in February 2016 and was produced by Production I.G.
History is filled with powerful being known as Nobles who guide humanity. There is one among them that guides and controls the Nobles, the supremely powerful being known as Noblesse. A powerful group known as The Organization is hunting for a coffin rumored to contain the Noblesse and retrieve it for their own purposes. Before they are able to do so the group who found it are murdered and the person encased in it awakens.
That person goes by the name of Cadis Etrama Di Raizel. He searches the modern city he awakens in, having slept for centuries, looking for his loyal servant Frankenstein. He finds him as the headmaster of a local high school. In order to understand this drastically different world he enrolls as a new student in the school. Doing so unknowingly endangers fellow classmates as The Organization seeks his whereabouts. When three students are kidnapped Rai, as they call him, shows the power of the Noblesse in order to save the innocent by-standards.
Until I saw the announcement from Crunchyroll that this existed I had been previously unaware of it. In reality it's not my type of story. I've never been a huge fan of vampires and this one is super shonen-ai in character design. Interesting take on a well used supernatural story, but in the end it doesn't bring much innovation to the genre. What is interesting to note is this is understandably a product of the past 30 years of manga and anime. It has the feel and pace of a late 80's or 90's OAV. The manga has run for a long time now and has a well established plot but this single OAV doesn't establish very much, nor does it really set its self up automatically for a continuation. I doubt this will be the only thing we see of this project though and the future will probably hold more OAV's or a TV series.
The artwork was a bit disappointing. It didn't stick to the quality I would come to expect from Production I.G. It was bland and lacked detail. It looked like something that would have been made for TV ten or more years ago, not an OAV from now. Generally OAV's are supposed to be higher quality artwork, but that wasn't the case with this one. The art isn't bad but it just wasn't as high quality as one would expect. While on the subject of artwork this series could easily be done as a TV drama with the whatever hot boy band is currently terring up the charts in Tokyo or Seoul. This is very much fodder for that world.
It was released 'worldwide' on Crunchyroll for both subscribers and non-subscribers. The manhwa is available online for free at Webtoons as well. So if you enjoy the OAV you can legally dig into the original product. An earlier OAV was released by Korean producer Studio Animal in December 2015.
History is filled with powerful being known as Nobles who guide humanity. There is one among them that guides and controls the Nobles, the supremely powerful being known as Noblesse. A powerful group known as The Organization is hunting for a coffin rumored to contain the Noblesse and retrieve it for their own purposes. Before they are able to do so the group who found it are murdered and the person encased in it awakens.
That person goes by the name of Cadis Etrama Di Raizel. He searches the modern city he awakens in, having slept for centuries, looking for his loyal servant Frankenstein. He finds him as the headmaster of a local high school. In order to understand this drastically different world he enrolls as a new student in the school. Doing so unknowingly endangers fellow classmates as The Organization seeks his whereabouts. When three students are kidnapped Rai, as they call him, shows the power of the Noblesse in order to save the innocent by-standards.
Until I saw the announcement from Crunchyroll that this existed I had been previously unaware of it. In reality it's not my type of story. I've never been a huge fan of vampires and this one is super shonen-ai in character design. Interesting take on a well used supernatural story, but in the end it doesn't bring much innovation to the genre. What is interesting to note is this is understandably a product of the past 30 years of manga and anime. It has the feel and pace of a late 80's or 90's OAV. The manga has run for a long time now and has a well established plot but this single OAV doesn't establish very much, nor does it really set its self up automatically for a continuation. I doubt this will be the only thing we see of this project though and the future will probably hold more OAV's or a TV series.
The artwork was a bit disappointing. It didn't stick to the quality I would come to expect from Production I.G. It was bland and lacked detail. It looked like something that would have been made for TV ten or more years ago, not an OAV from now. Generally OAV's are supposed to be higher quality artwork, but that wasn't the case with this one. The art isn't bad but it just wasn't as high quality as one would expect. While on the subject of artwork this series could easily be done as a TV drama with the whatever hot boy band is currently terring up the charts in Tokyo or Seoul. This is very much fodder for that world.
It was released 'worldwide' on Crunchyroll for both subscribers and non-subscribers. The manhwa is available online for free at Webtoons as well. So if you enjoy the OAV you can legally dig into the original product. An earlier OAV was released by Korean producer Studio Animal in December 2015.
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