Introduction
Long ago, the blacksmith Adin forged a belt of seven powerful gems, one from each of the seven tribes of Deltora. Wielding the belt's unparalleled power, he repelled the Shadow Lord's attempt to overthrow the kingdom. Adin was crowned king of Deltora, but he never forgot that the enemy remained unbeaten.
Centuries later, memory of the Shadow Lord has become faded and almost forgotten, and the people of Deltora see their monarchy as detached and uncaring. Much to their dismay, the Shadow Lord strikes once more, breaking the Belt of Deltora by scattering the seven gems across the continent. Jarred, a close friend of the young king Endon, assists him and his wife in escaping from the castle as the Shadow Lord takes over, and they part ways to go into hiding.
The Shadow Lord now reigns over Deltora and many years pass under his tyrannical rule. However, there is a glimmer of hope in Jarred's son Lief, whom he has lovingly raised and trained to find the scattered gemstones and reassemble the Belt of Deltora. Along with his companions Barda and Jasmine, Lief must face devious enemies and dangerous beasts to oust the Shadow Lord and return peace to Deltora.
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Audience reviews
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DandyByDay
The anime of Deltora Quest is one of the most faithful books to screen adaptations I have ever seen in my entire life. I grew up reading the Deltora Quest books and it is shocking just how much the anime not only embraces the plot points and story but also the tone and feel of it as well.
Is the show (/book series) perfect? Absolutely not. The art style, music, and sound design are a bit dated even for 2007, the characters can be relatively annoying and one-note, and the story is a bit predictable and repetitive. However, I enjoyed it as a nine-year-old and it's one of those shows that I have to watch at least every 3-4 years and despite myself now being 23, I was still able to have fun while watching the show.
it's a great watch for beginners to shonen anime, or just anime in general.
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I won't deny that it's been a very long time since I've watched this show (since 2010 if my memory serves me right). But I remember the essence well enough to recommend it. It's a seemingly stereotypical hero's journey, set in a fairly standard fantasy world. It's an adaptation of an Australian book series written under the pen name Emily Rodda (Jennifer Rowe is her real name). I remember reading the books in school, not to chronological competition or anything but just pieces here and there. I liked them, the gem thingy on the side was cool and the stories were quite interesting.
The weird names of Lief and Bard and the weird but normally named Jasmine made for interesting characters. When watching the cartoon (was dubbed anime, just assuming it was a western cartoon) in 2010 I enjoyed t…
Read at the sourceSetanta17
On its face, the whole concept is completely bizarre - an anime adaptation of not only western source material, but a western children's series. In a strange way, it may have made more sense in the current medieval fantasy-heavy anime landscape, but I have no clue how Deltora Quest was successfully pitched in the mid-2000s.
Despite the language and cultural barrier, the Deltora Quest anime remains surprisingly faithful to the source material, with the notable exception of the filler episodes tacked on to the end of the series (completely skippable). For this reason, the anime carries over most of the strengths and weaknesses of the book series, with a few significant differences. First and foremost, Deltora Quest is a kids series. The plot is simple and predictable, and the series extens…
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Deltora Quest is pretty much what you'd expect considering the budget and the lack of meaningful community support for its production. It's an enjoyable trip of nostalgia for those of us who read the books as kids, but it would be difficult for anyone other than kids to enjoy this anime without having read the books first. It's always fun to see the characters you became familiar with being brought to life in an animated setting, regardless of the overall quality of the production.
Story:
The story stays largely true to the original titles, although some non-canon elements are included. I'm not going to detail the contents of the story itself, as other reviews have already dealt with this. What I will say is that it's one of those series that simply attempts to manifest the most relevant…
Read at the sourceLordapollo
I dont normally do reviews but i think ill start with this. This anime is great for beginners. As someone who loves the books, i can say without a doubt that this might be the most faithful anime adaptation ive ever seen. The amount of detail that is kept from the books is outstanding and you can really feel the love and care that went into adapting the series. A good portion of dialogue is line for line out of the books. Some story events are told in a slightly different order, but this helps the pacing as the visual medium required a different approach. One example of this is the backstory of jarred and endon is told in episodes 15 and 16, where in the books it takes the first half of the first book. This allows us to become more attached to the main 3 characters and get a couple gems un…
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This will be my first review. Deltora Quest is an anime adapted from the eight book series Deltora Quest, written by Emily Rodda. I grew up reading all of her books (multiple Deltora Quest series, Rowan of Rin, etc.). They were a fantastic read, sucking you into a mysterious world with more interesting characters. However, this adaptation fails to capture the books essence.
I will start with the plot. A mysterious, powerful being named the shadow lord breaks the peace in the land of Deltora by sneaking a servant in to break apart the magical Belt of Deltora, a belt of seven Powerful gems which combined, kept all evil (for the most part) out of the lands boundaries. He separated the gems and hid them in the seven most dangerous places in the land so no person could collect them and make t…
Read at the sourceAshender16
5/10 overall
HERES WHY
I LITERALLY AND IM NOT JOKING
PREDICTED THE WHOLE ANIME UP UNTIL THE LAST 2 EPISODES(most predicatable anime I have seen)
The reason I didn't give it a lower score is because there are animes that are for noobies to anime meaning people who have watched allot of other anime shouldnt be mad that they could predict it and yes I was one of those people this anime gave me a headache because its predicatable and not in a good way you can always tell when someones going to do something wrong instead of right. The art was fair because it was around the same time as beserk although the CGI just didnt cut it, the fights were boring af, the sounds never caught my attention as you know from my rant above I didn't enjoy it
5 maybe 6/10 at most
AND IM PRETTY MAD MY SHIP DIDNT SA…
Read at the sourceCertia
Deltora Quest is one of the few anime that despite having so many problems, so many pitfalls, and one of the most predictable stories I've seen in quite so time, that I can say I enjoyed watching every single episode of.
The 2007 adaptation of Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest series is so remarkably unremarkable, so vanilla, that its pure simplicity stood out when watching it. Now, I may be a bit biased due to having read this book series as a child, but I could not remember the slightest bit about it for the life of me when I came around to watching this.
A brief synopsis is that The Generic Dark King (Literally the Shadow Lord) took over the kingdom, and only The Chosen One (Lief) can rebuild the legendary artifact that is the Dark Lord's one and only weakness using the Seven Gems of Deltor…
Read at the sourceColonelfancy
"CLEAN NORADS HERE!!" Ehm, sorry. The adventure genre has gradually become a lost art the last couple of years in anime, but thankfully, titles like Deltora Quest can hopefully breathe life back into it. I've never read the books or even heard of them until I began to dig up information on this show, but this is pretty good and could encourage me to give the novels a gander.
While there is nothing particularly stunning about Deltora Quest plotwise early on (it goes through the motions ala Inuyasha), it's simple formula is pretty well executed and the pacing never seems to drag. Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of drawn-out shonen battles at the time I'm writing this, but seeing heroes solve puzzles and fight a variety of clever enemies with a bit of strategy and guile instead of…
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