YMMV / Argai: The Prophecy

• Awesome Music: The opening, an epic medieval-sounding tune.
• Complete Monster: Dark Queen Orial is a serpentine sorceress whose ultimate goal is to one day reign in Hell as the bride of Lucifer. Having made a Deal with the Devil for eternal life, Orial maintains her youth by regularly placing young maidens in magical comas, with one of her victims being Angele, the fiancée of Prince Argaï. Originally a marauding medieval warlord, Orial eventually conquered the world in a bloody campaign that killed a tenth of the population of the Earth, which she then turned into a dystopic Police State in which anyone who steps out of line is either executed or condemned to a Hellhole Prison. Orial regularly disposes of her own allies at the slightest provocation, and when she learns that Argaï is destined to slay her, she resorts to increasingly extreme attempts at eliminating him and his allies, like burning entire villages, leveling a city block, and razing all of Chinatown. In the end, when she realizes that she has been beaten with no way out, Orial spitefully tries to blow up the Earth.
• Moe: Moony.
• Narm: Much of the dialogue and the pacing of the individual scenes frequently dip into this.
• Narm Charm: The show is basically Rule of Cool embodied: The lovechild of a sci-fi dystopian story and a medieval epic with some elements of Film Noir thrown in the mix, with the backdrop of time travel. (It's described as a mix of Sleeping Beauty and Blade Runner in the DVD description.)

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