#wakfu oav

[chlogummy]

I had a convo about why Harebourg was throwing wood in the lava while he could just use the heat of the volcano and a friend replied to me "because he can"

That made me laugh 😂

[sadidastheria]

Petite vidéo faite durant la Ankama Convention, Amalia et le Comte Harebourg tirés de l'OAV le trône de glace !

Team Haremalia anyone?

Je partagerai d'autres photos et vidéos une fois remise de cette incroyable convention 💙

[blacktiger666]

It's been a while since season 4 of Wakfu came out and since I don't really have time to do fan art except one with the Great Goddess… Anyway! Since the last episodes yesterday, I had this in mind and it made me sick not to do it so here it is x')

It's not just this meme that I made, I made one with the OAV Oropo :

[bluegumballmf]

They released a new deleted scene leak from the ovas

Dog who is THISS

(False screenshot)

[codexbrainhasbrokenfree]

That's a great review, I mostly agree with it. However I think the reason why the Eliotrope characters were so "one-note" is because they're not supposed to be "full persons", as they're nothing more but echoes of Yugo... I actually think it's a neat way of showing how they feel incomplete in their identities, to depict them as raw archetypes with little to no nuances, as if they were PARTS of a full character, but not full characters themselves.

But I also think their designs were too simple, probably because of the cost of animation (the same way Yugo's design was simplified in S3). Even if they are efficient during fight scenes, they do not convey a lot about the different characters' story or personality (or lack of thereof). What I'm trying to say is that they are basic, which is a shame for this series.

Concerning the fact the Eliotropes don't look like Yugo despite being echoes of him, I do not think this is really a problem ; I believe this serves the idea of the Eliotropes as a concept, being stuck between "literally being Yugo" and "being their own person" and all the internal struggles that come with it.

But yeah, this is where the biggest problem of this OAV comes up : the writing is so bland, and fails to correctly convey the important informations needed to understand why the Eliotropes are the way they are... In addition to failing at telling an engaging story with compelling characters.

I understand the idea of making the characters feel more like disposable pawns rather than fully-fleshed out characters from the point of view of Oropo in his quest, and thus writing them in a way that avoids making them too endearing for the spectator... But I don't think the OAV itself understands this idea. The deaths are depicted over-dramatically, even though the characters dying seemed to have been written not to be considered as valuable people we as viewers should care about. This makes the OAV's pacing feel extremely strange, as the show ask you to overlook details you think could be interesting, while asking you to pay attention about people you don't care about.

Because of that, the fighting scenes' stakes don't feel apparent. Which is a shame because they really are well animated with great sense of scenography and everything! Some shots and effects are genuinely impressive and reminds me of the Ogrest fight scene in the first (and better) OAV Wakfu had. On that topic, I didn't mind Grougaloragran being naked during most of the fight scenes ; if anything, it makes him feel more animalistic and savage with his immense power. I have suspicions his clothes might have been taken out of the picture because of animation cost, once again, but I cannot prove it at all and don't know enough about animation to really believe myself on that point lmao. This design choice didn't bother me though, and I think it fits Wakfu wider brand of "we do cool shit because they're cool and we don't care if they look weird". I can understand how it can be distracting for other people though.

I also agree with the fact Chibi was hella weird in this OAV. He didn't feel right in the way he acted not in the way he talked. I guess I enjoyed his dynamic with Grougal, maybe...? That's how much his inclusion confuses me.

Another inclusion that felt weird to me was Echo's. She was there. Didn't serve any purpose, and we didn't learn anything more about her relationship with Oropo nor the other Eliotropes. She's literally just here to be pretty and probably add another familiar face to the cast, even if this face doesn't do anything. I guess I'm overly mad at that fact because Echo is one of my favorite characters in the wider Wakfu canon.

Now, a word about the non-binary character in this OAV (forgot their name because their character is just very forgettable, as established earlier) ; I too am very unsatisfied with how it was handled, but not exactly for the same reasons. I don't mind the fact the only NB rep Wakfu has is an emotionless character because, well, it's an archetype of character like any other and I feel like it would be contradictory to encourage more NB rep while forbidding NB characters to be certain types of characters (the problem is that we need MORE rep, not different rep). I do mind however about the fact they die, even though it was necessary for the story the OVA was trying to tell ; it's infuriating that the first and only NB character Wakfu ever had was killed in the very first episode the were introduced in. It makes me think about the "bury your gays" trope in a way.

But that's not the only problems I have with this character : the way it is "revealed" that they are non-binary... Is ridiculous, and depict them as "other" in a very heavy and absurd way. They're about to die, and in their last breath they ask Oropo if he's ever considered them more than a pawn, and Oropo goes like "You were more than a pawn, you were a sister, a brother... whatever.". Why saying that now!? Your sibling is about to die and the first thing you do is to tell them "hey btw I respect your gender identity"?? The problem isn't that Oropo accept his sibling as NB, OF COURSE NOT, but it's the unnatural way the writing brings up the gender identity of its only genderqueer character.

It's even more infuriating when you notice that this character was never refered to ONCE by anything other than their name! There IS a gender-neutral pronoun in french (iel/ellui), but they didn't use it ONCE to talk about this character, supposedly just because they wanted to make a revelation out of it? How strange! Genderqueer identities should probably not be depicted like this in our current day and age where a lot of people see these identities as something strange and weird. If Oropo referred to his sibling ONCE using gender-neutral pronouns, I would have been (mostly) okay with it, but they didn't and it makes me mad.

(and of course, yes, there are people out there who uses no pronoun at all, and that's also valid, and if this was the intention behind this NB character, I would greatly enjoy it! But because of the way their gender reveal was handled (even the simple fact it NEEDED to exist) makes me dubious the people over at Ankama even know about the possibility for a person not to use any pronoun)

Lastly, the lore... I think the worst comment I can make is that I didn't really care about it. It confused me, especially the whole thing with Oropo being stuck in the Eliacube (???), but in the end I couldn't bring myself to really care about those characters who were done dirty by the writing in S3, and who still didn't get their time to shine in this OAV. A bunch of people I vaguely know fighting for stakes that have become outdated because of the end of S3, that's how I would define the Oropo OAV.

I'm not as scared for S4 as OP is, but I admit I am being very optimistic. I'm still excitingly waiting for it to air, even though by the looks of it I shouldn't get my hopes so high.

Wakfu Oropo OAV : Why I love to hate it

Hum, sorry not sorry, but you read correctly, dear Kosmoz's traveller it is time to give my opinion on the latest Ankama OAV focusing on Oropo's background, and well... Let's at least start with the good parts.

A long forgotten animation we love

The title screen framing Oropo's figure, graphically underlying he will be the center of this story is quite nice. There are few other choices of composition that are also really good and meaningful.

The animation is still... Well it's Ankama : it gives energy in the fight scene, emotion when needed, it is colorful yet pale (underlying maturity after a childish beginning for the series).

The Eliotropes' design and presentation : so nice to see more charcaterisation of this race we have still so much to uncover ! And I LOVE to see "bad eliotropes", especially this little guy there ("Rictus" in french), because if Eliotropes are Yugo's shadows, then it means that our dear "EliAtropes' king" is not as a white knight as we would like to see him ~

The fights are pretty cool

The music... well still awesome

Don't know about the english dub, but oh well, the french one is still very neat. Even if I can not help but to find that Chibi's way of ALWAYS screaming is just tiring in the long run...

AND THERE IT IS.

We have reached the end of the "good points", and oh boy... It can not be compared to the bad ones...

De Profundis : why this OAV should return to the White Dimension

CHIBI : he should NOT BE ALIVE !!! I KNOW that IoW is no more canon but the fact that he is still alive after the second war against Orgonax ? Bollocks ! And his character design ?! What is this ?

From now on... I will rename Chibi "no eyebrows stupid screamer"

And yeah... STUPID !!! For someone who is supposed to have outlived Orgonax and Qilby's "treason", how is it possible for him to be this nut-head ? He lost the fight at the end for what ? Because he only screams and yells and DID NOT THINK ONCE ! Talk about a Council's member : no shit Qilby became crazy with a brother like him for centuries.

And Grougaloragran, can we talk about him ? WHY IS HE FIGHTING NAKED ?!? Why does he not transform into his dragon version ?! WHY NOT USING ALL HIS POTENTIAL FACING SUCH A THREAT ?! And if he wants to stay in a more agile version, fine, but keep your damn clothes ON, please ! I mean, it brings up nothing interesting other than his abs : can we be serious for once ?

Chibi's death : no emotion. I mean, he does not seem very wise for his age, he does not listen to his brother, he does not talk about Yugo or perhaps his feelings about encountering other "versions" of his brother after so much time being appart from him. Did not particularly care about him at the beginning, hate him after seeing that version of the character.

THE FU**** CONSISTENCE WITH THE LORE ?! WHERE IS IT ?!

The fact that Oropo is held into the cube.... It could be a good idea, huh ? Yes, yes... he could become.... THE F***** VOICE THAT NOX IS HEARING, RIGHT ?!?! For which reason ? Why tossing the cube into the ocean ?! How does it come back in season one ?! Can't Nox be left alone and just be a great antagonist WITHOUT OROPO being "at the beginning of everything" ?!

Ankama is probably going to follow that last idea, aren't they ? So, like at the end of the 3rd season, we're gonna have the "it was Oropo's plan"... Thanks, really.

Hum.... Did Oropo really though that they could take out a freacking dragon ? Like... He's Yugo's shadow : he knew that Grougal was powerful. Why not trying to sneak out ?

Because of that choice to show "fighting" instead of sneacking, we were stuck 30 minutes on a beach. There was only few different backgrounds with flashbacks (and we already knew that beach from season one, so not even something new).

Hum, I love the design of all the Eliotropes, but... WHY ARE THEY SO DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL ?! I mean, the saga is supposed to be part of the game too ! You're going to tell me that there are all different even though all the in-game Eliotropes have the same design ? And what about the fact that their design are litteraly caricatures of their personality ? Same note for their names ("'"poet" ? "rictus" ? "bouillon" ?) ! I mean, we're not children, and gosh, it is so... plain ! Can't they have nuances ?!

The dialogues... Lame. No emotions. No good humor. No really good informations : I had the the impression to see children taunting each other each time someone was talking.

Oropo being full of disdain towards his brothers and sisters when they are talking and suggesting other plans but being full-emotional when one of them dies : once again, show why his characterization is a fail.

Aton's death : "you were a brother... A sister... Whatever..." Is this a non-bineary reference here ? WHY ? I mean, it is not bad to have more diversity, quite the contrary but its just... there. No explanation, And for a antagonist with "no emotion" : what a great depiction for this stigmatized group... And who dies at the end... If it was just to put a reference to LGBTQ and + because its trendy or because you have a to-do list to check, please don't.

Why is Grougaloragran using his adversaries' names like he knows them even he just met them ?

The Eliacube showed Oropo the destruction of the Eliatropes' world after Orgonax came, or some kind of destruction. And he still wants to use it... Genius.

Well, I think I will stop this monolog here.

I will gladly exchange with whoever want to share their own experience of this OAV.

To conclude : I will not recommend this OAV for something else than the animation. The story is sh*t, the characters are a pain in the eliacube and I can't help but fear for the 4rth season after watching this...

[nina-numa-blog]

Explaining Krosmoz lore be like:

So hard but worthy

[ol-files]

Some new pictures of the kickstarter to wait those next three weeks

[astrosociety]

Picking up the pen so I can give my babies some better clothes for their wedding (I have absolutely no idea for yugo)

[dementeris]

Wakfu Oropos' OAV : Why I love to hate it

Hum, sorry not sorry, but you read correctly, dear Kosmoz's traveller it is time to give my opinion on the latest Ankama OAV focusing on Oropo's background, and well... Let's at least start with the good parts.

A long forgotten animation we love

The title screen framing Oropo's figure, graphically underlying he will be the center of this story is quite nice. There are few other choices of composition that are also really good and meaningful.

The animation is still... Well it's Ankama : it gives energy in the fight scene, emotion when needed, it is colorful yet pale (underlying maturity after a childish beginning for the series).

The Eliotropes' design and presentation : so nice to see more charcaterisation of this race we have still so much to uncover ! And I LOVE to see "bad eliotropes", especially this little guy there ("Rictus" in french), because if Eliotropes are Yugo's shadows, then it means that our dear "EliAtropes' king" is not as a white knight as we would like to see him ~

The fights are pretty cool

The music... well still awesome

Don't know about the english dub, but oh well, the french one is still very neat. Even if I can not help but to find that Chibi's way of ALWAYS screaming is just tiring in the long run...

AND THERE IT IS.

We have reached the end of the "good points", and oh boy... It can not be compared to the bad ones...

De Profundis : why this OAV should return to the White Dimension

CHIBI : he should NOT BE ALIVE !!! I KNOW that IoW is no more canon but the fact that he is still alive after the second war against Orgonax ? Bollocks ! And his character design ?! What is this ?

From now on... I will rename Chibi "no eyebrows stupid screamer"

And yeah... STUPID !!! For someone who is supposed to have outlived Orgonax and Qilby's "treason", how is it possible for him to be this nut-head ? He lost the fight at the end for what ? Because he only screams and yells and DID NOT THINK ONCE ! Talk about a Council's member : no shit Qilby became crazy with a brother like him for centuries.

And Grougaloragran, can we talk about him ? WHY IS HE FIGHTING NAKED ?!? Why does he not transform into his dragon version ?! WHY NOT USING ALL HIS POTENTIAL FACING SUCH A THREAT ?! And if he wants to stay in a more agile version, fine, but keep your damn clothes ON, please ! I mean, it brings up nothing interesting other than his abs : can we be serious for once ?

Chibi's death : no emotion. I mean, he does not seem very wise for his age, he does not listen to his brother, he does not talk about Yugo or perhaps his feelings about encountering other "versions" of his brother after so much time being appart from him. Did not particularly care about him at the beginning, hate him after seeing that version of the character.

THE FU**** CONSISTENCE WITH THE LORE ?! WHERE IS IT ?!

The fact that Oropo is held into the cube.... It could be a good idea, huh ? Yes, yes... he could become.... THE F***** VOICE THAT NOX IS HEARING, RIGHT ?!?! For which reason ? Why tossing the cube into the ocean ?! How does it come back in season one ?! Can't Nox be left alone and just be a great antagonist WITHOUT OROPO being "at the beginning of everything" ?!

Ankama is probably going to follow that last idea, aren't they ? So, like at the end of the 3rd season, we're gonna have the "it was Oropo's plan"... Thanks, really.

Hum.... Did Oropo really though that they could take out a freacking dragon ? Like... He's Yugo's shadow : he knew that Grougal was powerful. Why not trying to sneak out ?

Because of that choice to show "fighting" instead of sneacking, we were stuck 30 minutes on a beach. There was only few different backgrounds with flashbacks (and we already knew that beach from season one, so not even something new).

Hum, I love the design of all the Eliotropes' designs, but... WHY ARE THERE SO DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL ?! I mean, the saga is supposed to be part of the game too ! You're going to tell me that there are all different even though all the in-game Eliotropes have the same design ? And what about the fact that their design are litteraly caricatures of their personality ? Same note for their names ('poet" ? "rictus" ? "bouillon" ?) ! I mean, we're not children, and gosh, it is so... plain ! Can't they have nuances ?!

The dialogues... Lame. No emotions. No good humor. No really good informations : I had the the impression to see children taunted each other each time someone was talking.

Oropo being full of disdain towards his brothers and sisters when they are talking and suggesting other plans but being full-emotional when one them dies : once again, show why his characterization is a fail.

Aton's death : "you were a brother... A sister... Whatever..." Is this a non-bineary reference here ? WHY ? I mean, it is not bad to have more diversity, quite the contrary but its just... there. No explanation, And for a antagonist with "no emotion" : what a great depiction for this stigmatized group... And who dies at the end... If it was just to put a reference to LGBTQ and + because its trendy or because you have a to-do list to check, please don't.

Why is Grougaloragran using his adversaries' names like he knows them even he just met them ?

The Eliacube showed Oropo the destruction of the Eliatropes' world after Orgonax came, or some kind of destruction. And he still wants to use it... Genius.

Well, I think I will stop this monolog here.

I will gladly exchange with whoever want to share their own experience of this OAV.

To conclude : I will not recommend this OAV for something else than the animation. The story is sh*t, the characters are a pain in the eliacube and I can't help but fear for the 4rth season after watching this...

[wearepurplejackets]

This special was everything I needed T.T

Chibi's Death (Grougaloragran's brother)

[chlogummy]

Drawing for Nina :D

[sadidastheria]

Deuxième jour de la Japan Expo ! Journée très chargée avec de nombreuses rencontres dont celle d'Adeline Chetail, la comédienne de doublage d'Amalia ! Nous avons également passé la journée en présence d'une magnifique Shinonomé @kyotaba ❤.

Ankama a adoré nos cosplays et a hâte, tout comme nous, de nous retrouver demain pour le grand rassemblement cosplay !

Vous pouvez tous nous retrouver en rediffusion sur Twitch :

🇬🇧 Day two at Japan Expo! Very busy day with many meetings including Adeline Chetail, Amalia's dubbing actress! We also spent the day in the presence of a beautiful Shinonomé @kyotaba ❤

Ankama loved our cosplays and are looking forward just as much as we are to getting together tomorrow for the big cosplay gathering!

[blacktiger666]

As we had never seen Despéria fight in the Oropo OAV and we don't know what wakfu/stasis weapon she has, I imagined one for her and the most logical one is the halberd. With her appearance as a knight guard, it's true that she is more spear and halberd than sword or bow 🤔

[ol-files]

(found back it back on Reddit don't know "where it from" of kicksrater page most likely)

Here we are again with some Wakfu Season 4 content for the end of 2022. The series’ teams continue to work wonders:

* On the lay out team’s side, episode 09 is finished as well as episodes 10 and 11

* Following the completion of episodes 01, 02, 03 and 04, the animation team is working on episode 05

*The compositing team has finished the special episode Oropo, episode 01 and episode 2

To accompany this update, you will find below some visuals to help you wait:

(images)

In the meantime, we wish you a merry Christmas! 🎄 See you soon in the Krosmoz.

the Wakfu: The Animated Series - Season 4 team

UH SPOLIER FOR WAKFU LEAKS I GUESS?

Afficher davantage

[arikihalloween]

Wakfu art dump because yes

This post is gonna be super long because I will ramble IN DEPTH today

So huh if you like my rambling or my art just read ig, otherwise scroll away idk what to tell ya

Showing some of my art and ramble because wakfu is part of my current big 3 hyperfixations ( along with WH and Trolls )

So huh enjoy my growing insanity ( I compiled it in one post to not annoy people too much :')

Presenting my oc Sharm !

An (very pink) Eliotrope

She's based on my in game character but I kinda gave her lore and a story so

⭐INFODUMP about Wakfu in general ! ⭐

Basic infos for those who don't know anything about Wakfu :

Wakfu is a french animated serie made by the studio Ankama, who also made several mmorpg games ( and way more, like the amount of content and lore is crazy)

Most of the stories will take place on the World of Twelves, populated by 12 main races (with many variation)

And there is a 13th "main race", the Eliatropes, which is the race of the main character of the anime, Yugo

Eliotropes ( with a o instead of a) are a subrace of the Eliatropes ( lore is explained in the serie but I don't wanna spoil, so to boil it down, Eliotropes are unstable pale copies of eliatropes) [ they are playable in the game wakfu]

So, what about Sharm ? Well she was born a pretty regular Eliotrope. She had two "brothers", Chance and Vitali, who unfortunately ended up fading away with time ( mechanically, when an Eliotrope die, his/her essence will go to the nearest Eliotrope to allow them to live longer)

So Sharm was left alone for very long, and stayed in Eliatropes ruins she found. Those were overgrown by stasis ( type of crystals, very bad, generally associated with corruption and destruction)

However, the essence she got from her siblings passing could only last so long

One day, in a desperate attempt to not die, Sharm took stasis and...ate it. Chewed on the mf crystals, and surprisingly, an interesting reaction occured : it stabilised her essence. It also made her basically frozen in development, Sharm cannot grow anymore and her power levels are quite limited in quantity, unless she uses stasis.

So my girl went through the ages, she kept on researching on the remnant of the eliatrope race ( wiped out aside from a few) and became sort of an archeologist

Nowadays, Sharm travels from a country/city to an other, often with mercenaries she hires as bodyguards . The other two ocs in this sketch page are the said mercenaries

And the cat is called Noiraude !

Sharm needs protection because she is stupidly useless in combat

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

And also I have fanarts of Nora !

And also, it's time for the gremlin mode

The worst of the ramble

I kinda just need to scream for a moment

Beware, big spoilers for the serie ahead ! Stop now and go watch Wakfu !! It's all on Netflix ( season 1, season 2, then the 3 oav, THEN season 3 and you will be ready for season 4 :D)

So, this character is Nora (second drawing is a headcanon version of her)

Who is Nora ? She is the sixth eliatrope of the Council ( Eliatropes are rules by the six first borns of the race who can reincarnate along with their dragon twin)

Nora appeared for the first time in a flashback the episode "Quilbi" in season 2

In 2011

And back then she was in a flashback, so presumed dead from the war that wiped out the Eliatropes

BUT

Lately, as clips and trailers of season 4 of Wakfu has been released

It's confirmed that Nora is there

She's alive

She's in season 4

*grabs u*

2011

She has been my favorite character of Wakfu since her one and only appearance, alright ?

And now

12-13 years later

She is real

SHE IS REAL AND ALIVE IN THE SERIE

*maniacal laughter*

I will not shut up about it

Prepare for the fanarts

*retreats to the shadows*

[aphilayx]

If the manga is canon, and if I'm not mistaken. Yugo, Adamai, Elely, and Flopin have the same birthday. I also learned Elely and Flopin were 4 years old in the OAV and 6 in season 3. Please, let them have a childhood before giving them so much trauma. Even Yugo was 12 when he started having traumas. It seems like twins are doomed in Wakfu. Between Qilby and Shinonome who are cursed, Chibi and Grougal, who were kidnapped, Yugo and Adamaï, Elely and Flopin and now Nora and Efrim.