Orphen is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 1998, produced by J.C.STAFF.

About the production: the story comes from a light novel, there are 24 episodes of about 25 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, adventure, comedy and fantasy, with themes such as Magic, Dragons, Cute Boys Doing Cute Things and Male Protagonist.

On AniList, Orphen has an average score of 67%, a good score, and appears on 11,355 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Majutsushi Orphen: Revenge.

Six years ago at the magic school known as the Tower of Fang, a grave accident happened involving the magical sword Baltanders and the magic user Azali. Unable to control the sword's power, Azali was transformed into the shape of a great dragon who since that day became known as Bloody August. Krilancelo, a young magician at the Tower who cared greatly for Azali found much to his disgust that the elders of the Tower of Fang were less than willing to save Azali and wanted rather to pretend the accident never happened. Angered by their stand, Krilanceloa swore that he would find a way to return Azali to her former self. Thus he forsook the name Krilancelo and declared himself Orphen, leaving the Tower and his magical studies behind to wander the world... (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.