I find it kind of weird that an australian young adult book series was popular enough to get it's own anime

Deltora Quest is a really good series though.

oh yeah that's right. They had to collect gems or some shit didn't they? What was the actual plot? I completely forgot. I just remember the thicc green hair thot in a short skirt.

I always felt that the original novels were heavily inspired by fantasy anime and JRPGs, so it fits.

So the kingdom of Deltora is protected by a magic belt with 7 magical gemstones in it. The magic of the belt keeps "The Shadowlord" out of Deltora like a wall keeps mexicans out of America (so mostly but not 100 percent).

Shadowfag sneaks in and nabs the belt, kills the king, scatters the gems so that each is guarded by a powerful monster. Takes over Deltora. MC and companions need to gather the gems by defeating the monsters and find the heir to the throne (belt only works when worn by the King's bloodline) so he can wear a shiny silver belt with gems in it and make Shadowfag leave.
Massive spoiler next, but kinda obvious
MC is the prince and heir to the throne without knowing and you have to rearrange the gems on the belt into the right order so the first letter of each gem's name spells "Deltora" for the magic to work.

Deltora Quest- Collect the Six Gems and save the Kingdom from the Shadow Lord

Deltora Shadowlands- Journey through the underground lands of Deltora to find a cure for a plague.

Dragons of Deltora- Revive the seven dragons to save Deltora from the Shadow Lord's master plan.

If there's one thing I hated about the anime, it's not using the designs from the actual illustrations, especially since there was an entire guidebook dedicated to showing what they looked like and everything.

Shadowlands was fucking kino, sailing underground through the leech tunnel and the scene immediately after was peak comfiness

There was a manga too, but IIRC it only covered up to the fifth book.

Man I used to love these books as a kid, I thought there was some real top tier shit in here.

I don't remember much of the story but there was a desert town/dungeon that was pretty hardcore iirc

Youtube.

Jasmine is CUTE!

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The final OP was so fucking good
youtube.com/watch?v=hQCJ5CSH9T8

Whoever it was that decided to make Jasmine delicious brown was a genius

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>brown
she's slightly tan you retard

Totally.

this

Deltora quest and Lucy and the southern rainbow are the only shows that adapt Australians into anime. There was also that homo anime, "Free" where that guy goes to Sydney but it was pretty gay.

Gundam seems to visit Australia fairly often.

And the main chick from Healthy Drive was Australian on one side of her family

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The books where actually huge around the world they where big Japan that's why the japanese did the cartoon. Have to say it stuck to the books pretty good, also the extra episode where based around the next deltora series that came out.

>I find it kind of weird that an australian young adult book series was popular enough to get it's own anime...
The books for Deltora Quest were popular in Japan
The author's children loved anime and JRPGs and would often drag her into watching various 1990s fantasy anime like Slayers, Berserk play games like Final Fantasy or Wild Arms. She wanted to write something that her children would enjoy and was inspired by the shows she watched and games she played with them.
That's probably the reason why Deltora Quest is popular in Japan anyways, it's essentially an Australian Light Novel.

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>The author's children loved anime and JRPGs and would often drag her into watching various 1990s fantasy anime like Slayers, Berserk play games like Final Fantasy or Wild Arms. She wanted to write something that her children would enjoy and was inspired by the shows she watched and games she played with them.
That's actually quite cute and wholesome.

It's funny because the third OP song is by Delta Goodrem.

I loved those books as a kid, if this had aired on Toonami or something I would've lost my mind

Deltora quest was pretty much written with anime in mind honestly

This.

I still have all of the books on a shelf somewhere
>have the "How to Draw Deltora Dragons" book
>in between the pages are all of my loose sheets of scribbles of dragons and castles from 2006-2007

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such a good show