Okay who here has played Dungeons and Dragons? From a few livestreamed DnD games that Ive seen online I know how chaotic DnD campaigns can be specifically because of the people playing in that campaign. On my part I havent played DnD since high school but it was years after graduating that I started keeping a list on AnimePlanet of anime that arent fully available on the Internet in English finding anime that qualify for that list and making sure it stays updated has been quite an adventure in itself. One longstanding member of that list is Fortune Quest L which only has five episodes available both subbed and dubbed. As it turns out this isnt the first anime adaptation of the light novel series its based on got. Before Fortune Quest L was released there was a fourepisode OVA series that actually did get the fullyEnglishsubbed treatment one that actually mentions DnD in its description. Can this OVA Fortune Quest: Yo ni mo Shiawase na Boukenshatachi be what inspires someone to seek out its sequel and make it more widely available? Well....Im gonna be honest Im not sure if I see that happening. Fortune Quest: Yo ni mo Shiawase na Boukenshatachi or Fortune Quest: The Happygolucky Adventurers in English according to the fansubbers anyway follows one specific party reminiscent of those found in fantasy RPGs led by swordsman Clay and including the likes of the thief Trapp and the mapper Pastel. Unfortunately we do not find them in the best of positions for a party to be in theyre broke and in debt meaning they cant buy any of the adventure modules to go on a quest. To earn some money they take on a job to collect hot spring water from a town famous for it but they soon discover that the water has all dried up. As it turns out a white dragon dries up the water every ten years until a young boy is sacrificed each time any time an adventurer sets off to kill the white dragon they come back evil and cause chaos in the town. Nevertheless our hapless heroes set off for the nearby dungeon to kill the white dragon....but all is not as it seems regarding this. As you can see the Fortune Quest OVA as I will be calling it from now on tells a pretty standard fantasy story Im sure there are DnD players who have done a campaign exactly like this before. Nothing is really done to make it stand out from other fantasy stories either. Sure there are a few plot twists here and there but anyone with any familiarity with DnDinspired fantasy stories would be able to see those plot twists coming from a mile away. Granted I didnt really see the villains motivation for doing the things he did coming....but that motivation was also so stupid that its not even funny. Speaking of which the Fortune Quest OVA is mostly comedic but while some jokes managed to make me grin a little nothing really made me laugh. I really wanted to laugh at these jokes as the fansubbers found the OVA series to be hilarious but I couldnt honestly do so that might just be a difference in senses of humor though. The characters in Fortune Quest are nothing to write home about either. I kind of thought Clay was the protagonist at first given that hes the leader of the party but hes mostly left on the sidelines throughout the series due to an injury he gets in the first episode its probably for the best though considering that hes either the least interesting or the secondleast interesting of the party. I honestly cant decide whether he or Knoll is the least interesting it doesnt really help that the latter doesnt get much to do either since he had to stay outside of the dungeon due to his large size and sent a bird after his fellow party members in his place. The protagonist actually seems to be Pastel the mapper who maps out the locations her party goes to by the way and while I wouldnt really say I like or hate her she does have some fun chemistry with other characters like Trapp and Shiro. Another party member Kitton seems like he could be an interesting character but while there are some revelations made about him theres not enough time to really explore it. Finally theres the animation and sound which are both pretty standard. The animation was done by J.C.Staff who would certainly go on to work on better projects and turn out better results in the years to come it wasnt terrible overall but nothing animationwise really sticks out. There are some illustrations that feel reminiscent of fantasy stories of the time it came out though which I liked. This OVA series doesnt have an opening theme but there are two ending themes that are used throughout its run neither of which are good nor bad. The first ending theme Fortune Quest: Itsuka Kanau Yume by Rumi Kasahara does stick out in my mind for having an instrumental remix that one might hear in an old RPG playing at different points throughout the series though. The voice acting was pretty okay too with Trapp in particular having a pretty fitting voice provided by Toshio Furukawa. Just a warning though: Kumiko Nishiharas voice that she does for Rumy might sound a little grating to some viewers due to how shrill it is. Overall the Fortune Quest OVA wasnt quite that good but if someone wanted to watch it I wont stop them. It might inspire DnD DMs to create a campaign based on the adventure the main characters went on. It might not however inspire fansubbers to seek out episodes 626 of Fortune Quest L to give them the Englishsubtitled treatment. Oh well. Maybe someday.