12/19/2023 0 Comments Drifters anime![]() Tamon Yamaguchi was admiral of the naval aircraft carrier Hiryu, and he’s best known for bombing Pearl Harbor and fighting in the Battle of Midway. In other words, Nobunaga is Kouta Hirano’s self-insertion character.īut some of the other “great Japanese heroes” could hit a nerve. In this series, he’s basically Alucard during the parts from Hellsing before he decided to dress up like Captain Morgan, screaming about conquest and atrocities when he’s not sexually harassing Olminu, a sorceress who exists solely to deliver exposition and be leered at for her large breasts. After all, Japanese otaku love to put Oda Nobunaga in EVERYTHING. Nor will anyone in the US bat an eye that one of the main Drifters is gunpowder-obsessed Oda Nobunaga. Sure, it’s no big deal that the main character is decapitation-obsessed Toyohisa Shimazu, an actual samurai who lost his life at the famed Battle of Sekigahara, which nobody in America is taught about in school such that all we know comes from Sengoku Basara or Samurai Warriors. It’s one thing to SAY “we’re attracted to Japanese animation because it’s entertainment produced by a First World country that isn’t explicitly Western in its value set,” but just how far exactly are you willing to take that? ![]() Its flagrant rebelliousness speaks to the angry teenager within us, the kind who wants to shock the “normal” people and tell their parents to shut up already. The blessing that is Kouta Hirano simply having no filter whatsoever is that he doesn’t even bother to draw a line to avoid crossing. The production looks and sounds stupendous. Drifters gives us a cornucopia of otaku delights: battles between samurai, medieval knights, dragons, fighter planes, wizards, cowboys, elven archers, battleships, and more unfold throughout its running. ![]() That’s all it takes to get the ball rolling for the mayhem to unfold, and if anything is to be said about Kouta Hirano, it’s that he understands that if you’re going to offer up such a premise then you’d better realize it to its absolute fullest potential. ![]() Known as “Drifters,” this unruly lot of Kouta Hirano protagonists-generally wild and impetuously fearless, in carrying on the spirit of Go Nagai’s heroes from the 1970s-must rally together and assemble a military force to do battle with the “Ends,” who are other noteworthy historical figures that have been similarly plucked from the time stream and reborn with superhuman abilities thanks to a seemingly teenage girl referred to as “EASY.” Such Ends include Joan of Arc, Rasputin, Anastasia, and Akechi Mitsuhide (the man who betrayed Oda Nobunaga). Noteworthy warriors throughout history are, just before the moments of their deaths, transported to a high fantasy realm of elves, dwarves, dragons, and magic by a mysterious entity named Murasaki who by all appearances is … a stereotypical middle-aged Japanese salaryman. ![]() Still, if you prefer to be kept in the dark, skip the rest of this paragraph. It’s a top-rate action movie, hugely influential on film and video games (you’d have no Metal Gear without it), but it’s also steeped in a fantasy of “we didn’t REALLY lose Vietnam, our soldiers would’ve WON except for…!” For Drifters is the new major work from the mind of Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano, whose works embody the purest, darkest, rawest id of modern Japanese otaku-dom for all the wonder and terror that implies.įiguring out what Drifters is actually about takes a few episodes, though this is something you watch for the grand spectacle of its action above all else. The ending involving the introduction of Mitsuhide also leaves us in anticipation of any future sequels, and entices individuals to go read the manga to find out what happens later in the plot.Whenever I watch Drifters: Battle in a Brand-New World War, that opening exchange from 1985’s Rambo: First Blood Part II comes to mind. The plot of this 12 episode series is essentially an introduction of the characters, and we see their development of pacify the natives of this new land - the elves and the dwarfs, and to inspire them against the humans who treated them as slaves. Pitting iconic historical figures together just seem so fun and interesting to watch - I just can't describe it, and it's a pity there's only 12 episodes of this, but apparently there was some teaser at the end that possibly a second season can come when it is 20XX, so at least a sequel is possible within my lifetime :'). The cast of characters are also very interesting since they involved iconic characters like Oda Nobunaga (my man!), Hannibal, and even the Ends had iconic characters that everyone would likely to have heard off like Jeanne d'Arc, Mitsuhide, Rasputin. The concept is interesting and new to me so that's why I thought it was interesting. ![]()
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