(L) The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

[Dengar]

I hope they elaborate on what makes her so obsessed with saving the country. Because on its own it's not a particularly interesting trait.

[Dextro]

So EP4 of The Northern War boils down to Ash, Beublanc, Alisa and Sharon cameos. Is this really 12 episodes? So far there's been a severe lack of War in this Northern War show.

I just don't get all the filler-like shenanigans on a 12 episode runtime. By this point it feels like the actual war will start on episode 6 at the earliest and I'm not even sure that'll be the case.

And then there's the fact that, for some reason, no one knows Rean's name apparently. Does no one read the Imperial Chronicle aside from Rean? Is that it?

On the other hand, I'm putting in bets for next weeks cameos: Laura for sure, maybe Toval. Maybe even Jusis and Millium.

[shmaster]

It is Trails writing post Azure.
Thus it is going to be bad and sloppy.

[Marina2]

Ep.5

Lavi finally met with Rean.......

Sad for you, Rean, it doesn't look like Lavi will like you anytime soon especially after she found out you are the person they have been searching for.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep10:

Because of how the first episode started, I thought Lavi lost her entire family and her village was burnt down, thus forcing her to live as a mercenary, so when her mom appeared in this episode, I thought it was a dream

...But apparently her home is perfectly fine and her mom is alive and she's a mercenary for some reason. To take revenge on the people who let loose a bit of fire or something I guess

[Bugfragged]

Spoiler for for ep12:

I feel like they did Jayna dirty as a villain. She has no background to establish why she wants to ruin North Ambria and how she obtained an artifact that can somehow curse the entire country. Was she working for the main antagonist of the Cold Steel quadrilogy or was she a lone wolf?

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for final thoughts:

You know, it actually wasn't that bad. They knew what they wanted to do, this short story, and finished it. The quality of the story itself was... okay, I guess, but not really good either,
The main problem I had was that what seemed to be anime-original boss-level characters ALL ended up just sucking. All of them put on this "I'm so strong" aura, and they lose really quickly or just gets stabbed in the back and die. There is build-up, but no payload
Also a lot of filler in the middle
Also, in the last episode, she slashed at Rean before asking him for a favor, which was just weird

I did like the chemistry between Lavi and the two masked soldiers, so it was nice that technically, she ends up with those two at the end. And they even revealed their faces.
Not sure what to say about the fact these two ended up having more character than any of the boss characters or even the team she was on throughout most of the anime.

I don't give a crap about Famcom or the Trials series though, so I can't say I really cared about all those seeming cameos of game characters

All in all, an okay anime with okay quality
8/10