Drifters Episode 1: Fight Song - Beeble Reviews

I once had a friend who was an avid fan of Hellsing. His reason given as to why he was so passionate about it was "Because Alucard is the strongest anime character ever."

I have no idea why he wasn't one of the people who thought Dragon Ball Super was gonna be good, though.

Mr. Hellsing wrote the manga for Drifters. What does this mean for the new anime?

WOAAAAAAAAAHHHH BLOOOD

UWOOOOAAAAHHH COOL SUGOI DESU DESU

OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE HE IS STRONG

oopsie poopsie

WAAAAHHHHH A GUY I WILL HAVE TO MENTION IN A LATER EPISODE MAYBE

So Drifters is about a guy who is so good at the fights that he gets spirited away to Narnia. 

Proof.

See, Samurai was basically killed by being stabbed by 15 dudes at the same time, and so he appeared in a weird fantasy realm. But...he didn't actually die, and now is very wounded?

And look at this 1970's mofo! Just turn around and go home, you're drunk!

These aryan elf children decide to take the scary bloody asian man and dump him over at the old creepy Halloween castle down in the forest, likely because they are racists and the time warp lead to 1942.

This is what the Internment Camps looked like during the Octobers. Boo! Happy Halloween!

Because this isn't a world people go to when they die and just when they happen to go there, Samurai comes face to face with...

.....What the heck, famous Japanese people!? But you're reading this in English! You don't know anything about famous Japanese people from the ancient past! I'll shorten their names to Archer and Big Samurai.

They don't know anything about the world they're in, and they know nothing about the SOLDIERS RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR WINDOW!!!!

I wish that this was the evil German army in white uniforms, but look, that's not German. It clearly says OCTSYSTEM. It's too soon to pull the Nazi card for this show.

But just keep in mind, that this is important to know: FAMOUS FIGURES FROM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE DISAPPEARED WHEN YOU THOUGHT THEY DIED AND WENT OT A MAGIC PLACE WHERE THEY JUST HEALED THEIR WOUNDS! That's REALLY important to get across! People can't come back to life with magic to make the narrative clearer! That's just obvious.

In all seriousness, this episode was mainly devoted to a war scene at the beginning and the Fate/Stay Japanese people getting to know who they are and what they left behind. It's more focused on the blood and guts of the beginning than throwing us into the story just yet, so next week it could go any number of places.

You know what else has people being killed in it? Hellsing. I mean Berserk.

The creator of Berserk has noted that the beginning of the series was built off of a lot of the feelings he had as a teenager. It makes sense why he'd make it this way and why people would flock to that. It's a time when people would sometimes just want to break things and break people they don't like, or who mess with others. To see someone with the power to just slay demons and wicked men is empowering--people just sink some part of themselves into a hero like that.

But as Berserk develops, we see Guts' adolescence, moving through this phase, growing to see value in his bonds with others and protecting them. It's not a story about a man who gets better at killing things, it's about a man who even at one point leaves for that very reason only to realize other people are MORE IMPORTANT than just being strong.

Even after the Golden Age storyline, the story has progressed into giving him another group of people to fight beside and protect, and his journey has been taken in order to heal the woman he loves, with the fights taken up incidentally along the way, either to save her (at the cost of hundreds, shown in the new anime that hurts my eyes) or to save people (done with the people who have chosen to follow him, as he cares more about what they value). Berserk isn't about a man who can kill a hundred men, it's about a man who's learning to grow up emotionally.

Meanwhile ultraviolence used to be the moe of anime.

As in it was easy to do it, everyone did it, and please stop doing it Clannad was a mistake

Hellsing was made a long time ago now by who I think was that guy who just likes Berserk because people get cut up real good and blood goes everywhere and woah sweet he has a big sword and he SWINGS it and WOW THAT'S SO GRAPHIC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA because that's as far as most people's tastes go, and I'm a shitty elitist who complains about anime. Drifters is not as old as Hellsing and done by an older version of that person.

I can either expect that this tries to take some sort of war theme to a more inspired conclusion, or be a realist and just point and laugh when someone does something extreme.

HEY THERE EVERYONE I AM BEEBLE BEAR I GET MAD WHEN A TEE VEE SHOW IS LESS INTELLIGENT THAN WHAT I WANT HERP DE DERP

☆ Tune in next week for more fun! ☆