You know, while Anime is kind of my main focus, it’s not the only interest I’ve had. One that I don’t think I’ve alluded to, at least not often, was Norse mythology. I had a Viking phase and frankly I still think that the Norse myths are cooler than the Greek and Roman ones and are under-utilized in Western fantasy. For every Asgard, there are probably a dozen copies of Olympus.
On one hand, it seems like Japan has me covered. They’ve got their fair share of takes on “Classical” mythology, true, but there are a few more Norse-coded fantasies when lensed through a culture to which both are kind of equally foreign. For example, Warlords of Sigrdrifa had a pretty unique evocation, even setting all all the weirdness aside.
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