Category: Warlords of Sigrdrifa

And here we have it; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. In its ending, Warlords of Sigrdrifa isn’t insultingly bad, but it does fail to really deliver any substance or have any greater meaning, so there’s not a lot of point to getting through it.

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Have I mentioned yet how this thing seems to be on cruise control? Because this episode is, once again, very much on cruise control.

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Another prelude to another big battle once again over the Fuji Primary pillar, but this one in somewhat different circumstances.

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And after a week of break for reason of recap episode, we’re back! And we’re back with what might be simultaneously the best episode in the show so far and the most concerning episode of the show so far for its quality outlook.

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So, it would have been good to get a little more of this setting development earlier in the show, but I guess we were too busy messing around with fundoshi idiots? Because there is some legitimately interesting stuff this episode that’s… not too late, but kinda late to set up.

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On one side, I am actually impressed – I have never seen so many death flags raised in such a short time as happened in this episode. But, let’s start at the start, with the battle for Fuji Primary Pillar.

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Bloody two-part arcs, making me eat my words.

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After the bizarre out-of-body experience that was last episode, we get something very much different and, in my opinion, the show’s strongest episode so far in terms of character.

We start by introducing a new character, “Big Sis” Amatsuka, a senior Valkyrie who Miko seems to be very fond of. Azu and Sono, less so. Along with her fighter squad, she’s an ace who goes to wherever the fighting is the toughest… which makes her appearance at Tateyama base both odd and somewhat worrying.

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Well, I will give the show this – it did not do what I expected it to do here. With a title of “Tateyama Castle Swimsuit Skirmish!” you might be expecting a typical beach episode where we get some lame excuse to show off the girls in their bikins which will look nice but ultimately just make a select group of fan artists (and their fans) very happy or provide an alternate figure if the show takes off enough to get statuette merch. Simple, right? It’s pretty much just an obligatory thing that into every show a little beach episode must fall.

What we got from Warlords of Sigrdrifa was much stranger, a sudden dive into a surreal “what the hell am I even watching?” sequence that’s almost sure to be the show’s Big Lipped Alligator Moment.

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So the expectation from last time was pretty much “Pillars show up, fight them off, character building on the side, if there’s time”. This time, though, we get a downtime episode, more or less, where we see more of these characters and how they fit into their world. This is one of the bit places where the show will determine whether it soars or stumbles, so how does our first outing go?

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