As the name
drifters suggest wandering person moving from place to place without any fixed
destination, this anime is about the historical person who has been a great
warrior/leader in his/her lifetime. These great historical figures are summoned
to unknown mysterious world where not only human lives but also consist elves,
dwarves and hobbits who known as demihumans.
Drifter’s anime
centers around two major categories of characters i.e. Drifters and Ends.
Drifters and Ends are people who are summoned to unknown mysterious world.
Drifters are protagonist and ends are antagonist who has forsaken humanity.
After watching
first episode of Drifters, I believe that Shimazu Toyohisa is the main
protagonist of the anime. Toyohisa is involved in a war at Sekigahara against
Eastern Army Commander Fukushima later supported by Li Naomasa General of
Eastern Army Commander. Toyohisa, in order to save his uncle, gets heavily
injured but also mortally wound li Naomasa General of Eastern Army. As the Eastern
Army flee with General Naomasa, Toyohisa tries to return to Satsuma with disappointment
found himself in the corridor in front of a mysterious person (Murasaki)
reading Newspaper where “Battle of Sekigahara is over” is mentioned. The
mysterious person says “Next” and Toyohisa got sucked into the closest weird
door. After that, two children elves found Toyohisa and take him to the
deserted castle. I believe the world where Toyohisa is teleported is completely
different world.
In the deserted
castle, Toyohisa met a middle aged man and young lady who claimed that they are
Nobunaga and Nasu Suke Taka Yoichi. According to Toyohisa, Nobunaga was long
dead 18 years ago and Yoichi 400 years ago. They find very difficult that those
three people from different timeline are in one place.
The world where
Nobunaga, Yoichi and Toyohisa are summoned is completely different world where
not only human lives but demihuman also lives such as elves, hobbits and
dwarves. In this world, demihumans are like servant to humans as they have lost
war against humans. Currently, in this world the war is waged between humans of
this world and ends. Ends are also summoned from world same as Toyohisa but
they have forsaken humanity in their lifetime and who has died in unorthodox
and violent circumstances and possess supernatural power. The commander of ends
is Black King who once tried to save humanity but disregarded by humans start
war against humans to completely destroy human beings and save demihumans.
In Drifters
anime, most mysterious character are Murasaki and Easy who are responsible for
summoning drifters and ends and their true identity and power are not revealed
yet. Besides, there also exist octobrist organization composed of humans known
as magicians and whose purpose to monitor and gather drifters to fight against
ends.
The most
interesting feature of this anime is that it has the real time characters
acting as protagonist in anime. Toyohisa, Nobunaga and Yoichi are the
historical figures of Japan. In late 16th century, Oda Nobunaga was
a powerful daimyo of Japan who attempted to unify Japan during Sengoku period.
Toyohisa was a member of Shimazu Clan who served in Battle of Kyushu under his
uncle. Yoichi was a samurai who fought for Minamoto clan in the Genpei War and
is particularly famous in Battle of Yashima in 1184. Besides, all of the major
characters are very intense and most of them act crazy which is very fun to
watch. This is one of the best anime for those people who love to watch crazy
fight scene involving blood or gore type anime.
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