Drifters

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Synonyms: Drifters: Battle in a Brand-new World War
Japanese: DRIFTERS
English: Drifters
Spanish: Drifters: Battle in a Brand-new World War
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 7, 2016 to Dec 23, 2016
Premiered: Fall 2016
Broadcast: Fridays at 23:00 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, ComedyComedy, FantasyFantasy
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, GoreGore, HistoricalHistorical, IsekaiIsekai, MilitaryMilitary, SamuraiSamurai
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.891 (scored by 278479278,479 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #8162
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #387
Members: 583,468
Favorites: 4,074

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Synopsis

At the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Toyohisa Shimazu is the rearguard for his retreating troops, and is critically wounded when he suddenly finds himself in a modern, gleaming white hallway. Faced with only a stoic man named Murasaki and hundreds of doors on both sides, Toyohisa is pulled into the nearest door and into a world completely unlike his own.

The strange land is populated by all manner of fantastical creatures, as well as warriors from different eras of Toyohisa's world who were thought to be dead. Quickly befriending the infamous warlord Nobunaga Oda and the ancient archer Yoichi Suketaka Nasu, Toyohisa learns of the political unrest tearing through the continent. Furthermore, they have been summoned as "Drifters" to fight against the "Ends," people who are responsible for the creation of the Orte Empire and are trying to annihilate the Drifters. As the Ends grow more powerful, so does the Empire's persecution of elves and other demihumans. It is up to Toyohisa and his group of unconventional heroes to battle in a brand-new world war to help the Empire's subjects, while challenging the Ends protecting the land to claim it for themselves.

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Ending Theme

1: "Vermillion" by Maon Kurosaki (eps 1-11)
2: "Rurou no Zakuro" by Yasushi Ishii (eps 12)




Reviews

Dec 23, 2016
Drifters is the type of show that you’ll quickly realize what it is from the start. Anyone familiar with Kouta Hirano (known for his work “Hellsing”) will get a familiar vibe with the style of the series. If you fancy a fantasy story about extraordinary individuals coming together, then Drifters will be quite a treat.

Adapted from the manga of the same name, Drifters initially will leave the impression of a dark fantasy tale. The first few episodes easily establishes its premise as we meet the Drifters, the main protagonists of the show. They are based on historical figures who are based from their timeline. ...
Dec 23, 2016
Mixed Feelings
"FATALITY!" -Every Mortal Kombat game since 1992.

*SPOILERS FOR DRIFTERS*

War is hell. We know this to be true by now. This also applies to the fact about there being a lot of "sent to another world" anime adaptations. You really need to do something really unique to stand out if you're one of these shows, and while I'd like to say that SAO and Re:Zero conditioned me to think otherwise, its obvious that their additions to the concept alone (bloodthirsty video game world and reset after death respectively) were what made them stand out, even if the actual concept, for most part does the exact opposite. ...
May 10, 2018
Drifters is a definition "Mindless Entertainment" anime that just causes your brain to implode if any sort of brainpower is focused on it.

A random dimension is now the site of an impending war to decide humanities fate, in that specific dimension. For unknown reasons an organization goes out of their way using magic and modern-ish technology to try and change the events unfolding in this dimension, for no real reason. They do so by specifically dragging people or indiscriminately sized 'objects' out of their home dimension near or right before their time of death/destruction, and just haphazardly dropping them around the world.

Samurai swords also cut ...

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