Senyoku no Sigrdrifa (Warlords of Sigrdrifa)

When humanity is driven to the brink of despair by an alien threat called Pillars, a self-proclaimed god named Odin appears and bestows upon the people the power of "Valkyries"—battle maidens who pilot vintage aircraft called Hero Wings.

Claudia "Schwertleite" Bruford is the ace of the European Valkyrie Wing. When Japan's S-class Valkyrie passes away in battle, Claudia is relocated to Japan as a replacement. However, with a dark record of being the sole survivor in every mission that results in being nicknamed "Grim Reaper," she suspects she already knows why she was chosen.

Prepared to be shunned yet again, she arrives at the Tateyama Valkyrie Wing. Little does she know, her new comrades are a bunch of oddballs who have zero intention of accepting her dreadful nickname!

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"Higher's High" by Akari Nanawo

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	1: "Sayonara Namida (サヨナラナミダ)" by Spira Spica (eps 2-3)
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Dec 26, 2020

KANLen09

Not Recommended

"Welcome one, welcome all...to a day and time of reckoning and Ragnarök". Odin's a pureboy's version of Loki; Valkyries exist to fight gods and once deceased, they "Return by Death" from Valhalla, all into a Japanese-personalized version of the MCU...nah, I'm just kidding (at least the last part, anyways).

Yet another "hyped" show that somehow really missed its mark of appeal, combining an existential crisis with an identity crisis. If you are wondering what the next big thing from Re:Zero author Tappei Nagatsuki's writing calibre would be like of his liking for "men-loving strong girls", I'm sorry to say that we've been bamboozled by his promises, ... and overall, it's just as expected of a zany "military action" historical aircraft show that had the potential, but eventually becoming a showcase of mediocrity.

I'm gonna be truthfully honest here: when this show started its promotional articles way back in March, the production staff is something that caught my eye: the GOAT Re:Zero novelist Tappei Nagatsuki, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid creator-cum-illustrator Takuya Fujima, and High School Fleet series composer Takaaki Suzuki. 3 highly recognized veterans in the anime industry, all collaborating together to create an original anime that would be later coined as this show (the name's a tongue-twister, so I'll keep it to Sigururi) of pilot girls, gods and mythologies abound. I'll mention this first: If there's anything of reasoning to recommend watching this show, just watch both the start (double-length Episode 1) and the end (Episodes 11 & 12), that's all you really need to know. Otherwise, it's a roller-coaster harbinger of events inserted just for convenience and meant to show off a CGDCT premise in an otherwise unsuitable genre setting to exemplify that "men-loving strong girls" clause even further. Don't get me wrong though, I do love aviation-based CGDCT when done right (e.g. Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai), but in this show (and as-is with Girly Air Force), I'd feel its unnecessarily used. A LOT.

The premise goes like this: In a world of gods and Norse mythologies (Greek ones at that), there exists the relationship between Odin and humanity to fight back against mysterious enemy beings called "Pillars", through strong pilot girls called "Valkyries", and their ancient aircrafts are pilot-specific, one-of-a-kind magical-enhanced weapons touted to take them down at whatever cost. Sadly, as much as the "historical" aspect is concerned, yes, these young Valkyries pilot World War-utilized fictional planes, and that's about as "historical" as it can go. So yeah, not the best representation and is only really used just for show. On top of that, it doesn't get as much better than the overarching story of a CGDCT, because of sweet moments and fanservice, but also incorporating the "dark death flags" as popularized by Tappei Nagatsuki himself. In a flash, by having a linear plot direction of "girls dogfighting enemies, enemies get killed (hooray), back to SoL, bring any dark/mythological vibes to create tension" of a highly predictable and dramatized viewpoint, that I feel was consistently missed approaches of going airborne and not sticking very well (would undershoot/overshot at times).

The characters themselves are a mixed bag of treating traits, that if I have multiple airsickness bags at the ready, I would puke at times. Let's start with the Valkyrie girls:
- Claudia "Claudy" Bruford, piloting a Gloster Gladiator, both experienced and a solitary-confined German Valkyrie. Alas, most of her missions vary to both successes and failures, with the recognition as the "Valkyrie of Salvation" while simultaneously self-referred to as the "Grim Reaper" being the only surviving pilot out of all Pillar battles. Being dispatched to Tateyama Base with the same depraving soul, all is not it seems, and there she learns to accept the camaraderie of "friendship" and have confidence in herself, with the other Tateyama Valkyrie girls in toll:
- Miyako Muguruma, piloting a Nakajima Ki-44 and simultaneously playing the role akin to the Teletubbies' "Baby Sun" of Tateyama Base (weird reference, but yes). In all circumstances, she's the happy-go-lucky character that can do no wrong...and that's about it.
- Azuzu Komagome, piloting a Heinkel He 100, and also the wackiest technician-cum-strategist of the entire airbase. She's as close to being a lazy-bum character. but don't let her undressed looks fool you, she can really deliver in the airborne fights against the Pillars. Just don't take her seriously, that's all.
- Sonoka Watarai, piloting a Macchi M.C.72, a kind-hearted, reserved girl on the ground, and a hasty pilot in the air. She can be the easiest character of relation, due to the emotional backbone that makes her human (but feels contrived as a whole). See, her relationship with another fellow veteran Valkyrie, Yayoi Amatsuka (piloting a Grumman F7F Tigercat) is of "significant consideration" to Nagatsuki's "dark, death flags" signature, creating the "burden story" to add life into an otherwise cardboard cut-out character personality.
- Need I mention the Valkyrie's "Master" plot-boy Norse god Odin? He's just an angsty little boy really, playing out the Ragnarok "reckoning" stratagem to his liking and creating divisive tensions, especially with "his daughter" Claudia, always tampering on her reasons of living. If anything, just consider him the antagonist, why this show decided to attempt a modus operandi (go-around) of his character is beyond me.

At least what I can give this show props is for visuals and animation, and no surprise, A-1 Pictures always deliver with high-quality production that you can't go wrong with. The visuals are really good for what they are (along with the cutesy CGDCT elements), but since this is an aviation show, the animation has to be the top-up "aviation fuel" for long-lasting quality, and another pretty good job at keeping the consistency of military aircraft dogfights. Even the Pillars look hugely menacing, which is to say that some CGI is used, but not to the point of overbearing-ness. What can I say, if you've watched plenty of shows done by A-1 Pictures, you know what to expect of an A+ grade production.

Music-wise, I don't know about you, but it sounds to me like they tried to imitate the nostalgia of Re:Zero's OST of happy, bright beginnings and sad, dark endings. And though not quite the same feelings overall, I feel the same energy that this OST has while taking references of the former. The OP/ED pairing is really good, and how HIGH (refer to the OP's song title!) can we go with that? A melancholic Sayonara for the ED though.

Welp, talk about "suffering" in the most tame way possible. We may have no idea whose idea is it to create an all-too-familiar setting (either the combinations of the 3 veteran creators or debut director Hirotaka Tokuda) that only gets as generic as time passes, but for an original show, I'm sorry to say that this would have worked better on paper, rather than creating a "unique" show. Regardless though, a decent attempt that you rarely see in the anime industry nowadays, and for that I'd give a "You CAN DO Better" stamp of approval at best.

The 80/20 Pareto principle holds steadfast to this show:
If you're here for the CGDCT, that's fine for once, because 80% of the time you'll be enjoying girls and men doing comedic gags and jokes that will warrant chuckles at best, but it'd definitely put a smile on your face.
If you're here for the military aviation action (like me), this is not the show for you. It may have exceeded just over 20% of the show for intense action, and though there's quite a number of these, the feeling of being overly stretched to pad the episodic runtime just enough will leave you "satisfied".

It's hard for me to recommend this (if this is your first experience with Tappei Nagatsuki's works), but I'd have to hand to you the choice to either take this with a pinch of salt, or enjoy for what it is in its discordant setting.

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Dec 26, 2020

Marinate1016

Recommended

Sigururi was my most anticipated show of 2020 along with Re:Zero S2. Coincidentally, both franchises are written by Tappei-sensei. So I had high expectations coming into the show. On one hand, they were met, on the other hand I was left feeling a bit.. let down.

Let me preface this by clarifying what I meant by “let down”. In no way do I think Sigururi was “bad” or not an enjoyable experience. I absolutely loved it. It was one of my most anticipated watches each week. When I say I feel let down, I’m referring to the fact that the show never really reached the heights ...

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Jan 13, 2021

Outfrootz

Not Recommended

[This review is aimed towards people who have finished the show but could also be for anyone wondering if they should watch this, expect some spoilers for me to explain my reasoning for the score]

Oh boy, A anime that was anticipated by some to be one of the greatest of its time by having two of some of the greatest directors.One from Re:Zero and the other from Girls Und Panzer, What could go wrong? Apparently, everything can. Just as Murphy’s law says “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. Surely things went wrong in all sorts of places with this anime. I will first ... begin this review by talking about the characters as I feel they are the main reason this show went downhill for me.

The characters in a show are one of the most important parts as they are what decides how interesting the show is. In Warlords of Sigrdrifa, the character development is one of the weakest I have seen in any show. It's almost non-existent. Most of the actions made by our four main heroes are unnecessary to any plot development or anything in general. Their appearance doesn't help as well because of how bland the designs for their outfits are. The pink-haired girl is a literary copy from Sword art online (I thought I was watching SAO for most of the time by how there were some scenes with Thor and this pink-haired girl looked like Sao characters.) The white hair girl doesn't have anything special as well. (I forgot the 3 main girls' mains because of how irrelevant they were.) The black-haired girl is like the go-to girl for the guys and the main character Claudia is the most garbage main character. The rest of the characters from the mechanics to the assist pilots and the control tower are also useless to the story. The command tower is where you would think plans on how to defeat the enemy are made but instead the main heroes somehow figure out a plan in the middle of the fight. Passing on to my next issue with this show, the sound and look of the other parts.

The sound and animation are both mediocre. The opening and ending are forgettable, They don't have anything shown that is interesting nor is the music catchy. The rest of the animation is basic for A1-Pictures not much to elaborate on other than it is what they know best. The OST between fights and dialogue scenes is also horrible, They are boring and not exciting enough to get the viewer hyped up or intrigued by it.

Talking about fight scenes I decided to dedicate a whole section to this as it's laughable at how pathetic they were dealt with. Most of the fights are quick 3-second fire action-based. Very Anticlimactic to how they should be. Keep in mind this is an ACTION anime. All the fights had quick endings to them because of how somehow there's this one weakness that the main heroes find out to defeat the enemies after doing some quick analyzing. Very disappointing how easy and boring the fights were.

For this segment, I will talk about some things that just annoyed me while watching as I don't want to put a whole section for each one. The first thing I noticed that got annoying real quick is the fan service. All women in this show are sexualized in some unnecessary way. Many of the camera shots had me questioning why they would decide to include this in the show. Like JUST WHY? They were unnecessary and I could go about my day without needing to see some 14-year-old looking girl be in panties and bra. This also brings up the part about how all the women are the same and young-looking compared to the guys who are way older looking and have more defining faces. A huge no-no. The second thing that caught my eye was Thor. The whole enemy of the show. Honestly, I didn't pay attention to the story as after a few seconds my mind would just forget I was watching the show because of how plain and unoriginal he was. He was also dealt with in just a mere second by the same logic used by the main girls. The third thing is the story. The storyline is what lost me the most, I didn't understand how in one episode things were all alert and stuff but then in the next episode the girls decide to host a summer festival. Like what? In the middle of the “biggest” fight, they are going to do a festival episode?. The last thing to mention is the clearest one as well. In what reasoning does someone choose an old WW2 airplane over a futuristic fighter jet? Yeah, I don't understand that either.

In conclusion, This is the biggest time-waster of a show I have seen to date. From having a forgettable storyline and characters to being anti-climatic in what it's supposed to be about. Warlords of Sigrdrifa is a sure let down for me. It just showed me how low of a story a show needs for someone to greenlit it. If you would like to watch a show about some girls who fight a god and end up winning by the most stupid ways while having a lot of filler in between that has fanservice, this is the show to go.

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