Shuumatsu no Walküre

The gods of the world—from Greek to Norse to Hindu mythology—gather every one thousand years to make one important decision: whether or not to wipe out mankind. Repulsed by humanity's selfishness, the council unanimously votes to destroy all humans. But before the decree is enacted, Brunhilde, one of the 13 Valkyries of Valhalla, interrupts the meeting to give mankind a chance at survival.

Brunhilde proposes the idea of enacting Ragnarök, an event in which the strongest 13 mortal warriors fight against 13 gods in one-on-one matches. Although the trial is ridiculed by the gods, the demigod takes advantage of their pride and forces them into an agreement. However, Brunhilde herself must recruit the mightiest heroes throughout humanity's thousand-year history and guide them to victory before they meet their untimely demise.

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Brunhilde Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Göll Main

Kurosawa, Tomoyo Japanese

Adam Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Sasaki, Kojirou Supporting

Yamaji, Kazuhiro Japanese

Shiva Supporting

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa Japanese

Poseidon Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Thor Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Bu, Lu Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Hermes Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Loki Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Miyagi, Souji Producer

Inamoto, Sachiko Producer

Ookubo, Masao Director, Storyboard

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Jun 17, 2021

landyboi

Recommended

No spoiler review!

This is my first review so don't get mad at me.

I think people hype this anime so much to the point where it didn't matter if it was good or bad, people will still be disappointed. In my opinion, it is a very good anime, I usually don't like slow-paced fights but for some reason, this anime did it so well that I enjoyed it and wanted to see more about each character. Also, I love the interactions between the characters fighting and how each fight is full of emotions, and the soundtracks perfectly match with what you’re watching.
I really love that this ... show takes the time to tell you a bit about each character, so you can empathize with them and is not just a God and human fighting. I find it fantastic that each fight has a plot weight since humanity is fighting to survive. That made me enjoy every fight and because of that, the outcome of each fight is crucial so you don’t get bored.

The story is good, the art is great, the sound is fantastic, the characters are my favorite thing from the show (especially Adam), and it is pretty enjoyable.
8.9/10

If you like well-written characters, good animation, nice fights, and awesome soundtracks. I encourage you to watch "Record of Ragnarok".

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 1, 2022

literaturenerd

Mixed Feelings

It's now 2022 and while many things change, my shitty anime taste apparently remains the same. I am honestly baffled why so many people have this on their lists for worst anime of 2021. It's honest to God not that bad. I was consistently entertained for 12 episodes and binged the entire show in 2 days.

Record of Ragnarok takes place in a world in which all the gods of all the various mythologies are real and Zeus from Greek mythology is the father of all gods and is also the God from the Abrahamic religions. The gods decide that humanity needs to be wiped out ... because the gods are capricious assholes, which is certainly accurate to Greek mythology. However, a Valkyrie from Norse mythology says that mankind should be given a fighting chance and arranges a tournament in which 13 gods fight against 13 of the strongest humans chosen from throughout history. Whoever reaches 7 wins first is declared the winner and if humanity wins then they get to live another 1000 years. The plot is inspired by classic shonen tournament arcs and this show is filled to the brim with big dumb macho moments and "so stupid it's awesome" bullshit. It definitely takes a lot of inspiration from Baki, early Jojo, and Fist of the North Star. However, it also takes inspiration from rage fueled geek arguments online about which god would beat which in a fight. So, Ragnarök is basically like Baki the Grappler meets the Youtube show Death Battle.

Allow me to give you an example of how stupid this show is. The second fight is a boxing match between Adam from the Old Testament and Zeus! Zeus hulks out and then decides to use Za Warudo for...some reason. However, Adam catches him with the cross counter from Ashita no Joe while wearing a brass knuckle made from the soul of a valkyrie. Everyone thinks Zeus is dead, but then he pops back up and says "This isn't even my final form!" Then he grows weird facial hair so he looks like Dr Eggman/Robotnik for absolutely no reason. That's the kind of anime we're dealing with.

The sad part is that despite how unbelievably stupid this anime is, it would have a Godlike MAL rating if the manga readers got their wish and it had been adapted by Madhouse or Ufotable. If everything was the same and it looked just slightly better, the series would get positive ratings and then the same whiners in the Gogoanime comments saying "This is so stupid! Why is Adam boxing Zeus?!" would either mysteriously shut up or start defending the show as secretly brilliant. After all, if a show has good ratings then it MUST be good right? I will fully admit that the CGI doesn't look that great and can look really janky at times. However, to an animation purist like me who hates CGI anime anyways, this doesn't look THAT much worse than Beastars or Houseki no Kuni to me. Ragnarok and Houseki certainly look a lot closer to each other than either look to Gunsmith Cats. What Ragnarok really reminds me of though is Netflix Baki, which makes sense since this is indeed a Netflix anime.

I've covered the fact the animation is kind of bad, but another reason people complained is the pacing. The fights all take 4 episodes and there are flashbacks! So what? That's what shonen anime used to be like! Not everything has to be Demon Slayer and have every fight be 15 minutes of non-stop sakuga. My first anime was DBZ, where Goku fights Freeza for 19 straight episodes! The previous 8 episodes were the rest of the cast fighting Freeza. So, they spend 27 consecutive episodes fighting this one bad guy and nothing else. Every single one of those episodes is pretty poorly animated and filled to the brim with still shots and filler dialogue, so only a few impressive blows land each episode. There are constant scaling errors where Freeza's height is never consistent. They forget half the time that Freeza fully regenerated his tail in is final form and he'll have his stubby tail again at random intervals. At one point, Krillin flies into the air while wearing his Saiyan battle armor and then he just poofs directly into his red turtle school gi, because one animation team went to lunch and the director forgot to tell the new animators what they were drawing. NONE of that mattered! We still thought DBZ was cool as shit because it had 1 or 2 super hype moments each episode and that's what Ragnarok delivers! I know I'm going full "old man" but how spoiled are younger fans when they complain about a 4 episode fight with limited animation and a couple flashbacks? It's as if people are so butthurt this didn't get a Madhouse adaptation that now they're complaining that a shonen fighting anime is a shonen fighting anime.

The last reason people hate this anime is because it offended a lot of people. Why is that a bad thing? Mushoku offending the shit out of SJWs is legitimately half the reason for its popularity. While Moshuku actually made a brilliant strategic move in today's divided political climate, Ragnarok is a stupid show made by idiots. So of course, they offended the wrong people. Ragnarok for some reason absolutely shits on the Hindu pantheon and presents them as younger, sub-servient gods to the Greek pantheon. This is REALLY stupid for a number of reasons. Firstly, the Gods of the Vedas are the oldest recorded versions of the gods spread by Indo-European speaking peoples. While the oldest recorded evidence of Zeus dates to 800 BC, his Hindu counterpart Indra is over 700 years older. Zeus is basically just a rip-off of Indra who also for some reason happens to be a rapist and really into golden showers and swan sex. Secondly, Hinduism is an actual living religion practiced seriously by hundreds of millions of people. Nobody is still worshipping Zeus! Lastly, South Asian anime fans by 2025 will outnumber both Japanese anime fans and white anime fans. The only thing dumber than randomly insulting all the Indian fans, would be to insult the Chinese market and make the Chinese hero Lu Bu into a complete jobber who lands 1 blow before getting buried. Then immediately follow that up by having a C tier Japanese hero who gaijin haven't even heard of easily whoop his god opponent's ass. That's of course exactly what Ragnarok does...because this is a stupid show made by fucking idiots. I can understand people getting a little offended by Ragnarok, but to get too offended you have to take it seriously. I'm sure somebody got offended by Adam and Eve, stated in Ragnarok to be the ancestors of all Mankind, having blonde hair and blue eyes. After all, blue eyes are a very recent mutation dating back only 7,000 years while modern humans are 300,000 years old. Then you remember, Adam is fighting Zeus in a boxing match using magical knuckle dusters. This anime is WAY too stupid to get offended by.

Should you watch Ragnarok? Hell yes! I lost count of the amount of times I either laughed my ass off or pumped my fist in excitement. This was an absolute blast for 12 idiotic episodes! Next year it's coming back and Hercules is fighting Jack the Ripper. You read that last sentence correctly. That's actually going to happen and I'm going to watch it the day it drops!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 17, 2021

Joozboxx

Not Recommended

I have read the manga previously so already had some expecations for what an extreme action type of show this could become. What i saw was the same powerpoint presentation as Promised Neverland s2 or House Husband. The fights where beyond subpar which was unexpected for, as i said, a literal FIGHTING ANIME.

The backstories of the characters are kinda fun but shouldnt have even been the main focus of the show. I want to disregard it but they literally made it like 80% of an episode. the other 20% are 10 fps GIFs they stuck together.

Overall this is a 2 because your main experience ... and excitement has been robbed for ez netflix cash grab

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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