Shuumatsu no Walküre

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

[No Spoilers] If I'm going to be honest... I'm disappointed. I heard quite a few good things about this manga before the anime came out and now I doubt manga readers will be happy with the quality of this anime. This anime simply doesn't hold up to others like Baki or Kengen Ashura which fill the same category but remain better in everyway, now lets get into why. (1/10 scale)

Story: 4

The story of Record of Ragnarok is not very deep at all. The story is about 13 Valkyries and 13 of histories strongest humans teaming up to beat the gods in a tournament to save ... humanity. The story is basic but since most fighting anime like this have basic stories I gave its a higher score then it would get otherwise.

Art: 3

It looks like a slideshow... The actual characters and certain moments look pretty cool but overall the animation is sloppy and trash, giving it a 3 for art.

Sound: 3

Nothing stood out to me. The punches didn't have a lot of sound and the impact was lackluster. Only gets a 3 because a lot of anime do this poorly.

Character: 2

Awful. After watching the first 12 episodes none of the characters left an impact. All the characters treat this massive death battle like a chill game of football or they comedically overreact, only 1 character showed real emotion and it lasted for no more then 10 seconds before going back to normal. Easily the worst part of this show for me.

Enjoyment: 3.5

A more reasonable rating would be a 2-3 but I'll give it a 3.5 since I watched all of it and it passed the time. I only watched it since I just came out and I only finished it by skipping past a lot of flashbacks and through some episodes. I will forget about it in a week.

Overall: 3

Should you watch it? No. The only person I would recommend this to is someone whos favorite anime is Baki, and I still worry it might be a waste of time. Record of Ragnarok is easily the most disappointing anime for me this season. Shame.

For me, this is biggest disappointment of the year. I was pretty much hyped after the trailer. If you wanted to enjoy some fights then i'm sorry to tell you that you won't. All you will be watching is some powerpoint presentation, 3 frames of fight following with some flashbacks explaining how powerfull they are in their own world how they never lost a fight when no one really cares. I mean you won't send someone weak to fight gods. It is just so boring i can't even tell how. You will see more crowd cheering than the actual fight.

Yeah, in all humanity history there is only chinese and japanese warriors. Very logical. The stories of characters were not good. And there is not even a proper fighting animation. I felt like watching a slideshow. When they're fighting they just show the spectators. Character appearances are very bad. Maybe there should be comedy in genres. I don't recommend this anime. It's just a waste of time.

I was expecting more from this. I didn't read manga but i think it is definitely better than anime. I'm very disappointed. I think netflix shouldn't make an anime. They're just using a bad CGI or making bad animations.

Speaking from the perspective of someone who's been following AND loving the manga, this anime is a pathetic excuse of an adaptation.

The pacing of the story is awful, it goes too slow, spending too much screentime on the reactions and comments of less important and sometimes irrelevant side characters. I suppose the studio did so in the hopes that showing their reactions could somewhat build the tension of the anime till the climaxes of the fights. In vain, of course.

Their handling of the tension is shoddy since it all falls to nothing when the anime watchers patiently sit through boring side commentary, backstories ... and empty characters to be insulted with the most laziest fight scenes I have ever seen. How bout we just watch a powerpoint presentation? I'm willing to bet some talented Youtuber out there could do a better job with a fan animation. There was absolutely no impact felt when I watched the fight scenes. This was lazy work by the studio behind the anime.

Honestly, with this amazing cast with top notch voice actors, this anime is an absolute waste. All in all, a complete letdown.

Side note: read the manga. It's honestly good, and the fight scenes are clear cut, fast-paced and action-packed. Unlike this sorry adaptation.

[NO SPOIL]

The animation is a big fail, it's a story about fights mainly, so I really think you can't miss the animation on it otherwise it would just be boring, it's really slow and we don't see enough duel scenes, the less we see, it's just slow and we don't see any rage in it, if you know what i mean lol. I am really disappointed about this anime.
I personnaly had read the manga and they erased a lot of fighting scenes, for me it's a big L, although it had potential.

I really recommand y'all to read Battle Of Ragnarok instead of watch this ... anime, I'm just getting tired of Netflix animation studio, i think i'm just gonna stop getting hyped by animes made by them.

Never have I witnessed something that sets out with a single-minded focus on one thing and fails so utterly spectacularly at it. The only purpose of this story is to show off cool fights. This fighting anime has some of the most boring and uninteresting fights I have ever seen in an anime.

You also get the feeling they tried to rip off the Marvel comedy trope that has been very popular in media lately. However it is often simply awkward, out of place, and ruins the atmosphere of the scene.

Many characters are repeatedly built up and the show tries to make you care for ... them only to then give them to most pathetic, undeserved, and lazy deaths.

Do not waste your time with this trash.

Before reading this, know that this opinion is coming from somebody who has read the manga, and I believe that my opinion will vastly differ from someone who has never read the manga. This is probably the most disappointing anime I have seen this year. The biggest problem with this anime is that the manga was too good, to the point where I had unreasonably high expectations.

Story: 3/10
Overall, the story follows that of the manga. However, the pacing was an issue, some of the iconic scenes in the manga didn't make it into the anime. Instead, focus on that annoying little valkyrie panicking over every ... little thing took priority even though it was clearly unnecessary. The same for the guy sounding the horn, nobody gives a shit about him. Gets a bit boring seeing predictable reactions after a while. In the manga, it was a counstant fight -> flashback -> counter -> flashback -> counter...but in the anime there were so many annoying little interruptions that the tension/energy of the show is just gone. Flashbacks of the fights were also dragged out slightly longer than necessary whereas the actual fight scenes were erased and felt like they were over slightly quicker than in the manga.

Art: 1/10
This is one of my biggest frustrations. The manga had amazing, beautiful art. For example Lu Bu vs Thor final clash, the anime just didn't do the manga justice. Plenty of the fights had this weird powerpoint-type "animation" where it's just feels like stop-motion of a bunch of images. It was terrible. Especially for an action scene. For example the part where Thor was doing the spin after catching the hammer he's thrown, the anime had to show that spin in two different cuts (of two half-spins) whereas normally it should be expected that he does an entire spin. What the hell was that? Sometimes the character's voice can be heard and their faces are right in front of the viewers, but the mouth does not move. The finale of the fight between Zeus and Adam, most of it was just spectator reactions because for some reason they couldn't put in any fighting animations. Even the few exchange of blows were just a volley of animated colored-strikes instead of their actual arms/fists. Just read the manga and see for yourself, how the "animation" did it dirty. Words cannot describe how atrocious this "animation" is. Absolutely unacceptable. To put it into perspective, remember seven deadly sins, escanor vs meliodas fight, and how everyone agreed that the animation was kinda bad? This is worse. Way worse.

Sound: 5/10
This is probably the only redeeming factor of this anime. The soundtracks are decent enough, and the voice acting is good. Nothing stands out, but nothing to complain about either. This is the one thing where perhaps I can overlook since the manga has no sounds for me to compare it to in the first place. I don't have much to say.

Character: 5/10
Again, over-exaggeration of reactions of minor characters and onlookers. Instead, some of the more iconic scenes which portrays certain characters attitude towards the showdown are missing. For example, in the manga Zeus the old man was showing off his arrogance by strangling his pet dragon in front of the crowd when announcing the fight, this part was removed from the anime even though would have explained quite a lot. Or the scene where Loki approaches Heracles when he was going up the stairs and he explains that he is actually against ending mankind, and will always be an ally to justice. These are important character developments, especially for one of the fighters. It should not be left out and it should not just jump straight to the fight. But because that fight was left as a cliffhanger, I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they will cover that next season. Though for that to happen, some episode recap will have to be done, which is already annoying enough as is in this season. Still, most of the first 3 main characters were displayed good enough, but I just felt like more could have been done.

Enjoyment: 4/10
Not enjoyable at all. It was quite a letdown. Completely destroyed my expectations of how good the anime could have been. Partially due to the manga.

Overall: 2/10
Please just read the manga. I do not even recommend watching this anime. You will get way better art, more coherent story, better pacing, better understanding of the characters, and overall just a more pleasant time.

Wow. This show is shite. I'm sorry. It's really really poor. I also want to make this clear too, though I will not post the review until I have finished it, I started writing it 5 minutes into episode 4 and finished it by the end. It is complete trash and will explain why

Story is all sorts of crap. Zeus and Odin, in the same story?! Who the f**k did the research for this. Shiva? F**king Shiva?! The introduction to the story starts abruptly, sadly, it doesn't finish as such. Within minutes, with no context, a tournament starts between Gods and Mortals. Despite its ... abrupt introduction, this should be great. Guess what though, you never will so I'll tell you, it's not good at all. It's cheesy but not in a funny way, it's dramatic but not in an exciting way and is essentially everything that anime gets the piss taken out of for. The narrator is also dog shit. Makes me long to hear Dimple's voice just so I don't end it all whenever he chirps in.

Now then, animation. Imagine JoJo, but it's shit, not funny and misses the mark with everything it tries. Once you've done that, you have something that is a little better than Record of Ragnarok. That's pretty much it to be honest. Character design is really awful. Everything about it is awful. How they interact, how they look, awful. The fight sequences are also very stale however!, they do contain the animations only redeeming feature. When the action is 'super super intense', it chooses a hand drawn style that is hard not to like.

Music, basic and uninteresting. Sadly nothing else to say. Incase you haven't sensed this yet, wouldn't recommend. Probably needs throwing into the ocean if I'm to be honest.

....Sorry, as I write, Adam.....ADAM! has just stepped on the arena floor for the humans with OF COURSE no frigging clothes on cheered on by Michael Angelo and Mozart in the crowd..... I'm done, this review is getting posted. F**king bullshit show

[ NON SPOILER REVIEW]

Wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone tbh even if you are going to binge watch it like i did.

So why is it that bad :

The character design and animations are kinda whack the animation is not consistent but not horrible.

Story was alright could've been more exciting if the pacing was better honestly and maybe replaced the last two fights with something else i felt they were poor

... I couldn't care less for most characters :( except for Aphrodite because you know :) XD but even her was kinda disappointing somehow !!!!!

The fighting in this anime overall is disappointing to say the least it started off good but literally after the first fight it went downhill for me specially since i had high expectations in the second fight but was disappointed beyond belief and because the anime was only 12 episodes ofc it didn't contain all the matches ....... so the anime needed to be longer idk if there is a part 2 but i hope there isn't

Overall the anime lacked excitement and creativity for mostly the second half of the anime (after the first two fights) ! and for its positives cool first fight and interesting participant list for the human side but the interest faded because most of the exciting names didn't fight but yeah idk about this one i thought it was disappointing and just poor.

Lest get straight to the point the show is totally mediocre.
I am not a fan of history and i find it Dreary, but still i like to watch anime related to history as it puts a entertaining aspect to it. I have seen and read both anime and manga which is related to history and religion but this is the first one which was able to put me to sleep with the very first episode. It was like i was back in the stupid history classes in school.

The starting was boring as hell, not enough backstory to the characters, the narration is dull ... and the animation is less than decent, only at certain times it can be called good. In the middle of the the series they try to go into the backstory a bit more but still too less details but the fight sequence was much better and in the final part they did a good job with one part of the back story but the did not put any effort to the other and the fight was boring. The music is not original I have heard similar soundtracks in several other anime (but most animators reuse same material repeatedly so no use crying about that).

For crying out loud the humans are fighting gods, the battles should be more destructive. Its just another anime with a martial arts tournament. The only thing good about it was the effort the voice actors put into it.

To conclude, this is another superhuman martial-art tournament anime lacking originality. I had high hopes for this anime after the trailer was released but it was a total waste of time.

Best word to describe this anime?
Overhyped

Second best word to describe this anime?
painful (as in painful to watch)

SPOILER WARNING

Saw this on a op mc anime list youtube video I was watching. They said it wasn't really an op mc anime but it was about the op mc's of history. Arguably total BS. Like somehow Adam from adam and eve being some kind of super badass that can fight zeus (the supreme god of gods in this anime) on equal footing right up unto the very end where he knocks zeus on his ass and basically hospitalizes him while he's been long dead. Kinda op zombielike crap. ... They didn't really devote much time to the show in the video but I decided to give it a watch. NOT. WORTH. IT. I finished this anime just because the person who made the video said that the poseidon fight was supposed to be super badass. Definitely not, definitely extremely disappointing as a whole including the poseidon fight.

Poseidon not only gets fileted easily at the end, he doesn't use any sort of aquatic power or anything like that literally AT ALL despite having the arena adjusted to be like 80% water. There was NO excuse for him to just get fileted without even throwing in like a wave nearly drowning the dude or some shark riding craziness or whatever. The same with zeus. The dudes are the god of lightning and god of the sea or whatever. Something like that, and yet you saw 0 water and 0 lightning powers. I'm not sure how it has a 6.6 on MAL but that just seems utterly ridiculous to me.

Record of Ragnarok Recap:
The gods have decided to eradicate the human race at a gods conference and the majority decision is in favor; However, a demigod/Valkyrie steps in and offers an alternative method to test humanity. Ragnarok is a tournament between humans and gods where 13 of the most powerful humans fight against 13 of the most powerful gods where the faction that reaches 7 victories wins the bout. If the humans win, humanity will not be eradicated but if the gods win humanity will cease to exist. This is a last effort approach to save humanity from its downfall; Will humanity prevail or will ... they lose in the process?

Story & Characters: 4/10
The story is really basic and doesn't need any in depth theatrical analysis; Humanity is at a point of no return as they are thrusted in a deathmatch against gods. The idea isn't new and has been done before without the gods faction - In essence the plot is a tournament style storyline which uses suspense to drive the direction of the story. However, in my experience with the show I think they tried really hard to make every fight suspenseful - From ways such as flashbacks, cliffhanger episodes, special moves, not using their full powers etc. the story makes an effort to reuse however many features it has to keep the story suspenseful. It fails miserably because the format is so similar it gets repetitive after the first few battles and especially considering the battles are dragged out to accommodate all the suspense. The characters play into suspense and story direction; We see that the candidates of Ragnarok typically have an entourage of comrades that support them and usually have a long history with the candidate but in the end they are all superficially developed to be disposable which is seen after Lu Bu fights Thor or Adam fights Zeus. A lot of spectating god characters that get focused on also feel forcefully developed with them being involved with other god candidate backstories. The main downside of this show is how all these characters are used to give reaction facial expressions when something unexpected occurs during a battle; It's so overused that I feel 15-20 minutes out of 12 episodes are purely reaction shots. One of these aspects aren't bad on their own but when they all combine like in this show, it drags the entertainment and relevance of the show through the mud which is what I experienced watching.

Art & Sound: 5/10
Never have I seen a series dedicated to pure manly fighting have no fighitng animation whatsoever. The entire show is full of panning slideshows of candidates moving forward and rarely any back to back fluid motion. If there is any, it's usually in CGI which doesn't make much sense considering the amount is like 1 minute of each episode. That and the fact that the art and colors didn't match up with a style feeling arbitrarily drawn ruined my visual experience of the show.

The sound is subpar also, no suspenseful music that added a theme to the show and the character dialogue were obnoxious especially the Valkyrie assistant. Most of the reaction shots also had no dialogue and were filled with gasps or just swoosh sound effects which were really poorly planned out.

Overall & Enjoyment: 4/10
This series went from a 6 in episode 1, to a 5 at episode 5 to a 4 at episode 12. I did enjoy a few aspects like Adam and Zeus fighting but the rest felt really repetitive and uninteresting. It took a while to finally pick this up again and I can safely say that this has got to be the most boring anime made in 2021. I've heard that this was meant to be a highly anticipated show considering the intense manga coverage but I think the budget was unreasonably low for this to flop as expected with Netlflix funded series.

What did I expect from the studio of Juuni Taisen and Hello World/Another World.
The animation is on-par with JC Staff and Studio DEEN. Well, maybe not JC Staff since even they animate some real good sh*t from time to time.
But yeah, if you're planning to watch this, then I just recommend reading the manga.
The anime is super slow paced, and the manga is pretty normal paced. Meaning, you can just read the manga in your own pace. Moving on to my review...

The story is pretty basic as expected from a mindless fightfest anime. But with the slow pacing, it's actually reveals more weakness to ... the series because of that. Like, how often they have flashbacks and basically how each episodes literally are 20% fights, 40% flashbacks, and 40% people talking and explaining everything that is happening. It's all standard stuff in shounen, but even shounen anime knows when and where to use those tropes. But here, it doesn't have that leeway because it needs to introduce the characters to the viewers but also progressing the plot.
But well, looking at the symbolism and sh*ts, there are a lot here. Like, how Lu Bu is portrayed as the strongest, but even him cannot beat Gods, and how Adam faced Zeus both the strongest from the humans and Gods and Adam still lost (symbolizing how humans will fall short on reaching Gods), and lastly, Kojiro is symbolizing how humans always fails but still never give up or something. And on the next season, Jack might represent how evil human might be, they are still human in the end... Sike lmao
I'm just thinking about this sh*t too much. No way this series is that genius. I mean, it's an anime about Gods fighting humans. Like, how dumb it is lmao

The characters are pretty good, even though the side characters (and that kid who always cries like stfu) aren't really characters, but just plot devices to explain the backstory of the main characters (which mostly aren't even fully developed themselves.)

The animation, just like I said, is horrible. Other than the last episode (which had decent animation), the entire series is just a powerpoint slide show. Heck, one of the flashbacks are literally at 5fps like bruh.

The music is not bad. I'm not a fan of the OP and ED, but the OST is quite good. It really fits the themes of the characters whenever they get their time to shine.

Overall, just read the manga for a better experience. It's not really good but I still recommend this if you like slow-paced anime.
(4.4/10)

Synthesis in two words: MANGA DISRESPECT.

Story: 8. Mangaka did an absolutely stunning job on that story. It´s entertaining, catching and innovative. If you like shounen battles combined with ancient history, myths and legends, this is for you. Of course by this I don´t refer to the adaptation.

Art: 1. Just speechless. Warner made the impossible to turn one of the best drawed manga to a simple powerpoint presentation. Astonishingly horrible.

Sound: 2. The perfect opportunity to insert epic OST and rocking OP and ED, was just took to make a mediocre soundtrack, a dull ending and an AC/DC wannabe opening that will pierce through your ears ... like a drill. In a bad way.

Character: 8. All characters are well introduced, have various personalities, strenghts and weaknesses. Of course, another point not to give to the adaptation.

Enjoyment: 2. This actually transmitted nothing to me. I could be watching Huracán with Damonte as manager - Gimnasia with Messera as manager at 8PM a Monday with 0 shots on target and it would be far more interesting.

Overall: 3. Do me a favour and read that glorious manga. And STAY AWAY FROM HERE.

I was able to finish this anime only because of external forces.

Very weak, one of the worst audiovisual productions for sure. Direction of this anime unfortunately can't get it right in practically any scene and the studio can barely keep 5 seconds of good animation.

It's a little sad that this anime is of such low quality, since, a priori, its idea is interesting. Curious to say the least. Being a story that has nothing but fights with curious personalities, for example: ADÃO x ZEUS, is enough to make me want to watch this anime, but the fact that the story is bigger than it is ... and wants to transform something simple into something grand when it clearly isn't throws me off a bit.

And another point that anime in theory would be strong, which is the contextualization and rereading of the stories of the personalities of the fight ends up being just the lime shovel of this anime, because the contextualization, however interesting the idea may be, it is done in an odd way. It doesn't connect the viewer with the character, which undoubtedly leaves the fights, the main point of the story, without any emotional appeal. You just don't care about any characters in battle. Everything is so…boring. Boring and ugly.

I'll keep watching for reasons of external forces, but I definitely don't recommend this anime.

First review because of how disappointed I am.

Honestly as soon as the studio for RoR was announced I did not expect anything special, but I also didn't expect something this bad. I was very disappointed finishing this and for the first time I had to watch an anime in 2x speed. For an anime that has no plot other than fighting a different studio with a reputation for amazing animation really should have been put onto this anime.

How can the animation be worse than a Gacha life YouTube video? I really want to know. I've seen more frames watching salad fingers than this garbo. I ... really am disappointed as this could have gone down as a top tier fighting anime if they just cared about this show. A remake will most likely never happen, but it would be great if it would somehow become a possibility.

Overall I have to give this anime a 1 because it just didn't do it justice. This is an insult to the authors and by giving their work animation that looks like it was produced in Microsoft Paint is painful.

Ugh, what's there to say. This is such a great concept but it's ruined by absolutely garbage animations and terrible glacial pacing. I had to speed up the show to 1.25x speed to keep myself from outright quitting it. The writing is pretty bad for the most part too but I can completely forgive it if the concept is enticing or the animations are great, sadly it's only the concept itself which keeps me interested.

Luckily it's only the first season which is so atrociously bad, luckily it improves somewhat in every single aspect with the start of season two.

I wouldn't really recommend watching this show ... unless you're a fan of the manga or you're really curious about the show, but watch it at 1.2x speed (or higher), you'll thank yourself for not wasting any more time than absolutely needed.

1/10 and if I could, it'd be 0/10.

SO MANY reviewers redirect people to the manga, and having read it, I can guarantee you it is not much only having a snipper panel cut here and there which doesn't retract from its horrendous writing.

As most other reviewers or most "fans" have pointed out, it REALLY IS only that one Adam Vs. Zeus fight that was worth a damn. Everything else fell flat on it's face. This work (both anime and manga) merely serve to glorify "Japanese Heroes", wherein they tend to be the only ones in all the fights who end up actually winning. Not ... saying out your tin foil hats, but there's clearly biases and an agenda moving forward with this one. Almost reminds me of KADOKAWA and how they oush forth their imperialistic japan views unto every work they touch/release.

There ia NO STORY as everyone points out. The art is OK at best, and the constant narration takes away from the immersion. What you're left with is a lackluster work that advterises itself as an action human vs gods tournament style fighting gig but ends up with so much convoluter talking it takes away all of that.

Fights in which would be reasonably won by some humans (Adam) get pulled out from under us, and fights wherein the humans would reasonably lose (Kojiro) somehow end up getting insane plot armor and win. With most victors being japs, almost kinda feels like the author is just shitting on everyone else with little to no diversity in the human fighting roster, which surprisingly, again, has more japs than anything.

Overall 0/10 dogsh*t anime/manga in both regards.

Another Netflix anime with a really bad adaptation. The art, strength and action of manga are not represented at all. For manga readers, I recommend moving on to this one, and for those who do not read, look for another anime with this type of action.

I honestly do not know what they think when making an animation that at times is totally static, since they are simply transformed into images with background music.

Point in favor for the choice of voices and music, which at times contributes something else, quite well in that sense, but nothing more.

I hope that in the future a good adaptation will ... be made, since the scoop of this story could give much more.