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I have watched 5 episodes, and will be dropping it. The following review is my opinion, please don't murder me with words.

Story: 6/10
Art: 6/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 3/10
Enjoyment: 4/10
Overall: 5/10

Mediocre anime, life is short, definitely not anime of the season. To be fair, this season hasn't been the most amazing (omitting OL3 and SnK3).
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I feel the need to write a review because everywhere I go, I seem to see people praising this as a 'underrated anime' and that it's the best of the season or whatever. But to be honest, I definitely don't think it deserves this. It's just so bland and generic. The tactics that the main character thinks up are absolutely logical. But that's why it's so boring, "night raid", "defend this chokepoint", "guerrilla warfare". This is all logical, it's not ingenius, and the number of people I see going "how smart of Jinzaburo" just makes me cringe. Also, people should take the historical accuracy of this anime with a grain of salt, but that's as expected, it's an anime, not a documentary.

The cheap film grain used over the episodes made it feel like it was made in a basement, definitely not an amazing artistic direction. The animation wasn't the best, in the action scenes, there are lots of random jump cuts, and that makes the scenes very jarring. There is no impact to any attacks, and of course, the main character just cleaves through all the enemies. Also, the stupid mouth flapping.

Nothing too memorable from the soundtrack, opening and ending were pretty good I guess. But I think the most important issue is character developments. There is pretty much none. There're a few exiles that we meet, that look like they might be interesting, such as the big dude, and the tiny dude. Seriously, I don't even remember their names, they are so unimportant, they're mentioned once, and then literally disappear. Seriously, the big dude disappears for a whole episode to go to the toilet and nobody even notices. The one character that is developed is the main character, and it's pretty vague to be honest until episode 5. Which I am assuming is how he was exiled in the first place. Teruhi is pretty thicc though, I can appreciate that.

Can't say I enjoyed this anime, I usually enjoy historical animes, as you can see with my Yoichi no Nasu profile picture... I love historical animes, they're absolutely brilliant. Animes like Drifters are how they should be made, with a cast of interesting characters and powerful action scenes, with ACTUAL genius tactics. Just felt a need to make this review after being berated for disliking this anime.