#trails of cold steel the northern war

[special-support-section]

[lady-byleth]

Rean remembering Crow's death and quoting his final words to Lavi in the Northern War did not hurt at all, nope

Shame on the subbers for not doing their research though because I haven't found a single one who translated "Forward, relentlessly", arguably the most memorable words in the Erebonia arc, faithfully

[rehncohro]

[darkcloud-kcalifornia]

While there have certainly been a few anime that I decided not to follow after watching the first episode and deciding it wasn’t for me, I would like to congratulate the Trails of Cold Steel: The Northern War team for making an episode bad enough to inspire my first cut of the season.

Because I learned my lesson on hoping things can turn around after last season’s Legend of Mana fiasco.

[comradeyurika]

I love the speed at which the Northern War anime immediately goes into worldbuilding. This series knows only one way to exist

[inkedmyths]

Hello my Tumblr Trails fans.

The global release Northern War Gacha game is live.

It's bad. Hilariously so.

Highlights/thoughts so far

I got Rean so I win

I think Laura is a guaranteed pull so that's cool

About half of Class VII is available right now, I suspect more will be available later if some of the Japanese posts I'm seeing are correct, along with other characters since it's a bit of a weird grab bag atm. PLUS there's art ingame of currently unavailable characters so yeah I suspect they'll be added thru your standard Gacha Event type of thing

The plot is just the anime. Take that as you will

Pretty sure they just put this shit thru Google translate. The "story" bits aren't too terrible but some of the other stuff is. But it's funny.

SPEED DU BARRY

They accidentally swapped character's titles somehow?? Toval somehow got Sharon's CS4 title, Elliot is the Icy Maiden, and Towa is The Azure Chevalier LMAO

On that note, some of the "character stories" are straight up spoilers thru CS4. Which is bizarre. And also funny. Sorry to anyone who this is their intro to Trails

It looks like they've brought over the alternate outfits from a different discontinued gacha game so there's that at least. Art inspo if nothing else

Some of the buyable stuff is just atrociously expensive. They need to cut those costs if they want to actually make some money off of this lol

Also the chances of pulling SSR characters aka the majority of the cast is very low apparently so. Lol

NONBINARY WAZY ACCIDENTALLY REAL

[wyrmmaster]

"Oh god dammit. You're gonna make me go through an existential crisis aren't you? I know a main character when I see one. Fuck. Shit."

[cetra]

Trails of Cold Steel II (2014) Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War (2023)

[orange-clown]

Just from browsing the subreddit…

GOD is the Northern War gatcha a mess. Like yeah, we were expecting a medicore product, but this is above and beyond.

Clearly machine translated descriptions (Ellie had a gender change in-between paragraphs, I guess)

Mismated titles to characters (Elliot Craig the Icy Maiden. Rean The Grey Knight. And I’d love to know what Laura the Musician is allegedly playing.)

Mistranslated NAMES (which are objectively funny. Macbon. Aryan Lord. Speed Du Barry. 😂)

the normal swimsuit image garbage. (Give us Randy in a sexy firefighter calendar pose, cowards)

And of course the $75 character back that is listed as being 84% off. Like, you could buy the scale figure model of Rixia for ~1/3 of the price that they’re claiming the jpeg is worth.

this thing will be dead within the year.

[berserkyuya]

I'm so excited for Trails of Cold Steel- Northern War anime coming out next month, I always wanted to know what happened during the Northern War that Rean got involved with it

[corecamilo]

Lavian Winslet from the Trails Northern War anime

She’s starting to grow on me and I’m so excited on how she’ll relate to Rean Schwarzer and the rest of the Trails cast

Go play the Trails series

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the day: The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki - Northern War

Alt title: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War

Released: 2023

North Ambria has been regarded as the poorest region for many years following the North Ambrian Disaster. The economy never recovered after suffering a significant loss as a result of the mysterious Salt Pale converting people and structures into salt. The previous state military has evolved into the Northern Jaegers, a band of mercenaries. Lavi, a talented rookie, enlists with the intention of joining the Jaegers. After  working with them for six months, Lavi is regarded well by her coworkers. The Imperial Hero of Erebonia is a new danger to the state, and Lavi and her crew are entrusted with learning more about him. In doing so, they learn that there may be more to the continent's complex political system than first appears.

[jaebird88]

I’m guessing if I had played the Trails of Cold Steel games, the Northern War anime would make more sense. As it stands, I think I understood what happened, but at the same time a lot of stuff happened all at once for me to grasp. Not to mention the plethora of characters whom I’m sure are from the games making cameos but had little to no contribution to the story being told.

If nothing else, it kept my interest even if I didn’t have any prior investment. Only knock against it is how subpar the animation was, and the times when scenes moved along with either nothing being shown or quick cuts to another location.

[fury-brand]

In case anyone is looking for a place to talk about the cold steel northern war anime, pop on by! We have about 30 members and a pretty strict spoiler policy for kiseki games so everyone is welcome

[operationrainfall]

oprainfall Week in Anime: Jan 15 - 21

We here at oprainfall don’t just love video games: we’re big fans of anime, too. So in celebration of the medium, we’re here to give you our thoughts on what we’ve been watching each week as we watch it. Old, new – anything goes. Currently Airing: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War This week’s episode sees Iseria and Marty infiltrate a party being held in the Port City of…

[comradeyurika]

The first episode of Trails of Cold Steel: Northern War was pretty intriguing, and I love how much it just immediately feels like Trails. Part of that is the music, to be sure, but it just also hits on a lot of the hallmarks that draw us all to this series. There's a great mix of action, comic relief, political machinations and a general view of what society is like in this world that makes these games, and now this anime, feel so rich. I'm really excited to be meeting these characters and to finally get to see North Ambria. I still remain disappointed that we didn't get to visit North Ambria in Cold Steel III or IV, but this anime is looking to be a great look at the country, and hopefully some of these characters will show up in the games in the future.