The Roast of Dragon's Dogma (Netflix Anime)

Note: The timestamp at 16:45 is wrong due to a last minute addition to the video. the real end of the segment in question is around 17:53

I love the scene where the show goes: "Guys, I think the rich are systematically exploiting us to stay in power." "Idk, man, you sound kinda evil to me."

Ethan: “we should give some of this gold to the families who will all starve to death, the Duke won’t notice a few coins missing.” Commander: “monster!”

Half expected our heroes to come across an underwater city and for Ethan to chastise the citizens for not just selling their houses to mermaids

As a frequent weed smoker, I've lost count of the amount of times I've almost been killed by a hydra at this point

Wait? Ethan had a wife and kid killed by the dragon? How stupid and cliche... In the game the dragon steals your heart and basically says "HAHA! catch me if you can" then dips Most of the town actually survives, I mean, having your literal heart stolen for a reason you don't even understand seems like a pretty strong motivation to me, why did they need to make it so generic....

You had me at "an unbearably preachy reactionary evangelical screed that gets so high on its own neoliberal "bootstrap" bullshit it accidentally ends up endorsing feudalism." A hell of a sentence this is.

Ethan is a terrible arisen, He only uses one pawn and doesn't even try throwing them of a cliff to see what would happen.

What I found funny is the show makes the Dragon Right. When the Dragon is giving his speech about how evil and vile and weak humans are there are flashbacks to the events of the past 5 episodes, but there aren't any flash backs when Ethan gives his speech about how humans actually aren't all evil bastards. The show just straight up forgot to redeem humanity in their plot about how humans aren't all evil bastards.

Seriously, if you haven't played the game, all of this isn't as nearly as stupid and maddening. It's extra hard to swallow for those who have. To explain some parts of the game's story that give a reason for the whole thing: There are 3 sources of time. The God (Seneschal), the Dragon and the Arisen. Everything else in the plane of existence is guided by fate, not will. And even theose 3 have to follow some basic rules. The Dragon's job is to open a window in this fate system by attacking a city or a village or whatever. By doing so, some idiot is bound to rise up against all odds instead of running away. The dragon stops the rampage, acknowledges the one who stood up by taking that idiot's heart and making them immortal (only to time and desease). After that, the Dragon stops killing people and goes back to their lair. Now the newly Arisen has a will of their own, they aren't guided by fate (to be more specific, they were acting on their own since the Dragon started attacking). Like the Dragon once said "time flows with your (the Arisen's) footsteps". The second part of the Dragon's job is to test the Arisen as a replacement for the Seneschal. To sum it up real quick: If the Arisen is killed then that Arisen is being reborn as a lesser dragon. These dragon's are way smaller and seem to have very little to no memory of their human life. They are driven by their instinct which is to hunt and kill. One dragon in the game actually had a brief mental breakdown just before fighting with the Arisen, saying things like "I... must... kill..." or something like that. The main Dragon does have their human memories and no, they don't kill just to kill. If the Arisen kills the Dragon, then they get to challenge the Seneschal in order to take their place. If the Arisen dies by the Seneschal, then they are being reborn as the main Dragon and take on the job of finding another Arisen. If the Arisen manages to kill the God as well, then that Arisen is now the new God and the recently slain Dragon is being reborn once again to continue their duties. As you cn see, the one who gets dicked out most in this case is the Dragon who lives for god knows how long, only to die and live again as an immortal for just as long for once more. There are no extra rules like the seven sins and the Dragon is in no position to make such rules. The Dragon offers to realize a wish of the Arisen's choice for a sacrifice: the Arisen's most beloved person (that can lead to very complicated situations, as the DLC showed us). If the Arisen refuses that offer, they have to fight the Dragon. And then, not even the God is in any position to make any extra rules. As the Seneschal themself state "such is the office I have served", basically saying that even being God is just a job. There's only one small window for the Seneschal to change how stuff works and that's by rage quitting. If the God kills themselves before resurrecting a Dragon, then the cycle is broken and fate stops controlling everyone. The fact that the Dragon serves a higher purpose is very important. If any Dragon could do as they please, then the Arisen would hardly stand any chance against them. The idea that the Dragon makes the fight almost fair is due to the fact that it's just a test for the Arisen. No point in this test if the Dragon just flies around throwing fireballs until one hits the Arisen. The same goes for God. If the Seneschal wanted to, they could just erase the Arisen from existence. But it's not how it works. The saddest part is that the game is actually pretty philosophical. Almost everything in the game symbolizes something.

"Noo actually poor people having basic decency is baaaad, we need to exploit them" The Animation

“...Which I guess makes sense, if you define ‘evil’ as ‘breaking any rule to make one’s life better, ever’.” This show was written by Jigsaw.

"He names her Hannah, after his favorite singer, Hannah Montana"

The most disappointing thing about this show was Hanna never yelled "WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS"

Shakesperean Dragon quoting Nietzsche has got to be the worst thing I saw today

You know, butchering Nietzsche's warnings about staring long into the abyss loses exactly all of its impact when the premise of the show is that the whole world is already in the abyss and everyone is fundamentally evil.

You know you're doing something wrong when a literal cult makes better and more subtle anime than you.

The game was so confusing about why the dragon did what it did until you reached the end and found that he was simply a tool of a much greater force. He was sent down to find a person with enough will to fight him. Hell, the game shows a physical change in the dragon during the cutscene where the character inflicts the tiniest wound as a way of showing the dragon has found what it wanted. It immediately fucks off and tells you to come after it when you're ready because it wants you to succeed.

Like, the idea of a corrupt system falling and being replaced by another one is a pretty interesting and, sadly, a very common consequence in the real world. And discussing that all people have darkness in them, that even those who have been victimized can become abusers or the righteous can fall into evil, is an old but still very relevant and compelling debate. *That being said...* this show literally frames it like, "Muah human rights bad". Like dude, you can discuss the deprivation of humanity without going full Mao.

The worst sin of this adaptation is that Ethan isn’t joined by a revolving cast of other rando pawns that never shut up about how wolves fear fire. One of these pawns is fat wizard named Jim who doesn’t have anything equipped and another is a pawn 49 levels higher than Ethan who is able to one shot the final boss.

Can we stop and really break down just how poorly written Gluttony is? Setting aside the idiotic both sides "Feudalism is good actually" moral of the episode just like the whole plot of the episode makes no senses. Setting aside the fact that this extortion racket makes no sense because the cyclopes is clearly making it harder for the peasants to produce the crops and food that the peasants use to pay their taxes to the mayor. Let's ask the question that the writers never bothered to ask: what does the cyclopes get out of any of this? I mean look at that Cyclops it's fucking huge, human children are like sausagettes to it! A man cannot live by cocktail sausage alone! So what does the cyclopes get from all of this, why would it obey the Mayor just for the privilege of eating a single child once ever six months? The Cyclops does not appear to be coerced into doing what it does so what does it gain from waiting like once a month to eat a single child? Why is the cyclops going along with this plan? The Mayor has nothing that the Cyclops needs, and we are never shown how the mayor could coerce or control the cyclops. The extortion plan requires the mayor to be able to control the cyclops and restrict it's rampages to only against those he wants it to go after. But there's no reason for us to believe the mayor controls the Cyclops and nothing to suggest that the Cyclops benefits from this this arrangement.

... OK I've played a lot of Dragon's Dogma, and in none of the caves have I found psychedelic moss. All I found were rats, snakes, and very angry lizards.

What disappointed me the most was the dark fantasy tone altogether. The very reason I fell in love with Dragon's Dogma was how it was this bombastic, guitar-riffing epic adventure in its style and presentation at first, before turning into more abstract and high-fantasy themed takes on existential themes and the meaning of struggle and choice. And then comes this show that asks, "Hey, you know what we don't have enough of? Navel-gazing contrived moralizing on the seven deadly sins! Dysfunctional and brutal sexuality! Angry revenge for a dead family! Misanthropes and greedy assholes! Father-figure raising surrogate daughter-figure in a terrible world!" They could have literally changed the IP for Dragon Age and not only would it have been more fitting, we wouldn't have had to waste the unique elements that made Dragon's Dogma stand out. It missed the point about as much as the Monster Hunter movie coming out.

What's really disappointing is that we never hear an armorer say "they're masterworks all, you can't go wrong!"

"Her pupils visibly dilate. an indication of arousal, while she's watching Ethan turn goblins into blood piñatas" I mean... would that not turn YOU on?

Also, dude, Kayaba totally had a strong reason for doing what he did: He went through 400 hours of uninterrupted consciousness because Bethesda wouldn't let him delay the game release. He wasn't exactly thinking straight when his buggy masterpiece ended up killing people.

“The rantings of an upjumped zealot make for tedious listening.” This adaptation bastardized the dragon along with the rest of the legit interesting and unique lore

Pawn - "Arisen! Wolves hunt in packs!" Pawn - "Arisen! A goblins weakness is fire!" Pawn - "Arisen!" Arisen - "Shut up Pawn! Have you been hired by another player recently?" Pawn - "Well no Arisen.... Everyone's Pawn seems to be a Strider so it's hard to..." Arisen - "Back into the thong armor with you!"

All the great girls in the game that the anime just completely forgets about. Madeline the quirky peddler whose love of money leads to shenanigans, Quina the childhood friend who knows healing magic, Mercedes the lady knight who leads the Enlistment Corps and battles the hydra alongside the Arisen, Selene the former Pawn living in the woods and working as an apothecary. Such a shame the anime was an adaptation in name only.

"Dragon's Dogma seems to hate all humans" I can get behind that "... but this hate isn't spread out equally..." God dammit

I made a healer mage pawn with 3000 health, gave him a stick that revives him after death (wakestone staff) and called him Jesus. He never dies, cures debuffs and heals the everyone who lacks a sliver of health. The only attack he has is fireball. I also made him 7ft tall, excessively hairy, brutishly built and gave him the deepest voice I could. His title is BA, so Jesus the Badass comes with me on every adventure.

as a current animation student: holy SHIT that facial animation is legitimately incredible. it’s amazing how much smooth expression they got out of these models. such a shame that amazing work was wasted on such a shitshow.

This show is one of the worst examples I've seen of one of my least favorite kinds of media, "edgy story that's trying too hard to be morally gray while either not being that at all or inadvertently making itself even more black and white in the process". It's almost impressive.

Anyone else wish they could have just animated Ashe and Olra's journey and how Bitter Black Isle came to be? The final nail to this coffin is the omission of the Seneschal and the cycle, the only good thing about this is I guess the humanisation of pawns because in the game they're basically emotionless but slowly learn what feeling is like until the day their master dies in which they are granted their masters life force and thus free will.

You know, I didn’t actually predict the fat guy/cyclops twist. Because I didn’t consider it a twist in the first place.

The writer must’ve heard that DD was influenced by Berserk so he created the Great Value Berserk instead of learning squat about the games lore. So now Capcom has zero good anime lol

honestly, the thing that dissapoints me the most about this adaptation is that they're probably going to think ''yeah nobody liked this, let's never try it again'' so we'll probably never have a good anime adaptation to the game we all love so much. this makes me very very sad, big corporations suck.

Some stupid peasant worker: i wish i wasn't dying in poverty while the rich never struggle A flying skeleton: You wish to improve society, and yet you participate in it! Very curious!

Let me tell you something about how fucking unfair these incredibly classist tones are when compared to the original game’s themes. *SPOILER WARNING!!* In the game, Gransys is a duchy ruled by a mad duke whose court is so decadent as to ignore and exploit the plight of the common people. The duke’s madness originated from the time when he as an arisen sacrificed his beloved to the dragon in exchange for survival and power; he even murders his young wife out of grief, guilt, and utter madness unless you stop him. YOU, a hero from a poor fishing village whose parents were killed in your youth, have the choice to go out of your way to help the common people, buying houses for peasantry who then know you as a friend, saving your kinsmen from being framed and punished under an unjust legal system that favours corrupt nobles, and saving people from goblins just because. Your house is so barren that calling it “humble” is generous, your ambitions are implied to be quaint before the dragon changes everything, and you stay in touch with old friends who become church sisters and wanderers; humble, lower class, DECENT people. The show throws these themes out the window. Ethan starts out the show living in a nice house and is implied to earn a decent living, enough to not need to worry about taking on the responsibility of fathering two children while letting his wife stay at home to do domestic work, and goes morally downhill when he loses this comfortable life. I understand it’s traumatic, but it’s such a departure from the original game’s message; you are a salt of the earth “good fisher” who (compared to Ethan) holds onto your humanity, who sets out to avenge your village and countrymen while battling conspiracy and an upper class that sets out to make your life as difficult as possible. The lower class is not inherently decadent, cruel, or opportunistic, but this show is quick to demonize them and place them on the same level as the tyrannical class that takes advantage of them to fuel an unnecessarily luxurious lifestyle. I will acknowledge that I played a do-gooder character (a female arisen, which makes the “woman in the fridge” cliches so much more infuriating) and that my experience is biasing my take, but canonically the arisen gave all they were to save the world and people they loved. They came from near nothing, and they gave everything until they had nothing more to give. In conclusion, this show really botched what I feel in retrospect was such a vital theme in the game; those in power do not always have your best interest in mind, and those of lower status have more interest in throwing down tyrants than becoming tyrants themselves. Thank you for reading my incredibly Marxist and sleep deprived rant X)

Damn they had solid lore and setting for them on a silver platter. The dragons motives are actually pretty interesting in the game. It actually IS against their will to maim and destroy. Would actually have loved to see the lore portrayed, makes it such a shame.

“ building expectations based on association” very Cyberpunk

I like how the dragon's motivation is on par with a cat knocking your stuff down

Wow, this entire anime is just deep-throating the boot.

I think Mothers Basement missed one thing and that is that any fan of dragons dogma knows that the weird off-putting medieval fantasy voices are actually very true to the game and I quite enjoyed the Jank

I almost died laughing at Mr Mackey followed by "OH SHT, ITS A HYDRA!"

Considering the dragon in the game was meant to serve as a method for finding a new guardian of the world, basically a God like character, this dragon is way out of the way of its original purpose

There is also the first episode being a gigantic red flag with Ethan's family. Background exposition, pregnant wife, everyone is happy, all the usual and generic red flags. They don't even try to hide it for the entire episode, and then somehow you have to pretend to be shocked when something you saw coming a mile away happens. My fault for being hyped due to how much I love DD and DD:DA but holy shit that was awful. Also gamewise, Hannah wasn't possible. Pawns can't be Magick Archers, but that's just nitpickkng.

I personally believe that Dragon's Dogma, the game, is a goddamn masterpiece. That being said, this show was a mistake and is an insult to the game.

What bothers me was the MC woke up the snake and made it enter the city. And for some reason the Mc try to blame the addict that the wife is dead?

Selene is arguably one of the most important characters of the game because she confirms that pawns can have free will or agency. Amazing that they wrote her out of the plot. Also I'd love to see Geoff's revisit of this anime when he plays the game.

To be fair, the "people die if they are killed" line was meant to say something along the lines of "dead people are supposed to stay dead".

I love how consistently Geoff despises neoliberalism. Same honestly 😂

I know that this is a small detail. But one of the things I loved from the original game is that it is based on Medieval *Southern* Europe (with the starting village being based on Spanish Mediterranean villages and the city on Italian cities) rather than the usual Medieval Northern Europe of generic fantasy. Same with the monsters, being based on Greek Mythology rather than Norse Myths. The Netflix show throws that through the window and makes it Northern European, changing even the starting village from Spanish-influenced to Generic Medieval Town Nº 372.

In the Game: The quest to kill the dragon is to test how far will the Arisen go to reclaim their heart. A test of will power. Then ince they kill the dragon they have a choice to become LITERAL GOD and send the previous god down to the world as the next dragon to choose the next arisen to then continue the cycle. The pawns serve the Arisen as the one who will provide comfort and wisdom to the Arisen and also the reason pawns ezist at all is because they were each hand made by several arisen from several worlds. And gain their humanity from your character's sacrifice. Anime: Kill dragon become you just freaking hate it because it took your heart and the lives of your friends and family only to be consumed by your own rage and become the dragon. BUT WHAT THE HELL IS PURPOSE OF PAWNS IN THIS UNIVERSE IT MAKES NO SENSE AND WHY IS SHE A HYBRID CLASS AAAAAAH BY THE MAKER THIS SUCKS

"Drugs are bad. Mmmkay?" And then confetti shoots out

Taking out the lore of the dragon and the seneschal and replacing it with generic medieval proselytizing is such an insult. The game genuinely has a unique commentary on death and entropy and the idea of conquering both and the consequences that would have on the fundamental nature of humanity. It's the entire point of the last stretch of the game beyond the dragon boss, and there's SO MUCH room for expansion on that in an entire series.

Not that Dragon Dogma's lore is rich as, say, Dark Souls, but they stripped off 75% of it to make a dumb short re-interpreted version and run it poorly. The review is quite accurate in most points, if you knew about all the game plot you would be even more pissed off.

"This isn't about the gross goblins" "Gross goblins"? I had no idea Mineta Minoru was in this anime!

As someone who's played the game and loves it dearly, the anime infuriates me to no end. Especially because it had so much potential if it just adapted the actual story, but they shrugged all of it off in favor of this tripe. Not only that, but the little details too. Like the fact that a lot of the slightly more important women are physical rip-offs and re-names of actual better characters in game (Olivia is very obviously one of Quina. Fightslut of Madeline, ect.). The pawns you have in-game have at least a modicum of personality, and Hannah is treated like this oh so special and unique species when pawns are literally everywhere. And everything about the dragon and the final episode is just...wrong. Flagrantly, painfully, didn't-even-read-the-wiki-plot-synopsis-ally incorrect. I could probably keep going on, but that would involve giving this anime a lot more attention than it actually deserves. And I could use that time playing Dragon's Dogma.

OK....Hannah's personality is perfect. Just be thankful they didn't stay the night at a inn, and then her say, " wE sHoULd rESt hErE".

Dragon's Dogma is one of my favorite games of all time and both it and its DLC already had two amazing and unique stories set up and ready to go. The idea and reveal of the "endless chain" and the Seneschal is really cool and becomes cooler the more you think about it after beating the game, plus the complete originality in the way the story is told and the uncanny and strange way that the characters express themselves all make the world even more distinct. Even without one of the best action RPG combat systems of all time, the story could have easily stood on its own. Adapting it into something this generic and incompetent takes an almost Hollywood level of screenwriting condescension and transparent pandering. Hopefully this disappointment of a series doesn't damage our chances at finally getting the new game rumored to be in the works.

Let's be honest, the dragon was the most relatable and endearing character in the show. After seeing how terminally stupid everyone in this world acted I have nothing but sympathy for the beast.

There go my dreams of becoming a fantasy protagonist.

The Dragon in the game probably has one best voices in video games, the one in the anime sounds like a 14 year old trying to be Shakespearian villain

So the Berserk knockoff cg-anime gets decent animation, but actual cg Berserk doesn't. What a reality to live in....

The way the unfaithful woman moved before she finally died was kind of unintentionally hilarious? Like she says to her murderer she’s his like MB said, but then her head doesn’t sag in death like the strength left her body. It just kind of jerks to the side like an actor in a play who realized they took too long to say their line and needs to make up the time they took from the scene so they’re trying to “look dead” faster.

the "logical" statement by hannah isnt even logical. them being larger and needing more nourishment is *exactly* why it was the correct decision. it uses the same amount of resouerces to maximize the amount of survivors, which would require the same upkeep, and have the longest remaining lifespan.

Why did they ruin this? Dragon's Dogma is such a great game. It deserved something better. Like a Dragon's Dogma 2 for example. PLEASE CAPCOM MAKE IT HAPPEN!

As a huge fan of the game, it grinds my gears that they discarded all the interesting lore and replaced it with something this bad. If they'd at least made this story decent in its own right, I wouldn't be that salty. But this...geez. It makes the storytelling of the game look better by comparison, and that's saying something.

I found it kind of funny when I saw Hannah's skillet - she's equipped like a Mystic Archer, which.. is impossible in the game; for some reason Pawns can't used mixed classes. I thought maybe there was an in-lore reason, hinting at how straight-forward and simple-minded Pawns can be.

fact: the dragon from the game and the anime are the same person; David lodge. they butchered his voice with filter in the anime.

The actual game's story/progression, is loose enough that they could've done just about anything with it. It's essentially a blank canvas and any actual story bits, could've easily been molded to fit whatever they needed. The gams has groundwork there to make something either generic and by the numbers. Or something a bit more complex. Yet despite having such prime real estate, they essentially tossed it all away. How do you muck something like that up.

The entire time I was screaming in the back of my mind, "I KNOW WHAT THE DRAGONS PURPOSE IS!" I was so furious when I watched this anime and how much it missed the mark with the story.

What I found ironic about the anime was that polearms had a bigger role for characters that resembled the fighter class *despite the fact that fighters can't even have pollarms and spears even though it was a big part of the lore of being the reason that the first ancient arisen fought off the Dragon.*

Shit, the most depressing part for me, a huge DD and esp DDON fan, is that success of this anime could've made the release of the DD2 closer/possible.

Dragon's Dogma is one of my top 5 favorite video games of all time, when I heard it was getting an anime, I almost shit my pants out of excitement. Seeing this show, taking a universe that I had spent literal months in, and just making it the one of the worst piles of garbage, was so heart breaking.

36:25 my favorite scene, from the 2 episodes that I watched since a good chunk of people said the two knights were their fav characters I genuinely felt immersed when all you could hear was the breathing of two good friends (still not a good show but it was a good moment)

The pawns don't age or die, so Hannah coming back is actually one of the other few things they kept from the game sooooo there's that I guess.

the dragon literally just said "its what my character would do" also the ending is bullshit because in the game, the reason the arisen becomes a dragon isnt because they killed the dragon for the wrong reason its because they didnt have the required will to take up the mantle of god. the dragon is just a scouting agent for heaven, theyre just looking for another arisen who has more will than them, and as the cycle continues eventually an arisen has more willpower than god and becomes god.

I think what's so irritating about the use of the "Thou" is that it's so commonly misused to give a character a sense of archaic regality and formality. And I say misused is because "Thou" is singular, inmate, and informal; and "you" is plural, and formal. When the dragon is addressing someone in specific "Thou" makes some sense. But if the Dragon is characterized as seeing humans as lesser inferior creatures it should be using "you" because why would the Dragon care to distinguish any two humans?

That whole bit about the protagonist being named Ethan gave real "Keith DARN IT CHANGE YOUR NAME" energy

from a game about how the relentless pursuit of power destroys the world you live in and alienates everything and everyone you love from you, to this... absolute dumpster fire. What happened?

I genuinely struggle to understand how, with the number of good videogame adaptations being so few that you can count them on Qhorin Halfhand's hand (and, even then, that's IF you're being generous with the definition of "good"), that anyone could get excited about the prospect of a videogame being adapted to anything.

The Dragon's VA is the same as in the game. And you can ask anyone's who's played it, Grigori wasn't just one of the best characters, he also had the best sounding voice in the game. Needless to say he wasn't so heavily filtered, he sounded normaly, maybe with a bit of reverb.

I feel like this criticism gets thrown around a little too much, but here it fits way too well: This feels like something I wrote and thought was deep and smart when I was 13.

I can’t believe that the dragon has a personality and better goals and motivations In the game better then the Main Charater in the anime

In the game, the Arisen is the only person not bound by a typical fate, but they're locked into a larger cycle governing only the Arisen. If you have the drive and determination to reach the Dragon, it will offer to grant you rule over the world in exchange for the life of the one you love. The current Duke took this bargain in the past. If you instead slay the Dragon, the must now challenge the God of the world to take their place; the current God did this. If you fail to defeat God, you become a Dragon, a literal speed bump on another Arisen's path. If you do become God, you find it hollow, lacking any agency besides waiting for an Arisen to defeat you. You can instead make the only choice offered: suicide, breaking the cycle and freeing all other Arisen in the process.

Children actually need nutrients more than adults because their bodies are still growing and that takes a lot of energy. So it is actually more logical for the children to take priority at feeding time. This is something I notice a lot of lazy writers use, writing someone to sound smart without being smart. Like how Temperance Brenden on Bones constantly mentions how Logical something is, even if she said something completely contradictory the previous episode (I loved Bones, Still do to be honest, but rewatching it makes me realize how little she makes sense to people who actually know things and how often Booths folksy and slightly conservatives wisdom is framed as the right thing even if that is only because Bones is written to be wrong).

the part where you said the american voice actors were told to sound birtish had me laughing as hard as i could with a mouth full of food in a safe position so i didn't choke for a minute straight LOOOOOL X""DDDDDD

I didn't think my half-hearted guess would be correct when you asked us to figure out the twist😭

despite everything, the biggest shame here is the talent in the animation being so utterly Wasted on such bankrupt and empty product. beserk comparisons aside, the way the characters _move_ is Very human and emotional. I can definitely see the comparisons to the shading of the models, but as long as the movement itself is _believable_ and _expressive_ it can honestly work. and like you said, they took Full advantage of the 3d with the camera movements and effects. this kind of strength of animation belongs in the dragon prince or just, Anything Better. *_anything_* with something worthwhile to say

24:18 Honestly, that's the general Japanese attitude toward drugs.

I... actually want a copy of this show now. It's a perfect example of how technical skill and execution of a medium has nothing to do with quality. Also absolutely stupid beyond understanding self contradictory nihilistic storytelling, packed into 7 episodes.

Dragon's Dogma the game is as you have really catched on from this anime, the most prototypical D&D campaing you could think of that also heavily pays omage to Berserk the manga. Sadly form what I can tell from your sinopsis here a lot of characters are missing from the game as well as the porpuse of the Dragon in this universe, yes he is an Arisen from the past in both medias that is "forced" to become this calamity of sorts in order to create more arisens for a deeper porpuse that even the dragon doesn't understand or completly knows about. The pawns are as simple as a human could get without wants and needs and the main pawn companion of the arisen is destined to learn and evolve into a copy of his arisen a literal clone down to aspect, gender, way of thinking and way of acting, like a PC would in an rpg if they were actually living persons an not fantasy characters. In the game there are more arisens, many have failed their respective quests or have choseen to abandon it like the Duke or the Dragonforged. The dragon offers this dilema to the player of giving up their beloved for a short time of peace or a chance to best the dragon itself in combat implicating that he is an esential force of the universe and that it's death will bring more calamity to the world than the one he is causing, and all of this is a test of sorts for the arisen to qualify to become the next Senechal "god" whose determination is the force that binds creation and life itself.

This anime forgot the most important moment in the game..... Accidentally becoming soul mates with a fat noblemen because you helped kick out a family and took care of his daughter when he had more important things to do

Can we talk about how Hannah literally is a hybrid class as a pawn

Hannah makes me laugh so much. That line at 2:57 is basically "Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other friends?," but we're supposed to take it seriously.

This is probably the most wholesome and brutal criticism of a Netflix show I have ever watched.... TILL THE END.

Just roasted this “anime” while watching with my guy. It sucked so bad. We laughed at how absurd and awkward it was. This review was soooo satisfying and made me laugh even more. Dragon’s Dogma is an “anime” I love to hate. 😁😁😁

All I gotta say is that I didn't hear "SOAKED TO THE BONE!" once and I'm deeply upset about this.