There are also humans who enslave two kinds of demi-humans: elves, and dwarves. So, there is some kind of conflict between Easy and Murasaki (which doesn't get explained or fleshed out) that caused them to start sending people to this unidentified new world in which there are two main factions at war: Drifters (deceased war heroes), and Ends (once noble beings who have gone bad for their own reasons tying into their demise, but not all of them have their backstory shown to us). So, was this a true breath of fresh air for the genre? Did it manage to do that while being a genuinely great war story? Well, let's find out, shall we? It's sort of like the Fate/ series, except that this time, all of the combatants were based on real people instead of sprinkling mythological people into the mix. The concept is very interesting, especially since the war consists of famous people from many different eras of different countries. With this show, they decided to make it have a full-fledged war, with loads of carnage peppered throughout. You really need to do something really unique to stand out if you're one of these shows, and while I'd like to say that SAO and Re:Zero conditioned me to think otherwise, its obvious that their additions to the concept alone (bloodthirsty video game world and reset after death respectively) were what made them stand out, even if the actual concept, for most part does the exact opposite. This also applies to the fact about there being a lot of "sent to another world" anime adaptations. "FATALITY!" -Every Mortal Kombat game since 1992.
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