The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War has been quietly earning a loyal audience, and right now it's all available in Australia on Crunchyroll, and in the US on Crunchyroll. Makoto Koichi leads a cast that brings something genuine to every episode.

The world-building is meticulous, but it's the characters who carry The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War through the more ambitious episodes. To protect her hometown from the Erebonian Empire and to distinguish herself from her grandfather’s disloyalty, Lavie enlists in the Northern Jaegers where she’ll do whatever it takes to carry out the mission. Now this rule breaker must form a platoon to embark on a dangerous recon mission into enemy lines—will her mission be a success? Makoto Koichi and Yuichi Nakamura lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It aired in 2023.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War genuinely rewarding — it shares something with Claymore but carves out its own territory entirely. The kind of genre television that makes you think as well as watch.