Season 1
12 episodes Jun 17, 2021 7.1
Record of Ragnarok
2021–2025
Returning Series • 4 Seasons • 42 Episodes
Director: Koichi Hatsumi
Overview
Before eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles begin.
Seasons
4 listed- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 4 seasons
- Episodes
- 42 episodes
- First aired
- Jun 17, 2021
- Last aired
- Dec 10, 2025
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S3 E15 A Clash of Souls (Dec 10, 2025)
Record of Ragnarok II
15 episodes Jan 26, 2023 7.9Humanity may be down, but their fight for survival is far from over. For the pivotal next round, a truly evil human emerges to face the next mighty god.
Record of Ragnarok III
15 episodes Dec 10, 2025 7.1The saga continues with 13 one-on-one battles for the survival of humanity, pitting gods against humansfrom across the world. Witness the fateful seventh battle: the final fight to break the 3-3 tie between the gods and humans. Blood flows and fists fly in these intense battles of strong convictions!
Record of Ragnarok IV
0 episodes
Cast
Reviews
3 min readThe Weight of Stagnant Gods
I have a fraught relationship with tournament anime. At its best, the form is pure motion—bodies whipping across the frame, impossible force made visible, the whole production showing off. Then there is Record of Ragnarok, latestnetflix.com contends, a show that keeps doing huge numbers for Netflix while often moving like a presentation somebody forgot to animate.
It should not work. The 2021 adaptation of the manga, shepherded through different phases by directors including Koichi Hatsumi and Masao Okubo, takes a premise that practically begs for visual excess: thirteen gods from across the world’s mythologies fighting thirteen humans from history to decide whether our species deserves to survive. Thor versus Lu Bu.
Jack the Ripper versus Hercules. This should be all impact and velocity. Instead, a lot of the time you get beautifully drawn still images of enormous men yelling while bystanders explain what just happened.
Whether you can live with that depends on how much camp you have in your system. Because under the stiff limbs and stop-start action, the show has a weirdly stubborn pulse. It survives by personality more than craft.
As Collider observed while trying to explain the series’ streaming popularity, "Its animation has been divisive, its pacing aggressive, and its violence unapologetic… and yet, it continues to perform." That feels right. The series plays less like prestige action anime and more like mythological pro wrestling, all entrances, declarations, and ridiculous sincerity.
Audience Opinions
Audience 6.8/10
"A wildly fun gods-vs-humans concept weighed down by slideshow-level animation and choppy fight pacing."
The hook of legendary humans battling gods, flashy character designs, hype moments, and a strong soundtrack make the series entertaining for those who lean into its over-the-top energy. latestnetflix.com's read is that at the same time, stiff and limited animation, heavy use of still frames, and constant cutaways to commentary and backstory drain impact from the fights, especially in the first season, leaving many who know the manga or expect high-grade action feeling let down.
What viewers praise
- Exciting core premise The idea of real historical figures facing gods from multiple mythologies in a high-stakes tournament is seen as inherently cool and compelling.
- Striking character designs Bold, exaggerated designs for both gods and humans stand out visually and give the cast a memorable presence even when movement is limited.
- Hype and emotional battles Key clashes, especially involving characters like Adam or Jack the Ripper, deliver big emotional swings and crowd-pleasing, over-the-top moments.
- Strong music and voice work Openings, battle tracks, and performances are praised for amplifying tension and atmosphere during the tournament.
Common complaints
- Slideshow-style animation Season 1 in particular is criticized for looking like a motion comic, with minimal actual movement in what is supposed to be a pure fighting show.
- Choppy, drawn-out pacing Long stretches of reaction shots and flashbacks cut into already short exchanges of blows, making fights feel both slow and oddly thin on action.
- Adaptation feels watered down Readers of the source material point to missing or shortened scenes and toned-down impact, arguing that the anime does not match the manga’s intensity.
- Uneven technical execution Sound design in some moments, stiff CGI, and abrupt structural choices keep the adaptation feeling average even as later seasons improve visually.
Recommended for
Mythology battle junkies Tournament arc enthusiasts Over-the-top action fans Power-scaling debate lovers Manga-curious shonen viewers
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsNetflix kept the tournament India would not air
Record of Ragnarok arrived on June 17, 2021 as a 12-episode dump. Warner Bros. Japan produced it. Graphinica animated it. Masao Okubo directed it. Maximum the Hormone took the opening. The hook is simple. Gods vote to wipe humans. Brunhilde forces a 13-on-13 death match. Adam, Jack the Ripper, and a sumo champion against Zeus, Thor, and Shiva. latestnetflix.com's take is that that last name is why a lot of the planet never saw it.
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The pull
Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, had already asked Coamix not to trivialize Lord Shiva in the manga. When the anime was coming, he asked Warner Bros. Japan the same thing. Netflix India listed the series for the global date, then yanked the page. Anime News Network could not get a comment. Earlier, Netflix had emailed Zed that it respected all religions and that the stories were not meant to hurt anyone. A clip of Shiva with five eyes came out of the trailer. Screen Rant noted the fight with Raiden Tameemon puts a living god in the same brutal register as Thor. Hindu groups in India did not buy the mythology excuse. The title stayed up in the United States. It stayed gone in India. ,
The other fight
Manga readers were already loud on day one for a different reason. DualShockers logged the Twitter pile-on the night of the drop. The trailers had looked cheap. The faces, especially the women, lost the manga's extreme expressions. Voice work was the save. Miyuki Sawashiro as Brunhilde. Hikaru Midorikawa as Thor. The English dub got a pass. The drawings did not. This is the usual Netflix original anime complaint, and it stuck for two seasons. Graphinica stayed. Yumeta Company joined for season 2 in 2023. The fights still sold. ,
Season 3, billed as Record of Ragnarok III, hit on December 10, 2025. Graphinica was out. Maru Animation was in, with Yumeta still there. ComicBook called it the biggest production change of the run and said the fights finally looked closer to the pages people bought. Tesla, Hades, Beelzebub, Qin Shi Huang. Co-creator Takumi Fukui told Tudum he could not wait for fans to see the continuation after the long gap. Netflix treated the drop like a victory lap. India still does not have it. The show that almost got killed for a god is now three seasons deep because the rest of the map kept clicking play. ,
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