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Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions

★ 7.3 4K votes 2016–2016 1 season · 13 episodes Ended AT-X
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Found familyUnrelated people slowly becoming each other's family.This show: 8/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 7/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Yoshimasa HosoyaMikako KomatsuHiroyuki YoshinoFukushi OchiaiHaruka TeruiRicco Fajardo
Starring
Yoshimasa HosoyaMikako KomatsuHiroyuki YoshinoFukushi OchiaiHaruka TeruiRicco Fajardo
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About

"An isekai about grief, exhaustion, and quiet survival"

A group of ordinary people wake up in a fantasy world with no memory of how they got there, forced to fend for themselves as low-level fighters just to survive. Rather than power fantasies, the show lingers on the exhausting grind of poverty, grief, and found family among strangers thrown together by circumstance. It's slow, melancholic, and visually gorgeous, more interested in quiet emotional beats and the ache of loss than in big battles or clever world-building twists.

Watch it for

the melancholic, painterly atmosphere and its unusually honest take on found-family grief.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced action or a power-fantasy isekai rather than slow emotional realism.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12016
7.42K134h 54m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Whisper, Chant, Prayer, Awaken6.8
17623 min
▶2Long Day of the Trainee Volunteer Soldier6.8
15723 min
▶3Are Goblin Pouches Filled with Our Dreams?6.8
14624 min
▶4Sky Dancing with Ash7.8
16723 min
▶5Crying Doesn't Mean You're Weak. Enduring Doesn't Mean You're Strong7.6
14423 min
▶6Her Circumstances7.4
14024 min
▶7They Were Called Goblin Slayers7.6
13524 min
▶8In My Memories with You7.9
13823 min
▶9How to Rest7.0
13024 min
▶10I'm Not Fit to Be a Leader7.3
13124 min
▶11Between Life and Death7.8
13624 min
▶12See You Tomorrow...8.2
16223 min
▶13OVA: Staking Our Youths on the Bath Wall, One More Centimeter7.2
8012 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Yoshimasa Hosoya Haruhiro
Mikako Komatsu Yume
Hiroyuki Yoshino Ranta
Fukushi Ochiai Mogzo
Haruka Terui Shihoru
Ricco Fajardo Haruhiro
Jeannie Tirado Yume
Sarah Wiedenheft Shihoru
Jarrod Greene Moguzo
Orion Pitts Ranta

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