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The TL;DR is that this was made as an ad for a gacha game and thus I recommend steering clear of this. For anyone who is not a Trails fan, this anime is utter garbage. For anyone who IS a Trails fan, this anime is THE BIGGEST insult to the entire franchise. If you like Trails or are thinking of trying it, play the actual games and feel free to forget this thing ever existed.

For context: It chronologically takes place between Cold Steel 2 and Cold Steel 3, during a major event that happened in that period. One would think this anime would focus ... on said event and explained what happened in detail, portraying the key characters from the game through the perspective of a new cast, right? But no. Nothing happens during the vast majority of this anime. They even take time to introduce some goddamn random ahh clown that serves 0 effing purpose in episode 3, only to disappear a moment later.

The only relevant episodes are roughly the last 3, and even those give you less information than a mid-conversation recap from Cold Steel 3 does. It explains nothing, yet only adds more questions. It's only purpose is to serve as an ad to the Northern War mobile gacha game they released, and quite frankly, everything about this is horrendous (even the gacha game itself). The character designs, the pacing, the cuts, the fact they put up a flashback scene literally 5 seconds after you've seen the said flashback scene. In short, steer clear of this giant pile of stinky. It's not worth your time and it won't explain anything.