Drifting Dragons - Netflix anime series

[NoSleep]

Anyone else watched this?

I'm not really a watcher of anime and other series' I've tried on Netflix I've tended to give up after one episode, but this one I really got on with (and watching through again).

It's odd, based around a crew of "drakers" - dragon hunters (and butchers)., very much modelled on whalers, with harpoons, etc - all aboard their steampunk airship. And we're mostly discovering the world they live in through the eyes of a novice draker named Takita.

Also odd is the fantasy food porn element (usually tips on cooking up a nice bit of dragon meat with all the trappings). One of the main characters - Mika - shows indications of being addicted to eating dragons; literally chasing the dragon. He can smell how tasty a dragon is while they're in mid-hunt.

What's really good about it is the characterisation and interactions between the crew (and the people they meet in towns where they land). It's this which counterbalances the horrors of what they're doing, which the crew seem somewhat oblivious to, but the writing ensures a little empathy toward the dragons as we learn more about these mysterious beasts (which aren't much of a threat to humans unless they're pissed off by things like being hunted). Life on the ground seems a bit rough, too; some kind of steampunk medieval where (we discover) people can be sold off, as children, into servitude. They aren't too keen on the drakers but value their produce, while the drakers seem to be people that have escaped into the sky from the society on the ground; but you notice that there aren't many drakers living to an old age.

[Dex Sawash]

Watched a few minutes, liked the design of the things apart from the dragons which were kind of odd. I can't watch anime long because I find the non-speech vocalizations just as annoying/distracting as a laugh track. I probably didn't phrase that last sentence artfully (#cancelled)