Chaika: The Coffin Princess - Avenging Battle
棺姫のチャイカ AVENGING BATTLE (Hitsugi no Chaika: Avenging Battle)
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Military
- Mythology
- Super Power
- Episodes
- 10
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 9, 2014 to Dec 11, 2014
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
The hunt for the scattered remains of Emperor Gaz presses on as Chaika continues to question her own identity and the role she was meant to play. At the same time, Red Chaika pursues the remaining relics for her own reasons, keeping the race to the emperor’s legacy dangerously close.
With the Gillette squad determined to capture every Chaika they can find, the journey grows more perilous for Chaika, Tōru, Akari, and Fredrica. Amid the pursuit, a long-hidden record tied to Emperor Gaz comes to light, drawing them deeper into secrets the late ruler kept buried.
Otaku Consensus
Souichi Masui’s brisk direction and Bones’ energized combat staging make Avenging Battle a sharper, more urgent continuation, with reviewers especially praising its increased action and refusal to spend episodes reintroducing the cast. Its identity questions and postwar politics give the fantasy adventure unusual thematic weight, but the ten-episode adaptation compresses its payoff into a finale widely criticized as rushed and too convenient.
Why You Should Watch
Avenging Battle is for viewers who want militarized fantasy, magical firearms, and political conspiracies without a sprawling episode count or prolonged exposition. Its compact structure pushes directly into identity, manufactured memory, and the uses of war heroes after their war has ended, while Bones keeps the journey moving through frequent, cleanly staged confrontations. It scratches some of the same itch as Fullmetal Alchemist’s state-controlled fantasy and Scrapped Princess’s hunted-heroine adventure, but with a smaller traveling party and a stranger mix of coffins, relics, guns, and deadpan comedy. The appeal lies less in collecting objectives than in watching every faction reinterpret the same imperial legacy. Watch the first season beforehand: this ten-episode continuation assumes familiarity and spends its limited runtime escalating rather than recapping.
Key Characters
- CChaika Trabant(VA: Chika Anzai)
Chaika’s fragmented speech and vulnerable manner conceal the series’ central tension: whether identity comes from memory, conviction, or a role imposed by others.
- TTōru Acura(VA: Junji Majima)
Tōru remains compelling as a combat pragmatist whose professional instincts increasingly conflict with his personal investment in Chaika’s choices.
- AAkari Acura(VA: Yuuko Hara)
Akari’s kuudere composure and dry fixation on Tōru give the party an eccentric comic rhythm without undermining her credibility in combat.
- FFredrica(VA: Chiwa Saitou)
Fredrica functions as both an unpredictable source of humor and the group’s super-powered wildcard, preventing its tactical balance from ever feeling stable.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Bones places greater emphasis on sustained action than in the setup-heavy first season, combining mobile melee choreography with magical gunfire and large-scale supernatural effects; multiple user reviews specifically identified the animation and intensity as a season-two improvement.
- 2
The season runs only ten episodes and begins without a conventional reintroduction arc, giving it the velocity of a concluding campaign rather than a standalone sequel.
- 3
The existence of multiple Chaikas turns amnesia into more than a personal mystery: competing versions of the same identity let the series examine how political symbols can be copied, controlled, and pursued.
- 4
Touko Machida’s series composition keeps military pursuit, imperial mythology, romance, and fugitive adventure in the same narrative lane instead of separating them into isolated genre episodes.
- 5
Seikou Nagaoka’s score and Masafumi Mima’s sound direction give the magical weapons and battlefield encounters a weightier texture than the series’ lightly comic character designs initially suggest.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Original-story credit belongs to Ichirou Sakaki, while Namaniku ATK created the original character designs; Nobuhiro Arai adapted that visual foundation for animation.
- Fun fact 2
- Souichi Masui directed the series and personally served as episode director for episode 10, placing the concluding episode directly under the overall director’s control.
- Fun fact 3
- Masahiro Suwa served as chief animation director, overseeing visual consistency across a season that reviewers repeatedly praised for its increased volume of action.
- Fun fact 4
- Iori Nomizu performed the opening theme, while the series’ dramatic score was composed by Seikou Nagaoka.
- Fun fact 5
- The sequel aired from October 9 to December 11, 2014, and its reception remains closely aligned across databases: 7.16 on MyAnimeList and 69 out of 100 on AniList.
Studios
- Bones
