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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"This future... you must overcome."'']]
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4	''Ragna Crimson'' (ラグナクリムゾン, ''Raguna Kurimuzon'') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daiki Kobayashi. It has been serialized in Creator/SquareEnix's ''Monthly Gangan Joker'' magazine since March 2017, with its chapters collected into eleven tankōbon volumes as of August 2022.
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6	The story follow Ragna, who is a dragon hunter along with his partner, the strongest dragon hunter Leo. He didn't have much talent at hunting dragons but he had decided to entrust his whole life for her. However he was shown the feel of true despair by his future self on what would happen if he stays weak as he is now. With that, it seems that the reaper of the dragons had now appeared earlier than the original history, but will it be enough to change the future?
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8	An anime television series adaptation by Creator/SilverLink premiered on Oct 1, 2023, licensed by Sentai Filmworks and is streaming on [[https://www.hidive.com/season/20679 HIDIVE.]] An English dub was released on December 23, 2023.
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10	!!''Ragna Crimsom'' contains examples of:
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12	* AfterTheEnd: The series later reveals that [[spoiler: it takes place thousands of years after the destruction of our modern world.]]
13	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted and deconstructed. Dragons aren't inherently ''evil'', and indeed among each other they have bonds, love, rivalries and other human qualities in their considerations. Some Dragons can even take pity on and spare humans on a case-by-case basis. But because the species as a whole has decreed that humanity is nothing more than inferior, fleshy food to them, no Bloodlines besides Claws even considers anything positive of them, and Claws [[spoiler:is EqualOpportunityEvil in training ''anyone'' with potential to be their absolute best]]. Being able to treat humans like cattle resulted in virtually almost every single dragon touting their superiority as some sort of inscrutable BlueAndOrangeMorality when they're really just [[EvilIsPetty incredibly petty]] and do what they please because their power allows it; it's entirely their predatorial dominance that makes them the monsters they are rather than what they are by birth. The fact that some people can be ''converted'' to Dragons by mana in their bodies only muddies the matter further, and anyone with [[HalfHumanHybrid draconic traits]] tends to face HalfBreedDiscrimination for it to boot.
14	* AntiHero: Crimson is definitely an UnscrupulousHero, as he will slaughter innocents without compunction to make his plans work, brainwash allies and civilians into obeying his orders and poison Ragna to ensure he doesn't betray him. Still, his main objective is to exterminate all the dragons, which are a much greater threat to humanity than he is.
15	* BadFuture: The premise of the story is Ragna's journey to prevent a horrible dystopian future in which it is strongly implied that humanity has been exterminated by dragons from happening after receiving the powers and memories of his future self.
16	* BeyondTheImpossible: Ragna's ''Twin Dragon Hunting Flash'' technique is two consecutive attacks of such power and speed that even Kamui, a literal LightningBruiser who has always stolen and adapted his opponents' strengths and made them his own, admits he is not capable of imitating this, let alone understand how Ragna managed to bring this movement into realization.
17	* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: When Leonica demands to go with Ragna, he first tells her no because she is weak and will just die, then actually uses force to take her down and leave to prove his point. Leo ends up as a crying mess after that.
18	* BrownNote: The King of the Clawed Brethren, Gilzea, has the ability to cause all normal humans to vomit and die right then and there just by her standing nearby, while those with more power still collapsed on their knees trying to cling to their sanity. If one survives after such an encounter, they will still have horrible PTSD.
19	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Artemisia and Woltekamui were friends since they were young, [[spoiler: in which the former was a few-year-old clone, and the latter is a literal child]], and it's obvious that they love each other a lot. But due to various reasons, most of all they being {{Tsundere}}, the two never get past the UnresolvedSexualTension stage.
20	* ChildProdigy: Leonica is a genius who has been hunting dragons ever since she was a tiny little girl. Even talented fighters like Saix and Yugo are constantly in awe of her sheer power.
21	* ClonesArePeopleToo: The clones of the Sun Cult were treated as disposable. However, one of them, a high-ranking leader of the group, [[spoiler: and who later became Artemisia]], wanted to give some meaning to their lives and treated them as sisters instead. Unfortunately, it ended up causing [[spoiler: a mass termination of the entire clone series and pushing Artemisia into accepting God's offer.]]
22	* EatingTheEnemy: Starlia is introduced munching on a dragon drumstick after a battle, and sees no issue with it since ''the dragons'' eat people too.
23	* FaceMonsterTurn: When a human becomes a dragon, the transformation alters their perspective, and no matter how much they hated dragons before, they will join their side afterwards.
24	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Dragon God seems to appear as whatever its target wants to see the most so it could manipulate them. It appeared as [[spoiler: one of Artemisia's clone little sister]] in the past but in the present, it looks like a blank humanoid being the size of a child.
25	* HorrifyingTheHorror: Ragna traumatizes [[spoiler: Artemisia with his power; starting with resisting her ability to stop time after already shredding her to pieces several times. Even after Ragna collapses from a HeroicRROD, she's so terrified that she won't allow herself to stop time again.]]
26	* OneCastMemberPerCover: Nearly every volume features a different character on the cover. The only characters who appear on multiple covers are the two protagonists, Ragna and Crimson.
27	* PyrrhicVictory: The mission to rescue [[spoiler: Starlia is successful but at a massive physical and emotional cost to everyone involved. With the exception of Issac, Hazella, Nazareth and Shin, who lost a leg and an arm, all members of the Silver Armament Army Corps who participated in the battle against the Winged Bloodline died. Even Crimson says it was a terrible victory.]]
28	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Played with it. Although Ragna has obtained the memories of his future self, he cannot remember events that happened in the future without first having a trigger that reminds him of it. For example, he only remembered Crimson, who was an important ally of his in the future timeline, after meeting him in person in the current timeline and not before.
29	* SoleSurvivor: Ragna was the only survivor of several dragon attacks many times and this was repeated up to eleven in his future self timeline. Exterminating the dragons and making sure he isn't the only survivor again is one of his main goals in the story.
30	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
31	** Early parts of the story have Ragna and Crimson working to take on the Winged Bloodline of the Dragons, which keeps escalating further and further to full-out war that finally ends in their extermination, [[spoiler:albeit at a great cost to the Silver Armament Army Corps.]] You'd think the story would then move onto the next MonsterOfTheWeek, [[spoiler:only for the rest of the Bloodlines to immediately begin plotting together how to eliminate Ragna in co-operative efforts despite usually trying to steer clear of each other, even outright admitting they have to accelerate their plans ''because'' of the unexpected fall of the Winged.]]
32	** Similarly, because Ragna has grown strong enough to [[spoiler:defeat a second-generation Dragon King ''and'' a powerful high-rank Dragon who was outright stronger than her to the point of being recognized by [[WorldsStrongestMan Gilzea]]]], once the fight is taken to the Bloodline of Roars, [[spoiler:it takes Ragna being too much of a LeeroyJenkins and attempting to take on ''all'' of the Bloodline simultaneously to actually force him to back off. Given the opportunity for individual fights as they try to trap him on their own terms, it's (initially) a CurbStompBattle in his favor; only Bagram is immediately held as a distinct threat on his own within the Roars, and they need all the help they can get from the other Bloodlines to hold the line.]]

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