My dream is that someday fantasy anime will learn that you can deliver backstory without having to resort to long monologues.
The opening fight scene in this episode was pretty cool, and the world itself seems interesting (albeit inconsistent—the backdrop is Not-Ancient-Mexico yet the bits of technology we see are far past that), but the long winded info-dumps almost killed all interest I had in the show.
Also, "the strongest man in the world” fell for one of the oldest cliches in the book. It was obvious from when she walked in that she wasn’t who she said she was, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he was playing along. Nope.
Hopefully the rest of this show is more action and less characters reciting history lessons that everyone in earshot is already aware of.
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