Wow, you really have to try to make it THIS bad

nodlimax

Let's get the simple stuff out of the way first:
1. It looks terrible. The animation quality is very low. They went for a style similar to Avatar. However the animation itself looks choppy and overall just horrible.
2. The sound design in pretty much every aspect is bad. The voice acting is absolutely flat - no emotion whatsoever. I've got nothing positive to say about the soundtrack neither. I guess they're trying to for the Aztec musical theme. It just doesn't work for me. And the sound effects are just average at best.

Now let's take a look at the content of the show:
What has been shown in episode one is horrendously bad. The show itself is aimed at an adult audience due to massive amount of blood and gore that is already shown in the first 25 minutes. Some nudity is included as well and you can also hear heavy swearing. However the writing appears to focus on young kids, because no adult could take this stuff serious the way it is presented.

The first episode starts showing a fight between a boy and girl which is won by the girl. The boy hasn't done anything bad to her but when she easily wins she just laughs at him while he's on the floor and calls him pathetic for no reason whatsoever. She right away establishes herself as an unlikeable character. If you disagree then feel free reverse the gender in this situation and look at the behavior of the characters again. It's terrible.

Then out of nowhere an attack happens from monsters which apparently belong to some god from the underworld. These monsters swallow up people. Apparently they have been spawned because the god didn't get enough blood sacrifices. A bit of fighting happens and all humans basically have no chance to defeat the monsters. At the end all the humans swallowed by the monsters are then shown again to have their throats slit to become blood sacrifices.

We then see a random young kid which is taken over by some kind of being which apparently is supposed to be a "good" god (at least not underworld). He gets together with a few other characters also representing gods. They have a chat about getting their blood sacrifices and that there is not enough blood for them and the underworld gods. I'm not quite sure who I'm supposed to be rooting for here. Btw. at the end of their little chat all 4 people (including the kid) that they inhabited die and turn to dust immediately. Lovely characters - killing people just to have a quick chat...

There is another blood sacrifice in the form of the girl we saw at the beginning (I guess that is her, but it's kind off hard to follow). Btw. she is also shown with full frontal nudity. I don't even know how old she is, but she seems young...

Her throat is slit in the middle of a conversation with her brother which apparently is voiced by a woman. At least he sounds like a girl and also has a feminin features. But he is addressed as a boy. So I guess I will believe that.

He falls into the same pit his sister was thrown after they killed her and for some contrived reason the "gods" consider him to be their future champion while finishing it off with "we're *swear word*"

There is also some random creature that was summoned at the start of the episode to "protect the village" which then continue to murder monsters and people alike while destroying half the village in the process.

Honestly this was one of the worst opening episodes I've ever watched for an animated show.

score 1/10

nodlimax 23 November 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6302471/