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So yeah, Episode 1 didn't really wow me as much as Amazons did...
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Getting the negatives out of the way first:

- Dear god, everything involving Team X is terrible. From their dancing in the side-lines of Chihiro's debut fight as Amazon Neo, to their "personalities" being exactly like those assholes I had to sit next to in highschool.

- Neo's debut fight was kinda lame compared to Alpha's or even Omega's debut fights. I don't know exactly why, but I think the perfect example is when we see Neo kill the policeman but then he proceeds to continue slashing at the corpse with the dialogue implying he's going too far, but Neo does the slashing so lazily I almost assumed he was checking to see if the body was actually dead rather than striking it out of anger.
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On to the positives:

- Interesting to see the original members of the extermination squad go different ways, even after they sorta got back together at the end of M

- The dynamic with Team X always having an Amazon with a better detection abilities vs Kurosaki's team having an Amazon that can't feel pain is also really good.

- I was kind of worried how they'd handle Iyu when it comes to fighting, and thank god she's fully competent for a purposefully untrained fighter.

- Speaking of fighting, the second fight at the church was much better.

- The overall setup for the rest of the season is pretty good.