Beware of rating/dropping this anime too soon. I almost made the mistake of doing so. To be more clear, the first 7-8 episodes are COMPLETELY different from the remaining episodes. Patience is key— they really took their time in the “origin story” or prologue of sorts (the first 7 or 8 episodes). Honestly it might have been a little too much — I bet many watchers would drop and underrate the show before then. I almost did. So basically, in my opinion the first 2-2.5hours are kinda boring, and don’t contribute a ton to the overall story—it also is fairly confusing, I didn’t really connectthe dots—but that’s just me.
Heck, maybe I’m the only one who didn’t like the first 7 episodes. (Regardless, the episodes after go up from like 5-6 rating to like an 8, at least for me.) After 1 cour or so it REALLY gets pretty interesting.

The art and animation is superb (basically close to 10/10) regardless, but most of us aren’t watching SOLELY for sightseeing (art/animation).