Not a bad start by any means, though it took a little while to solidly get going for me. Speaking as someone who has read Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, it certainly hasn't hit as hard as that series did, but it's planted opportunities to do a great deal more. It's not so much that the series is slow, but rather that it lacked an identity beyond its worldbuilding and basic establishment of its core cast. From there, it just became a series of fights that slowly built on those identities before a couple of big moments started to shift the momentum. The series has beenslow to become more dynamic as it builds things out from a basic "let's fight a new powerful opponent" as a template for most episodes and has started to introduce the larger issues in the world surrounding them and how each character relates to them. I can't say any of the characters have been terribly investing so far, but they've given them enough building blocks to make them worth following.

This is a long series, slated for 37 episodes in total with these 13 episodes comprising the first arc and the remaining 24 comprising the second. Moving slowly to create an investing narrative in order to build out the world and establish the characters is fine by me if there is certainty that there's going to be more, and based on that ending, there's a lot to expect. I'm cautiously optimistic, especially as we've seen some admittedly abbreviated character arcs play out over the course of the series so far. I can't say any of the characters have really grabbed me yet, and though there's some interesting worldbuilding, it seems minimal so far, largely kept as background noise while the series focuses on the central characters. That's not bad, but it does mean that the second season needs to go pretty hard to make this series more than just a good time.