With this show’s relentless pacing, Xylo and company earn themselves a brief reprieve, but it’s only long enough to put all the moving pieces in their right place. In other words, we get a quick debrief, meet a couple of new faces, then before you know it, blood and guts start flying again. This helps keep the majority of viewers at the end of their seats, but I do wonder if our characters will have much depth to them by the end of the first season (this series’ll obviously get a sequel). All we really have so far is that Xylo operates like a typical anime protagonist: willing to sacrifice it all just to be heroic. He’s a bit older looking than your average anime lead, so he’s also a bit more jaded. But there’s nothing here that defies expectations. In seven episodes, I would’ve liked a bit more substance to the cast. But there’s little time for self-reflection when you’re constantly jumping from one Demon Lord to the next.