>>120627558It's got some hangups here and there, but yes, Onyx Equinox is good, and if you're into the setting then it's a must watch.
I post like 3+ post long writups on Aztec geopolitics for fun, so i'm obviously biased, and it does a 10/10 job with the historical and cultural accuracy. Obviously there's monsters and stuff, it mixes some time periods up, and takes liberties with a few things here and there, but for the most part it's very well researched and gets a lot of extremely specific, granular detailed correct. No other commercial media production that I know of comes close to it's level of authenticity.
But even putting that bias aside, the art design is really strong. Even if you don't care about Mesoamerican history, the look of cities, ruins, mythological enovirments, the clothing and setting, etc is going to be interesting and unique compared to most media. It does some really creative and trippy stuff with the underworld, magical ruins, etc too. The background art is also really great, which synergizes with that. Music is also really good (and if you care about that sort of thing, a lot of it uses actual Maya, Zapotec, Nahuatl, etc lyrics). That being said, the show clearly had a limited budget. The character animation and art can be shakey not infrequently, and the pacing is off here and there, you can tell they probably were working with like half the episodes they wanted. I think early time is spent on action sequences that due to the above aren't that visually impressive, that could have gone to other stuff.
However, the show also improves a lot both with pacing, how it uses action and violence (increasingly more as a compliment to the tension of a scene, which the show is MUCH better at , rather then as the driving focus), and pretty much every other element, from writing to voicework, etc, the further in you get. The latter 6 episodes are all outright great.
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