First episode will make you stop in your tracks and make you want to know more about soul reapers and the show in general.... TRUST ME!
When I first started watching this show, I really did enjoy it, though it seems to almost be a carbon copy of Inuyasha... That is it's one downfall. There are a big group of people all travelling together to complete a common goal. While this kept me interested for the first arc, it cannot keep me interested for a very long time.
This anime is very good if you like good action animes, it has tons of that. It has good character development too, as it shows you where each character came from and why they act the way they do.
It just need to cut out the filler episodes. If it didn't have any, I would easily give this anime a 8/9, but the filler episodes totally ruin it!
It is worth it for the first arc, but after that, it severly goes downhill..