Half of the show is a good run-of-the-mill fantasy, showing potential with a mix of quest-of-the-week filler, save-the-world overarching plot, interesting characters with character-specific intro or origin story episodes and goals of their own (i.e. side quests to earn loyalty points) and so on. Unfortunately, in this season we only get the intros and quest-of-the-week, while the other elements are just hinted at for the future. Bummer.
Another 15% of the show is an epic ancient intelligent magical-swords conflict and collection saga with a weird main hook of MC's sword being Yu-Gi-Oh's Polymerization card and giving them hero fusion. It seems like a very promising main-story material and could've been combined quite well with the rest of the show if the focus on it were bigger, but instead is limited to like 2 episodes, feeling disjunct and undeveloped as a result.
Then we have the remaining part of the show turning into a weird idol otaku show or IDK what, wasting time with nonsensical inspirational thoughts or philosophical nonsense. Like, seriously WTH. Admittedly, even this aspect might have been good for the right audience, if it were not completely out of place in the middle of a swords and magic fantasy.
If there are more seasons, and the ingredients get mixed a little better in them, it might still turn into a pretty good show. But what it showed in this season was a let-down.
