Equinox crunchyroll11/19/2023 The show's not flawless: The voicework is rough at times, though Izel's voice actress improves a lot as you go along, and while the backgrounds are great and the general visual design and setting/world is gorgous and well crafted, the character animation and art is often limited, and the pacing can be pretty iffy. Even more obscure deities like the Zapotec gods Cojico and Xoo show up. The boy Quetzalcoatl possesses in episode 1 has a conch on his hip as a reference to the ehecailacacozcatl wind jewel that Quetzalcoatl is usually depicted wearing in actual Aztec art and has other signature iconography elements such as his [conical hat and beak mask, while, Tezcatlipoca has his signature face paint and injured leg that was bitten of by Cipactli. The video I linked that I helped with is 25 mins long, but even just for the first 3 episodes it covers, the video easily could have been multiple times the length delving into super deep iconographic symbolism and other elements, but as a quick example, Danibaan/Monte Alban and Uxmal both are accurately depicted with stucco, paint reliefs, etc on them and have accurate layouts to the real life cities, and the Zapoteca and Maya people in each have largely culturally accurate dress, and cultural differences and conflicts between the different Mesoamerican civilizations comes up in the show. The show is incredibly well researched, and it authentically features many different cultures and civilizations, even super obscure ones like the Totonac. The show is a western animated, dark-action series, where a feud erupts between different factions of gods over the lack of blood offerings, resulting in a bet made between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, who choose the most pathetic, lowly human, a Aztec boy named Izel recently struck by tragedy, to see if he can close the 5 gates to the underworld. If you haven't checked it out yet, now's a great time to do so! This past weekend, the remaining 6 episodes of the show dropped for binge viewing after having previously been on a weekly release schedule, so now the entire first (of what will hopefully be many) seasons are out. The video I and some others helped contribute to: (covers content from trailers/early episodes only, can be watched before the show to introduce you to the concepts and themes if you aren't super strict on spoilers) Marc Ecko's Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure.Friday Night Fisticuffs / Saturday Morning Scrublords.CSB 231 Discussion | WWFIO 012 discussion | Free Talk Friday 439
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