Onyx Equinox

Onyx Equinox would get full marks from me if the jaguar-like character was voiced by Christopher Judge and so I could fully enjoy another BOY simulator! As it is, if you watch it in English, it seems like he keeps calling Izel BOY mainly so that the audience understands (mainly due to the poorly chosen English voice actor for Izel) that he is really a boy and not a girl! Also, it would not have been so jarring if it were all a bit more relaxed and the basic story were not just a typical heroic journey going from one place to another completing various tasks (with the transitions and jumps being really really fast)... It all follows the usual formula where the hero has to take some friends along for the ride, because they can rarely do anything on their own, and if they fall on their face, which will happen a lot with the lowest of the low, well someone has to be there to pick them up off the ground. However, I do think the setting is really great, I do not know any shows set in the Aztec Empire and the fact that most of the songs are sung in the original Aztec language is another great bonus, and I found the whole thing undeniably charming. Another thing I am incredibly impressed by is how gory it is. Violence in TV shows, movies or even games has its limits. For example, if I take an ordinary video game like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and decide to wipe out an entire village, I am never going to quite succeed because there are certain things that are sort of forbidden in that particular video game. Onyx Equinox does not have any restrictions of this kind. It is raw, gritty and uncompromising. There are a lot of grievous injuries, severed limbs, and various severed body parts (including entrails) everywhere. On the other hand, I only grew to like the main protagonist after quite a while, and he only made a good impression on me around the ninth episode (well, near the end). I also found that the story started to get really interesting around the same time, however, until then it was more of a regular, yet very visually attractive bore-fest. What the hell was that at the end of the first season? Well, it was not quite what I was expecting, the bad-death-romance and problem solving were very Eric Cartman-style, and the fight scene was very chaotic and messy. However, despite all that I still found the second season quite intriguing. 6.5/10. (28/12/2020)