I surely had some fears similar to zetman, considering how fast and furious the pace was for the first episode: this is definitely not a "non manga reader" friendly, and you can see the details for the mood and the visual style (although the face shading looks as if every characters were in front of a window
).
That said, some cuts were a bit too crude (especially Danny scenes, although that saves us from Araki's "love" for animals
), so I hope it is just because they wanted to deal with Phantom Blood intro quickly.