[Laevatein]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Felt like a lot happened in the first episode.

When people were first saying Madoka would revolutionize magical girl anime in the same way that Evangelion did for the mecha genre, I was unsure that it would filter down to shows like Precure that were aimed at a younger audience (Smile definitely didn't resemble Madoka in any way, shape or form), but Sword definitely seems like an age-appropriate version of Homura.

Pretty good first episode overall (although admittedly the monsters looked a little goofy for mine), and I'm looking forward to this show.