Hmm, well sorry about that guys. I only just realised now (first watching the ep, then coming back to read this thread, starting with my post) that the summary gave away pretty much the first ep and then some

Ah well, editing with spoiler tags is the best I can do now. When I saw Arawn's human form, I remembered the OP and thought "wait....isn't he a good guy?"

I never watched Utawawerumono, so this is pretty fresh for me. I think I like medieval/magic genres, at least in books anyway, but I don't feel hooked into this like I did for a few other shows this season. Most likely it's to do with the "punch line" you guys mentioned, aka where this show is going.

Animation's good and all, though it's giving off a real "mediocre" feel right now. I'll give it a few more eps to see if that changes.