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Levius faces his first serious opponent and despite all the training he's done, Malcolm will not go down easily. The dramatic tension in this episode skyrocketed and we don't know if Levius will come out of this alive.
Nice episode. Liked the backgrounds about the war. Now we have finally all important background infos - and they were presented in a nice pacing.
I wonder about the girl from Levius' past. (Natalia isn't her. Different hair and eye color and he would have recognized her.)
The background about the uncle and the mechanic/doctor guy were nice. Also the stuff with the Agartha water. (Like magic a bit.)
And a great voice actor for the Malcolm Eden guy. ;) I guess the masked guy is the big villain and related to war and stuff ... and Levius might get help from other people he fought later when fighting against that guy or the corporation/association.
Rough start with the stupid reactions from the uncle while showing Levius his opponent then expecting him to pull out. Decent bit of backstory and not too boring. The uncle is getting infuriating now why on Earth before a huge fight would you try to get your fighter to pull out and tell him he’s going to die just before he should be hyping him up. He’s on the ropes anyway hopefully he can survive but ofc he can the series is named after him.
If their gym has footage of Eden blatantly fouling a thousand times a round, do the boxing commissions and organisations overseeing these fights not also have the footage? If they did, and they're aware of Eden killing his opponents as a result of his fouling, then he'd never be allowed in the ring again.