It's actually quite good overall, at least much better than what I initially expected.
Fluid fighting animations are mandatory, yeah, but it's an anime and an anime has budget they better not breach unless they are ready to sacrifice the animation quality of remaining episodes. I'm not going to complain much as long as the story is delivered properly, animation is decent/tolerable, and the characters are executed like they are supposed to be.
Looking at the order of events in the first episode, I gotta say it reminds me a lot of Chimelical Complex mango.
Outing Hazama as the villain instantly seems like an odd choice. Maybe I'm misremembering since I haven't played Calamity Trigger in a while, but wasn't that a big reveal?
Even the promotional poster from months ago implies that. It's like the production team is under the impression that every watcher is a BB player, or at least believes that it's okay to do some revelations left and right.
I barely noticed that there was anything weird about him visually, but I'm pretty sure his sword phased through the scabbard when he drew it which is kind of a neat detail.
From the way I see it, his Ōkami looks rather... off. Here is the
in-game Ōkami.