As of October 10th, the first part of the three-pronged media franchise Valkyrie Drive has gone live. The first episode of Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, the anime portion of the media franchise, has finally made it’s appearance. And as a word to the wise, be careful if you run off to watch it now – it’s absolutely borderline hentai.

Now, that’s not to say the show is or will be bad, but it’s certainly not trying to hide anything from it’s viewers. And I mean anything.

The first episode leaves plenty of questions up in the air, so it will be interesting to see where it goes from here. However, based upon the character designs in the first episode, we may get to see girls of various builds which will be a nice change coming from Kenichiro Takaki’s Senran Kagura.

Either way, it’s tough to judge anything based on the first episode, but looking at it in all fairness, it looks good. The animation is fluid, the style looks great, and the action scenes seem like they have potential. If you like extreme ecchi, you’ll enjoy Mermaid. If not, steer clear.

It’s pretty easy to see from the get-go that this will be one ridiculous ride.