Asu No Yoichi Episode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

http://minitheatre.org/x264-completed/291-asu-no-yoichi.html

Events come to an early head in late 1930 on board the new transcontinental train Flying Pussyfoot when the crossing paths of the robbers, psychopath, cultists, other thieves, an immortal, a senator's wife and daughter, and agents secretly escorting a special bomb create a potentially grossly bloody situation, while in 1931 and 1932 a girl seeks information on her missing ruffian brother.

Fafner goes for the hook early and starts out with a battle scene, and then jumps back to the events leading up to it. It's a common narrative device, but here it seems almost like bargaining: "Watch past the first episode, and we'll eventually show you this bit!" It takes a full episode just to get Kazuki into the robot, and getting there is a drag—for several minutes it's like having walked into a boring school drama, at least until the sci-fi stuff starts up.