Welp, I was waiting to see if they were gonna turn it into a tag team of the two halves of Ahura Mazda against Muramasa, but instead we had another culture be shafted for yet another Japanese sword guy. At least the main series is using a Japanese figure with an axe in its current round, but damn, that was just so rough.
Even Cu Chulainn, the underdog that we were introduced to at the start, a parallel to Muramasa in the sense that both are lower beings fighting against superior gods, had to struggle and fight against Ra, who was given a very favorable, very respectful showing in this series' standards, but we couldn't get even a second chapter for Ahura Mazda? One of the main figures of one of the oldest religions, one that many others were inspired by or based on, and he gets one-framed by a random guy because he had a katana. Zhuque and Indra, lesser known figures from extensive pantheons were given a fairly long fight, but one of the key components of Zoroastrianism got bits and pieces and then died instantly.
Obviously Muramasa's gonna have to struggle eventually if they want him to be even remotely likeable by the audience, so I can't see why they couldn't just let him fight now, show off in battle like everyone else, like Cu Chulainn who is probably gonna be his rival in the finals, and prove why he gets to stand there. Instead, he just looks like a generic OP self-insert katana guy, and makes the complaints people had with the main series and its blatant favoritism towards Japanese figures and gods much more agreeable.