First Episode of The Mighty Nein Available Now on YouTube

The first episode of The Mighty Nein, a new animated series based on Critical Role's second campaign, is available for free on YouTube. Prime Video posted the episode on YouTube in the early morning today, providing fans and newcomers alike with a free preview of its series ahead of its launch next week.

While set in the same world as The Legend of Vox Machina, The Mighty Nein is a standalone series and requires no previous knowledge of either Critical Role or The Legend of Vox Machina to enjoy. The first few episodes of the new show serve as a prequel to the events of Campaign 2, providing more concrete origin stories and what the characters were up to ahead of the events of the first episode of the campaign.

You can check out the new episode below:

After an explosion at the border, Wildemount is on the brink of War. Beauregard Lionett investigates the scene of an explosion, uncovering a sinister scheme lurking in the shadows. Meanwhile, Caleb Widogast teams up with an unlikely ally to break into a magical pet shop.

 

[wicked cool]

I loved it. Wonder why YouTube got it before actual prime members

 

[dbm]

Presumably to encourage Critters who are not already Prime members to sign up?

And lots of views will drive the algorithm to promote it more widely.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Yeah, it's the drug dealer marketing model. First one's free, kid.

(Apologies to all drug dealers who take offense at being compared to Amazon.)

 

[Lazybones]

I am really looking forward to this series, but I'll wait for the final week and do a brief sub-and-drop. I was a long-time Prime subscriber but at some point I decided I'd given enough money to Amazon.

 

[overgeeked]

For anyone curious, the terribly bland intro music should be this banger of a song instead.

Massive spoiler after the 1 minute mark.

Spoiler

 

[SteveC]

Thanks for posting about this. I’m putting it on my watch list for the weekend. I have really high hopes for this.

 

[Lazybones]

I just finished it and thought it was quite good. They only introduce a few of the main characters in the first episode but flesh out some of the backstory before the start of the actual play campaign. Note that the YouTube page says it'll only be available through Sunday at 11:59PM PT, so if you want to watch it you should catch it before then.

 

[Reef]

I understand the logic of giving YouTube a free taste to hook subscribers. But I’m confused why they didn’t just release the episode on Prime at the same time. As a Prime member (but not YouTube subscriber), it feels a little weird to have to choose between watching it now with ads, or waiting till the actual Prime release.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I understand the logic of giving YouTube a free taste to hook subscribers. But I’m confused why they didn’t just release the episode on Prime at the same time. As a Prime member (but not YouTube subscriber), it feels a little weird to have to choose between watching it now with ads, or waiting till the actual Prime release.

And of losing the impulse buy crowd who might sub to Prime Video to see the next episode right away.