Great episode. We got some vague explanation for what happened to Kouga and Kaoru, we got the return of Gouten, we got a cameo by Taiga (complete with Savior in the Dark instrumental), and we got some great fight scenes. The third one in the crazy Amemiya vortex was cool, but my favorite was that brutal fight where Raiga took down the first version of the monster unarmed.

I'm really loving how this season is turning out. It may go down as my second favorite at this rate.

I really like how they differentiate the fighting style of Raiga and Crow compare to the previous seasons. Both Raiga and Crow's style are more traditional martial arts style (especially their "default stance") compare to the more "modern" freestyle fighting of Kouga, Rei, etc.

I like how even though Amemiya-san said that Kouga and Kaoru won't "appear" he still gives chances for them to be a continuation of the storyline. <3 Episode 7 was epic because of that.

I really do wish that Kouga would appear again though. Konii already visits the filming so often!

Flowers 7.

I actually thought this episode was pretty awful. Let's stage a wonderful action sequence and do it entirely with bad CG, woo! Sure the nods to continuity were nice, but usually when it involved building on those things it just wasn't very interesting. Who knew the passing of the GARO torch would be such an unengaging sequence?

Likewise I just really don't like Raiga. No matter how hard they try to convince us through fight scenes, his actor is just so goofy and lacks any sense of presence. He is so miscast.

Wow, just like the seventh episodes to Season 1 and 2 this had a great satisfying physics defying battle. I love it!!

I don't know if it's the actor or the writing on the character, but I just cannot get invested in Raiga. To be fair, I didn't like Kouga for the first few episodes either as I thought the actor always looked like something smelled funny just slightly off camera, but I warmed up to him by episode 3 or 4. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening with Raiga. I've really been enjoying everything else though.

Another good episode this week. Properly creepy in spots, even if it was usually obvious what was going on with this week's Horror. It's true form was kind of goofy, but I think it worked. I also really liked Raifa's confrontation with it in human form; I think this was one of Raiga's strongest scenes yet as a character. Still, I think that we really need more time with Raiga and Mayuri and less with the weekly Horror. We've really gotten to know several of the monsters, but our main characters are relatively quite blank.

Flowers 8. This was probably the strongest episode for Raiga, he was actually pretty cool in this episode.

There were lots of creepy ideas at play here, but what was on screen felt relatively tame and at some points kinda silly. I dunno, something is just missing in this series. I remember all the fucked up stuff from the first and second seasons, and this just feels so neutered by comparison. The suits in this series though, damn.

Agreed. Great horror this week too. Loved this episode. Probably my favorite of the new series so far.