The Grongi continue to grow in power, shouldn't be long before Godai is struggling against them again.

None of the family/friends matter, except that they're trying to show us how monsters wantonly killing people affects normal people. They're all super boring. :)

the thing about the rising forms is that yes, they are really powerful.

almost.... TOO powerful.

Nah, they're fine. Amazing Mighty, that one is almost too powerful.

Well considering it is a relative of Ultimate that isn't too surprising.

Until very much later, the Rising forms are pretty much finishers than actual forms. Godai can't maintain the form for very long until he has learned to control them when confronted with an enemy powerful enough to require it.

Well its kinda the point of the whole show that Kuuga is way too powerful.

Kuuga 29.
Artist really has some place to be...
Well, turtle grongi wrecks the place by chucking ball and chains everywhere. Godai gets warned that Rising Mighty might cause extreme pain in his right leg, and the girl from 20 episodes earlier (The one who took an important stone because they didn't solve No. 0's mystery from the get go) comes back to see the Grongi.
And we're also teased with a new bike.

The Grongi scenes still have pseudo importance, but because they speak a line of Linto before reverting back to Grongi, I still don't know what the fuck.

I myself just started Kuuga earlier today. (I actually watched the first episode like a year ago but then didn't go back to it again for no real reason, so I'd mostly forgotten).

Anyway I got the first two episodes down. I like Godai, I like Ichijou, it's alright so far.

The CGI is very dodgy, the pacing is very slow during some portions of it, and anyone that isn't Godai, Ichijou or the police is boring as hell, but I love it.

I like the Grongi mystery, I like that we learn their motives along with the police, and I like the progression of Kuuga's powers, that each has it's strengths and weaknesses, and that they're fairly clearly defined.

I'm three episodes from the end on my second watch through of it. Then I'm going back to finish the last four episodes of Wizard and Gaim. Probably.

Kuuga 30.
So that guy was the kid pretending to be an unidentified lifeform a few episodes back. Neat. Glad to see he isn't doing that again. However, life just shits on him when he tries to get his act together, and then the doctor blames him for getting angry that life fucked him? Huh...

Anyway, the turtle grongi takes every hit Godai throws at him and actually manages to defeat Rising Titan. Godai, being Godai, recovers in less than 3 hours and is back to fighting. In the meantime, the police find the Grongi's other base, but they're long since gone. Ichijou also receives a new set of bullets that are more effective, but the current rifles can't handle the recoil, so they can't use them to their fullest yet.

Anyway, Kuuga meets up with the turtle and starts brawling again, and thanks to Ichijou on the assist, using the bullets anyway to destroy the ball and chains the turtle used, Kuuga is able to properly fight (But not before using the Gouram to drag him to a relatively empty area).
Going Rising Mighty, Kuuga delivers an explosive Rider Kick, creating a massive blast radius.
Neat.

Alright, I'll be honest. Kuuga has been on something of a pick up with the episodes involving the teacher and these most recent two. It has become fairly interesting as our characters develop more. But the side cast is reaching the point where they feel like the KRC post Meteor's introduction. They just stand around derping while Godai, Ichijou, and (Sometimes) Sawatori and the doctor work (Also, this one girl's crush on Kuuga and her joke of getting jealous of every girl within a 100 lightyear radius of Godai? Got sick of that the second time it happened).

Let's hope the rise stays, or if it'll do what happened earlier and pull the rug from beneath me and reveal more of nothing despite building up to something big...

Aside: The Grongi had subtitles when they spoke, but it was untranslated. That's bullshit.