That was episode 23, the episode where the introduced MOTW was this chick who was walking around with swords, slashing people and telling them "don't turn around", and they died when they did.

It isn't shown on camera, but the impression they give is that when the victim turns their head it falls off. The decapitation was just so swift and precise that it didn't dislodge the head.

Kuuga gets pretty brutal, yo.

Then I remember it wrong, I DEFINITELY got at LEAST 35 episodes down, had all Rising forms too

Never thought about it this way but that's totally what happened.

He got another powered up form later, maybe you remember that? The silly hair they gave him in his bat monster form turned white.

Has to be it, yeah
EDIT: Looked up episode summaries, I think I was at Episode 36

I mean yeah, but the Grongi had a purpose in all their murder games. The purpose was that they were bored, mind you, but the killing had a point.

For this X plot it's like...this scientist had been experimenting to make smart children smarter, so GOD decides to hypnotize them to kill themselves to...convince him that his experimentation causes death? And that's supposed to get him to join GOD, somehow? It's a totally nonsensical, pointless plan. And they're all like explicitly stated to be elementary and middle school students. And the episode opens with a montage of them jumping to their deaths! But it's still not really a particularly dark episode overall. It's just bonkers is all it is.

I thought the reason for the gameatic killings was in order to obtain the power of N-Daguva-Zeba. Cause O remember later on one of the guys getting a key or something put into his belt that changed his form. That the bat guy from early on came back with silly white hair on his bat form claimimg to have gained the power.

All this Kuuga talk - congratulations, I'm switching to Kuuga!

Watching Kuuga = never a bad idea = do iiiiittt!

It's appropriate seeing as I just finished Agito. I watched the first few Kuuga episodes a few months ago and liked it, I just needed to gather the series.

I'll return to Kiva but, clearly Kuuga is a good series and I want to watch something that will have me gripped.

BTW, I really like Kiva's weird as industrial rock and drone loops!