This was a great episode, I feel so bad for Hase... poor poor Hase... I love the craftyness of Micchy sneaking into Yggdrasil and I love Kouta not wanting to kill Hase in this too. Sid's a dick and so is Yggdrasil but I love how they spin doctor themselves into looking like the heroes.

To be honest, Micchy sneaking into Yggdrasil felt too convenient. He wasn't stealthy or anything, he just had plot convenience get him through there without being caught. Either that or everyone saw him and said, "Hey, it's the boss' brother trying to be sneaky again, let's just let him be."

I really want that to be exactly what happened. :lol

That makes so much more sense. :D

Best. Theory. Ever.
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I...um...wow.

Did this show just tell that ALL Inves are things that ate the fruit of Helheim? I mean accepted the fact the more advanced ones were human, but to see that even the un-evolved ones where once things from earth, just...my mind is blown. As for the Yuya truth I more or less accepted after seeing what happened to Hase at the end of 13, but to actually show the footage of Kouta defeating the Inves and then have Mitchy react in shock and actually state that Kouta killed Yuya was a narrative step I didn't expect. And for Sid being Sigurd I had expected that too(would have been surprised if is was DJ Sagara instead), but they did the reveal pretty well within the show,

Ok, now that I've covered the plot revelations onto some of my other reactions. I liked Mitchy pulling his own investigating, though he got REALLY lucky that guy in the security office stepped away from his monitor while he was moving down the hall. The Energy Riders are pretty cool. It felt very anime in a good way to have them just appear and stand over the unfolding events and then just one jumps down to do the fighting. And Kouta...just Kouta. He barely even knew Hase, and he went that far for him. Regardless of how this show ends up, I can definitely say Kouta will definitely go down as one of my all time favorite Riders.

And that's pretty damn hard to do.