That's fitting. The woman who played his love interest, Hinaka, on Hibiki famously played Usagi in a series of stage musicals.

Wow. Just wow, that was a fantastic episode. About halfway through of course you put the peices together about Fueki's plan. But to hear him break it all down, as though the entire ordeal was so logical to him, man that was good stuff. This show really hit it's stride in the 30's and has seriously not looked back.

Is there a YouTube link available for the subs yet?

Everything's really coming together nicely at the end, yeah. Wizard is going to be the kind of show where you're able to look back and see that, even if some arcs don't really contribute a lot to the overall plot, they still at least fit into the final plan for what the villain was trying to accomplish (unlike, say, Fourze). I think Wizard is going to be a series that works better when viewed in marathon as opposed to weekly, too. It's still got some serious issues, but these last few episodes are really bringing it up in my opinion.

Plus it has Todoroki transforming again, and that's always great.

I wish Mayu's skirt didn't make me feel like such a dirty old man, though. :(

Agreed, except for the "old man" part (I feel like an immodest teenager).

So Toei's thing this year was crotch hands and akward camera shots of female heroes? Ok?????

I want to see the endgame for this and if Infinity dragon shows up. Really intredting in the ending but I hope it doesn't turn into Ryuki where it all is built on one character that was terrible. I haven't seen past episode 41 of Wizard, so I can't comment on how decent of a character she is or becomes.

That was a pretty good episode.
I liked seeing the pieces of Fueki's plan all coming together. I'm gonna have to look back and see if his plan really does make sense in the long run, but I am starting to see why Wiseman only ever directly confronted Haruto once.
The only thing that's currently gone unexplained is why the Phantoms followed him to begin with.

As for the episode itself, Haruto isn't being logical. Fueki told Haruto to his face that Koyumi was dead. Why is he still conflicted concerning her?

Emotional attachment. Haruto grew to care for Koyomi when he kept her alive, treated her like a normal human being and a family member. During this time, he also fought against a group of monsters that would reproduce by killing others with the despair within them. Now faced with the knowledge that he can save Koyomi, but that all of the suffering he witnessed was her fault, he would be conflicted about what to do.

Oh, and may a paperclip slice your finger, TV Asahi, for making us wait two weeks for the next episode.

The arrogance of genius. He felt exempt from any consequence for anything he would do because he feels superior.

And would this be the first time that an actor gets to play two different Kamen Riders. I mean of course Yamamoto who was Todoroki in Hibiki and now Mage.

Because they thought he was trying to make more of them. Not much more to it than that.

No, there have been a few before now: Raia/Rider 2, Drake/V3, Zanki/Ixa, and Kiriya/Zeronos.