I don't think so. At this point, Dragon is no longer a Phantom of Despair, but a Phantom of hope

Although I don't deny how awesome White Wizard has become, I find it hard to care how awesome he has become. Like many toku villains, his presence for the majority of the series was non existent and then as if looking at his watch, he realised the last ten episodes of the show were coming and decided to step in with all the loose plot threads.

I would have loved seeing this man driven to despair, desperate to bring his daughter back through science...and if that fails, dark magic, happy to sacrifice whoever to reach his goal, over the course of the series, it could have been an epic tragedy but instead it just feels rushed and emotionally numb because the show just pulled this out of nowhere and never gave us a reason to care.

I enjoy this episode I hope nitou gets his drive fixed or get a new one

Man, that was great. Kousuke finally came through in the end and saved the day. Sure, he still got his ass kicked, but he found a way to turn that into the ultimate weapon and that is awesome. I'm really looking forward to how this all ends.

I'm still calling that Koyomi dies in the next episode (which would have been the penultimate were it not for the overtime ones). Not sure if she'll actually come back now, though.

I kind of just hope she dies for real. Do we really want another Kengo situation? That would just kill the impact of her death.

Well, technically, she's never been alive in the series to begin with...

Very good episode. Nitou really saved the day even though he had a snowball's chance in hell defeating White Wizard. Fueki was utterly and truly evil, even though I still feel for his pain at losing both his wife and daughter, which was what drove him to despair and used desperate tactics to win back his daughter.

As for Koyomi, I also want to see her RIP for good instead of doing a Kengo thing and coming back, although I have a feeling she will be revived at the end, probably with the help of her father who may give his life for hers.

Just seen it and... WOW!

Nitoh was amazing, Fueki was a freaking *derp*, Haruto was useless but awesome anyway, and, as we finally proved, a giant flying chimaera is the solution to all your problems. All of them, I tell you . Just a small question, but can anyone tell me why he keeps calling Beast an Archetype? I get the feeling I'm missing something.

Archetype is the type of wizard nitou is cause of the way he uses magic is an older style the what the others use in the show I believe

Probably because Beast is different from the other Mahoutsukai seen so far. Unlike them, who had all their stones created from Fueki himself, then given to Wajima to make the rings/Fueki made his own rings, Beast's stuff is ancient. The word Archetype can also mean "a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or emulated." So basically, Fueki calls him an Archetype because his magic precedes his.