Thanks for correcting me, 3 days later, when I posted that while I was watching a raw livestream with no subtitles for context at all :lol

I believe it's canon now, but at the time it was kind of impossible to tell given the circumstance.

This episode was decent, but it was a just a pointless filler episode. The episode is not canon to the show and most likely not the movie.

If Ryouma can't control the power of Hakaider, how can he expect to control the power of Helheim. :lol

RED AND BLUE! RED AND BLUE EVERYWHERE!

Not only was this episode utterly insane, but it even managed to get me a little bit right there at the end. Absolutely loved it :lol

Can't wait to see the Kikaider movie!

Pretty much.

If Gaim's really going to be a shorter series, it really sucks ass that two of it's episodes are filler crossovers.

I actually felt like this episode was pretty bad. It didn't sell me on Kikaider. It didn't even sell me on Gaim, and I already watch it. :lol

see to me this was like THE crossover of crossovers. Absolutely off the wall insane and fun :lol

As much fun as the crossovers are, for a show as plot-filled as Gaim, it is kinda annoying to be left on a pretty big cliffhanger the episode prior and then BAM! something entirely different.

But still though, Kikaider was freakin' awesome and I loved him as a kid. One day I gotta get around to getting the figuart...

What was so insane about it?

Did we watch the same thing? Because Gaim on average is more "insane" than this. None of the fights were particularly grand-scale or even that good, nothing absurdly outlandish happened.

I don't get what was so crazy. Half the episode was a really wooden actor pretending to be a beep-boop robot.

I thought the episode overall for what it was deemed it excellent, however I feel that interrupting such a thriving and important story-arch in Gaim simply to promote the Kikaider Reboot movie was poor timing, and really changed the flow of the story which it shouldn't have done.

I mean, the last episode ended with the Overlord beating up on Micchy, Sid, Kaito, and Kouta, only to then jump in to our world.

So let's take a break from that? What?!

Again - for what this episode was, I gave it a 5/5. But in the grand scheme of things, this will be an easily forgotten episode that I probably won't re-watch unless I decide I want me some Kikaider, which I don't right now.

I wasn't sure what to expect and I had fun. I liked that they went the route of making this a sort of origin story type thing, rather than drop Kikaider into this in the middle of the movie, or whatever the hell I was expecting them to do.

And making Ryoma actually do what I was thinking might be too crazy, and put his brain in a freaking android. :lol That was pretty fantastic, especially by the end when he's like "Wow, that was a pretty awful idea".

I understand the flak this gets for its placement and all, but I'm of the mindset that a crossover ain't bad if it's fun, and fun it was. :D I like Kikaider, with my limited experience of the anime, so it was a fun break from the deep plot. They also have a moment to feature more of Kota and his sister, so it's not a total waste of time, either.