I'm finally caught up enough to actually post in the current discussion thread. I know, I'm surprised too. I'm very easily distracted.

You started hating them, now you hope they join forces with Drive, Chase, and Mach and beat the living hell out of Banno. Every week he just.. You know what he's like? The people who would come into your roleplay chatroom (Back when those existed on AOL) with some uber-OP character that somehow had an answer for whatever your character did or tried. That's Banno. Whatever they try he has an answer and you just throw your hands up in disgust.

But on to the episode.

The best parts of which were Chase telling everyone he's in love with Kiriko. Especially when he dropped the bomb on Gou xD The worst part was Banno. I fucking hate that guy.

You guys do know that this is the internet and you dont have to engage with him if his opinion about Drive bothers you so much.

If its really that hard for you to read what he has to say ignore it and dont tell him to just keep his mouth shut.

Okay, because people won't stop (but thanks Convoy, much appreciated): I don't hate Drive. I'm just not entertained by it currently. I fully acknowledge that is a good show that got even better later on, but I don't get into it anymore. I try every week because I want to finish the show, this episode didn’t give me anything at all, so I wrote down what I thought about it, exactly like I thought about it.

Could I have written it down more thoughtfully? Yeah, and maybe I should have. But I didn’t want to.

Now that this is out of they way, could we please return to the point this topic actually exist for, talking about the episode? Because at this point I'm really annoyed with this and I won't answer to anything off-topic in here anymore.

Don't throw me in with the others just because I also don't agree with his opinions.

I didn't want him to stop voicing those opinions at all. I just tried to fish for something more constructive. I'd like to know where he's coming from. I WANT to understand. But for that to happen, I needed more than just off-the-wall statements without proper support.

Why to people always assume conjuring up any kind of debate is always negative?

That is the perfect way to describe Banno. :lol

Well this is a discussion forum, like he himself said and I fail to see why we cannot ask him and engage him in conversation to understand his points.

He even posted a better reasoning after wards so in the end there was something to actually talk about.

Pretty sure none of us told him to shut up either, it just comes down to how he voiced his opinion in the first place, it was difficult to understand it, and I fail to see why we are harassing him in any way for just talking with him....

Everyone is allowed to their own opinion. You are allowed challenging them on that opinion. As they are allowed to challenge yours. The problems start, as they started here, when that goes from good-natured debate to vitriol and worse. So I'm just going to remind everyone to be respectful. None of us come on this website to be attacked. We come to share and talk about our various toku fandoms. He's given his opinion, people have given theirs, it's time to move on and continue the discussion about the episode itself.

In the end, the discussion here evolved to a point where the original problem was completely resolved, and it had just become about whether or not the whole thing was right or wrong. You're completely right... This really is the internet.

Why I have a feeling that Shinnosuke is blaming on himself for let Kiriko hurt badly.

It would be very bad if Kiriko will end up in a same path like Hayase

A broken partner :(

Vin13ish. You are the hero this thread deserves. :lolol