I wouldn't go so far as to say that he uses them as slaves. I meant that he uses them to their full potential because he doesn't hold back. He doesn't hesitate to use them. Unlike Takeru who is constantly plagued with whatever holds him back.

Whatever that is. Oh yeah, laziness.

I'm kidding. I'm sure his reluctance has something to do with his inability to give up the ghost.

Anyway...

So yeah, I love how we have some cool and different forms for our riders, and the whole thing is very dramatic, yet all everyone can complain about is how much one character is used over another. It's pretty apparent that Takeru's use of Musashi is his go-to ghost, even before he was dead he was going on and on about Musashi. Also consider that he's been practicing with a blade, and not just hand form fighting. While Newton is nice and all, he's not practical in a gun or sword fight. Robin Hood is also kind of the suck, since it takes more energy to fire off shots that are weaker than Billy The Kid. And don't get me started about how bad off Beethoven is, it takes twelve moves to get a long range attack. Which really is what RH, Beet, and BTK are, long range. Takeru's fighting form is more close range, which means blades or hand to hand is going to be stronger. And yeah, it saves on CG.

Also, Takeru might just favor Musashi's ghost because of his history with the tsuba. He was the one who's feelings synchronized with it to make the ghost appear after all.

Very true. Your avatar also brings up another point. Gaim also had this same habit. No matter if there was a new arms change, Kouta always chose his favorites. So we only saw some forms like Pinapple or Strawberry a handful of times. Even Drive only used some of the Shift cars once or twice. Yes, it's annoying, but we don't do the writing.

What's the point of having all these different forms if they're not used? Musashi has been used seven times in almost as many episodes, while some forms have barely been seen once or twice. It's excessive, whether it's his preferred form or not. I probably wouldn't even mind it in this episode if the last two weeks weren't unnecessarily pushing Musashi already...

Really, I don't care how much sense it makes if it's boring. The fact that Makoto likes to fight melee with his gun wielding form just points to the fact that the writers don't care about how much sense their form usage makes either.

I can forgive it in this case WAY more than Shift Cars or Lockseeds. Takeru NEEDS the Eyecons regardless of their individual power. He'll try some of them once or twice, but if its abilities don't work for him it's not like he's going to stop collecting more or throw the bad ones out.

But really, if the weapon can do everything in Gun Mode than it can in Rod Mode, why return it to the latter if it's just going to make shooting less accessible and give no foreseeable benefit aside from a limited use close range finisher? And if the weapon is going to stay in gun mode, might as well go Nobunaga more often so that you can be more proficient those shots. The GanGun Hand giving you sass with a "nandeyanen!?" for turning it back into rod mode suddenly starts to make sense.

I for one really enjoy Nobunaga Damashii's Melee/Gun hybrid fighting style.

Subs are out.

Turns out I didn't really miss anything important in the dialogue after all. Except for the "people possessed by a Ganma for 99 days are stuck that way" thing. That's gotta turn out to be plot-relevant somehow. Speaking of the 99 days thing...Takeru has a time limit, does Kanon? We still don't know how or how long she's been an Eyecon, so...questions.

Rewatching it, the inclusion of Narita and Shibuya in the climax and them witnessing the fight seems like kind of an unnecessary thing to include, unless the point is to use this as a way to have them start being more involved in the plot. We still don't really know anything about them.

(two bucks say one of them has been possessed by a ganma for 99 days)

((joke))

Nah, that would give them something to do :lol

I loved the show since the beginning but since the last episode this show has kicked it up a notch. Definitely having more of the back story of Makoto and him being tied to Takeru helps and that what happened to him ties back to Takeru's father and Saionji is interesting. I can't tell if Saionji is spinning the truth of the story that Ryu was actually the one trying to stop Saionji from conducting the experiment, though The Ghost teams base isn't really safe when both Makoto and Saionji both know about it lol. I actually wouldn't be surprised if somehow Saionji ended up being Necrom but I still think it will be Alan. I can't believe that all 15 eyecons are already here in the first 10 episodes, man I can't wait to see where this goes from here. I still love the Billy the Kid Damashii a lot because of it's colors and the guns. Also I love the Bat Clock and Spider-Lantern they are really useful devices. I definitely feel Yurusen's line isn't throwaway either it happened with Makoto or it's going to happen with one of them. Also it was fun to see the Iguana Ghostriker again, the CGI does get better so far, though I definitely feel we won't see it again for a while. Anyways I can't wait for more.

I really liked this episode. It feels like Ghost is starting to properly click with me. It's still far from the best Rider show I've ever seen, but I'm feeling more attachment towards the cast (Akari's awful pantsuit notwithstanding) and it feels like I'm starting to get invested in the story.