'Course the silly part is they're trying to pass off Newton as super science man only concerned with cold hard facts when he was actually pretty religious, and never used his scientific findings to try to disprove spirituality or anything.

Ghost never actually studied history is what I'm saying.

I mean...they used Newton as a stand-in for Houdini in like episode 9. Maybe they still have them mixed up...

Nice, I'm not the only one who noticed that :lol

Yeah the Newton stuff was complete bullocks, but Japanese children won’t care.

Also, I'm still baffled how the Eyecons are now able to talk and have personalities of their own when in the first 10+ episodes they did absolutely nothing. I welcome the change but I think they should’ve cut the number of Eyecons down significantly but give each more time in the spotlight in return and make them actual characters.

But of course you sell less toys that way so it's not an option I guess.

@Topic: The episode was decent, nothing good though. The whole Specter being Necrom’s puppet thing seems to really go the way of taking 3-5 episodes until Takeru gains Grateful Soul, and I hate that. It’s so unnecessary. You can have the same pay off without taking Specter out of the game for so long.

Sanzo Damashii looks decent, but just like with every other Ghost Rider I feel like the base forms look the best and everything else is just meh. They certainly don’t mix as well as the Gaim Riders did. I mean they had some combinations that didn’t really work either too, but the alternate forms designed for each Rider looked a lot better than the Ghost stuff.

And the whole conflict between the Eyecons-thing was a neat idea, but it didn’t work at all for reasons stated in the quoted comment above.

Also, I'm pretty sure with 15 Eyecons already known you would have a lot more conflict between them, not only those two. Just saying.

I think you're making that assumption based on the lines that were drawn between the Akari, Onari, and the two Eyecons. The fact is, Newton himself only expressed a kind of a timid disbelief of something he did not understand, and Himiko only suggested that he did not agree with her own beliefs. Akari was the one who jumped to conclusions, claiming the reason behind Newton's reaction was that he was a man of science and hard facts, who couldn't handle Himiko's mysticism. I think she was misunderstood, and the more likely reason for his rejection of Himiko was because of exactly what you yourself stated: he was a religious man. He did not agree with Himiko's practices because of his own religious beliefs, not because he was exactly like Akari. In the end, his trial was to realize their differences in practice were irrelevant in the name of solving a problem.

Newton and Himiko make a funny combo. It's also pretty funny how they're being released together in a GC set.

@Kiwami: honestly I feel like the Necrom Specter deal is more about Alain himself and less about setting Takeru up for his upgrade. It could still be doing that, but it's looking like it's being set up to teach Alain the value of inidviduality/that controlling people is bad/the true meaning of friendship. Plus it's giving Kanon something to do so I'm not complaining. I guess it's all things you could do without Makoto getting hijacked for a handful of episodes, but I don't personally mind it.

@RollOut: You have a point. I considered that angle, but there's Himiko's line of "I believe in the potential of the human soul, which he does not agree with" (or something among those lines). Whatever Newton's religious beliefs, that doesn't sound like the thing that would drive a wedge between them. That line in particular seemed to paint the conflict in a science vs. spirituality light. Not to mention that Newton had some pretty eccentric beliefs himself, so I don't know if he would be so uncomfortable with Himiko anyway.

Not that I really know a ton about the subject, just what I gather from skimming Wikipedia.