Pretty good episode, but overall, the Sento's dad plotline seems kinda pointless. You could have moved this back to the debut of Genius, and nothing much would have changed. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - it's still been a good set of episodes rather than an amazing, like some of Build has been, but it feels like a little bit of filler. If it plays into the finale, I'll take that back though.

I would actually argue that moving this plotline to the Genius debut would've been better, actually. To be honest, the debut of Build Genius Form wasn't as impactful as it should've been, and doing this type of thing (maybe not bringing his dad back, but Sento just figuring out his father's secret plan to defeat Evolt & his sacrifices to make it possible) would have improved the hype for its introduction.

This was a pretty decently good Episode. Probably the Episode that stops this current bad Episode trend we've been having lately in Build. I honestly can't think of any major issues with this one, except for just my issue with Evolt's alien form being his Final Form & not Black Hole. Why would his true form be stronger than him in an enhancement suit?

CG looks significantly better. Same happened with Ex-Aid right? They finish the movie and put the rest of the budget into the show

While it sounds stupid, it's a japanese thing kinda.

But usually they do that with the main hero of a shonen. The kind of situation where the protag is too tired/damaged/power stolen to continue, but in a last ditch of effort can overcome a superior opponent even in this state.

It's kinda funny they're doing it with a vilain though. The only one that comes to mind with a similar (but not identical) situation is Kid Buu in DBZ.

I feel like this episode was a step up in quality probably because they've actually raised the stakes again.

So far we've had some hints of how terrifying Evol can be, but they've been completely buried under the tedium of seeing him just sit around while the riders all got stronger or him suddenly saying that he planed it all along somehow and he could totally destroy the world if he wanted to.

But now, I actually believe him. The dude just casually warped to another planet and effectively annihilated it for shits and giggles, had the riders not separated him from the black panel, he could've literally ended the entire show in this very episode.

It's this really weird "Original > Final" thing where the prototype is better than the current model for some reason.

In Gundam Wing, when the five scientist develop the Wing-0, they noticed that the overall output of the machine was too strong, so they stopped and made the Gundam Wing instead.

Or Ultraman Orb, where his Orb Origin form is stronger than any of his fusion rises.

In fact we've actually seen this in kamen rider too. In Ex-Aid the Proto Gashats were stronger than the normal ones, but had almost no safety limits to protect the user whatsoever. So the normal versions were made and given to the four riders.

Nothing much to add except that when Evolt truly lose, he makes Helheim look like a weed.

By the way, this episode seems to be the setup for the movie.

What happened to Vernage? Was she forgotten? Is she going to be useful again? This episode was a return to form for Build but I fear that its too little, too late.

Anyways, can't wait for Zi-O!

Honestly it's been a while since I've seen a bad guy just do that so casually

I was expecting Sento to be sort of a basket case after watching billions of people be murdered so casually,..he actually handled that really well.

I can't believe Evolt destroyed Kouta's planet from Gaim! Okay, probably not, but that was my first reaction to seeing it.

Cool episode, loved it when they Rider kicked Evolt so hard that they literally kicked the black panel out of him. Kazumin is so going to die though, his death flags are way too strong to avoid, movie be damned. My only nitpick is that I wish they made a palette swap suit for Sento when he used Genius and the Hazard Trigger together.

Depend on the size of the planet, but seriously I think Helheim / Sagara can too if he decide to full Ego on the universe. Also, I hate that villains are clearly so powerful that there's no way riders in a weaker form can take so many hits likes the Civilian form taking hits from the motw.