Originally Posted by nitraion (Post 752030)

This is one of Memorable Episode of Zero one, the Fighting Scene is superb also I assume Shinning A. Hopper is far superior because don't have drawbacks...
and Yes all MBJ.Net and Daybreak incident is all His Plot
He litteraly use MBJ.net as a Tool

Originally Posted by zenstrive (Post 752084)

There is a rumor that Amatsu Gai and Hiden Aruto are both clones of Hiden's founder. So next arc would be about clonings and human enhancements.

Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich (Post 752032)

This is another episode directed by Shoujirou Nakazawa, which definitely shows in how crazy the fight between Zero-One and Jin gets. It's awesome.

The episode a whole I think left us on a pretty good note for the year. More than anything, I'm just happy my faith that Yuuya Takahashi isn't stupid enough to think he can pull a Lazer twice was rewarded. Although for all I know that's only because this episode didn't actually air on Christmas.

Either way, it's a much less depressing holiday season than in Ex-Aid, but just like that show, it feels like the definitive end of a chapter. Obviously Horobi is still going to be around in some capacity, and I kind of doubt we've heard the last of Jin, but they aren't driving the plot anymore. Instead, we've got a rival CEO bringing his 1000% obnoxious attitude to taking on Hiden Intelligence for... reasons, I guess.

Presumably his motivations will get fleshed out as we go along, but I have come around to the idea of Gai. His arrogance is sort of comical, but the fact that he's getting results makes it easy enough to take him seriously, and I'm all over the idea of the other CEO Rider who is also Aruto's evil mirror counterpart. It may be a source of (unintentional?) humor, but the absurd amount of cockiness he displays really drives home how little he thinks of people who aren't himself, in contrast with Aruto, a guy so humble and easy to get along with, he regularly thanks robots just for doing their job.

Originally Posted by VoidinToku (Post 752111)

So many finishers. I wished they don't keep freezing frame for every single finishers for dramatic effects. Kind of take you out. Jin out, Horobi awakes. Kind of the opposite from rumors and build up of making jin to be the special one. Well, he still got more rumors.

Originally Posted by Pineapple924 (Post 752144)

So it's revealed Zaia, or more specifically Gai was responsible for the Ark. Zaia was the company that created the Ark's AI, and Gai made it study criminal psychology and humanity's lust for war. Ultimately driving it into concluding that humanity must be destroyed, resulting in the Ark creating MetsuBoJinRai as a result.

While this does bring some credibility to Gai's cockiness for thinking he's smarter than everyone because he was apparently able to plan out the past 16 episodes. I doubt he'll be in control forever, and as such I'm actually interested to see how he reacts when it all goes south for Zaia.