Okay after episode 8 my biggest question is: How is Zero so freaking cool?! He just emits this aura of awesomeness lol. Also, episodes 7 and 8 were brilliant.

Weeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllll, when your dad is Ultraseven and your teacher is Leo who makes you train with armor on that reduces your performance from that of a grizzly to a guppy and your debut was a full-length movie where you pulverized one of the most sinister villains ever... the math cannot help but add up. :)
Oh and one of your host was DAIGO.

Well that had to be one of the longest henshin sequences ever for Zero to get to Beyond. You know in those Gavan transformations where it takes a second but they replay to show the whole thing in slow motion? Yeah, I wish they had sped it up to .2 seconds for this one.

Still a really good episode, and I keep enjoying watching each week.

I was sort of expecting them to follow up the big, serious two-parter with something a little more light, but this was as about as serious as serious gets. Definitely not a bad thing though, as this episode was great.

Also Zero might be my favorite part of the show now? I'm starting to get creeped out here. He didn't even DO anything this week besides say some cool lines. I was so sure I didn't like him too...

Caught up with episodes 7 and 8 today after falling a little behind. Oh man, that Zero Beyond transformation... that is one of the longest toy demo... er, "henshins" I've ever seen. I really hope this isn't a regular thing. The episodes themselves were really, really good, though. I especially liked the confrontation between Zero and Kei, which was all kinds of awesome.

I also noticed something. With her getting more screentime in these episodes, it really started to bug me how familiar Rumina, Leito's wife, looks. I did some quick Wiki-ing and it turns out she's played by Hitomi Hasebe, who also played Mizuki on Ultraman Max. So nice to see a Max veteran on Ultraman again.

So apparently Leito's actor can also B-boy. *mind blown* And then I learned that he is part of Gekidan EXILE so........... I guess that explains it? Also he is co-workers with Kiriya/Lazer.*mind blown again*

That's kind of surprising...yet at the same time not really. He's barely in his thirties and, I mean, have you seen what he looks like without the glasses? Not to mention the picture the wiki's using for him. Its a shame things didn't work out so he and Hayato Onozuka, Kiriya's actor, where on their respective shows at the same time though. It would have made for a really funny picture or two.

I think the "say what" moment came when I saw him bust a move but after I learned he is affiliated with EXILE as part of their acting department it made sense since EXILE is known for having dancing as one of their selling points and would not be surprised if their actors knew how to dance and sing since the foundation of EXILE is a music and dance group. And though the most we got outta Kiriya was his glorious roundhouse kick I kinda want to see him pull a few windmills, etc. :lolol

That happen at the beginning of the series when he went up against those thugs right? I had forgotten about that. The similarities to Ryotaro continue...