If I hadn't watched Blade, I would have no idea that this wasn't an original plot. That's sarcasm on my part.

I think this is one of those few episodes where the exposition is so thick they have to have one to further deploy the drama parachutes. They need to compound Mitsuzane's Wile Coyote I'm gonna catch Kouta because I'm Krazy for Kouta mindset, Kouta's I'm gonna save them all even though I don't have a clue character, Mai's I wanna keep dancing because my town is a s#@!#hole otherwise delusions, Kaito's irritating 'I wanna have powah but even though Kouta has the cool silver armor and gun and stuff I still want powah' nonsense, and Ryoumas' my research is more important than actual fact blustering. The only one that actually made sense was plot deployment Oren, and that's saying something.

Oh, and ultimately, I'm guessing one of the writers writes a lot of doujinshi because the whole Mai/Kaito and Minato/Kaito triangle of whatever is way too overcomplicated. That's why.....that's why......

I still think as a moving ahead thing, the episode was okay, but I have to agree with a lot of you that this seems plodding by comparison.

I haven't seen a slope so slippery since Light Yagami got the Death Note.

blade i get but why assassins creed?

Kouta's sister is kind of horrible...

Hey, it's not like she got in a rocket ship and flew away while laughing dressed like a lemon.

The English speaking actor was incredibly over the top. Was he trying to act or did the director told him to over act? I never laugh this hard at over the top acting since Dungeons and Dragons.

The fact that all the fruits of legend are Helheim's fruit similar to Assassins Creed and Peices of Eden.

He apparently took lessons from the Rita Repulsa School of Acting :lol

That would have been hilarious, though.

She really is, its not like she didn't even know he was out there, she literately saw him henshined in the first or second episode. Her response was welp I'm out of here, seeya! *leaves a note on the floor rather than the table or door.* Also dear god the American and or British guy's acting was so bad it made me laugh.

He's likely a Japanese speaking citizen with English as a second language. Such a thing is not uncommon in Japan.

But Kikaider was a crossover. It shouldn't count. Much like the awful Toqger crossover, it's clearly removed from the show's main canon.

Also, "at least stuff happened" doesn't mean the epsiode wasn't awful.

"It's not the lowest common denominator" isn't an excuse for poor quality. Gaim is in the final stretch, shit has become corporeal and subject to consequence, and they spent an entire episode on pointless shit. Hell, you could argue nothing really did happen, since it was really minor and could've been put in the previous episode or next.

I do not like the idea of an Overlord of the week.

This wasn't the best episode we've had, no, but it wasn't the worst. But it did feel like a lot of it could have been condensed into half an episode and then end on, oh I don't know, revealing Micchy's identity to Kouta already damnit...

Cool things for next week: Gridon using Watermelon Arms. That's sure to be hilarious.

I know how the series will end

Bandou will make parfait for everyone using Helheim fruit

All will eat it unknowingly

Everyone becomes invess

The end

That English speaking politician guy is a hoot. I love when a Japanese-language series has an English speaker that sounds so incredibly unnatural. Like they were a tourist just plucked off the street and payed to do their role in one take. :lol

And what was that other European politician guy? German? Russian? Polish? Azerbaijani?

French.

That was French? It didn't sound like French.

Also, I want to see Micchy die. Painfully with an Energy Kagematsu jabbed through his fucking little throat.

Micchy is gonna survive the series. I swear, the kinds of reactions that he gets is just begging for him to survive :lol

Gen Urubuchi would be a serious troll if Miichi survives till the very end.

I swear, Kouta is gonna pull a Gentarou and keep his friendship with him despite the horrible things he's done :lol

Good episode. Peacock Overlord literally contributed nothing other then giving Micchy an excuse to live. And Bravo just shows up out of nowhere to give us our, "Hey, thus isn't the real Shin Zangetsu" plot.

I found that English speaking guy to be fine. It's just that he sounded ridiculously not-Australian.

I agree. :lol

We should ask Urobuchi about that :lol

And he wasn't supposed to be Australian. He was British. And as with most English speaking actors in Japanese toku, we overracted in a ridiculous manner.

That aside though it was fun to see the global implications of what's going on in Japan for once :lol

I had a feeling he was British, but everyone said Australian, so I just went along with it :lol

Do Americans really think that is what people from Australia sound like? I'm laughing to myself the whole time I'm writing this.

Even I know that Australians do not all sound like Mick Dundee. Nor do Kiwis from New Zealand sound like Gandalf. Sheesh, 'Murica.

On the flip side, my father in law who has a strong Tennessee accent took a customer service call from a person in London who told him they didn't like his accent because he sounded ignorant. Can't seem to please anyone.

Oh, and Mitsuzane is Leangle, so they're not even going to bother with an ending for him. He's just going to disappear into the background noise and that's going to be so infuriating to me because his character deserves Sid levels of squishiness.

This episode was great!! Micchy has gone crazy! Along having an alliance with the Peacock-like overlord! Bravo randomly coming out of nowhere!! I can't til Kouta realized that's Micchy is Zangestu Shin!! Too bad cause I gotta wait two flippin weeks! Curse you sporting events you have to make me wait two weeks.... but whatever I'm paient guy!

I laughed when the only person who knew that wasn't the real Takatora was Oren. I did.

And Micchi is still an asshole.

I don't know...

ComicGuy, when you read this, can you confirm or deny that all of you guys sound like that? We need to know.

Well that episode kicked a shit ton of ass.

I think a fitting end for Micchi would be a straight jacket.

"ORANGE! BANANA! MELON! I will control ALL the fruit samurai! You hear me? Not JUST the fruit samurai; I'll control you, too! I'll be king of the forest! You can't contain me! Everything is going according to plan!... Ha-ha. HA-HA. AHAHAHAHAHAA!"

One of those slow pan out shots where the doors of an insane asylum slam shut in front of the camera.

Maybe if he was just, like, a hyper-drunk Aussie.

Honestly it sounded like a mix between Aussie and Brit with a little bit of cow thrown in. I have no idea what he was, besides horrendous.

Wait, that guy was supposed to be Australian? I don't remember him mentioning a country and took it as an exaggeration of a British person... A really bad one, yes, but I didn't jump to Australia at all.

I guess because I'm English, and that the only English people in movies aren't actually English, I've learnt to spot an "English" character from a mile away. If it sounds nothing like someone from England, then you know they're supposed to be English.

:lol

I've heard real Australians talk before. I said it was totally not-Austrailian (meaning it almost is but not quite) because something was defintley off about that accent.

Honestly, I'm looking forward to Micchy dying a horrific and violent death.

So you're saying he would go fruity in the end?

*ducks*

I'd say the boy's mind has definitely been put through the blender.

*Holds up shield*

His sanity has been beaten to a pulp

*Runs into basement*