Another great episode, but excuse my rant here for a second as these constant break interruptions between episodes are getting very annoying. Why couldn't they choose to do these crossovers and breaks during a non-story driven Kamen Rider series? I don't want to wait until next week for the next episode as this show has already had enough stalls. JUST FINISH THE GOD DAMN SERIES ALREADY!!!! Take your stupid breaks before Drive premiers.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I'm going to laugh if Micchy's visions of insanity are actually caused by Takatora doing something to the belt before he was blown into the water. Maybe he attached something to it that is projecting himself through a holographic camera as he makes it seem like Bicchy is insane.

Can you really blame this particular break on the series, though? This time it's actually not the writer's/director's/whoever's fault that the plot has to wait an extra week, since they don't control the baseball league's schedule.

The craziest thing about Micchy is that he thinks Mai is of any value at all, she really is the Daisy of Gaim. In many ways she even outshines Daisy when it comes to vapid selfishness and that is impressive.

I woulda kinda like to see a big budget, three hour adaptation of Gaim - or a comic book adaptation - or an anime or SOMETHING at some point. It has a really great story, and set of characters, but its ideas are often much larger than its budget and I'd like to see some of the higher concept stuff realised some day. Ultimately though, with what we got, I found this pretty underwhelming.

Honestly, every Kamen Rider series could use a big budget overhaul.

She's not even that good looking either. But it's the character itself that brings her down. I honestly cringe a little every time she has a scene. The only purpose she serves is to make Micchy crazy and present some slight love interest for Kaito and Kouta. Outside of that she contributes nothing in my opinion.

As Power said, a lot of KRs could work well as a big budgeted film epic. Gaim for sure is one and I'd say something like Ryuki, Blade, Kabuto, and Agito could work in that format as well.

I know, come on Micchy, you can have any girl on the planet and you pick Mai? Why not at least pick a model or a movie star or something? She isn't even a nice person, and it's annoying to see everyone following her around in pools of drool.

I dunno, I just think Gaim feels especially cheap and clunky compared to a lot of Rider. I'd say the only show worse off was Blade, but at least Blade had really good physical combat. If you could provide the physical side of Blade with the light show of Gaim it's be SWEET.

Well he is a teenager. They do tend to just go after girls as long as they consider them attractive. If he sees anything deep in her, then he really is crazy.

Not so sure on the cheap aspect but it is a bit clunky. A movie could probably streamline the story a bit more and present it as a nice compact package. Plus as you said, the bigger budget could help it. A lot of the movies look really good from a quality and shooting perspective.

No kidding. Mai is a complete and total waste of flesh. I have absoluteey no idea what the point of her even is, and she always seems pouty and pitiful.

Also shout out to Bigby. Fuckin' sweet!

"He is a teenager" isn't really an excuse, not that you're excusing.

It sucks because his fixation on Mai is kind of the driving point, so with her so useless (oh boy I sure do love female characters that exist merely as props for the male characters) he seems utterly unsympathetic in every way.

It's like she's straight out of one of the early Romero Dead movies.

The heart and/or dick wants what the heart and/or dick wants.

The only positive I can say about Mai is at least she doesn't just sit in the background and do nothing like Koyomi. She may be useless, but she is active in her uselessness.

She dances...that's about it. Unless we're counting that as providing morale for the troops I wouldn't say plays an active role in anything.

Let's not insult actual dancers by calling what she does "dancing."

I think Mai is cute.

Hey, jumping in a circle and waving your arms takes skill. Ones of people are slightly injured in hopping/arm waving accidents every year.

At least Mai doesn't annoy the shit out of me. Like another token girl from a very dark Kamen Rider series

*Scolds Yui Kanzaki*

*Scolding intensifies*

Great episode featuring most of the cast fighting. I loved Knuckle Watermelon Arms that was badass. Also I hope Gridon and Bravo live through those Inves hoards. Still Micchy wasn't as bad this episode he's become better as a villain and Ryouma is still a scheming bastard I don't trust.

Yeaaaah, even Double suffered from having pretty terrible CGI.

It'd figure that Ryouma's Lemon Energy would have special add ons, he definitely likes keeping the good stuff for himself. Overall plenty of good fights going on this episode.

So, shouldn't the thread for the next episode be up now? It's coming out in 2 days.

Maybe. There's still a chance that it may be pre-empted for baseball.

Wasn't that last week? The preview said Gaim would be back on the 10th.