Enjoy watching cute girls sell their souls to fight mind-raping Lovecraftian nightmares made of suffering and grief.

And the blonde one gets decapitated by a Craig McCracken fever dream.

Hmm, I guess it isn't for me, then...

I just assumed Ryouma used the data he got from Kaito and merely created replicas of the Overlords' weapons. The Rider weapons really aren't that different from how any other lockseed would work, although the fact that he utilized both of Micchy's weapons makes me think these is a recent creation of his and he made it specifically for Ryugen.

It's even possible he got the idea after seeing Kiwami in action.

Don't listen to Gosei. He's acting crazier then usual today.

Oh? Well okay then!

Trust Losondro. He's an engineer.

This episode actually made a tear come from my eye. I like what mitsuzane's doing this stuff for but he's gone a bit psycho shit crazy

Well, I tried to warn you.

So, I guess you guys could say that Sagara really puts the Hel in Helheim huh?

I loved this episode but not for the reasons any of you did, or for any of the reasons you hated it.

Pure and simple, this was Micchy's swan song episode. No matter what happens to him the rest of the series, this episode is his. From his incredibly emotional speech to Mai, stressing that he can't even remember what he was fighting for, to his inner conscious dialogue in the form of his dead brother Takatora, everything about this episode was basically a "Micchy has feels" episode to set up his finale, which is the next episode.

The entire arch of Micchy started from the very first episode of when he got the belt to impress Mai, and has led him all the way to this point, where he's willing to die in order to protect her (even if his idea of protection is perverted with his own narcissism).

There's even some subplot with Kaito - him realizing that he's dying and there's nothing he can do. So either he will die without seeing his dream come true, or he will make his dream come true before he dies.

Polar opposites.

Micchy is going to die from his own actions.
Kaito is going to die from actions of another.

And this episode showcased both of their own dialogues realizing such a thing. But previews for next episode, translated, make it seem like Micchy is overwhelmed with emotion when Kouta forgives him as he rips the Yomi Lock Seed from his Sengoku Driver. And you can't forget that in the final episode image leaks that Ryugen is seen standing next to Jam.

And FWIW ... Going to say Ryouma is Jam and the Lock Seed is Sagura. Gaim will have to destroy the embodiment of Helheim being used by the one person who wants the power to recreate the world in his image.

Serious shit!

Well, this was a damn good episode, if a little short on action.

Now all I'm hoping for is for Overlord! Kaito to not get an anti-climatic death like Deemushu, Agent Peacock and Grinsha.

Although at least Roshuo didn't go out anti-climatically, given that he wasn't even killed in outright combat, even when Kiwami Arms gets busted out. I mean, that can be summed up as going like this.

Kouta: Oh yeah! Kiwami Arms up in this bitch! I'm gonna cleave your asshole in two!
Roshuo: Nigga please.

*Cue Roshuo destroying the Kachidoki lockseed so hard that Kouta's ancestors could feel it*

So Micchy's gonna die next episode most likely. Anyone one wondering if he'll truly show regret for his actions?

Here's the thing with Micchy.

He believes himself to be the ultimate manipulator, but in doing so, he ends up being easily manipulated. He tried to manipulate Kouta in to quitting his fight against Yggdrasill and the Overlords and failed both times. He tried to manipulate Redue in to serving him but instead played in to Redue's hands with destroying Takatora and nearly destroying Kaito and Kouta. Then, in an effort to manipulate Roshuo in to protecting Mai, he ends up endangering her by the Golden Fruit being placed inside of her, and then Roshuo AND Redue are both destroyed by Kouta.

His realization that every single manipulation tactic has not only failed but backfired, and now Mai has the Golden Fruit and he believes from Ryouma (the only man who MIGHT know what's going on) that it's killing her, he's desperately now trying to right all his wrongs.

He's a man at the absolute end of his ropes. His monologue to Mai perfectly symbolized that. "Why can't I remember your smile? What was I fighting for?" If there's anything that resembles a mental breakdown, it's Micchy using a Lock Seed guaranteeing his own death to protect the only person he cares about more than himself.

Obviously it's another plan that will backfire - leaving her in the hands of Ryouma to destroy Kouta thinking Kouta will destroy Mai will end up in Mai being harmed by Ryouma, and Micchy dying for nothing in the end.

And Takatora is hereby named Trollatora.

It's why I both loved and hated this episode. I was content hating Micchy. I wanted him dead, I wanted him painfully dead. And then this happened. Watching him suffer his breakdown at Mai's bedside broke me, it brought me to honest-to-goodness tears. And I was pulling for him not to use Hell Fruit. I knew it'd happen, but I hoped.

And that's what I love about Gaim. Right there. It doesn't give you what you think, but in the end it ends up giving you what you never knew you needed.

The writing is going to be the one thing I truely miss about this show. Because it's been perfect the whole way through.

He can join Trollsei.

Micchy started out as someone who wanted to get out of the shadow of others, including his brother, his presumed life of having to be a pinnacle for others by being the best at everything. He's rebelled against everything he's been told to do over and over again. All so that he could prove himself to everyone, particularly Mai. Each individual, his brother, the girl he loves, his friends, all have been squashed by his own desire for this proof.

However, his character went so far out of bounds, it's hard to even feel any apathy toward his want of self destruction. He's gone full Anakin. To be honest, I don't hate him as a character. He's just been fully scripted as this morally broken character that will have a truly tragic downfall. Maybe Sid's own death (and even Redue to an extent) was a foreshadowing that madness truly leads to destruction.

So Sagara is basically the snake in the Garden of Eden? And is thus Helheim itself? And he's doing this for the sake of evolution? That's, that's, that's some mindfuckery.

No, what's really messed up is how loud his shirts were in the beginning of the series. It was a crime against nature.

That's the thing that's making me turn around on Miichi.

Yeah he's a back stabbing sonofabitch sour grapes, but for all of his intrecrate planning and snaking around, he never really stops to think about the long term consequences.

That's Urobutchi for you.

OMG!!! We watched 41 and 42 tonight. I WANT THE REST NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, hand me a phone because I called all of this like 35 weeks ago. Mai was going to be Eve and Sagara was the snake that tricked her.

Dayum. Didn't expect Sagara to be an avatar for Helheim itself. Suddenly "HELLO ZAWAME CITY~!" is really ominous in retrospect. The Yomotsuheguri Arms takes the best aspects of Ryugen's two designs and combines into a rather evil looking form. I kinda wish there had been more to than Ryouma saying "I kept this one to myself becuz it could kill you.", but it makes sense with when him being the designer of the Drivers.