Switchblade calls her crazy, but I just think it's sweet that Yuuki has become so much more comfortable expressing herself after half a year of KRC adventures. Letting people be quirky is like the other 50% of why the club even exists!

Was just about Shun's dad being controlling, it's quite arranged marriage-like type for Shun being forced to date the Queen of the school, any Queen, as Shun ditches Miu when she seems to be not winning due to Tamae exposing what she does with the gifts. Shun realizing his actual feelings got to be a karma as he wouldn't get a second chance for what he did before, and perhaps, by the standards of netizens, he doesn't deserve that second chance. It was settled in Shun's two-parter back then where Shun going back to Miu was rejected, albeit it was Shun being the dad obedient snob self. Shun changing for the better still can mean that it's already too late for him.

About football, it seems that, this'd be only about school, but the moving on seems to be about if they got older and past their prime, thus can't perform as good as they're used to be. Here it's said that Miu's the one that accomplishes something that matters with KRC, but the episode itself says, it's Shun who feels that he accomplishes something that matters with KRC, after breaking free from his father's control, as he feels that doing good feels good, like what Gentaro said in ep. 8. I can feel that Miu, who performs some unarmed action right behind Gentaro and Shun, perhaps should be more athletic than JK, who frequently runs away, but JK lasted longer. Shun is called out at the end for being irresponsible to focus on the prom rather than the KRC job in monster attacks, and Miu is rightfully upset over that, but it can be also about Shun having faith in the members of KRC.

The cliffhanger would be bad for Shun, because it's stated that Miu wanted to ask Gentaro out, so Shun isn't on the equation. Like Shun's previous two parter again, Miu favors Gentaro since the fallout of ep. 4 by agreeing in how he's the manliest of the man as Shun dismissed him as a trash. And other than Miu, Gentaro also had Ritsuko and Tamae originally wanting to ask him for the prom. But it seems that even Gentaro can unintentionally offend others and strain his friendship with them, which I relate much, maybe doing that will have me burn bridges with many others. But Nomoto was one of more unlikable Zodiart and Gentaro wasn't shown to befriend him after his defeat, but here he's treated similarly like the previous sympathetic Zodiarts, in Ritsuko and Tamae.

I honestly never mind her? There're quirky characters in upcoming series that I find completely abrasive, but all of Yuuki's space fandom and foodroid designing is just real addictive energy. She's always there for her friends, and her biggest academic failing is a war against the Dewey decimal system. She's okay by me!

I mean, they both do! But it takes Shun a little longer to realize that he's no longer the guy who needs to "win" Miu.

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I guess there can be cases when someone's vice or what's usually seen as negative traits lead to them doing good or achieving good. For someone with a lot of ego/pride, it can lead to them trying hard to prove the value they see themselves as like how Miu won Queen by a legitimate hard work, and this extends to anything she feels proves Queen status, including KRC (saying it's Queen's responsibility to look after school). Other than popularity contests, it does can lead them to running full-tilt on anything including something they don't like. Other example of this instance (another ones with a lot of ego) is perhaps, Michinaga from Geats declaring he'd fix Ace's house in no time (not proven, but rather than like destroying his arch-enemy's house for pettiness), or for non-KR, Lightning McQueen in Cars 1 vowing to properly fix the Radiator Springs road (a place he dismissed) due to wound pride being mocked for his first lousy attempt.

Sure, but Miu's sort of teasing when she says stuff like that. She cares about the people put at risk by the Horoscopes, and she knows she can make a difference as the leader of the KRC. She is doing the right thing for the right reason!

For me a lot of it is that the Yuuki we get at the start of the show is not the one we have by the end and I liked that version a lot more. We haven't hit absolutely peak Yuuki yet, but she used to be a much more rounded character before her interest in space became a manic obsession.

Yup, most of the lukewarm-received shows seems to have characters whose acting feels off to fanbase, for Wizard next, but also Ghost, Saber, Zi-O (outside Woz), and Gotchard. Not for Saber, but most of these shows are also about two-parters, of which I wonder if the fanbase's criticism of those shows are actually misplaced, and what they don't enjoy was just the acting. Like dunno if there's anything worse for their 'plot' or two parters part compared to shows like OOO or Fourze here (like the Cygnus one).

This is what can happen if there are different writers. The show's two primary writers handled Yuki's personality in different ways. Kazuki Nakashima gives her the rounded character you talked about, while Riku Sanjou focused on the "ditzy space otaku" aspect of Yuki, flanderizing her.

School is certainly a place full of both friends and enemies. One contrast between Ryusei and Kijima is that Ryusei hides his true self around others, while Kijima is open about being a Horoscope and antagonizing his own faction, which is admittedly provoked by the insecure Hayami pulling rank. Wordplay being Kijima's penchant (TV-Nihon totally had a field day with this episode), he carefully chose his words to hurt Ryusei by comparing them as liars. Of course, Ryusei doesn't take any pleasure in his actions. He doesn't enjoy screwing around with people's feelings, he hates it, but he has a mission, a personal one, which he wants to accomplish no matter what. After the previous sign of him hesitating when Tomoko was used as shield, it's interesting to see him learn what moral limits he actually has, what lines he won't cross, what truly makes him different from the evil Kijima.

Even if Utsugi was a Zodiart, Gentarou would still try and befriend her, like he did for Miura and Motoyama. But yeah, Gentarou's persistence pretty much only works in a setting like school where people are forced to be in his proximity. He'd have a hard time befriending/redeeming any toxic internet people who have the power to ignore him.

Unfortunately, yeah, some people in the west have pretty contradictory ideas about morals. They can preach about how people should sacrifice what they want for the good of others, but they will seldom exercise that belief IRL. Besides, if everybody in the world thought like that, then nobody would actually benefit from sacrifice. The whole point of guys like Hongo taking the lonely path is so nobody else has to. That path chose him, so he wouldn't want people idolizing him like that. A world where everybody is selfless would totally suck.

I know right!

This dark joke would be much more applicable to Sudo from Ryuki.

Meteor's antenna is a comet tail, which gives the appearance of direction, so Meteor Storm having two opposing antennae is weird. Also, the left shoulder armor looks weird without the diagonal line to the waist. But those are only minor details that bother me. While I prefer regular Meteor, the color scheme of Storm is appropriate and executed much better than the terrible Beast Hyper.

What is the one drawback to Stronger?s enhanced Charge Up form?
A: He must disperse his excess electricity in 60 seconds, or he?ll blow up.
B: He needs to eat massive amounts of calories to power it.
C: The transformation slowly kills him.

What is the name of Tackle?s ultimate move that costs her life to use?
A: Ultra Cyclone :(
B: Hyper Tornado
C: Super Whirlwind

In the final episode, the Great Leader of Delza appears, revealing that he has been the mastermind behind every evil organisation the 7 Riders have faced over the past 5 years. But what else do they discover about him?
A: He?s an eyeball-esque alien
B: He?s a woman with a masculine sounding voice
C: He?s an evil version of Icihigou from the future.

Oh I get it, the answers are AAA, since Stronger is a living battery. Clever.

I noticed that as well. Personally, I agree with Switchblade about preferring the Nakashima version of Yuki. She's just the right amount of nerdy without being preposterous. Surprisingly, I prefer Akiko even more, who's written by Sanjo, but this could be a case of him having more control over his own characters than somebody else's. Yonemura is also infamous for this, as he exaggerates characters' remarkable traits to insane levels.

Hard to say! I can't speak for other people!

Ryuusei's story is basically identical to Gentarou's, which is what makes it work so well -- heroism means doing whatever you have to in order to protect your friends and let them smile -- it's just that Ryuusei's view of it is only focused on the friends he's made, instead of the friends he has yet to make. Ryuusei slowly remembering that he can apply his dedication to Jirou to the goofs in his life right this second is the heart of getting to connect with Meteor as an audience member.