This week's Try went EXACTLY how I thought it went down. I've made my complaints about this show very clear by now so I'll just say I was underwhelmed.

I got panicky during the end credits because I realised that with only 4 teams left (Try Fighters, Build Busters, Gunpla Academy and Lucas Nemesis) that Try Fighters might not even end up fighting Build Busters in the tourney. Then the preview surprised me by having the next ep be the Academy vs Lucas.

Interesting twist, but now the show's either built up a rivalry thats not going to be settled in the tournament or introduced a strong character for no real reason.

Yet Lucas has been such a non character so far that I find it insanely hard to care about anything involving him. The original series was crafted so that Sei/Reiji fought EVERYONE that mattered in the show. Try on the other hand has now written itself into a corner in that regard.

Better than last week's episode that's for sure. We finally get a shining finger reference our of build burning. Next week looks interesting but also really predictable. The Gunpla academy is going to have a hard time up to the end of the episode and then in the episode after they rally and beat lucas. Insert moral here and we're done

So Sekai's new technique allows him to make his own Sentai team eh?

Kamiki Sentai TryBurnninger

I don't think the Academy will win. I think Lucas will. If he doesn't, THEN it makes no sense whatsoever and then I'll admit he was poorly written.

So theory: Build Burning has an Arista Gem built into it. The abdomen had that circle that shined the most.

That could be cool. Though that would beg the question of where it came from. Unless Sei managed to recover a fragment 7 years ago.

Yeah, the thing about Build FIghters is that they never show the same fight twice.

I guess. But even if you take Build Burning vs Transient into account that still leaves Yuuma's grudge against Saga unresolved and Shia/Portent having never fought the Try Fighters.

This is all theoretically staying within the confines of the tournament, but with only five episodes left the show is running out of time to move outside of that. Especially since it's stretched a fair few fights into two episodes so far.