I'm not sure yet. I do like seeing things not get drawn out with tons of padding like early Drive and all of its pointless Chaser fights, but at the same time the show does feel rushed in places. I think I generally prefer overly busy episodes to slow ones.

This was a fantastic episode. I really loved seeing Arisa from UltraMan Ginga S again she played a great role as Little John here and I loved her chemistry with Takeru they both got along really well together. Akari has really grown here, she's less annoying and more useful trying to figure what Takeru's Dad's research and finding out how to see Ghosts which was awesome. I enjoy Onari he's a lot of fun and very helpful at the end I think he'll feel more useful later on and not go too crazy like he did this episode. I really enjoyed Takeru saving Little John from the Ganma from having her life stolen that was great how he can save lives. The Robin Hood Damashii is freaking badass, I hope to see it more in action though, Ghost's fights right now are kind of lacking right now but I think Spectre and hopefully the Ganma next episode will help give it something better. Well I can't wait for more I love this show a lot right now.

I finally got around to watching this episode.

Ugh, the cast is so obnoxious. I really can't stand any of the characters. There's no charm or wit to any of them.

I'm getting worried about this series. On the "stuff I like" side, I enjoyed that Akari finally got to do something other than shrilly deny everything happening around her. I enjoyed that - thank goodness! - this wasn't a two-parter.

My "stuff I didn't like" list is way longer, though. So far, we haven't seen enough of the master villains to be interested in them, and the monsters-of-the-week might have nice designs, but they're boring and generic. They're actually less interesting than MotWs in Sentai. Onari is borderline-unwatchably annoying, and Yurusen is... not enhancing episodes for me, so far. I almost kinda like Sennin, although this episode made me doubt that a bit.

Several people have pointed out that this episode felt too rushed, and I agree up to a point, but it also felt too thin to have been stretched into a satisfying two-parter.

I'm guessing that, given that the Ghost theme has the potential to come across as dark, the showrunners have been trying really, really hard to adopt a light tone. They've succeeded - a cast mostly comprised of comic relief characters, the driver's standby tune, the peppy theme song that seems more appropriate to OOO or Fourze - but I think they've gone too far in that direction. This feels more like Sentai than Kamen Rider. (And I say that as someone who enjoys Sentai.)

I was lukewarm on Robin Damashii despite that I really kinda dig the condor phone. Actually, that I'm not more excited about the hoodies makes Gaim's use of fruit arms seem brilliant: they didn't have to spend an entire episode explaining what's unique about strawberries or mangoes.

Here's hoping next week gives me a little more to be optimistic about. (I'm watching with a friend who's usually only available about a week after episodes air, so I'm probably going to be essentially a week behind forever.)

This is the exact issue I'm having with Ghost. If they could somehow give every story an episode and a half then the pacing would be perfect.

So when Akari was on the computer in Takeru's lab, was the background music chanting "Ave?"

I don't know. I'd have to check it. But it may have.