Good episode, although nothing in it surprised me really.

One thing I will criticise is that Sentou is wrong when he only lists OctopusLight as a reason for when Blood Stalk was surprised by a Best Match. I'm pretty sure with him having the Rocket-one prior he didn't know about RocketPanda either.

Which in hindsight makes sense since he kicked Stalk's butt with it, but he didn't mention doing so.

That's it for me really, the episode was great, everything fell into place like I was expecting it to and I had fun watching it. The chemistry between Build and Cross-Z in this one was fantastic too.

Random thought: The Cross-Z suit is gorgeous (like, just watch the scene where he prepares his finisher and how the light runs over the suit, so good) and I will be pissed when they forcefully retire it for the stupid Jelly-one.

That MIGHT be a slight mistranslation, Stalk goes "Octopus?" meaning he didn't know that such a Fullbottle exists, as Sento purified it against Misora's wishes. Speaking of Misora, she REALLY fucked me up. She knew. She knew this whole time. I hope they don't axe Stalk/Shouchi off because there's multiple questions. What's his goal? We know it involves getting the box and panel, but it also involves making the Riders stronger, and last episode he yelled "Faust doesn't belong to you!" at Rogue. That, the fact he's using Blood Stalk's tech as it was intended (a rival to help Build grow stronger), the fact he showed he can change people's faces and how he's been helping Sento implies he has ties to Katsuragi

I don't know what you're talking about but I meant the combat aspect. Sentou arranging the battle to test OctopusLight against Blood Stalk definitely isn't a mistranslation.

And he uses that (Blood Stalk being unable to predict OctopusLight's combat abilities) as an argument yet the writers failed to mention that RocketPanda working as well as it did could've been a clue too since Blood Stalk couldn't know how that Best Match would work out either.

It's just a slight oversight that I found worth mentioning since it would've been an easy and smart thing to do.

Please forgive me I wasn't awake for very long after posting that, meant mistake

Don't worry about it, I probably should've worded my post better anyways.

It's more about the unknown power attached to the Best Match than just the form being a Best Match by itself.

Here's what I don't understand, a few episodes ago Isurugi took a tablet and literally twisted it into a back scratcher. No bottle. But he's Stalk? I'm confused as to the extent of his powers both in and out of suit.

Also, there's no actual proof that Misora wasn't just as clueless as Sento. Of course I could just be trying to protect my idea of Misora.

I'm also really mystified by why Faust even exists as an organization. I mean, you took the Pandora Box in order to keep it from the government, but you're working for the government?

A theory's going around the real Shouchi died and that this is an imposter from Mars, but eh

As someone who bombed through the last 7 episodes just today, I think I get it. Faust is run by members of the government, but is seperate from them, and also evil. Basically, anything they do is unconnected (officially) to the government, by virtue of them being evil science inc. They stole the box to push Seito and Hokuto into a panic, which would force the actual government to stop being so pacifistic, meaning they'd be looking to buy weapons from Namba, which co-runs Faust.

I now understand why Obi-Wan wasn't brave enough for politics.

That would make about as much sense as anything.

Heh, no joke. I suppose if you were trying to instigate the other powers into giving up their hands so you could run in under the guise of being the pacifist, it would be a good cover for dominance.

I also have to wonder if there's a formula for this plot that was worked out like (sqrt N/F cos SH)Build*CrossZ. The writing seems just geeky enough for that to be a thing.

something ive noticed is that trust is something that is unwise here. Each person that build has trusted except ryuga and girl betray him at some point

also the question ive got is what will happen to their base can they keep using it as its know to the other side