Holy shit Takatora...talk about putting your faith in the wrong people. And man Micchy is a selfish shithead. I like how he thought that Kouta makes everything worse just because he convinced Takatora of a way to save the world that doesn't involve letting a shitload of people die. He even put his personal goals ahead of his own brother's life.

That betaryal scene was pretty intense too. Hopefully, if Takatora survives, it'll mark the return of old school Zangetsu. If he returns with a power up, I bett he other ebergy riders would shit their pants though, haha. Glad Kouta finally got a job too. Bandou's the man. I like how pissed he was during his fight too. Glad they took a break from the standard Kachidoki' style fights.

Kaitou is starting to get likeable now that the show's revealing more about his sense of honor. Or...maybe just because he wants to be the one to take down Micchy.

Abd I definitely didn't see the ending with sid coming. Hopefully this marks a return to Sid being threatening again.

Damn that episode was pretty freaking sweet, a lot of good acting to with everyone in the betrayal scene. Loved the nice fake out Marika acting like she was gonna help Takatora and then going into her on assault on him.

Also with how Micchy acted and how cold he was towards the whole thing has pretty much shattered any chance of him being redeemed ever in my point of view. I just hope Kouta learns of how double sided Micchy is soon.

So who looks forward to Micchy (hopefully) getting shitstomped by Kota or anyone else for that matter later on?

Excellent episode, but I am sick to death of Bicchy. They need to reveal his true self to Kouta and gang right now as this is getting a little tiresome.

But he didn't do much harm yet.
I mean everybody are waiting for the ultimate suffering to happen at the end...

I've been calling for the little bastards horrific and painful death ever since he first hinted at his seedy tendencies! :lol

I did always like my grapes seedless...

In this case they've gone sour. Time to crush them grapes.

In my opinion Michhy has become raisins. Dry and shriveled up, while still good to eat, are nothing in comparison to the full fruitiness of a plump grape.

I'll notify the village women of the Old Country to ready their feet and giant stomping bucket.

Where's my cranberry rider god damnit!

I guess. :lol (I'm like 3 episodes behind, so...I don't know how sour he got. :lol I plan to catch up this weekend, though.)

No! Takatora! You didn't deserve that...

Although I have a theory. Not a good one, but a theory.

We've seen the riders store their drivers under their jackets before. He may have been carrying around his Sengoku Driver and his Melon Lockseed, just in case his Genesis Driver was damaged (I would, but I'm paranoid). We know Hellheim can work on Cartoon Physics (Gaim and his bike), so he may have been able to survive, his suit taking the fall. This may explain why the original suit is still in the opening.

Welp, for an episode being marketed as a betraying of Zangetsu it sure didn't let us down. Betrayed by his closest comrades and his brother, poor Takatora didn't see any of that coming. And sadly since he kept a lot of his recent enlightenments about the situation to himself, no one will be the the wiser to the scheme of Ryouma and Mitchy. If I've learned anything from fiction though, is that falling of a cliff wiht no signs of a visable death and or corpse means they probably survived. So I eagerly await the return of the Hawktiger.

Continuing the theme of betrayal, Mitchy once again attacks Kouta but this time parading around as the stolen Shin Zangetsu. He gets to make an attempt on Kouta's life and his brother will take all of the blame, fantastic. I really hope Kouta wipes the floor with him and takes the Melon Energy Lockseed to and gives him Jimba Melon beatdown. Though the big surprise of them week is that Sid had been waiting for Takatora to be about of the picture to stab Yggdrasil in the back. Should be interesting to see how things go now they no longer have free access to Helheim.

Edit: Forgot to mention, yay for Bandou handing Kouta a job on a silver platter. Now if only I was one good terms with a shop owner like that that :lol. And nice to finally see the Duke Henshin