I didn't know Triumphant arms was that OP to the point where he defeated 3 Watermelon lockseeds, and that was just him using his flags....

Hey she got a new Peach lockseed. Coolio. And Michhy continues to be an ass. Boy did he take a plunge into the dark side.

So the Sid Lockseed just combines stuff? Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Well overall, I thought it was a pretty good episode. Some nice moments with Michhy, some kick ass fighting, and some movement in the story. Pretty good if you ask me.

Oh and one more thing, that song that played during the fight, fucking awesome!

Indeed it was.
However, his introduction showed him wrecking regular Inves by himself, no problem. Then Zack seemed to get his ass kicked by a single common Inves and required the help of Micchy to defeat it.. while Micchy literally kills a common Inves without even using his Sengoku Driver finisher.

I wasn't arguing the consistency of the series, just Den-O ranks this episode higher than the Knuckle introduction but for my tastes I'd disagree. The Knuckle episode was fun, this was boring.

Knuckle may have been cool. But I hardly see how this episode was worse than that one. I'll take good dialogue, mysterious new villains, and a great battle any day over that disappointing dance off nonsense. I just don't see how this week was apparently a "bad" episode.

"Good dialogue"? Each to their own I suppose. Scenes like Kaito talking to Mai were boring, empty and pretentious in my books. Mai is so superfluous to the show that every scene she's in sends me to sleep, especially the love dodecahedron they are half hearted trying to shove into the show to give her character something to do.

And Kaito, bless him, has kinda become utterly pointless as well. He's completely detached from the core story, despite their best efforts to make him look like he's driving it and with only two Arms Change lock seeds - both of which SUCK - he's probably the most boring fighter in the show too. He reminds me a lot of Renji from Bleach, how as soon as he stopped being the rival for the hero he just spent the rest of the manga being kicked around the floor.

For such a large cast, there honestly is surprising amount of baggage of characters which were never really that important and are now almost completely forgotten. I mean remember how the Butcher said Gridon was the best Rider? I forgot he existed until the previews for next week.

Admittedly the new villains are well designed, but this shows action does nothing for me, so I got more out of the Green Overlord than I did the Red one.

It wasn't bad, just boring, but as the charts don't account for that I just voted for the lowest option on the poll.

I like the show's action, but this episode's fight sucked.

There was no good dialogue this episode, and the new villains aren't mysterious. They're just canned enigmatic "coo-guys' who are SO TOTALLY UNPREDICTABLE AND BADASS NOT-TO-BE-MESSED-WITH because they're "bored" and view fighting as entertainment.

What savages. :rolleyes Not "we want to consume your world to sustain ours" not "we need to take over your world to return us to normal" just "we're bored, want toy."

UGH.

So that you don't forget her, for several reasons :
1. Micchy love interest, and the very trigger to have him definitely go after Kouta
2. Mai blonde doppelganger.
3. The sacred tree and the family of priests.

It's more important to have her around for plot sake, than lets' say Gridon or Bravo, even if it's absolutely fun (and necessary) to have them for comedy.

Looking at the translation...I can agree. You never know though, they could receive more development, This is after all, only the second episode either of them shows up in.

Haven't seen the episode yet, but isn't the real villain just the forest itself? Sagara even said in twenty three that they were lazy rulers that don't care about conquering Earth. More than likely they were the Barons of their world who fucked up by doing nothing but wanting to achieve more power. And now that they have, all they're left with is nothing.

Maybe if Sagara IS from the current world Helheim has taken over, this is why he's so impressed with Kouta for having a reason to fight that isn't selfish.