Great episode! I've gone from Micchy being my favorite character, to hating him for being a betraying asshole, to loving him as a psycho villain, and now I feel sorry for him because he's realized where his path as taken him. I love his Hell Fruit form, it looks amazing and it's one of the best he's fought in the series. I don't trust Ryouma at all but I haven't for a while lol. I enjoyed Kaito and Yoko's talk, and I loved Zack, Jonouchi, and Oren's scene together those 3 are so fun. I feel bad for Kaito too. Also Sagara being the Forest is huge! I cannot wait for these next few episodes.

This episode is just setting up the finale. It was good though.

Kaito and Minato's talk was interesting, glad to see they didn't forget about his motivations. But man, did they not do ADR for that scene? The audio was awful.

So Sagara is Helheim. And Mai will become the Women of the Beginning. Intriguing.

Everything with Mitchi was pretty great. I kind of sympathize with him, since he finally realized he lost track of what he was fighting for.

Yomotsu Heguri was kind of disappointing IMO. Came out of nowhere.

So... the Yomutsuheareyoukiddingme Lock was the prototype of prototypes. Kinda makes me wonder how a Zangetsu Yomi would look... Still, Ryoma having it seems like something of an asspull considering it harnesses OVERLORD weapons, and he didn't even know about them until after the initial Driver testing... Ah well.

Unless we get some extra context in the next few episodes, which I really hope we do.

I teared up when he broke out the Yomu- you know what, Raisin Lockseed. I ain't typing all that out. I teared up when he broke out the Raisin lockseed. He's so completely broken and beyond hope, he's lost everything he ever considered living for- his friends, Mai, Takatora- he has absolutely nothing left to do but die and take as much with him as he can, which is an interesting parallel to Kaito. I wouldn't be surprised if his last words are him both damning Kouta and begging his- and everyone's- forgiveness.

I have to hand it to Gen and the rest of the staff for creating such a compellingly tragic character.

Just as importantly, we finally have context for Blonde Mai:

a projection of the golden fruit itself.

It's so goddamn obvious I feel like an idiot for not seeing it sooner.

Although, you could argue that Ryoma was tinkering with the Lock after he found about them and using the data from the Kiwami Key but, yeah, that was the weaker part of the episode IMO.

I liked the Yomi lock seed and everything, they did a good job of displaying a sense of dread. But I think it just clashes with the fact that Ryoma really does pull it out of nowhere.

Watching the Henshin sequence, it just feels like something humans shouldn't have been able to make themselves.

I'm not against the idea of him toying with it after seeing Kiwami in action, but like you've said, its origins just completely clash with its function. I really, really hope we get some more context, some kind of reveal about its origins, somewhere soon. That he only told Micchy a fraction of the truth about its origins and is simply using him as a guinea pig, which would fit PERFECTLY with the Bad Professor's modus operandi. Something this drastic, this horrifying, shouldn't be relegated to having such a mundane background.

Ah, I thought the only one who felt a bit of sympathy for him. I guess I also feel Kouta's pain of losing a friend in this as well. It's hard to see what poor, naive Micchy has turned into, now that he has made all these horrible decisions. And he knows that he is wrong, deep down somewhere, but he doesn't care anymore. Poor thing.

For a character that started out good, and now has to die a villain. *sniffs* Micchy, you could've been the one who saves the world from Inves. And the way it shows how much he's in pain using the Yomotsuheguri Lockseed, it's saddening. So tragic, really.

I'm kinda sad that he has to die like that, and Kouta's the one doing it. You can clearly see Kouta still cares for his good ol' friend, which adds up to the drama. I can't wait until next week.

This show is art.

So did I. And before this episode I hated him and wanted him dead. Slowly, painfully, dead. And then this happened. They broke Micchy, Dammit! No, I think knowing the Golden Fruit is inside Mai and slowly killing her is what broke him. And finally coming to terms that he killed his Brother. And damn Ryouma for taking advantage of that. He's now on my want dead list.

But with the Overlords dead except Baron next week, it makes me wonder who the final battle will be against. Foundation X? Ryouma? Terror Dopant?!

Truer words have never been spoken.