For me at least, while In DO have to make the assumption, I feel Ex-Aid provides enough for me to have a conclusion whereas Ghost didn't give me enough. For that line, I figured 'Well, the full Drago Armour made Emu go beserk and Hiiro never even had the full armour, so Hiiro wouldn't be used to the kind of power and severely underestimate it', which I felt fit due to it being very risky to do, but Hiiro didn't care about the risk anymore. I DO agree however, that it's pretty hypocritical for people to complain about Ghost too, and I'm still confused about the Newton Eyecon

You know, I was thinking the same thing, but when I think about it that is basically exactly how it worked with the Level 1 Bugsters, so there's some sort of precedent. Those also exploded and things, so I guess it's not so strange.

Still convinced the whole "taking over the body" thing is mostly so they don't have to spend time cutting away from the fight to the patients, and having it work like this just allows them to not have to change anything else but that. It's definitely an convenient/largely insignificant development either way. But as long as it does allow for a little more time for the show to do cool things I guess I don't mind it.

This episode was great. More focus on Hiiro is always welcome, Emu's personality switch shacked things up really well and I loved the scenes where he was playing DoReMiFa Beat. Poor Poppy!

The highlight of this episode for me was Brave Lv. 50 though. Gorgeous looking suit, and the way it impacted the action scenes was amazing. Summoning mooks, using the force, cape drill (Tali’s gonna love that one! ;) ), teleporting, shooting mook missiles... yes! :thumb:

I'm fairly certain this will just be a more powered up Taddle Quest from now on though since he has the sword back and using the force costs too much money, but oh well.

Next week looks promising as well, Snipe's new Battleship form looks utterly ridiculous, I love it.

Also, you think Dan is creepy now? Rewatch the start of the episode. He works on a PC that isn't even plugged in, witchcraft! :lol

Quick thoughts on last weeks episode: Enjoyable, it built up a lot of tension towards Emu finding out he had the game diseases with a decent enough pay off. Seeing Parad lay the smack down on Dan was pretty satisfying especially with how much more crazy he has been getting over these past few episodes. I mean seriously, he's been slowly getting more and more unhinged as the show goes on and if he isn't dead by the end, I expect him to be in a mental instituition.

This weeks episode: This is basically's Hiiro's episode through and through. He's increasingly starting to respect Emu and seeimg his reaction to this much more egotistic and less compasionate version of him provides a nice contrast to how they interacted in the first few episodes. I kinda wish gamer Emu lasted a few more episodes just to see how Taiga and Niko would react.
As for the action, first off, yay we finally have a new bugster design and its a pretty neat one. The main attraction of course is Taddle Fantasy. The fight itself was pretty cool with various different magical abilities he was able to use but I don't expect to see them often because you know, budget. The finisher however is kinda lame, hopefully now that he has the Gashacon sword it will be cooler. The design has also somehow gotten worse in my eyes since I saw it in the toy scans. I think it's the combanation of the dark coloured armor over the bright undersuit, which is kind of the opposite problem I had with Sports Genm. Also him briefly turning evil was pretty pointless since it lasted less than 5 minutes. I mean I guess it showcases his willpower but that aspect of Hiiro has never been called into question.
That's basically all I got and it's kinda been the standard reaction I've gotten from Ex-Aid over the past few weeks. It's good but I haven't been exactly hyped for it.

Yeah you kinda hit the nail on a problem I have with Ex-Aid. Especially when they try to explain how the rider mechanics and game world works. It's not a huge issue but I'm often left more confused

Burnnnn him!

So a great episode, everybody already said all that I wanted. I expect the opening to return in the next week, because they need to market the movie in it.

Great episode. This may go down as the moment when Hiiro really clicked for me as a character, not only for the great fight scene but also for his interaction with the patient. There does seem to be more to his personality than we've seen so far. Also impressed with Brave Level 50; it joins the very elite club of non-terrible Ex-Aid suits - something that I will clearly not be saying about Level 50 Snipe.

cool episode

i enjoyed seeing the evolution of the bugster virus at level 30, seems they're no longer using human hosts as a carrier that they can jump out of, but something they actively feed off of as they fully take over and swap from human to bugster form

Taddle fantasy . . . man, thats an awesome upgrade. Super powerful, teleportation, summoning jobbers, flight, cape spike, telekenesis. for a middle upgrade, alotta powers

Have we seen a hero rider get the power to summon bad guy minions/silly putties to use before?

Only in Gaim that I know of. Lots of blind spots in my Rider watching, though...

These are the only instances that I'm aware of.