Wizard Episode 8: "A New Magic Stone" Discussion
 

1. Phoenix makes his move!
2. A New Magic Stone?!
3. The Gate is a child?!
4. Medusa sends ghouls after him?!
5. Can Haruto defeat Phoenix?!

Discuss! PLEASE!

Rargh! Im off my game this week

Well Pheonix was as tough as I expected. and yet another gate I hope doesn't get saved.

Just watched the raw. God, that kid is the worst sort of brat, but given that he just tormented Shunpei through the entire episode, I find I can't hate that too much.

The fight with Phoenix was pretty awesome. I liked that he pretty much walked through everything Wizard threw his way.

And it looks like that new stone will pay off next week, tho it seems a tad early for that, doesn't it?

Maybe we'll luck out and he'll die, giving birth to a badass new Phantom general. But seeing as this is just a kid, I doubt we'll see him die.

I'll agree that we may be getting Dragon a little too soon, but then again I don't know how many power ups Wizard is going to get. Or if White Wizard is his final form.

Loved this episode, even pre-subs. FINALLY some Haruto back-story! And Phoenix lived up to his cool costume, can't imagine how tough Medusa is going to be. BTW the guy who said it has to be right, Wiseman totally has to be the White Wizard.

Also the preview sold me on the Dragon Fire form. It looks great in motion.

EDIT: Watched the subbed episode right afterwards. Man, I haven't watched many of these shows so my opinion is not that informed, but these are easily the meanest villains of any of the KR shows that I've seen. The Greeeds were evil but they mostly just brought out the bad parts of people that were already there. The Zodiarts, I haven't gotten far enough in to even see what their motivation is(besides creating Horoscopes). And again, the people they targeted were already pretty bad - they chose to become Zodiarts. These Phantoms are viciously cruel little $#!+$.

Watched the sub.
Solid episode. Got some much needed backstory on Haruto (I was dreading that they'd hold off on backstory for another dozen episodes, so seeing it here was a nice change of pace). Watching Phoenix fight was pretty cool, and seeing a character like Haruto (Laid back, always calm, perpetually controlling the pace of the fight) start panicking as Phoenix walked through his spells was nice.

My only qualms is that Haruto might be getting this new form a little early, especially considering that he already has 3 others that barely get used as is.

Mmm...deliciously glazed backstory with sprinkles! The sprinkles are made of last hope. :D

This episode was all around good. There's a good chance White Wizard is Wiseman, in which case I'm calling him Wisemen Rider. However, it could just be a red herring.

Things that amused me:
TE-01 NAKKER THE ONE!
The donut shop guys' slapstick in the background.
The kid knows what to do when there's stranger danger.

Do new forms boost the ratings? I saw an infographic the other day showing that basically all the shows since Decade quickly slide down in the ratings after the premiere except for a boost halfway through, that I assume is either the appearance of the secondary rider or the powered up form? Maybe they figure if they spread out the powered up forms over the course of the series it will help maintain interest.

I'm trying to remember how OOO and Fourze spaced out their rollouts of new forms, because they both had a lot . . .I'd say they still had a bunch, but even so. . .before, episode 10?