[Locke]

How epic was Ryouma's little henshin and entrance this week? Damn.

As you guys know I'm not a huge fan of the Energy Riders but as far as things go the fight between Takatora and Sid/Minato/Ryouma was largely pretty awesome. Mainly because I'd really forgotten about how imposing Zangetsu was when he was first introduced, as it's came to light that he's basically been played for a bitch by all of his peers.

I dunno, I guess I just lost a lot of respect for someone who got played by a fool so easily and maybe that isn't fair, but I'm sorry that is how it is for me. So to see him remind us that same badass is still there, just in a shittier suit with a shittier set of powers was pretty enjoyable.

I don't even care for the character much, but his death was so awesome I'm actually gonna be pretty sad if he really is dead for realsie. Much more so than I ever was for Kurokage which I personally felt was a massive misfire for the series.

Kaitou was also on an all time high this week. I actually thought the premise of Kaitou was great, but he's been so pathetic for so long I lost all interest in him and found the general irony and hypocrisy of him pretty laughable but he really brought the beatdown this week and it was great to watch.

Overall this was probably the first truly great episode in a while. Gaim rarely has bad episodes overall, but I do think a lot of this show is oversold by the fandom but it's episodes like this that sorta give me a glimpse of this utopia of a series that so many of our fandom sell it has. Had a great time. Especially coming off the back of a pretty crappy day.