[Matrixbeast]

Okay, just got through the episodes of Kaku where they had to search for the Kakure scrolls. That was a pretty nice set of episodes. It was rather surprising that they were more than just physical trials and they had to learn something along the way (Though Seikai and Saizou's "Don't give up hope" lesson is painfully generic).

I was also caught off guard on how they presented the episodes. I thought they paired up Seikai and Saizou so they would only have to have 4 episodes of them searching for the scrolls, when they instead decided to give Jiraiya 2 episodes. I'm kind of split on this, honestly. On one hand, Jiraiya is awesome and can carry two episodes easily, and I'm glad that they didn't force these two episodes into one 20 minute chunk. It would've been way rushed otherwise. On the other hand, Seikai and Saizou still don't get to do jack. Even Seikai's willingness to sacrifice himself still seemed more odd than noble, and I think splitting them up and letting them each have a more dramatic episode would've been best.

Otherwise, these recent 5 episodes were awesome. The beasts are awesome (Though the CGI on God Ganma was pretty horrible) and having the characters grow is always wonderful.