[Matrixbeast]

Episode 19 and 20.
So Akomaro's plan was to corrupt Kou into a Gorma. Interesting. It was also a neat execution, disguising himself as a young girl and one of the priestesses as the girl's mother to convince him that parents suck and to abandon hope of his mother loving him in the process.
Shame it was stopped by the Dairangers.

Anyway, Kaku shows up for a bit to reveal that he also knows Kou is Kibaranger. Makes me wonder when the titular heroes will learn now. We also learn that Kibaranger's KiDen Beast (Won Tiger? I dunno. To avoid spoilers, I'm not looking stuff up) is about to reveal itself, as well as a glimpse of the main villain (I assume), Gorma the 15th.
However, going by my Sentai knowledge and the fact that I'm only 20 episodes in, I wouldn't exactly be surprised if there's another villain higher up on the food chain...

As a whole, the episodes were decent. They didn't make Kou as assholish as the previous few, so it was a lot easier to feel for him this time around than when Rin tricked him about his mother coming back a few episodes ago. I want to like Kou more, but his debut had him acting so despicably that it's hard to wash that taste out of my mouth. I do hope more episodes like this, that downplay his asshole tendencies while also keeping him like he was a child, would certainly help, though.

Anyway, something that's bugging me is Byakko's presence. Not because of the character, but how he's always in a hammer space sort of situation...Except when he's not. I'll accept that the changers can just spontaneously appear on the characters' wrists. But Byakko just randomly showing up to talk to Kou, then disappearing, then showing up again to Tenshin...Come on. At least when he had his backpack, that offered a plausible explanation, but when he's wearing a form fitting jacket?