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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

I really didn't like this episode. Could just be growing pains, but it was super obnoxious. Everything's so blunt and immature and I can't find myself able to tolerate... anyone in it except maybe the old man.

Please could everyone just... stop screaming please? Please stop screaming...

I have to agree, honestly.
I still enjoyed it for what it was, but I think I enjoy the Rider and the show separately from each other. I've become kind of immune to the gags and comic relief for some reason.

The thing with Akari and Onari is so contrived as comic relief. I'd respect Akari a lot more if she tried to learn the science of the supernatural instead of sticking her fingers in her ears and insisting that it has to be some trickery; meanwhile Onari is just way too generically enthusiastic and excitable. He's like Kyu from Drive all over again. Or Yuki from Fourze, Akiko from Double, Rinko and Shunpei from Wizard...
Always shouting about their favorite thing and getting into silly arguments.

More specific to this episode, it also felt rushed and pretty much completely uninteresting. The mad scientist guy was totally hammy and cheesy, and the way they handled the story really felt like two episodes squeezed into one with the way the scientist essentially starts screaming his regrets as soon as the Ganma Hole thing opens, and then there's some scene at the end tossed in with him saying he's sorry and he didn't know what he was doing/getting into blah blah blah.

But in that way it also feels the same as the early episodes of most other series, especially Fourze and Drive. Not that that excuses a, well, boring, uncreative plot, but still.