[Tokumonkey]

I enjoyed this episode quite a bit, and I'm eager for the next episode, if a little anxious about it. The anxiety is that the first five episodes were concerned with introducing new Riders and the villains (and villain-Rider), so this is kinda the first episode that will need to develop a story outside that structure. They can probably manage it. (And there's the distraction of introducing another new power-up, which I assume will be the structure of the next two, as well.)

Brave isn't at all what I expected before the show launched. His risk aversion skirts the line with cowardice, which I suppose is the point of the apparently-ironic name. I expect he'll get fleshed-out as we go.

I'm enjoying that most of the Riders are problematic personalities. Snipe just doesn't seem to be built to work well with others, Brave is often inclined to run away, and so far as I can tell, Kiriya is a either highly manipulative or a compulsive liar. Well, and Genm... I still don't feel like I know what his deal is. Madness? Infection by the bugsters? My suspicion is that he's less secretly-evil and more a Jekyll-and-Hide case.