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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

All right, so the battle between Nexus and Mephisto in episode 24 was freaking awesome. As was everything leading up to that point. I really enjoyed the mysteries, the fights, the characters, all of it. The UFO club was pretty out there, but is the one fat dude with the glasses the actor who played the commander in Megaranger? It looks and sounds like him.

Episode 25 was super annoying because if there is one thing that is worse than a clip show, it is a an episode that is half a clip show that also gives pertinent information we should have been told about in a real episode. It was nice to hear them talk about The Next for a moment, so I hope more comes of this and this is not the only connection the movie has to the show. Neverthless, interesting, a sad version of Nexus? Sweet.

And then episode 26 happened. I already hate Ren. This feels like an entirely different show suddenly. It's jarring and makes no sense. This dude just comes out of the blue without any warning and I'm supposed to believe he is worth of replacing Jun? WTF? The only character worthy of replacing Jun is Komon! We have had him built up for the last 26 episodes and now he is suddenly being pushed to the way side and become a side character? OH HELL NO!!!!! Oh, and isn't it just convenient that we now learn there is a spy within the TLT and then it cuts to the MP walking with a girl we have never seen before? Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder who it ever could be...

Episode 27 wasn't bad, but I really really hate Ren. Was this dude forced in to please the child audience? He doesn't fit with the tone the rest of the show was conveying. And again, he is not worthy to be Ultraman when Komon is right freaking there!! I know I said I wanted Nexus to have a bigger role, but when I said Nexus, I meant Jun, not this annoying brat. UGH! Oh yeah, and the MP girl is hands down the worst spy ever. Lastly, HA, they all said PP. Juvenile laughter for the win.

I wouldn't worry to much about the light heartedness of episode 27. While the show does get a bit lighter going forward, that's simply because of the departure of Jun and the wrapping up of the girlfriend stuff with Komon, not because the show's changing its tone. While I can't promise that you'll accept Ren as Nexus over Jun, since how much you like him is based on how much you like the standard toku hero over non traditional ones like Jun, he has his place in the story and the show return to its dark tone pretty quickly.

On a side note, its around episode 27 when the show starts moving at a much faster pace since, as you may know, it was reduced from its intended 49 episode run to 37 episodes, not counting the extra episode and a director's cut episode. While I don't think the pacing effects the show's quality, it becomes more apparent the closer you get to episode 37 that they're cramming 20 episodes of information into 10. I'm warning you about this because it results in a lot of... quick fixes to problems that really should have lasted longer. Just wanted to warn you.

Also, another thing to remember is that Crunchyroll didn't translated the 40+ minute long EX episode, which takes place in between episode 31 and 32, or the director's cut version of episode 29. I didn't see either of these while I was watching the show and I was completely but the EX episode is Hiraki's only focus episode so if you're interested in watching those episodes, Tv-Nihon are the only ones who have translated these as far as I'm aware.