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Maskman Episode 32: Man did I love this episode. The episode starts out as kind of a sad story about one of Kenta's friends losing the will to race but it quickly dissolves it what could best be describes as an episode long road trip starring Kenta, who's tied with Akira as my favorite Maskman, the kid of the week, and a crappy car that was quite literally falling as Kenta drove it. Seriously, at one point in the episode, Kenta had to literally get out of the car, pray to it so that it would keep driving, and jump back it when it starting driving off without him. This was all while he was him and the kid were being pursued by Oyobu, who takes off one of the car's doors. This was a hilarious episode.

Episode 33: This was a weird episode. I didn't dislike it exactly but I'm not really sure what the point of it was. The entire episode was dedicated to a character that, while not bad in theory, was completely pointless as the entire reason for her existence is to tell us that Kiros is an asshole... something we've know since the beginning. While they kind of tried to make it a lesson for Takeru about what love can do to you if you aren't careful, it ultimately feels very hollow since he not only had very little actually involvement in this story, this in no way reflected the relationship he has with Mio.

While I can kind of see an episode like this working very early in the show, in fact I pretty sure there kind of was, Takeru has long since grown past that stage of his character.