[Kiwami]

Black RX, Episode 8.

This one was really good IMO. Most of the other episodes so far, aside from the premise, are kinda average. They don't sum up to much. You get some gorgeous monster suits, cool action scenes and great effect work, but everything around that was a bit… boring.

Until this episode, this one was actually very well done. It's about a girl who suddenly turned into a genius, and as it turns out that's because she's half-Crisis, her dad was a renegade Crisis alien who came to Earth and married a human woman.

See, what makes this episode good is that the monster and the action take a backseat to the characters. The MOTW is defeated early, and the rest of the episode is completely devoted to RX trying to help the girl overcome her fear of her own heritage.

Not gonna lie, I kinda wished Kotaro would’ve identified with her on a more personal level as his own stance to humanity was questioned quite a bit throughout Black and it played a big part during the start of Black RX so I hoped he would say something along the lines "Look at me, I'm not "human" either. But that doesn't matter.".

The path they go on instead isn't worse in any way, it's just as powerful, and the scene itself is beautiful.

I was a bit shocked how much I enjoyed this episode to be honest. I hope I get to see more stuff like this further into the show.