[KRWolfblade]

Just watched the subs. Definitely a fun episode. It's always good to see God Dan Kuro.... sorry I mean Dan KuroKing, again. I do like how they make a connection for it to be a pseudo-Ex-Aid tribute while kick starting the OOO tribute. Time Jackers need Another Rider with the "desire" to be a king or close to it, Kuroto always had the ambition to be greater than everybody (game master, God, etc.) so he was one of the few to fit that qualification. And his greediness in wanting to control/own everything fit perfectly to one of OOO's desire/greed themes. The references to OOO were good (was i the only one who saw Dr. Maki's doll when they went back to 2016?) and Eiji and Hina are back (good to see them again as well).

The Sougo/Geiz drama does come off as cheap in this episode. Considering we know that Sougo is faking it in order to gain/learn from Kuroto, he could've communicated this better to Geiz and Tsukuyomi. It wasn't particularly necessary to "force" this drama. You could argue this was to teach Geiz a lesson to be more trusting of Sougo but he's been particularly head strong for 8 episodes to not be too trusting or friendly with Sougo, plus the aforementioned communication problem. Although I imagine that Geiz, as always, will just be annoyed, berate Sougo, and then help him in the final fight in some capacity later on. Cos the King of 'being butthurt that your friend trampled on your friendship to fool the antagonists' belongs to Diend in Super Hero Taisen.