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Fourze 41-42
Coming in to the home stretch now as we finally uncover the mysteries of who Virgo is, who Tachibana is, and what's up with Professor Emoto. And in a move that may or may not have surprised me back in 2012, the answer is that they're all the same dude, he betrayed and murdered Kengo's dad, and now he's dead. So that's cool.

Honestly, there was a lot of good stuff in this arc as Tachibana reaches out to the KRC and promptly tells Gentarou to cut ties with all of his friends. He even threatens them all as Virgo to drive home his point. There was a lot more naked Shun in this section than I remembered. Obviously, Gentarou proceeds to teach Tachibana the value of friendship instead. It's a nice arc, even if it does feel a little predictable given the show's main theme and some of the stories we've already had. There are some nice moments where Gentarou touches base with his friends after they leave the KRC, though, and a really nice moment where Kengo establishes how far he's will to go for Gentarou. Also, Yuuki's barely in this arc and that's always nice.

We get the debut of the Sagittarius Zodiart in this arc, too. As the show's final boss he immediately comes off as unbeatable, but that will change in about six episodes' time. I was never a huge fan of the design; I think it's the visor, it makes him look really silly to me for some reason. His bullet hell power is okay, but not that exciting.

Rocket States also made it's one and only TV appearance here. I'm not sure why they didn't use it more, but at the same time I'm also surprised it made an appearance outside of the initial movie. You'd think they would either ignore it completely or do something with it. I guess Gentarou is still bummed that it was briefly his girlfriend.

I'm going to take a pause from the series next and watch the Fourze summer movie. I've really been looking forward to that, so it hopefully won't take two weeks to get around to it.