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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Oh my gosh, welcome back! Sorry to hear that it's taken this long to even get your power restored. I can't imagine what that's like in the summer during a pandemic. Glad to see you back on the boards, hope you're hanging in there okay.

As for the thread, yeah, looking forward to your thoughts!

Eleven days. That’s like the entire lifespan of the average kobold. At least I can use my phone without having to charge it off my car now. This thing has the battery life of a Sega Nomad.

So, I’m caught up to episode 32 (skipped the movie because backlog). I’m firmly entrenched in the new era of Blade, which I will freely admit is my preferred part of the series. After what seems like a hundred Mutsuki focus episodes we have a main plot again (finally?). I love how the show just kicks into high gear at this point and almost every episode has some kind of major plot reveal or twist. The show really doesn’t slow down much from this point and it becomes really engrossing on a level it never quite reached before.

The other thing I really love is how much of the early plot points suddenly come back into focus. Remember how Hirose had a dad and he’s the guy that unsealed the Undead? Yeah, here he is, being all villain-y. Here, have a Sayoko reference for good measure. The part that really impressed me is how this is all with a new writer. You can tell that Aikawa really took a long look at the show and its lore before taking over, then carefully worked as much of it into the story’s resolution as he could. That is not something that you’ll see with the other two shows that lost their writer.