[GoldenXtreme]

Dang, that episode just left me wanting more, this show is driving me a little crazy to watch weekly.

I'm definitely at a point where I'm pretty happy with Revice as a show. This particular episode I think hit me particularly hard, between Ikki's desperation to save people who are beyond salvation and Julio's backstory striking a chord with me. Seriously, it has been a while since we had a Rider show where so may civilians are just explicitly not getting saved, it is a surprisingly early-Heisei vibe, which I can really dig, and can genuinely fuel some great drama. I think I took the whole thing with Julio quite personally too, since I can recall lashing out at someone in a similar way to Yosuke once when I was younger. I always did regret it. I think the fact I could connect to the writing on that level shows how fundamentally good the drama is! I have a hard time holding a grudge against the aspects of the show I don't like when so much is done well.