[Mesnick]

The show once again reminds that it is not afraid to kill characters, leaving Hikaru a complete orphan even without a fake family. I hope he gets at least some kind of revenge, and does not die before the final. The idea of ​​solving everything with a fight doesn't work, because Ikki and Daiji aren't on opposite sides, but fight for different things. In fact, with such an approach, Daiji's position seems to be much more significant, because why did Ikki get the idea that under Giff's rule, people will definitely be unhappy? Akaishi won all the previous episodes grinning from ear to ear. By the way, about him...
He's much more impressive as a villain in this episode, but I have a feeling he's just a different character. Again, the writers should have paid more attention to his relationship with Daiji, otherwise he was somehow too sharply twisted.
Sakura's consolation scene was definitely a success. In principle, it's great that in this episode there was something for the non-main Riders, although it still seems that there are more of them than the show really needs.