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Episode 4!

-Kids can be so damn cruel, man. I can't imagine living a life where everyone reminds me that my dad was might've been behind a major tradegy, how awful..

-I really do like the robo-animals being used for combat (Falcon attacking the Magia, Grasshopper putting distance between them and the rampaging Humagears so Anna and Gou can get moving) I mean, if you're gonna have an over-the-top transformation sequence, might as well make it have useful effects, right?

-Not much to say, I also didn't particularly like this episode very much. This might be one of the first examples of Zero One's very....Interesting ways to tackling certain things. It's one thing to have an episode to have a child of the week episode where the kid and our heroes learn a moral or something about uncovering the truth, and another to showcase a bit deeper how terribly twisted Fuwa's mindset has become by his trauma, but mashing them in a story together where there's zero pushback to Fuwa's mad ramblings *to a child* to where he's "in the right" because Hiden was hiding shit all along? I don't know if I like that. It's not like Episode 2, where you can see both the kernels of potenial truth in what Fuwa says while also the show clearly establishing the guy's kinda off his rocker. Here, Fuwa's advice is played a little too straight for my taste in this ep.