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It's Episode 26!

-Nice follow-up with the Vice President playing the "dying" person in the mission, when he was the corpse in the movie episode!

-Like the basement, you cannot convince me Fuwa hasn't been staying out in Daybreak every since they broke out, sleeping in his car or whatever. That kind of timing is too quick to suggest anything else!

-I like how this episode gives Homura's and 119nosuke's methods equal weight? There are things that Homura could be more perceptive of that a Humagear like 119nosuke can detect instantly, and things 119nosuke wouldn't know due to not having decades of experience like Homura, but they're both doing their best to save lives, aren't they?


-Hey, Yua gets something this episode! .........I don't really like it that much? Gai is forcing her to be a little more than passively complicit in his schemes this time, asking her to make 119nosuke to go berserk if given the chance. And then.....she does it! Like, I get it. Gai's a very powerful person, if she disobeys him, getting fired is the least of her worries (getting blacklisted in the industry, taking a Thousand Break to the face unarmored) But man, something about her arc's been handled....I just don't care? Even though I want to? Maybe it's because Yua's thoughts about this whole thing are mostly internal? She'll give a conflicted look most of the time, an occasional pipe up of protest every other week, but that's about it. I feel like I don't particularly have a real hook into her thoughts concerning ZAIA's goals (or her precervied version of their goals, before the reveals started kicking in) or even how she got into this in the first place, depsite it going on for so long. (And I'm not usually one to turn my nose up at character who's thoughts are kept hidden/complicated/vague, they're some of my favorites, but something about the way it's been handled with Yua just annoys me more than anything)

- This is probably one of the careers the kids watching at home are *really* interested in, so I get the need to um......punch the overall energy up. Gai's whole speech to the reporting cameras is so hilarious to me lol. And they turned "Aruto does nothing but grab the Magia and hope it turns back to normal" into a gag! That's always fun.