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This episode is our proper introduction to Kamen Rider Slash. I've talked about how he's my favorite Rider already, but man is he so cool. There's an elegance to his standard form and him just switching to a loud mouth rocker when we get a musical form in the mix is also really nice. Also the first time that an extra Rider in this show uses their main armament before Touma does since Touma got to use Jackun and 3 Little Pigs before both Buster and Kenzan did.

But yeah, not much to this episode in terms of monster of the week plot really. Fun fact about these ducklings though, in my story currently for Season 2 of it I've only used those six, and the Medusa trio thus far for it since man do they fill out some fodder ranks nicely. Kind of helps since there's a lot more dense stuff happening on the other side of the crossover, so I'm not too bummed about them not having a lot to them though the Medusa trio definitely have more uses than the Duckling ones.

Anyway Sakamoto! If your series doesn't have much in terms of out of suit physical fighting and you're suddenly getting out of suit physical fighting? It's absolutely Sakamoto taking the lead in terms of the directorial work.

Also since we got a new character in today, and I forget if she's named or not, but anyway... fun fact! Did you know that every Swordperson's name has some sort of version/reference of 'god'/'deity' in it. This was a method people used back when Saber was airing to see if potential new characters could be potentialy swordspeople or not.

As for the story...

how dare you

I... you just went for my throat with that. Touma was already relatable enough but you just went for the jugular in how I sometimes operate from time to time. The abrupt interruptions, the things that need to be done, the not getting anything done!

AHHHH!!!

... that is to say.

Good Job.