[Enchilada645]

So yeah, with this little story taken care of, yeah I'd say Primitive Dragon is definitely like one of my favorites in terms of berserk forms. It takes what I think Saber excels strongly at, relating things to storytelling, and basically makes that the solution to the whole arc.

And we see Touma's love for stories shine through again as he uses that to comfort someone who was hurting greatly. We get Elemental Dragon, which is honestly pretty cool in that it very much combines most of the elements of our original grouping of Sword of Logos swordsmen (sorry Daishinji, Touma couldn't think of anything poetic about sound). So in a sense we get our all combined form of sorts if you want to think of it like that. I don't, I mostly think it's just a really cool form with a bunch of different elements to it.

Speaking of the form itself though. I know people don't exactly like it, and wish it was more of a singular color but... I feel like that'd defeat the symbolism behind it? Like if you say covered up the remaining parts that are Primitive Dragon with a complimentary color scheme for Elemental... you'd be hiding Primitive Dragon, which is what you don't want to do.

Likewise if you made Elemental's parts complimentary to Primitive's... that also doesn't work because you lose the idea of Elemental being this warm comforting friend that's reaching out towards the lonely Primitive Dragon. It's a very interesting form in which Elemental and Primitive co-exist, and while it looks awkward at some parts of it, having Elemental basically wrap itself around Primitive but not cover it up? I think that works beautifully.

Now let's get a few footnotes out of the way. I do like how we brought back the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to do something interesting with it. Make it an isolation room as Touma flails around trying to reach out to Primitive Dragon as much as he can while everything else is going down. And speaking of everything else going down... Legeiel. There's a hint of tragedy in that he's gone so far with power he's basically forgotten his roots in a sense. At least that's how I see it being presented. It strikes enough pity with me to feel something at his death, though he is very much the least interesting of the trio of Book Club members at the end of their run.

Zooous is still on top for me if I'm being honest and Storious has always been second for me. I feel as though Legeiel's obsession with Touma stemmed from his humiliating defeat from the Yeti Megid case, and then just subsequent losses piling on further with the Phantom Beast Megid never really getting the payback he wanted. If there's one vibe I always got with Legeiel... it was pride, for as little that showed.

As for the last of it. There's a nice difference of reactions here. With Rintaro seeming to get some kind of peace/clarity from Touma's actions while Kento is still not budging in the slightest.

Which leads into our story. I do like how we see Rintaro and Kento both roll up to this fight, neither entering it. And I do feel like you managed to get Rintaro's mindset down with this, his fear and doubts in Touma turning into hope when he realizes the situation has clearly changed.

===Zero Presents: Desast Walk===

Desast Walk #8:

"Hello, humans.

I'm Dessert.

Do you ever have those moments when you just don't care about anything?

You're in a place where there's no smell, and you're just staring at the clouds drifting in the wind.

Thinking about stupid things and then forgetting about them.

I wonder how he's doing?

Let's get going."