[Fish Sandwich]

This totally felt like an early episode of the series in the best of ways. You've got a really strong, simple concept (one sword vs. a whole lotta guns), given a suitably dramatic context to make it truly engaging, right down to one of those classic Kouga lines where he just says one sentence about a thing (here with that bit about his armor) that feels like there's probably a monologue worth of weight behind it if you go digging a bit. It's tense, it's exciting, it raises lots of interesting points, and it does an astonishing job getting you to hate the antagonists in this show when you stop to realize they basically twisted this poor guy into throwing his life away hunting down Kouga, pretending like they aren't the ones who were actively pointing him in the direction of most of these Horrors.