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This is such a good middle chapter of our final battle, everything is going to hell further, our heroes are slowly pushing their way through the Four Sages, everyone is just pushing themselves as hard as they can even if they've fallen down before.

And we get one of my favorite conversations in the series and the reason I believe Saber does its best when it puts the ideas of storytelling at the forefront. It very much was why I loved Primitive Dragon's ending, and them sort of cycling around and interweaving the concept of storytelling at the end here as much as they could... it really helps this final arc resonate as one of my favorites in Kamen Rider.

Touma and Storious' conversation before their big fight where Touma calls on everyone's Seiken in different ways... it's one of my standout interactions of the series. I know I talked about how I sort of commended Storious when he started up in Episode 41 as the final villain, but even I wasn't that convinced about him... until Episodes 45 and 46.

Of course we still get our cool moments, what with Daishinji and Ogami pulling a Piccolo and Goku on their opponent, Reika desperately using her brother's broken blade alongside her own sword to skewer their opponent as much as she could to kill him. While I don't think both are spectacular as Ren's finisher in the prior episode, they still hold a tremendous weight to them.

Though one of my favorite aspects is what Mei's doing. She reads what Touma left her and while making one small but important detour, does what she does best. She goes to her office and gets to work on something, making use of all of her strengths just as everyone else is doing themselves.

But yeah, certainly a cliffhanger to leave off on until Wednesday, huh?

Speaking of Mei though earlier, the story this time was rather nice. Glad to see Mei's point of view come in again in which she tries to figure out how exactly to motivate Luna, because Luna is also just as important to this fight as she is.