[Layton13]

Oh boy... It's Revice time... Before I even put out my closing thoughts on Saber xD

Still have to do that, but that's for another time.

For now... Revice.

Let's pull off the bandaid off early; this is one of 3 Toku shows I actively hate, not just dislike, but actively hate. This makes this all the more interesting since I have very strong feelings for this show, just in the completely opposite direction than Saber.

It's also the only Toku show that annoyed me so much I decided to write fanfic about xD I really have to get back to that ^^'

That said, episode 1 is ok. It doesn't stand out in and of itself, and from the 3 Reiwa first, it defiantly felt like the most standard. I'd even say it's technically better than Saber's; it just left me with not much originally, which is fine for a first episode. There have been shows that left me cold for the first arc before I fell madly in love with them.

In and of itself, this episode doesn't do anything wrong.

And I really liked the fact Ikki gave up the Driver at the end. It seemed like an interesting direction to take a character.

Which... sadly didn't go anywhere really meaningful in episode 2, which was a shame. But that's more a fact of the story just not being that interested than any actively bad aspect of it.

In general, 2 continues the trend of being very fine. Not much I have a problem with, maybe minus the fact that I'm not a fan of the Revi and Vice suits and sidegrade suits, all looking very samey and washed out, but that is not a fault of the episode.

That said, the huge emotional moment passed me by like nothing, which felt weird for me at the time, given how much I ate up a similar moment in Den-O between Ryotaro and Momotaros early in the show.

I didn't even know why back then. I think I know why now, given hindsight, but I get plenty of opportunity to address that once it becomes more obvious why this didn't work for me.

Besides that, unremarkable, but not in a bad way.

Also, before anyone worries, I'm not here to just rage and make anyone feel bad about liking the show. I'm here to see why people like it, even if I don't.