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Honestly, I think the thing that makes Foundation X hard to take seriously for some people is the weird insistence that every member have some kind of quirk (Kazu’s dropping things, Neon Usland timing everything, Kaisei Mogami saying “funky” every other sentence). In a similar vein, I think people who like them would be less insistent on them being a big deal if this episode hadn’t snuck in that sneaky OOO foreshadowing (did someone think people would turn off before the trailer or something?)

Anyway, I like the idea that with Phillip’s life hanging by a thread that will cut the next time he pushes open the W Driver is a good way boy to establish our final boss and give the supporting cast (Terui, Saeko) one last hurrah, even if it is as cannon fodder.

And now for the rarely beeped…

Ultra-lert!

The character of Neon (the stopwatch lady, not the fake human from Geats) is played by Scottish-Filipino Japan based actress and radio personality Maria Theresa Gow (known professionally in the latter career as “GOW-chan”) who was previously supporting character Georgie Leland in Ultraman Gaia (which GC is reviewing weekly currently) and was later the voice of Ultrawoman Beth in the English version of Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad.