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Originally Posted by FairyKing

Did anyone else feel like the Shadow Nightmare was the easiest enemy Baku has faced so far? In most of Baku's fights there's been some back-and-forth, but this felt even more one-sided than new form debut fights usually are, the Shadow Nightmare was pretty much entirely on the defensive and more focused on trying to get away while Baku hunted it down. "Eliminate the enemy" indeed! It's especially striking because until recently NOX seemed to always have the upper hand over both Baku and the Nightmares, so I'd expected the Nightmare that scared even him would be a lot more dangerous.

I could chalk that up to the writers just being lazy, or trying to make Booster form look cooler, or deciding the episode had enough going on already that making the fight tenser would be too much. But I hope it's something deeper, like making a point about "fear" and how the Shadow Nightmare seemed invincible when it could prey on NOX's terror but was easily taken down when Baku stood up to it.

I think it wasn't so much that that the Shadow Nightmare was stronger but the emotional effect it had on Odakka that gave it strength and a hold over him.

Besides I think the real big "win" For Inazuma was defeating Nox Knight.