[ryan]

I watched another couple more episodes of Kuuga, and again, I'm feeling that all the stuff between the human characters is good, in theory, but is too long in practice. The character stuff feels stretched over the two episodes, when it would really fit fine in one episode, but I like that Godai's journey as Kuuga takes two episodes for him to learn his powers, and how to defeat each new Grongi.

Also over the weekend I watched another couple more episodes of Faiz, and I'm liking the characters more. I still don't like Mari much, she's kind of a jerk to Takumi, but she's improving. Takumi is definitely improving, and he finally even explained to Mari why he's very standoffish and it kind of endeared him to me for the first time.

As for the Orphenocs, Yuka is a pretty tragic character, so far as they've shown us. I definitely sided with her when she murdered the entire basketball team. She and the other guy, who's name I don't remember and can't be bothered to look up at the moment, then finally meat some guy at Smart Brain, who explained to them that the Orphenocs are at war with the humans, explained that when they kill people, most will remain dead, but some few worthy ones will revive as Orphenocs. Thought that was pretty interesting.

That made me think back an episode or two to when Mari and that other guy tried to wear the Faiz belt, and they couldn't, but an Orphenoc could, makes me wonder if only those with the potential to become Orphenocs are able to wear the belt.

Anyway, then Faiz defeats the Orphenoc that was explaining stuff to our main Orphenoc characters, and he suddenly appears before then to die, which seemed to really affect them. I'm interested to see where they go from here, since they rejected his notion that it was their responsibility to fight and kill humans.