[Battlizer]

Blade 8

Chief to the rescue! And with the exposition about the Undead. So...if I understand the chief's exposition and Koutaro's goofy Planet of the Apes reference correctly...A long time ago, there were Undead based on every species who fought to determine who ruled the Earth. Humans won, so they ruled while the others were sealed into cards?

But because they were all still living in the cards for like a millennia, Board wanted to see if they could learn the secrets of immortality and studied them, but fucked up and accidentally freed them. So they made Riders to hunt them down and seal them again.

Okay...weird, but pretty cool premise. I sort of like how they tool that long to explain it. Also glad the the whole main group knows Tachibana's problem now and is trying to help him.

That bomb scene had really cheap effects, but I lile any scene thar has people teying to sace someone by throwing a bomb out of the window and into the air. And so the dude with the Shades and his organization are Undead. Just the higher level ones. So I suppose this means Hajime's no standard Undead. And now Kenzaki knows it as well. Which probably means he'll hate Hajime more.

Hibiki 7

I was going to watch Blade all the way through before going back to Hibiki, but I decided to randomly check this one out. Glad I did.

Asumu passed his exam. I was actually unsure whether he would or not so it's cool that he did. So cool thatbhe went to tell Hibiki....and got lost.

Oni training looks pretty cool. As a percussionist , I appreciate that Hibiki's training requires him to bash a giant drum. Speaking of instruments, I noticed since they focused on Ibuki fighting the momsters on this episode, they changed the opening to reflect his weapon so they had trumpet as the main instrument and not drums.

I think Ive mentioned how much I like how Hibiki's fighting style connsosts of him destroying the monstera with soundwaves from his drum, bit Ibuki"'s is pretty cool to, 'cause the motherfucker has a TRUMPET-MACHINEGUN!