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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Huh, I didn't even consider Uva's endurance and a cockroach's.

I still don't get why Hina exists. I don't hate her, but she is the deffinition of non-essential. You could have removed her outright and given all her scenes to... fuck, what's the diner girl's name? Mix their characters together and you get Hina's personality with the usefulness of providing the heroes with a place to stay and a job. Boom. Could've even shifted the Maki plot onto this hybrid character for extra effectiveness.

She works for me because it is only her. She is the only spare part and in story she is given a reason to be as such, as she was just dragged into the middle of this. It isn't like Wizard or Fourze where the entire side cast are Hina's, just there with no purpose but determined to be there any way. She feels special and unique in her show, rather than another piece of scenery to drown us in.

OOO 44, I can't tell if this episode was awesome or awful. For example, the explanation for why Eiji is the perfect vessel for Os and the purple medals, although total nonsense, makes so much sense within OOOs universe and is sold with such conviction, it's hard not to feel like you do when an intricate mystery plot slots into place. Hina as well was extremely enjoyable, who in the midst of a massive fight, still managed to steal the show by being badarse in her own way.

The real problem however was Cazali, not only was his complete form underwhelming and poorly realised with shit CGI but just as he comes together, he is defeated. Defeated in a truly epic battle to be fair but it's hard to soak in the awesome when a fight is so extremely brief. Not to mention that stupid design choice of having the Greed take human form when they die, even though it makes absolutely no sense in the slightest.

I mean why leave it so late? We've only got four episodes left, it feels like they should have been accessing their complete forms, and getting killed off, like twenty episodes ago. It's funny now I think about it just how little participation the villains have actually had in the series, I mean I know Sentai has villains stand around til the end of their seasons as well a lot of the time but normally that is one main villain and one, maybe two generals. There is twice as many here, it just seems a waste.

Although really the biggest complaint from me is they kind of shot themselves in the foot with this story turn. I know that they are going for this horrifying shock value story of two best friends now fighting and trying to kill one another but as Ankh was a complete and utter arsehole through the whole series, none of this has any emotional weight, I'm just shrugging and asking Eiji 'what did you expect?' this is why Ankh should have had at least one character arc throughout the show. Criticise Naruto for homosexual overtones all you want, at least when Naruto and Sasuke swapped blows there was actual established emotion behind the fists.