[Locke]

From a pure action standpoint, this episode was incredible. Too little too late maybe, but holy crap is Fueki a badass and watching him fight with Haruto and Gremlin was incredibly enjoyable. I won't say I'll miss him, now he's gone, but I'm grateful that after he spent the majority of the series being Aizen but entirely off screen, they at least gave him some epic battles that happened on screen, before his send off.

Everything else though... it feels like it's all moving too fast. You're right, Nitou did save the whole of Tokyo from being consumed into a giant sacrificial ritual, but that all happened in about five to ten minutes worth of screen time last week and with that wrapped up as quickly as it was, it kinda feels like the shows already climaxed and now we're just having this awkward encore. Not a bad encore, by any means, but considering how much happened last week, it feels weird that the show has already moved on from it, giving only brief reactions from the characters and then moving on to something entirely different. Sure there are other things of importance happening, but not of greater importance, it was the whole damn city man.

And, just like a broken record as I've said it every week for like three months now, Koyomi and her bonds with the rest of the characters is something so underdeveloped, the big dramatic drama scenes with her and anyone else fall totally flat as we have no emotional engagement in her character beyond human compassion.

The same can be said for Gremlin as well. As cool as his backstory arc was (one of the shows many highlights), his entrance into the series was incredibly awkward and despite stepping up to replace Phoenix, who won me over in an epic final fight, Gremlin didn't seem to have any stand out abilities at all. He was fast, cocky and had a giant pair of scissors that could break into two swords but was nothing compared to all the other villains with their crazy ass powers, even the of the week ones, so it's disappointing he stuck around to be the final boss, of all people.