[Locke]

So now I've finished Dairanger, and I can't start the next season of GARO until I find the time to check out the last movie and Gaim still ain't subbed, I decided to go back to Faiz for a bit. So episode three!

This episode was profoundly boring. Nothing happened for like 18 minutes of this episode. When the monster showed up and they found some underground school I thought shit would start getting interesting, but no, pretty much the entire focus of the episode was some couple made up of a moron and a loser. When your superhero show rests its action on getting dry cleaning delivered, you know you have serious issues. Hell I know barely fuck all about my protagonists yet, without this shit.

I will say, I do like Takumi and Mari's dynamic, and I guess it will probably grate with time, right now I do kind of like that Takumi isn't just a plot device to make characters dump heaps of exposition like so many other toku protagonists are, during the first quarter of their seasons.

Takumi's attitude really makes fights a lot of fun as well, even if they are so very brief, he really does feel pretty unique. Although how did he suddenly have such an understanding of the Driver? His finisher wasn't bad at all, either, considering he appeared to kill the monster with a digital camera on his fist.