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Watched the raw and really enjoyed it. The scenes with Kota trying out henshin poses and attempting to find practical, everyday uses for the armor were fantastic. I've never seen that done in one of these shows before and it was great.

We got a lot of Baron in this one, too, and he looks like he's going to be an interesting character. He seems like he's probably a decent guy at the core, but he also comes off as really arrogant and abrasive. I suspect we'll be seeing him learn to be less of a douchebag as the series wears on, especially since it looks like he and Gaim are (for now, at least) the only two "Armored Riders" who aren't part of Yggdrasil (we see some snippets of Zangetsu this week - including a short bit of him in the suit.

If there was one thing that didn't work for me, though, it was the fight scene. The suits themselves have grown on me a lot, but some of the stuff they do with the fruit still just doesn't work for me. The Pineapple Arms' weapon and finisher, in particular, just look completely ridiculous. And not in a good way. I'm hoping I can get past this, because so far it's the one of the few parts of the show that isn't really working for me (the others are the dancing and the DJ sticking his face right the hell into the camera lens).