[Locke]

Makai Senki 8.

Another stunning episode, God I love this show. It's actually really hard to write about this show, when you basically love everything and can only really criticise the smallest of nitpicks.

Really, probably my only problem, is a lack of consistency. I mean the show is gorgeously shot, wonderfully directed, full of memorable imagery and incredible fight scenes and as far as toku goes, it feels pretty damn glossy and high concept. So at the same time, it just seems odd that the show is so full of such cheap and tacky props, and such uninteresting monster designs.

Makai Senki 09.

I would complain about yet MORE filler, but man the standalone episodes in this show are just so good. This episode was just pure insanity, and one of the rare times that toku is intentionally laugh out loud hilarious. Even the Horror looked better this week, although he was still a bit bland.

Makai Senki 10.

I can't tell if this episode was brilliant...or awful. I mean on the one hand there were some amazing visuals, and real imagination at play here and yet it also kinda felt like Leo got Kouga's girlfriend high as fuck and then the two of them went on a drug fuelled haze wander around the city. I kinda half expected them to wake up in a gutter somewhere.

Getting to see Leo fight though, was really something. Something about him makes me feel really uncomfortable, but his is an undeniably cool character.

Makai Senki 11.

As far as this show goes, this episode was a weak one. Despite being a central part of the franchise, romance is not this shows strong point...like at all and when they put direct focus on the romance, it only highlights just how poorly realised it all is and how little chemistry our core duo have.

If this is the quality of the romance we're going to get, it's best served in the small doses it's been served in so far, those scenes are usually charming, rather than coma inducing like it was here.

Thankfully the action was just wonderful this episode. The actual context for the action was rather muddled and confusing, but it looked absolutely incredible. It featured probably the best fights in the show yet and that says a lot as this season has had consistently some of the best action I've seen from toku, ever.