[NGW]

God damn what an episode, what a season. Holy crap!

Again, something that I really like, Yggdrasil really aren't the bad guys. We may be seeing this as Micchy going to "the dark side", but is he REALLY? We don't know what the endgame is, we don't know why Yggdrasil is doing what they're doing. We are seeing it from Kouta's perspective, more or less. And sure, the means may not be the most "good", but we don't even know the ends. They may very well be, as they say, doing this for the greater good.

As for Jinba Lemon. Again it's overall a pretty cool design, and it was really awesome in action, but I do wish it had an actual fruit form rather than just some nods here and there in the design. That and I hate that his weapon is just the same generic weapon all the energy riders have. I hate that the energy riders all have a generic weapon :[. Still a nice early season upgrade, even if it isn't as cool as most of the other arms.

Edit: Also really dig the theory that Zawame is a crafted reality by Yggdrasil and that Helheim is the real world. I don't really think that that is the direction they are going, especially with the bit about Helheim "choosing someone" at some point in the future, but it's a cool theory.

Oh and as for glossing over flaws/people liking things that are good, etc. Well Ryuki is not without its issues, but I loved that series so much I can even look passed the absolutely insulting final 10 minutes of it i.e. everything after they show Ren dead at the foot of Eri's bed.