[NGW]

Gaaaaaah! It was sorta hard to appreciate this episode after the tease for next week. Looks like we FINALLY get to see what Takatora showed Micchy. Also more Bravo, woohoo!

But yeah, not a bad episode I suppose. I liked the fight between Kouta and Takatora at the end (mainly their initial confrontation and when Gaim was forced into his base orange arms), Sagara continued to be mysterious and teased more about Helheim choosing someone, and it looks like there may be a bit more to Minato than we currently have seen.

But damn that tease for next week.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I'm surprised we're only at 19, given how much has happened already.

Definitely. They have packed a ton into the first...less than half the series. It's astonishing really.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Meh.

I thought the episode started well, but then as the episode deteriorated into a poorly realised, and terribly animated toy commercial it kinda lost me. I'm really liking the Energy Riders, even if I'm so so on the suits, but I'm hating all these shitty looking lock vehicles, I thought this crap was for sentai.

Agreed. While I liked the rematch between Zangetsu and Gaim, especially because of what it is leading into, I really did not care for the tulip hoppers. I can forgive something like Suika Arms, that's basically this show's powerdizer equivalent, but we don't need a half dozen cg vehicles.

I do hope that things get changed up a bit in the fights though, as others have stated. I don't completely dislike what we've been getting recently, and I even liked this episode's fights for the most part, but when you compare it to what we got earlier on in the show it's definitely lacking in creativity. Hell we don't even really see much in the way of anyone switching between different arms. Hell, has Ryugen even used kiwi outside of the movie and briefly in one episode? It'd be nice if they changed things up a bit more. Now Gaim basically goes straight to jinba lemon, which kinda makes sense as it is significantly more powerful, but it makes for a bit more of a boring fight.