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Faiz Episode 18
Wait they're talking about the third belt this early?

I swear Keitaro could write a book on the philosophy of laundry. You know like how they have books explaining the philosophy behind stuff like Final Fantasy, Twilight, Halo, and a lot of other games, shows, and movies?

That building...is that the Tokyo Dome!?!

Only Takumi was cold Keitaro. Mari had a legitimate reason for not being able to assist you in your quest. It was only Takumi who showed coldness and didn't give a damn.

Oh my God a clown is an Orphenoch! Run! Hide your wife and lock up your kids!

Okay time for a thing I noted. I apologize in advance if this comes off as racist somehow. Is it just me, or does it seem like every toku program has at least one African American guy who speaks in both Japanese and English? I kid you not out of all of the toku I've watched there's always at least one, whether the role be major or minor. I don't have a problem with it, just find it odd that it seems to happen in nearly every show.

I like Keiko. She's got spunk. She's like a little Kusaka, except she's pleasant with her manipulativeness.

I don't care, both of your ways are creepy.

Faiz continues to make me hurt from laughing so much. I legit thought she was going to say "I don't like this flavor" and make Keitaro keep making it over and over. Oh and the idol request is a freaking riot, especially the concert part.

It does indeed seem like Yuji and Takumi are connected by fate. Something in the back of my head is making me think that they're related somehow, but who knows. Either way it's a nice relationship they have.

...I can't

And speaking of things that show all the time, it's that theater that actually does appear in almost every single Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.

Oh hey! Hikaru is the detective's daughter! I liked her when I saw her in whatever episode it was. And before realizing this I liked her in the scene at the salon. Combine the two and now I like her even more!

Huh wonder if Mari will speak up about knowing a girl named Keiko who told her that her parents are long gone...

The clown may be creepy but his Orphenoch form looks pretty cool. It does look pretty familiar though. It kinda reminds me of the one monster from Lost Galaxy that had an octopus for his head and put people to sleep.

Well that was 18. And unfortunately the streak of each episode being good to great consecutively has ended, as this is a pretty meh episode. Sad though it may be, it was bound to happen eventually.

There wasn't much of a story to the episode. You could say there was one with Keiko, but I'd say no. Though Keiko did prove useful for something in the episode, that being character development. Keiko has shown Keitaro that even though it's nice to help people, they can sometimes take advantage of this, pushing a person to his/her limits. I think snapping at her over the clothes was a pretty crappy scene, and honestly it didn't add anything. It's only purpose was to send Keiko off in the Orphenoch's direction with Keitaro following her to activate the Faiz signal. But outside of that part of it, I thought their scenes together were nice and did provide some fairly nice development for Keitaro.

This is the first episode however where I noticed something Locke brought up. Takumi sure did get to Keiko and Keitaro pretty fast. I don't know how he found them or how long it took him to get there (if that was indeed the Tokyo Dome and thus Tokyo Dome City, time spent getting there probably varies on Takumi's base location), but he appeared to get there pretty fast. However while weird it isn't something to get all worked about. Honestly I don't care and I'll just consider it a coincidence and probably will do so whenever something like it happens again. No use in over thinking it.

There wasn't much action either outside of the brief fight Takumi had, and it was your prototypical Faiz fight.

With all that I've said it probably gives off the impression that not only is the episode meh, but that it's pretty boring. In actuallity I found it entertaining. The parts with Keiko are great for how comedic they are, and the scene in the salon with Mari and Hikaru was a riot too (who gets that orgasmy over being called senpai?). So the episode is far from boring. It's just another meh episode.

The return to the good then alright format has returned, and 18 isn't the best episode, especially after watching a great one such as 17. But it could have been far worse. Nothing too spectacular with this one, just another average episode.