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Faiz Episode 30
How in the name of Kami did Auto Vajin not get blown to bits by those missiles? I know he had a shield, but Kitazaki fired a shit ton at them. So much that I'm certain even with the shield AV should at least have some parts missing. I know he went offline and all, but he was shot out by a shit ton of missiles, he should at least have an arm or a leg blown off and in pieces, maybe some wires sticking out of his body and some of his plating blown off.

I'm surprised Yuji didn't push Takumi away earlier, like right after they got out of that building.

Takumi maybe if you told them the truth, they might actually consider your request of not seeing them anymore. I know you don't want to hurt them, but just tell them the truth. Better to be up front about it then lie, and let them find out on their own and possibly get hurt by it.

I'd say the same goes for Yuji, actually no, the same does go for Yuji. Though I'm guessing Yuka and Naoya won't be too shaken up about it seeing how it isn't Keitaro or Mari.

That smirk by Kusaka...

Please oh please give me a series of Naoya and Keitaro as a duo of some sorts. Be freaking hilarious.

And by appearance, we mean attitude.

So how exactly did these conversations come about anyways? Did Yuji and Yuka call up Mari and Takumi and ask them to come out for a little chat? And you know, how come Takumi and Yuka never talk about her being an Orphenoch, one who has actually killed humans? You'd think they talk it out and even about Keitaro.

Oh my God Keitaro, what did you do to your hair! You look like a member of X freaking Japan! Naoya looks cool but you, you just look hilarious And what's with the hopping?

That was quite the nice scene there between Takumi and Yuji. Very reminiscent of some of the other scenes they've had together in previous episodes. I really do like it when Faiz slows down like this and produces scenes such as this one. It isn't really subtle, but it sort of is.

Woah woah woah, where the hell did Takumi get the Faiz Gear from? He wasn't wearing it, and he didn't have a backpack on. Screw him showing up everywhere trouble is, him producing the belt out of thin blue is something that is distracting as all hell. Seriously, where the fuck did he get it from!?

The Orphenoch design by the way is lame. It's boring and comeared to the rest of the designs we've seen, uninspired. Then again it was for a throwaway character so hey, who am I too complain. Not like it was for a major character.

Kusaka be creeping.

Kusaka you are a lying sack of shit. You beith the one with the silver tongue. I like you bro, but you really can really get on my nerves sometimes with your manipulation.

Apparently another part of his change was his voice getting deeper. Though I'm just going to assume he's controlling it and making it sound like that.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. I see Kusaka's plan. He's going to pretend to be Faiz, and piss Yuji off to the point of hating Faiz again, and thus Takumi. Hot damn Kusaka is playing the game. Remind me never to play Risk with them. Or any team based game.

Holy shit Kusaka is being a busy bee this episode. He turned Yuji against Takumi, turned Takumi against Yuji, and nearly killed Sawada (he's probably going to appear again soon). He is being super evil today.

Kitazaki's pose after his henshin with the hands clapping is fucking perfect. Fits him like a tight ass glove.

Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's super bike!

Takumi has one too? And he wrecks it in it's first outing. Way to go Takumi!

Episode 30 has come and gone, marking my progress of being 3/5ths into the show. And what did this episode have to offer? More then the average bear, uh, I mean episode.

When it came to action, I thought the episode had damn nice action. Sure there wasn't a lot of it, but not many episodes have had a great deal of action. However what was present was pretty good. The main event was obviously the fight at the end between Kitazaki, Takumi, and Kusaka. It had some back and forth in it, but it was still mostly Delta in control. However it wasn't a squash as Takumi did put quite the fight up. I loved the part with them on the super jet motorcycles, though I do wish it went longer. It at one point came off as Matrix like, so it would have been cool to see more of that. But that fight, along with the others made for a good action packed episode.

Character development wise, I felt there was some, but not a whole lot. We saw Kusaka develop as more of an ass clown and manipulative douche. More importantly though, the relationship between Takumi and Yuji developed more. We saw them develop in my opinion from aquaintances to friends, and then thanks to Kusaka back to enemies. So quite the development for that pair of characters. We also got to see Naoya and Keitaro develop though. Mostly in appearance but I think they'll change in attitude a little bit. That was about it for development. All in all, it was fairly some good development.

Unfortunately there is a bit of a weak link, that being the story aspect. This one like some of the recent ones haven't really feature an in episode story, it only adding to ongoing plots and the overarching plot, specifically with Yuji and Takumi's relationship. For those bits, the story was good. But outside of that I didn't see much of a story. So when you add all of that up, the story was average as always for most episodes.

In total, episode 30 to me was better then 29, but does not reach the greatness of 27 or any of the episodes in the Kaixa introduction arc, or episode 2 for that matter. It's a real shame considering this is part of the Delta/Kitazaki story, which has been banging out good episodes and had a nice momentum to it. Not to mention it produced probably the only perfect episode of the series IMO with episode 27. But alast, the momentum is dying down, and we are returning to our average mixed bag episodes.