[Dormamu]

Now this episode was pretty Brave.

Can someone answer me why the damsel in distress always has to show up in a white dress with heels? Seriously, she's in the forest of Helheim, and she's wearing heels. *facepalm

I think we should also change the name of "Talkin Toku" to "Ryouma's Shorts".

Okay enough puns. I didn't like this episode that much. Why? Because it feels like filler. If all they were going to do was turn Kouta into an orange Mario, then what was the point of creating all this tension? Seriously, it went from a Gaim version of the Expendables into a Power Rangers troupe real fast. What do I mean by that?

Okay, so we know that Mitsuzane has Mai. Fine, she's now a new resident at the hotel Helheim. And so now Kouta has to save her. No mention of his sister, his friends, anyone else that's hooked up to the sucky sucky machine.

Then we slowly lose in the tried and true method of each person stays to allow the next people to go through to the next stage. I will admit there was a lot of great action there. Water Chestnuts for the win.

But really it's more about allowing Ryouma to scheme and plot and twirl his mustache for another pointless reason, and Kouta is again left at the end running.

Things that still need to be resolved in around 11 episodes or less:

Getting your friends and your sister freed.
Getting Mai back.
Defeating Redyue
Defeating Mituzane and his grapes of wrath.
Defeating Rosyuo
Defeating Ryouma
Completely sealing Helheim off from the Earth.
Finding your scrot and coming to terms with people being jerks.

That's a pretty long list to accomplish. I just don't think all these are going to be done by the end, or worse, we're gonna get Bladed.