[ArmadaPrime]

Wow.
Well, that was quite the episode.
I'm in agreement that Jonouchi as Kurokage should have taken out the grasshoper/cockroach kaijin thing to really drive home how much he's grown, though what hit my emotions so hard was how when transforming, as they highlighted by throwing the brief flashback in there, he used Hase's Kurokage transformation pose, rather than his standard Gridon one, to honour his fallen friend. That was powerful.

Whilst certainly not yet plot-wise, to me personally, Mitsuzane has finally been redeemed- and shaped, by the end of the episode, into a character that I really quite like. I think the crowning moment of him doing his original henshin pose was utterly fantastic, though I would really have liked to see him dancing again with the other beat riders by the end.
Takatora's proud little smile after the final fight melted my heart a little though, I'm so glad that he finally has something to smile about.
Kaito's final moments broke me. How he understood that this world was not suited for him, as he was unable to accept that life will go on even after terrible things, as the new kids at the shrine were doing, and then admitting that his lack of acceptance was his own weakness.
I daresay the whole frustration people have about Kougane/Jam wouldn't be quite so much the case had we been able to see the summer movie already and as such known a little bit more about the nature of the character, but iirc the DVD release of the film isn't too far away, so maybe it will make a little more sense after that!
(sorry the post is so spoilertag-heavy, but I know that some people are a lot more sensitive to spoilers than others, so figured I'd play it as safe as possible)