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Build Fighters Try episode 9

This fight was damn intense but it sort of felt.... unsatisfying. In season 1, whenever Sei and Reiji got into a fight and pulled off badass new tricks, it felt rewarding and awesome. Here, I mean the Building Burning went all super sayian on that fugly Pink Victory ontop a G-fighter with destiny swords, but since we've been seeing crazy ass martial arts being pulled out this entire season, it feels... eh....

Episode 10

Was Mirai getting hit on by a sexy Glemy Toto? I can see why that rockstar would want a date with her to get to that..... upper chest region and articulate it a bit, if we're using gunpla terms here. Plus, that petit Beargguy had some awesome martial arts abilities.

Episode 11

Man, that dude with the huge ass Gundam that beat Yuuma at the end was a fucking dick. And seriously, nobody besides a prick would use something as fucking menacing with a giant HG with a cloak, giant hands with a gundam face on one, douchey fangs and a mechancial wing coat to cover the nasty wire tentacles.

Episode 12

Man, the Meijin fights really calmed me the fuck down. It was cool to see the ridiculous level of skill the Mejins had over Yuuma and Fumina. I think its most comparable to a fighting game, where depth, new techniques and styles are being perfected all the time.

But I guess this is where everybody gets their obligatory mid season upgrade from the way the story's going and the scans.

My overall thoughts on this first half is that the show doesn't wholeheartedly embrace a lot of the stuff that's in it, only because Build Fighters did it. Oh, we have to have a big breasted female authority figure of the main character who cheers him on to be in a relationship. And the rival builder character to the team's builder. And a Mejin. And a swimsuit episode. See my point?Build Fighters embraced those tropes by paying revernce to those elements intentionally and creating an awesome story. Whereas here, it just falls into the tropes.