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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

BTW, I must be into the new writers of Hibiki because whereas 21-29 were quite enjoyable, I have no idea what the hell just happened. Episode 30 just randomly throws in a new character who thinks Hibiki is his father while 32 just now introduced this trainer that is supposed to be all serious and yet, he is like the whackiest dude in the entire show. Not to mention a feudal version of the Hime and Douji just appeared randomly and for some reason started attacking the white and black dudes. What is going on here? This show has been all serious for 29 episdoes and then has just randomly throwing slapstick in there without a warning. I'm about ready to just turn the damn thing off and skip to the last two episodes because this is ridiculous.

Yep, you're into the new writer era. The show had really good ratings (no show since has matched it), but toy sales were crap and the location shots were eating a lot of money, so Toei canned the writers and producers and replaced them with Toshiki Inoue. From this point on the show basically becomes Faiz Lite and a lot of stuff is changed to make it more "conventional." Kiriya is probably the worst offense, as he's a blatant copy of the inter-character conflict douche that Inoue has been so fond of since Jetman. The new Douji and Hime are terrible, too, and a lot of the characters get their arcs seriously derailed (what happens to Akira is downright offensive). I'd stop now, yeah. For me, episode 29 will always be the series finale.