[Suzu]

I generally liked the episode a lot. Gou is my favorite character in the show at this point and I love how much effort was put into fleshing out his character and giving him some conflict. While I would have love to see an individual upgrade for him that surpasses even Dead Heat (because I though it was sad that he doesn't have an upgrade that's not related to Drive), I love the conclusion that he can grow strong without constantly getting new forms. I also like how Belt explained how different Gou and Shinnosuke are and why Drive is the one that constantly gets upgrades while Mach is in stagnation.
What I didn't like that much is the combined finisher. While it was cool that they fought together, I would have liked it more if Mach would've defeated the Roidmude of his own, as a proof of his new strength. But at least they made it so it didn't ruin the episode completely by making Gou actually adressing the issue and agreeing to the teamwork. That made it feel like his spotlight wasn't completely stolen.

I really hope that with the next bunch of episodes, Shinnosuke will get some more conflict and development though. He has become a bit boring, which is a pity, because I really like both him and the actor a lot.