[Matrixbeast]

Episodes 37 and 38.
Well, quite a lot happened in these two episodes.
First, Kameo spots the silhouette of a dragon on the moon. Naturally, no one else sees it. It turns out to be the coming of DaiJinRyuu, a being of destruction who is a neutral party in this war. Seeing Earth in constant turmoil, he decides that destroying it would be the best course of action to keep space balanced (Jeez, with that lurking over your shoulder, no wonder DaiMugen hates fighting). Dwarfing DaiRenOh and towering over many buildings, including the Tokyo Tower, fighting him would basically amount to kicking Godzilla's toes and expecting to take it down.

However, that's not all. Kou's birthday is soon approaching as YouRyoku is starting to emit from his body. Gouma takes this opportunity (Mainly Shadam, to spite his son's plan of waiting it out) to fill Kou with YouRyoku to mind control him.

With the constant fighting going on, DaiJinRyuu takes it on himself to kill everyone, traveling from country to country and wrecking the place, mainly wherever he finds the most strife. Kaku takes drastic action and walks into Gouma's front door (And we see he can perform YouRyoku, interesting). Meeting with Gouma the 15th, he demands a ceasefire. The answer is obvious, but DaiJinRyuu shows up with impeccable timing and begins to destroy their headquarters, causing Gouma the 15th to concede and a ceasefire is created. With the ceasefire, DaiJinRyuu relents his decision and returns to space. (However, in the stinger, Gouma just says that he'll keep attacking, only keeping an eye on DaiJinRyuu to make sure he doesn't return)

With Kou missing and under mind control, the Dairangers in a ceasefire with Gouma (Though they will probably break it next episode), and the city in pieces, these two episodes felt quite grand.

Something I enjoyed in these episodes were the scale of things. DaiJinRyuu's appearance was built up quite well, with multiple establishing shots to showcase just how large he was physically as well as how large of a threat he was. The tension was also upped by having the Dairangers aiding civilians, completely unable to compete against DaiJinRyuu. It felt like quite the crisis as all they could do was lift rubble and get people to safety as they watched the destruction occur.
The revelation that Kaku is hiding some kind of relation to Gouma is also pretty interesting. While I'm not surprised, I do want to know more of what's going on (I know Gouma the 15th greeted Kaku as "His old friend," but considering he's a villain with an ego, I'm assuming that's more of an asshole taunt and not taking it at face value).

Quite a lot went down in these two episodes, and I'm super curious if Gouma's decision to immediately go against the ceasefire will call DaiJinRyuu back anytime soon.