[XW1n5t0nX]

Not going to lie, aside from the suit, Spectre didn't really impress me. For the moment he just seems like a generic "I'm strong you're weak my way is better" type of Rider. Now true we've had them in the past, but Spectre just seems a little too into that character type. Hopefully he gets something as the show goes on.

His introduction did give the episode a nice story however. I actually like that Takeru at the end of it still isn't sure about himself. This is a plot thread I would very much enjoy seeing throughout the show, or at least for a couple more episodes. But the whole school and mom thing was really pointless to me. They didn't really do anything with it and it pretty much just became set dressing for the Takeru/Spectre stuff. In the end, it should've probably just been cut or saved for later and just have the two meet over a random Ganma attack. I also didn't like that Tut appears and was collected apparently before the series starts. This will probably happen again, but it is irritating since with these being gotten by finding objects and what not, it makes it fun to see them discover the item and meaning and whatnot. Not just magically appear.

Spectre's henshin is pretty cool though. Really digged his henshin phrase. His weapon is utterly stupid looking though. But I'll give it Nobunaga's finisher, that was pretty cool. Ironically though, the Tut weapon is rather decent looking and has an ungodly shitty finisher.

Overall it isn't a bad episode, but I think it needed some tightening up.