[Matrixbeast]

No, that's no bias. Ichijou is easily the best character in Kuuga. Proactive, likable, serious, clever, and just overall an amazing hero.
Kuuga may be the one wearing the belt, but I always felt Yusuke was just too relaxed in a series that's trying to be as serious as it is (Also not helped that, 9 times out of 10, he has to be told where the Grongi is by Ichijou and the police squad, so he's generally just sitting on his hands until then).

Anyway, Hibiki Volume 22.
Ibuki and Todoroki briefly get distracted by the Douji and Hime's, but they eventually manage to dispatch them. However, during all the fighting, Akira ends up injured, soon passing out. Soon afterwards, they let her rest in the car while sending out all their disc animals to survey the land, eventually finding something odd. It seems to be the porcupine bull, but the sounds are more like the flying viperfish. The two set out to find it for certain while the old man sends out Hibiki to help.
Their suspicions turn out to be correct as the cloaked man managed to fuse the two Makamou together, now a porcupine fishbull with a tentacle tail. It also seems impervious to their pure sound, shrugging off both Ibuki and Todoroki's finishers. Hibiki arrives to help, and they form a strategy to use all 3 attacks together. They do so, and it's awesome. To see the 3 work together is always cool (And I think this might be the first time...), and while they didn't synergize too well, I think the end result speaks for itself.

Back at the house, Asumu and Hitomi were working hard to comfort the old lady, and we find out the old man Hibiki ran to get was actually a doctor...Dude really needs a cell phone...
We see some more growth from Asumu in how much he helped, both in large and small ways until the doctor arrived.

This episode was cool. Cloaked figure still being too damn mysterious is still doing his thing, the monsters were dispatched without the Oni actually learning why they were working together or how they merged, so mysteries are still abound. I did like Hibiki and Ibuki poking fun at Todoroki as they tried to get him to do his post battle rock out session. Was fun.