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Originally Posted by IXRollOutIX

7 or 8 episodes, actually.

Huh, thought it was episode 26 for some reason.

Still, that's a couple of months since we last saw him, more than a month in-story, and we just have no idea whatsoever what he's doing. He hadn't even been mentioned in ages and now he just randomly pops out in the forest where Alain also randomly appeared. And they fight...randomly.

It's like they wanted to show the fruits of Alain's training, but didn't want to have him face Wind because...why? Wind was the reason he started feeling all useless. So they decided instead he should fight a Ganma Superior, which makes sense because it isn't like Ganma Superior are just cannonfodder that get destroyed on a weekly basis now...yeah. This entire fight was a non-sequitur. So...yay, Alain is now strong enough to beat one monster he easily destroyed two of just two episodes ago in his base form. Amazing.

The idol stuff was also pretty awful now that I think about it. Last episode it was all driven by the telepathy, but this episode that didn't get brought up once until the very end where it was just handwaved away. Instead it was replaced with an obnoxious generic idol episode and...urghh.

Even if I didn't hate the idol stuff, this episode was terrible, and didn't even really follow from 36.