[Kiwami]

This episode was awesome. I officially love this show right now.

The way the show can juggle subplots and give you enough information to be satisfied while giving you a whole bunch of action every week is amazing.

Character-wise we not only get an interesting new character with Ryoma Jr., excuse me, Taiga, but he already works so well with the known characters and has a link to the Bugsters as well giving them some more focus too. That’s like… everything I missed during last year’s Rider show. And they do it well as early as episode three. Wow.

Even the more humor-based characters are cool. Hiiro’s dad has a funny quirk but it isn’t overplayed like the chief from Drive, and Poppi Papipopapu – eh, let’s just call her Asuna, well… I like her. I admit it; I like the silly comedic relief character! For one because she is allowed to act outside of said roll, and because her environment isn’t going crazy stupid whenever she is – I was expecting some cringy shit when she wanted to sing for the boy, but him just saying "No" with Asuna powering down immediately was actually kinda fun.

But the best thing about the episode was by far the action. Ho-ly shit. Not only are the game effects still there, they even add new ones with the point meter and the lifebar on the Riders’ chests which actually serves a purpose, but: It’s just so well done. The fighting choreography is awesome and I like how well the effects go with it. I expected to be tired of the "Hit" effects rather quickly but they fit so well I can’t help but like them.

Each Rider has his personal fighting style and it works so well. Not like the 3 dudes from last year who just kept hitting the enemies until they were allowed to Rider kick them in the face. And I like Kamen Rider Snipe's design too, even though shooters are among my least favorite gaming genres.

I could keep talking like this, but my point is clear: This is a simply fun show which does some really neat stuff and I hope it stays that way. Go Ex-Aid, go!