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I liked this episode. Although the Riders up to this point are pretty psychopathic. Pretty much immediately we get introduced to psychopaths whereas Ryuki took a little bit to ramp up to the real crazies. The first few episodes of Ryuki Shinji was just learning the ropes and Ren was being an asshole, in this episode of Ex-aid we already got a person with very clear competitive motives.

I do like the idea of Emu having sort of an alternate personality when using the Gamer Driver, becoming more eccentric/possibly more skilled. Hope that plays into the plot. And we learn a little bit about Zero day. So wait, they've had Gamer Drivers and have been using them to deal with the Bugsters for 5 years?!? Wow. In that case, Emu's pretty late to the conflict, just as shit is heating up.

And thank you Ex-aid writers for having characters of the week I don't care about not be the main focus of the episode and further along the overall story arc. Although I hope the hospital gets tighter security in the future given 2 kids in 3 episodes have escaped.

Emu lost his Gashat? Wow. He'll probably get it back next episode though. I have no idea why the main Rider is forced to have a fight scene in every episode. Main Riders can't lose their powers for more than 1 episode for some reason because of this, as shown by stuff like Wizard.

I'm not a big fan of the bugsters talking (asides from the one Parad hangs out with), everything they say just all seems pointless to me. Unless the individual viruses' sentience is an important part of the plot later, I'd rather it be that they are nonverbal monsters like Ryuki and Gaim. I think it would also make their threat a lot more foreboding. This uncaring freak disease that comes from both bological and technological sources and takes familiar traits from both is a hell of a lot more interesting concept.