[TF RyuShin]

Well, I kinda have a bit mixed feelings here. For some points, the plot are progressing much more and more and it keeps interesting. But, at the same time, there're still a lot of negative parts here. First, like what MarsHottentot said, they really need to divide between Asuna and Poppi's role cleverly. Since, it's really annoying to see Asuna acted like Poppi and otherwise vice versa. Most of the times, it felt so out of place and a bit tad weird. The dry comedies here also make it even worse... Also, I feel that the pacing in this episode was too fast or too disorganized. At one point, they want to focus on Graphite's human form debut, at other places, they want to focus on Genm and Emu's constant emotion changing. They crammed too many points in this episode that it got a bit mess here.

Also, despite many people might love the big gathering in this episode, I kinda dislike the big Rider gathering here. I mean we got 4-5 Riders appeared in the last episodes and seeing them being crammed in so much early episode like this feel nothing more than a toy commercial. Seeing that most of the characters aren't fleshed out making the Rider gathering was a bit flat. Not to be mean, but I think even if Kiriya or Taiga don't appear in this episode it will still proceed like usual; especially how you would make Kiriya to fare with Genm who used Level 3? I'm also confused why that robot Buster and Graphite didn't lend any hand to help Genm in his fight Ex-Aid. It felt so stupid that the robot Bugster only reacted when Ex-Aid prepared to smash him out!

Well, I don't really think that the action is the one who shone in this episode. I should give it to the plot since we got to see more of Emu's character. I don't really care so much to the other Riders, but seeing Emu's development in each episode is great! Also, seeing him to be mad really help to give more tension to the series. I don't think any naivete main Rider like Emu got so frustrated or so mad. I bet his split personality might backfire at him later. I hope the series also flesh out the other characters, since I felt that some of them are quite flat, except for Taiga. Also, seems like the ending scenes are made by Toei to troll the fans. Wow! Really, we knew that the black Ex-Aid's name is Genm, but almost no one could be sure it was DAN!! We got so trolled to think that Genm is either Graphite or even Parad.