[Byg42]

As far as the episode goes, It was fine. Genm finally reveals himself to the others and it will be interesting to see how this changes up the character dynamics. Other than that though, there really wasn't much else to this episode. I mean we're still continuing how Emu develops as a doctor but honestly those have the least interesting parts of Ex-Aid in my opinion. We're still being given hints over why Emu was given the operation to use the Gamer Driver(a plot point that I believe should have been introduce a lot earlier than it did) and we finally have two of our four main riders actually working together(lets see how that develops next episode) Otherwise though the episode was okay.

Since we've just passed the first 10 or so episodes of Ex-Aid, I like to take the time to write about what I think of the show as of right now. Ex-Aid so far I find to be...........overwhelmingly okay. Not bad by any means but every time I finish an episode I always go "That was alright". I haven't had any feelings of dropping the show but I also don't have any excitement of wanting to watch the next episode. Every thing that the show is doing right now, even the parts that are good, just feel like stuff that I have seen before or done better. That being said though I do have some problems.

The pacing just kinda feels off which might be due to how the show doesn't really seem to know how to balance the multi rider aspect with the traditional MoTW formula. It's like one moment we see Emu interacting with our patient of the week, next moment we see the riders in Kuroto's office, next moment the riders are fighting a monster or each other, next moment we cut back to Emu with the patient and so on and so forth. Some episodes feel like they are doing way too much which makes some elements of the show most specifically the doctor aspect less developed and consequentially less interesting.

And then we have Emu himself. Emu..........really feels like he's just there most of the time. I mean yeah he's the main character, yeah he's the one that sort of gets all the other riders to start working together, yeah he's the one that's going to get the most power-ups. Otherwise though I find that he doesn't add much to the overall character dynamic of the series. Outside of Kiriya from the most recent episodes, the other characters don't really seem to change much or get anything added to their personality as a result of interacting with Emu. We also don't really see much of his gamer personality outside of battle and most of the time the show is emphasizing his naivete which honestly at points get infuriating(specifically episode 5).

So yeah that's what think about the show so far. Maybe I'm just burnt out from Kamen Rider but there are elements of the show I do like specifically the action scenes due to how creative they can get with game theme powers. Hopefully the show get's better from here on out.