[barnstenchfartface]

I think it speaks volumes about Ex-Aid that an episode like this, which they had to make to promote some random one-off Gashat, which should have been pointless and unnecessary, manages to be not only relevant, but emotional and actually good. Because this was a good episode. Obviously silly, but very good.

That being said, I too found it a little weird for Parad to be so put-off by Burgermon's grisly murder when he mindlessly offed Revol last episode just for messing with his game, but I do think it makes some sense the more I think about it. At the least, Burgermon wasn't a combatant, and for all the other shit Parad has done he's never himself attacked, or been directly implicit in attacking, innocents (as far as I can remember). The fights he's engaged in are that, fights, in a game setting. And Parad has always been into fair play. Back during the more episodic...episodes of the first arc, his whole thing was letting things play about and seeing whether the humans or Bugsters would turn out victorious. Just a couple episodes ago he stepped in to fight Snipe and Brave because Ex-Aid wasn't willing to--actually, looking back, he looked pretty unhappy about that situation then too. What happened to Burgermon was just a murder.

Another thing though, is that I wish they'd go a little more into Poppi being a Bugster and all that. Her reprimand of Hiiro calls back to the fact that she herself is one, but we still don't know how or why. After this episode we can infer that she didn't necessarily have to kill her host to stay around, but that only raises more questions. I wish they'd address all this soon. This episode would have been a good one to get into it, but oh well.

Anyways.

Did you see how Kuroto started doing a thing?

What the hell, dude. This is doing like the opposite of making you more threatening!

Also the insert song was p good.

Anyway, yeah, good ep.