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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

- Speaking of which, next week looks freakin' HYPE. I'll probably rave about it as much as everybody was raving about this episode. I'm always more about cool character stuff than the almighty Plot, so I guess that's no surprise.

Hm. See, I can't speak for anyone else, but a big part of why I liked this episode so much is because I would personally file it under the cool character stuff category at least as much as I would plot stuff. It did have plenty of cool character moments for Hiiro, for Parad, and definitely for Kuroto, who I actually think I'm enjoying more now than I have at any other point in the show.

While I suppose it doesn't make for an especially nuanced character, I do greatly enjoy how they're peeling back the facade of Kuroto as some sort of smooth villainous mastermind to show quite blatantly that he's really just a petty lunatic with a god complex the size of Jupiter. Because like, I don't think Kuroto is all that threatening--or I guess I mean, intimidating. He hasn't been since Level X Ex-Aid gave him a whooping in episode 13--hard to recover his image after that. Since then he's been coasting solely on his immortality, his alliance with Parad, and the amazing powers that come with being a dick. Seeing him further degrade into his true absurd self and seeing him being knocked down a few pegs in the same episode makes for some great entertainment.