[Fish Sandwich]

Another absolutely magnificent episode, and if you think I'm apologizing for that pun, clearly you haven't seen it yet, because it really is the perfect description. Some thoughts:

- Kei went full on Game Master here. I've seen Christmas dinners with less ham.

- Until the show says otherwise my head-canon is that the thing under Riku's bed he's embarrassed about is Donshine fan-fiction and you can't prove me wrong!

- That being said, it's quite admirable how much Riku genuinely feels like a teenager. That can be a hard thing for writers to truly nail down, but Geed handles it with an unusual level of subtlety.

- Plot-critical conversations while playing Tekken = genius-level writing. I'm exaggerating, obviously, but it has no right to work as well as it did here. It even turns Riku wanting that PS4 into a payoff! This was a thing I loved about Orb too where every now and then things just go straight up avant-garde in the middle of an otherwise normal episode and somehow it all fits together.

- This applies to last week too but getting Zero the heck out of there was SO the right move for such an important plot. As much as I love the guy in this show, it needs to be called Ultraman Geed for a reason.

- That extra pumped delivery on the catchphrases during the transformation is right up there with Belial literally tearing through the screen when Thunder Breaster debuted as an example of why I think stock footage is great. When you have a status quo like that, it suddenly becomes really meaningful when you change it up.

- Next week's a clip show, oh no! Except Orb did a pretty nice job with its own recap episode, so I'm sure Geed can handle it.