[Double]

Gotta bring some balance to the lovefest here I suppose.
The first half was amazing in how it balanced ther seriousness with an shot in the arm of Humor but still kept the gears of plot turning.

And then we get to second half where Shouichi comes back for the bottles, and man it crashed hard for me. I expected all the compliments to come from the first half and yep that's what it is.

We got a load of tropey crap that dragged on for far too long in the end. I like the idea that Sento was thinking if he needed to use his power-up because he did'nt want to go all-out on Master but other than that it was trope after trope like the last second save and Cross-Z being useless anyway. It was all Kamen Rider Tropes too to boot.
It was like they had this amazing set-up at the start and good resolution but a filler sandwich was what they had to resort to