[Kiwami]

Super-1, Episode 15:

There's a very interesting dynamic between Kazuya and the monster in this one. I really liked the setup, and Lion Thunder is a surprisingly kickass monster. I love the silly number-system for its mind control-beam attacks and ripping your own fangs out to transform them into swords is quite badass too.

But I feel like there wasn't much of a "battle of witts" as the episode promised. Kazuya literally just swapped out Lion Thunder's target with a decoy. You don't need to figure out where the attack is coming from to make that work. Since he figured out how it works it would've been better if it was countered directly instead.

That ending scene though... poor Kazuya.

Also, I'm sorry that I glossed over the two-parter episode 12 & 13, it was quite good. More martial arts-awesomeness and quite the struggle for our hero. A cool monster concept too. Although if "seeing" all your enemies moves is enough to defeat them then maybe get some camcorders Dogma. You don't need a matryoshka doll concept for your monster to do that.