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Okay really liked this episode, for the start of one of the end arcs of the series, this was pretty good.

They clearly address Drive, we get to see glimpses of Another Drive and Another Decade. We're continuing with Hiryu's story and I'm glad to see that he really is still bitter about what happened, even more so thanks to his defeat by Sougo and Geiz.

Like I was wondering if he was really just going to quit with Swartz just using Another Zi-O's reconstructed Ridewatch later in some scheme. Glad to see that even if Sougo tried to get him to move on, he can't. Really feels good that we don't have a villain that ends up resolving their issues and leaving good.

Also I just like the idea of "Our hero gets to his highest point only to have it all ripped out from underneath him to truly test him."

Like Sougo lost everything, his friendships, the only family he had, even if he has a powerful final form, that mental state is not good for anyone. So it makes sense that Grand Zi-O isn't performing in top gear. A lot of people only think of power levels, when mental states are also an important part of fights.

And let's not forget that Another Zi-O was matching Zi-O II back in the mid to late 20's, it took both Zi-O II and Geiz Revive to put him down temporarily. So Another Zi-O II having big rewriting abilities and being a match for Grand alongside being Grand's first opponent after a debut makes sense.

So yeah pretty good episode overall, can't wait to see where we go from here.