[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

That was the sound of Fish Sandwich twitching in agony without realizing why.

Joke's on you! The knowledge that you somehow ended up liking Ginga's first season gave me the strength to merely twitch in mild discomfort instead!

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Meanwhile, I still haven’t seen it

You know, I actually feel really bad about the fact that I haven't seen Max yet, either. It was on Crunchyroll all that time and I just, totally missed that huge window.

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I dislike the Tristrium suit and weapon. The suit isn't bad, but there's nothing really cool about it IMO.

I've heard it said Tri-Strium's appearance is based on ZAT's uniforms from Taro, but, eh... I think the resemblence is more of a happy accident than anything. I'd definitely say it's a cool suit, but it certainly lacks a unique identity.

Anyway, the show has been utterly fantastic as always. I didn't expect them to take the angle that Tregear was trying to turn Taiga into a junkie, but I'm extremely happy they did. It kept the plot from feeling like a repeat of Orb's own arc about falling into darkness, and simply on its own merits was super well done. Lots of great little touches in that two-parter, also, from Tregear calling Taro "Number 6", to Titas and Fuma doing the preview narration at the end of episode 15, and Hiroyuki calling back to Taiga's speech before he transformed in the premiere, a golden opportunity I was prepared to be legitimately upset about if they passed it up.

Not sure where the decision came from to suddenly introduce subtitles for the monster names, though, or that new shot in all the stock footage (even retroactively inserted into the recap episode's old clips!) that seems to serve no purpose other than to remind you the Taiga Spark is wireless.

That's really the only thing I can even kind of nitpick about this show right now, though. And on the other hand, I love the new ending theme, so it all works out!