[Fish Sandwich]

Great episode as usual. Thinking to show us the guys who have to put Zero-One's bike back into space is a typical genius-level Takahashi idea, although it makes me further question why Aruto's phone doesn't directly turn into the bike when it was clearly designed to. I actually heard there's this genius physicist guy who totally figured this out like two years ago already, Hiden should really get in touch with him.

Anyways, the way it leads into a larger plot is quite fun, and Ikazuchi was a fun surprise. I presume he's going to be around for at least a bit, which is cool, but I'm confused as to why nobody thinks to grab the dang Dodo Key at the end. I get that Aruto is naturally going to be focused on helping Fuwa out, but Izu just takes her sweet time picking the Authorize Buster off the ground before leaving with everyone else. Are you guys trying to clear the company's name or not?!

What's also a mystery is why the Ark can pump out a new Progrise Key in like five seconds after just waking up from a coma when it takes Zea's sluggish systems like a whole day bare minimum. I guess Hiden pumped all their money into that first satellite and Zea is just the cheap replacement.

Oh, and more importantly, it's a mystery why it makes a Wolf Key, but, come on, this is Yuuya Takahashi we're talking about. Whereas in most shows, the throwaway dialogue we get here would be the explanation, with him it usually means there's a proper one coming later. I'm gonna wait until we know what the Ark's deal is before I get too upset about that. I hate to even suggest this, because on the face of it, I hate this theory, but uh, all you "Fuwa is totally a robot" peeps? We've never seen how he survived Daybreak, and we happen to be missing one member of MetsubouJinrai, which is something [I]Fuwa[I] points out? In this episode where it's shown that someone who survived Daybreak was basically allowed to do so to serve the bad guy's purposes?

I'm not saying it's going to happen, or that all of that will play into it, if it did. I'm just saying the will of the Ark might be a little more layered than we think.

For my regularly scheduled disagreement with Kiwami, I also liked Assault Wolf's debut quite a bit. It's not as flashy as Shining Hopper's, but the fact that it went in basically the polar opposite direction, showing Vulcan as this sturdy tank, shrugging off all attacks as he inevitably closes in on his foe, made for a nice contrast, and befitted a character motivated by pure, single-minded rage. It's a short but sweet scene.

Granted, it doesn't hurt that I still think Vulcan's BGM is the absolute bomb. Fuwa could be making a pie to that music and I'd say it's intense.

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Originally Posted by Omnikaiser

1) The not-a-spy guy is indeed the spy without him knowing, he was coded with some kind of leaking information orders (and later with "lead protags to daybreak please" because that needs to be explained if he wasn't aware) but after he transforms into his rider form his personality is like he was always a MJ.net general. It doesn't make sense

I'm not sure specifically what you're criticizing here, but on that last point, we know from Jin's first transformation that the Force Risers can reprogram Humagears the same way the ZetsumeRisers do, and the show makes it pretty clear Raiden got the same treatment as the usual Magia. He's still himself, more or less, but "kill all humans" replaced "space stuff" as his primary objective.

While this one is more of an assumption on my part, I also got the impression the "some kind of leaking information orders" was simply MetsubouJinrai hacking him so that whatever data Raiden gets is also fed directly to them. Like spyware, you know?