[Kiwami]

Wait, even Fish Sandwich didn’t like this one?

Well, now really is the time to step up and say: I liked this week’s episode just fine

Seriously, I don’t think this one is too similar to the last competition. Of course the skeleton is still the same: Competition between human and machine, human cheats, machine goes mad, contest restarts, human transforms into a bad guy.

But I don’t find the overall structure noticeably similar. This time the human gets his Raid Riser early and actively uses it to sabotage the ongoing competition instead of cheating during a contest and transforming out of despair later. I found this episode highly enjoyable and didn’t think it was all that similar to the last two-part story.

Also, this episode I realized that the way they have Aruto transform into different Zero-One forms so that Thouser has new powers to steal every week is actually done rather clever: The HumaGear that go berserk transform into Magia that Zero-One previously defeated with an effective countermeasure form, so instead of busting out Shining (Assault) Hopper every time he transforms into the form he knows is best suited for the job instead.