[Omnikaiser]

really pissed at the episode.

The show is certainly still enjoyable to watch, but the writers obviously turned their brain off so far.
Except for that scene between Aruto and Horobi (and it's just about the protags learning something obvious/that we already know), it's once again some kind of copy/paste of the 4 previous episodes except for the "who is the raider" mystery.

same dialogues. Same interactions between characters.
seriously, how many time should we have to suffer the "middle episode Gai is discussing with his chosen candidate and correct him that 99/100% is not acceptable, only 999 or 1000%" scene.
how much more uncreative can you be ? can't you find new things to say really ?

I still like the show very much, but if the beginning was full of promise, the current situation is a huge drop.
The show even corrected some past shows error, it had new fight angles and choreographies (where are the 1st person view fight of Ep2 ? where are the Ep1 finisher kind of shot ? I still have in mind that Ep1 shot just before the final kick that shows Aruto's foot on the ground with some kind of effect, that was cool).

We finally had a female main rider participating to the plot and transforming when needed, now she is nothing more than what Schesta is to the vice pres.

Speaking of which the vice pres/Schesta and that third guy trio also disappeared during this arc. The vice pres was an actor introduced at the press conference for the Zero One show. he is not supposed to disappear like that.

If we introduced a lot more new characters for the current arc I would kinda understand to put others on the side. But we just removed Jin for Gai so far. Still the same number of characters. You built cool characters so far in the first arc. Use them. They're still here.

many potential wasted in this arc so far.

EDIT : also forgot to mention that as someone said, we already know the outcome of this round.
If Hiden don't want to lose the "out of 5", they should win this one.
BUT
even if there could still be a twist like "Even if ZAIA wins the 3rd round, they decide that if Hiden wins one round only, it's ZAIA loss", just because Gai would like a complete victory, there is absolutely NO. WAY. that Kamen Rider will end an episode with an innocent man/character of the week be wrongly convicted.
Absolutely no suspense.

EDIT 2 : the only thing i could see work somehow, is that the accused actually IS guilty, but Bingo somehow win the case and the round for Hiden.
BUT
After the trial Aruto would realize the guy really is guilty and it was actually orchestrated by ZAIA to make him snap and go berserk when he realizes humagear can make serious consequences mistakes => which leads to cluster hopper somehow.