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Honestly my feelings on this episode can be summed as: I get what its trying to do, but the end result feels just okay.

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The surpise twist with Fuwa basically boils down to:

• Fuwa: "I won't bow down to to you, I've grown as a character!"
  
• Gai: "Grown?! Your entire backstory is based on the fake memories I gave you!"

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Yua's final straw feels underwhelming considering she was already hesitatent but still complied with Gai torturing Fuwa through the Naki chip in his brain.

They could've easily gone with her being suspicious that Gai might've implanted false memories into her head, or possibly imply that some of her own memories were fabricated to explain why she was so subservient to Gai this whole time.

Regardless, that "70s/80s buddy cop movie"-style sequence at the end was fun.
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Aruto's part of the plot was...

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Personally I think the fight scenes are nice and all, but I feel like they could've been better if they had just reused the other Raider suits rather than make the two Horseshoe-Crab Raiders to get jobbed all the time.

Yeah Metal Cluster Hopper and Rampage Gatling would still curbstomp them and Thouser, but it would at least make Gai look semi-competent if instead of sending the exact same two lackeys each time, he would actually try to mix and match different Raiders together to create new and interesting strategies to compensate for the new power-gap he inadvertently created for himself.

Like in this episode imagine that instead of Gai showing up with the two Horseshoe-Crab Raiders again, suddenly Aruto had to deal with the Buffalo Raider in front while the Panda Raider was sniping him from afar.