[Magnugiga]

I think you got all that right, besides that Yuuji clearly has the hots for Takumi, while Takumi likes... himself, I guess. He's the sort of guy who's more hyped in discovering who's gonna end up with whom, rather than doing it himself. Damn, they keep finding new ways to make him sneakily relatable.

This stretch of episodes... was the part where I did enjoy the Magnificent Seven interaction (as I always do), but the lack of world-building kinda bothered me. KR shows usually aren't good in developing the world and society around the core characters anyway, especially the less episodic ones, but it's particularly noticeable in Faiz where it kinda felt like the core characters just exist in their own cocoon and keep weirdly running into each other in a world where nobody else really exist; you just don't really get a good grasp on how an Orphnoch-infested world looks like besides the very few obligatory appearances from the police character.

On the other side, I was really sold on the potential drama between the seven core character, that every time the Smart Brain/Lucky Clover stuff came up, I got annoyed because their shit was just way less interesting. It's good that you get the villains' perspective yada yada, but I was so much more intrigued at the potential Faiz Quartet vs. Orphnoch Trio collision over anything else, especially with Kusaka being such a wild card and very atypical secondary Rider.