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EDIT: Well, looks like I just barely got beat to the punch on the link, so I'll just make this post my thoughts instead.

I thought this one was noticeably more clumsy than usual about how it presents the older material to the audience. I don't remember straight up flashbacks to old episodes and/or movies really being something the New Generation shows bust out in this manner, and having a scene of Riku meeting with Juggler essentially takes the perspective of the episode away from Haruki, making it that much weirder to anyone who hasn't seen Geed. It's still not anything majorly problematic, but I have to wonder if this was really the best choice of structure.

I did love just about everything else, though. Galaxy Rising is... I don't want to say a cool form, but I don't mind seeing it at all. Just, you know, go have Hikari fix up that Geed Riser ASAP, Riku, okay? Anyway, as much as I worry about the people only watching Z, as a massive fan of Geed, I can't not be happy seeing him again, with his theme song AND his insert song, no less! Riku's stock footage transformation stuff with the Z Riser also seemed notably more cool and dynamic to me than Haruki's, which I guess is just a perk of being a pro at this by now. The idea of his potential dynamic with Z is also fun for the few brief glimpses we get of it here, since Z himself took a major hit to his own screentime to fit everything else in.