[FreshToku]

Let's not kid ourselves, women in this franchise have pretty consistently only ever served that role you just described. It's just that sometimes it's even more egregious than others...

I remember this episode pretty well if only because it comes directly after the giant hype-fest that was 34. I get that we need to relax a bit after that big double climax, but it was still a bit surreal for me to go straight from Kenzaki blowing up the monster in his shiny new form, to Kenzaki being bossed around by this completely new person who I had no reason to believe wasn't just a one-off. It's definitely cute, but I think I spent most of the episode asking myself 'okay but why. wasnt blade in the middle of something'.

The other character new character is a more intriguing, and maybe part of that is just that it's kinda fun to see Mutsuki at this point get beaten up. I'd say he's due to learn some humility at this point, and he probably wasn't going to learn it from any of our familiar cast (certainly not Tachibana!).

This is a complete aside but thinking back, I don't like just how often the episodes in Blade end in cliffhangers?! That's mainly because when I want to go back and catch some of the highlights I remember, I gotta go switch between two episodes. This very mild inconvenience that the show has no reason to account for is unacceptable!! zero out of spade ten.