[Blade Raider]

Solid episode. This is one of those episodes that makes me ask some questions that will be interesting to see play out.


We now know that Wiseman is making the Dragon stones. White Wizard is making sure the stones are getting the Haruto by having familiars spy and steal. But what doesn't add up here is why would Wiseman leave the stone alone? If he's making them, then he's already lost 2 that way. I'm not convinced yet that Wiseman and White Wizard are one and the same, but it's within reason to believe that these two are planing something, possibly together. If we assume they are working together (or even the same person), then the question is, of course, what's the end game?

I'm thinking the end game is exacting the dragon from Haruto. With every new Dragon form, the dragon can manifest more of his real body in the overworld. In the overworld, the Phantoms are all humanoid while in the underworld they are all huge [CGI] creatures. What if the end game is to fully manifest the dragon without the need of a human form?

Meanwhile, it's nice to see the show flat out confirm the Phantoms have the same human body/memories as the Gate they came from. It's be alluded to before, but not proven. To me, this means Koyomi's Phantom does not have a human form or Nega Koyomi is coming. Come to think of it, she's probably part of this plot too.

Whoa, didn't mean to go overboard on the speculation there. Regardless, this episode has "the plot thickens" written all over it and that can be entertaining to my imagination.