[DreamSword]

Episode XXII: Dreadly Focus

Today I learned that souls are shaped like Tetris blocks.

Anyway, here's a question I've had for awhile that I keep forgetting to ask: Why do only the Silver and Black Knights get horses?

Like, is it some epic level perk that only veteran Makai Knights get? They're clearly alchemic in nature, and considering the point of the show we're at I don't think horses for Garo and Gaia are ever going to actually show up. Just curious.

Oh, and it's revealed that even though the Watchdog Center still plans to let Mandosa have his way, German does not, and tries to take the now old man out directly. As expected. This does lead to one moment where Octavia gets burned by merely touching the Armor and... is that a thing? It's never come up until now, so I guess normal people aren't allowed to touch? Okay.

Anyway, we get to see that Mandosa took good precaution in setting up a ton of barriers on the way down to his lair, further showing his skills as an alchemist. Still makes me wonder why he's old now and how he survived getting eaten. But the one thing that stands in particular is a teleporter trap that sends the team to...



Modern day Japan?

I mean, the effect is cool and all, and I assume it's another shoutout to the live-action series, but this raises some serious questions. The main one one being: With this kind of power, how could Mandosa ever even be caught? If they were sent to another world/dimension, why not just hop to a different one, prepare all of your stuff, then come back? And if it's instead time travel, then that just raises a whole 'nother set of possibilities that I don't wanna think about.

Anyway, Mandosa also lends his magic to Octavia, who uses it to not turn into a Knight despite her drawing a halo, but instead, a Horror. One with a very Toku design, I might add.



Overall the episode isn't bad. It mainly exists just to explain that German isn't a lunatic and that the Witch Hunts were all a method of working towards a ritualistic sacrifice. It's just that, in the venture to do cool stuff to keep the episode going, it raises some questions that I feel they're not gonna answer. Such a shame.