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And with that, the first arc of Saber is over. All in all, it's messy, the passing isn't particularly good and just technically not as good as Zero-One, yet...

Yeah, I'm sorry, this show got me in its grasps. I've been on the edge of my seat every second I watched the episode live, couldn't wait till it was subbed and sucked up all the dialogue like a sponge. That is something I didn't feel in zero-One until like late '30s and certainly not during the end of the Metsu arc. Yeah, at this point, I'm enjoying Saber way more than zero-One.

It has this weird spark that makes all the admittedly janky parts of it combine into a stunning whole, something I never really felt during last year. I love the characters, find their struggles interesting, and am really intrigued where this is going. And Saber now has a good chance to deliver a structure to a Rider War, if they chose to go that way at least, I wanted to see for a while now. Heroes fighting heroes and not just a competition of assholes. We know these characters are true Riders, fighting with everything they have to protect the world, as seen in this episode. Having them fight now really makes it hard to just root for one in my opinion.

In short, I'm loving Saber, janky as it may be.