[DecoyBlackMage]

Sooooooooo, those sure is some great friends you have there Touma.....

I think this might be the worst written episode so far overall, which is a shame because it did introduce some interesting new elements.

But, like Ghost, my biggest issue so far is the main rider, the overall character writing is just not good so far, and in a similar vein, I do not really have any idea of the Saber actors ability, but he feels like Ghost 2.0

Now the show is not yet in the bad catagory, it would be quite unfair to throw an entire season into that pile this early on, so I will give it the same benefit of the doubt I gave Ghost.

Even Ghost had elements I liked, and so far that is basically the same.

But dear lord the plot start for this new story arch is just really bad, to the point of I basically have to go " Oh, they are clearly under some sort of mind control ", which I actually hope is true because god damn the speed of which they turn on Touma is just so dumb, at least Blades I can understand, he has actual groundwork put there to make him turn against Touma, the rest ? Not so much.

If anything, characters like Buster have more groundwork for siding with Touma in seeing that something might be wrong here.