[TheRaizin]

This was a Very Special episode for Touma, Yuri, and Daishinji! Sugihara did a very well job on this one.

With the scene of Megid having a pile of Alter books and Touma and Mei going out to talk to people, it seems as though that while they were busy with Shingo, there were SEVERAL other people that Touma failed to save and became Megids. We of course see this when Megid went out to turn a lot of people into Megid, but could've been handwaved as just an introduction to many of the MOTWs to come. But this, it made it so that Touma, AND SOL FAILED their tasks of saving people. Of course they might make it so that you can still save the people completely turned into Megid, but it's still an interesting event to happen to Touma.

We learned that Daishinji's family are the first homosapien blacksmiths to create a Holy Sword and that being Rekka. Yuri also wielded both Kurayami and Saikou at some point.

We also learn that Seikens are also able to power themselves up which may explain how Slash was able to overpower Saber a few episodes ago. I also like how it made it so that it didn't matter what form Touma could use or what special attack he could throw, it had to be his own swordsmanship and his own Seiken that got Dashinji's guard off. This shows that Touma has a long way to grow past his "finisher throwing" style he used to pull back in Q1.

Daishinji is, so far, the best character in northern SOL. Goddamn Ogami and Rintarou need some screentime! Which may come soon as tomorrow has Blades and Buster go up against Saber.

Now, for Yuri. It's amusing to see Tassel actually play an active supporting role for Yuri, and that the "Story of ___" books can actually contain the abilities of a swordsman. Kinda makes sense considering each of the swordsmen are technically their own story, so of course they'd have WRBs about their stories.

As ridiculous as X-Swordsman looks, it... works? Yuri's appreciation for a dumb superhero comic works well for the silly design and powers of the form.

It's also interesting that Storious is innovating on how he can get to complete a WRB. Kinda also disappointed that Legeiel and Zooous have yet to do anything of worth and will probably just be killed off since Storious is the most active out of them all.

Loved that Dainshiji is the first to support Touma and with Ogami next. It'll be fun to see it all fall apart with Touma's super form, Primitive Dragon!