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Originally Posted by Switchblade

This was fine. Honestly felt more like a special effects demo than a proper story. The villain barely makes sense and the characters mostly just stand around saying catch phrases and shouting platitudes. The action was pretty good, though, and now that I know it exists I'm really disappointed that the Emotional Dragon suit was never used again. If it weren't for the fact that next week's episode of the show picks up on some of this it would probably be a complete throwaway.

But at least that boy got motivated to play soccer. Apparently, that was the major lesson to be learned here.

While I agree that this is nothing special, I don't agree with Bacht barely making sense. For what he is, his reasoning is pretty solid, warped as it might be.

Primarily because he's right. All his talk about hurrying the world along to its inevitable destruction is proven right very soon after this, in episode 15 of the show and the whole third Calibur plot.

And by turning his claims true, he goes from a stock nihilist to someone who legitimately wants to prevent unnecessary suffering because he knows it doesn't matter anyway.

Obviously, the special isn't really able to deliver something big here but still does well enough for the limited timeframe.

And honestly, given Bacht's "We'll meet again!" line, this very much feels more like an intro to the character than anything else. Got the feeling we'll get a good bit out of him in the show.