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I'm pretty sure I had some things I wanted to say after this episode, but none of it really stuck with me. One of my biggest takeaways is that you can definitely see that Kiva wasn't fully operating out of the Den-O playbook. There's probably a lot to argue about how much Den-O immediately influenced Kiva vs. how much Kiva still operated by pre-Den-O standards. Den-O and the Phase 2 shows never would have killed the crossing guard and ramen cart guy. Honestly, that part just seemed really needlessly cruel, no matter how much I like the empty glass body effect.

Also failing to see some of the logic in Wataru and the Moth Fangire's views on Otoya. He's not a jerk because he played violin for some flowers? Not quite sure how that tracks since the measure of his douchiness is how he treats other people, not how he acts when he's alone (which, as his bath scene shows is, is still kinda creepy). Either way, the Fangire's plaid 80s outfit was fantastic (a disproportionate percentage of my posts in this thread are probably going to be me praising 80s fashion and hair).