[TheRaizin]

The Shindai Siblings, they'll come around. Ryoga is duty-bound as ever, and Reika only follows him around because of her fondness towards him. It's a bit of an issue considering she's lost most of her independence, but at least I can see her doubts in her face when Yuri was explaining stuff. But I mean as your older brother, he is a bigger authority most of the time.

Then there's Ren. He finally gets his ass kicked in with Touma, and the latter calling him out for his catchphrase. Of course it stirs stuff in Ren and we even get a small scene with him and KentoSpada (nice to see the suit back, totally not foreshadowing). It does somewhat make it so that Kento and Ren's relationships is really one-sided. Ren looks up to Kento highly, but I don't think Kento treats Ren in the same level as Rintarou or Touma, but appreciates him considering he is his student somewhat. Only making it more apparent once Touma was in the picture and Kento was now focused about Touma and his father. Ren will come around as well, considering what Touma said to him last. Ren doesn't really have anything to prove anymore, but I do like that the website says he's still buddy-buddy with Dezast after this.

Now for Kento. Ppl don't really like him all that much, huh? It's okay. I like him for the dum dum he is. He's been proven wrong by Touma over and over again despite what Kurayami has told him all the same. And that scares him, I think. He's already failed his mission due to Touma. What was left that Kurayami told him? The future where Touma dies, and of course he doesn't want that. He snatches Kurayami off of Yuri's hands and heads off, probably hoping that grasping Kurayami ought to tell him something again. But the little bird flies over and tells him that the future has changed. Who is that bird? Not Tassel, but the voice did make me think Hayato. It'll be Hayato who will finally convince Kento to join his Touma's side again as Espada. The trio is back! And Hayato takes up Calibur once more, back in the path of justice! I don't think permanent for Hayato, at least I hope this is a one-and-done thing just to get every rider on-screen. I'd like to be that the series ends with most of the new generation of the swordsmen instead of having some of the old one, still.

Yuri's great here, he's had a streak of losing as X-Swordman so it was nice to see him stand up to Solomon solo, and finally make use of both swords to seal him temporarily. Really shows why he and Calibur are the strongest swordsmen.

As for Falchion, yeah, I don't think Mei's tactics worked fully. But I think I think that is what causes him take action and face Touma once more instead of sitting around and waiting it. Ready to see if humanity really has changed. This time with an Emotional Dragon to stop him, that or he gets rekt by Cross Saber.

Next week, the 10 rider team up against Solomon! I'm not exactly sure if this is it for Solomon, but something tells me it is, and we move on to the actual actual final villain. Storious maybe. Hopefully. I really like Storious!

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Originally Posted by wiardisttra

Sooo.... how's the show, guys? All I can see is just about Kento transform into espada again and if I'm not wrong, its in the next week episode. Not today XD

We're 10-11 episodes away from the finale and so far Saber has been a very solid 6.5/10 for me. Not the best, not the worst, but when it really wants to do good at something, it can do it most of the time. Much like Zero-One, I really like the varying direction each episode and even bringing in new talent every once in a while. It's not perfect obviously, Q1 is still this fever dream of weird shenanigans where you can feel they want to tell something but everything is so bloated that it doesn't have the same hit as it's intended to have. The cast is nothing special, Touma's not really a special kind of protagonist, but I'm okay with that! I feel that it's not wrong to have generic protagonists like Touma every once in a while.

Especially when we had last year's Aruto whom didn't really have much character development (which is not a bad thing considering how proactive he is to the plot), a flat character with a unique turn near the end and whose actor had such a blast and heart at acting that made him worth the title of Reiwa's "Ichigou" according to his words..

Naito's not the best actor for his role (I think Yamaguchi, Rintarou, is a little better), but I feel that he really does want to put in the heart to his role as well, considering how hammy he is as Touma which I love dear god. In good hands, however, I think Touma can be a good protagonist, and one that is someone I could see getting better in future appearances. A Takeru-like situation. He's the protagonist that shouts out his heroic speeches, which is not everyone's cup of tea I'm sure, but again, I don't think it's wrong to have protagonists like that every once in a while.

Saber is a mixed show, and would probably something that'd be hard to get ppl into, but I like it for what it is regardless.