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This was definitely an episode that felt longer than it was. I actually paused the episode one point and was surprised that it had barely been ten minutes. It's not bad to see our main Rider have a romance storyline - that's a rare beast - but this one was just kind of bland. Mio's vomit-inducing date with Kengo was far more entertaining. I'm definitely glad to have Yuria Haga back, but I'm with you on this arc not being the strongest.

The '86 stuff... well, the main thing I have to say now is that I forgot which villain we were on and thought that the episode was going full Sentai with a fake wedding monster trap. There's more I want to say about it, but it will tie in to some later events so I'll come back to it.

Something I noticed about this one, though, and I'm afraid it will become common but hope it won't: this arc stopped doing the stained glass and whistle effect when switching time periods. There were definitely a couple times when I wasn't entirely sure which era we were in.