[TheRaizin]

Great debut all around. The visuals during the process of Haouken's summoning was stellar (heh) and the suit looks even better in action. It's a shame it's still a Brave Dragon repaint, but the context behind it and just visual looks is good enough and I'm excited for Dragon Lion Alangina!

Solomon's suit, however, does NOT look good in the dark, I can see the foam texture on his suit and it makes it look like a cosplay suit.

Back to Xross! There's a lot of neat details that was foreshadowed all the way back in episode six I think. You can see it in the link below, specifically on "bottom of page 2" part.

And this part too "Becoming the King of Power requires someone who can endure and draw out that power. And the sword that can handle the power."


The Haouken is that sword and putting even basic WRBs unleashes that books true power.

https://twitter.com/ZacEnzr/status/1318112411040288771

Xross Saber is also likely based on the Night of the Galactic Railroad Train, one which Kento and Touma acted on during, well, Kento's introduction.

That's enough for Xross Saber, we're finally at the point where Kento picks up Ikazuchi! Great stuff. Not sure on Hayato's presence here, but I'm assuming it's just a ghost-turned-glowing-butterfly by Tassel just to assist Kento. Souls and stuff like that aren't too wild for Saber. He was gone as quick as he returned. Though, this means Kento's now hanging around with two swords. Fine with me, I guess, it's sort of like Aruto having both Zero-One/Two drivers and dual-wielding riders are considered an upgrade in Saber, I guess. Dragon Alangina being ranked higher than Dragon Arthur in strength I think was something in a magazine.

As for Bacht, hmm... I don't think that was enough for me. Touma gave a speech, hit him, and he's gone. Touma basically told Bacht to "Move on! Stay positive!" which I find a bit iffy, since Bacht's been around for 1000 years according to him. And he was most likely was wallowing around in his lil book up till the "movie" and his revival. Same kind of issue with Touma's speech with Kamijou about trusting his friends, especially now that we know what Kamijou was going through. So, that was weird.

The Shindai Siblings, because I have to keep mentioning them since I like these two, Ryoga's fine here. He's piss mad which was amusing. I do wish Reika had one or two more lines, though. She was only "Okay, Onii-Sama" and "It's our duty!" here. She needs an episode for herself, which I'm hoping we get some of that next week. Since Ryoga seems to fall there, and Sabela has to go and get Touma's other books to get Crimson Saber (should've been Azure Saber, though).

Ren's cool, I hope more interaction with him and Dezast now that the latter has Kyomu. I also love how Dainshji is the most hype during Xross Saber's debut.

And that insert song...! Man, I already want to hear it! It sounds great so far!