[Kiwami]

This was decent I guess.

Standout moments for me were Kentou's dialog with his dad (I'm glad I watched Sword of Logos-special before this) and Touma's lecture for Bacht. Forget swords, the fire chicken got murdered by words. Touma had some really great points to make, damn that was good. I'm a bit sad Bacht is gone, but his successor should prove interesting as well.

Now, the thing most people understandably got hyped for this week: Xross Saber.

...

Meh?

I'm 100% with their decision to make final forms simpler looking, Zero Two was brilliant IMO, but this doesn’t quite work as well for me. The paintjob is very nice, but it just doesn't interest me much. The powers are as generic as they could be; it's just another "all powers combined" final form with lots of CGI nonsense. For now at least, there is more coming, but the sword definitely just does "all the swords".

So yeah, this episode had its strong points, but none of them were directly related to the final form itself sadly.