[Fish Sandwich]

Keeping things simple this time and just sharing one of the general Fangire tracks that's in like every episode whenever a monster is about to do something bad. (Including this one, of course.)

This episode has one of those weirdly specific things that occasionally sticks in my head – in this case, Megumi's little brother criticizing her for not eating in a triangle or whatever, because I naturally had zero clue what he was on about, but apparently it is a real concept in Japan? (Megumi's whole energy in that scene is fantastic, by the way. Rewatching these bits of the show is really reminding me why I like her so much.)

The stuff with Shizuka resulted in me straight up kinda hating her at the time, but you know, time has passed, I'm a huge Hidenori Ishida fan now, and I think what he does with Shizuka here is hilarious; just going as over-the-top melodramatic as possible. The whole subplot is this unfortunate result of a character who's been left behind by the evolving status quo of Kiva's second half, but they at least picked a director for this script who knew how to have fun with that.