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So this is my absolute favorite episode of Kiva unironically as there's a lot of things to love about it,

On the 86 side there's Yuri when confronting Otoya and the Arms Monsters about their attempts to white knight her taking charge and coming up with probably the best plan to defeat a major monster in the franchise, dupe him into becoming one of the riders and have it's drawbacks severely injure him.

While the 08 side is mainly setup for the last quarter of the show it does a really good job wrapping up Megumi's core story and allowing her to develop without this shadow hanging over her head

So yeah thank god that ProtoIxa is a total mess or odds are Rook would of actually killed all of them. And thank god the show actually let Yuri and Megumi transform into Ixa and deal the finishing blows in both eras as I feel there was a version of the script where it was Otoya and Naga who did the deed.

Another thing I love about this episode is that the moment Nago learned that Wataru was Kiva he immediately did a 180 on his opinion on Kiva, due to legitimately liking Wataru as a person. And while it's super terrible that it ruined the final lifeline Kengo had; that Nago wants to help Wataru in any way he can. As considering he was at one point basically Kusaka 2.0.