[FreshToku]

Really feels like during the last two dozen episodes, you keeping going back and forth between finding all new highs and all new lows with this show. It's pretty amazing.

I remember distinctly that I dismissed most of this episode from the get-go because, yeah, it is incredibly stupid and yet still meant to be somewhat serious, and I had been trying to ignore the fact that Castle Doran had a convenient time travel door after the last time they used it for Nago. I guess looking back at it now, I can maybe look past that and just appreciate the pathos of a bunch of people meeting their future son in a dramatic moment, and the image if Kiva and 1986 IXA fighting side-by-side is neat. Obviously not as iconic as the movie's version, but still.

Also an episode late to discuss, but I felt like saying now that I thiiink the triangle between Mio, Taiga and Wataru was the most interested I was in any character dynamics in this show. I do think Maya is cool, and she and Otoya getting closer is surprisingly engaging, but I never quite bought Yuri's stake in it so all the waiting around for that stuff to move along was kinda boring, but every second of the 08 love triangle was just so tinged with bloodthirsty and awkward tension in every direction that it got me kinda hooked!?

Of course, then Mio jumped in front of Wataru's spiky feet and I was like "oh, that's it, huh...". Like, I don't know what conclusion I was ultimately hoping for, but I'm pretty sure I was dreading (yet perhaps also sadly expecting) that the woman of this dynamic would just get abruptly offed for angst's sake, and sure enough...! Enjoy France, Mio...