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Episode 31 Butterfly Soar"
Yuan Shao is much like her character flaw, very simple. She is a two-faced liar with a fragile ego. Her desire is so petty we don’t even get to see her dream broken. So this episode cemented that Cao Cao and Sun Ce are meant to be parallels both being powerful Legend Heroes who are both rivals to Liu Bei even having similar angel devices mirroring each other.

Cao Cao challenges Liu Bei’s ethics and justice and Sun Ce challenges Liu Bei as a martial artist, the two biggest aspects of his characters. This two-parter is mostly about the two clashing ahead as well as seeing all three of them standing together is quite a change of pace which is a nice call back to episode 20. I can’t wait for when they're truly united as a team. Let’s talk about Sun Ce for the moment the biggest thing that stood out to me this episode was how he refuses to even entertain the notion of Liu Bei just attacking Yuan Shao despite his simple hot-headedness this show development and how his clashed with Liu Bei has informed him about who he is. Also, Zhuge Liang, just being a gremlin is the best at tricking Liu Bei, and the Sentai-Esque growing giant helps mix up the giant battles.

Episode 32 "Wish Granter"Episode 33 "Skunk's Love Erupts"

I’m starting to notice a trend where the 1st part Liu Bei isn’t in it and even the 2nd part is mostly a background character. I think this for the show’s benefit of allowing the other characters to take the spotlight even for one episode shows the confidence the writers have for these characters and the viewer’s investments. I’m so glad to see Diaochan again. She does bring out Cao Cao’s kindness and makes him more multi-layered than one might think of him. As for the new Legend Hero, tying his sub-plot back into Mi Zhu who I haven't seen in a while is nice.





The main love interest kind of got grating but her obsession with material wealth does feel better knowing the context of it being for her students and she’s most likely a one-off character so whatever. And Cao Cao getting L after L is amusing for his charter and is an entertaining highlight for me.

Episode 34 "Crisis of Flying Dragon Fist"

We finally see Hua Tua again after like 20+ episodes and this time I believe I figured out his identity. It's Zhang Jue considering their obsession with collecting Hero pieces. And as I was watching the reveal that Hua Tua can use Angel magic. The main meat and potatoes of the episode are Liu Bei’s traditional Flying Dragon Fist and Shangxiang’s new style clashing which even affects his Hero power output. For Liu Bei, this is something near and dear to his heart so he reacts negatively to it but with one inspiring beat down from Sun Ce later he realizes he’s been too dismissive. And in his rematch uses these techniques. And now we come to the real spectacle of the episode: the Pincer attack. Say guys, what do these scenes remind you of?


I can think of three other toku shows with fun and allowing us to see more of these suits are always a plus.