[Fish Sandwich]

Going for that proper penultimate episode "stuff about to go down" vibe with today's track, King's Wrath, which makes a pretty great choice for the opening here as Taiga and Wataru are fighting each other while the background explodes and then fighting a gang of resurrected Fangire while the background explodes even more.

...And besides pointing out how much I love both cool explosions as well as how there's specifically a bit where Kiva and Saga somehow end up working together in the middle of their grudge match, it's a bit hard to kick in much more about this episode by itself for exactly the reasons Die brought up. ...Oh, and Wataru's silly King voice! I love that too! Between the abrupt total change in mannerisms and the clothes, you know he's really making an effort here.

A bit more seriously, I do quite like that Nago explicitly offers the Ixa Knuckle to Megumi. I seem to recall Inoue did this exact melodramatic late series shlocky blindness thing with G3, but for whatever reason, Nago's version of it was way more memorable to me? That's not to say it's necessarily some genius plotting decision or anything, or me trying to diss Agito, which I would never want to do, because Agito is awesome, but I can definitely see what Kiva was aiming for by having Nago's ultimate challenge for the climax be something so humbling for him. Just imagine for a second how extra poorly pre-753 Nago would be handling this situation.