[DreamSword]

While I felt this episode was a tad bit weaker than the previous ones, I'm mostly with GrandComplete on this one. Heck, this moment alone justfaized the entire episode for me:



As for who I felt the best character in Faiz itself was, well...



Yuji Kiba, or as I liked to call him, the real main character of Faiz.

I was drawn into Yuji and his story right from the getgo. One theme in stories that I'm a huge sucker for is Duality, and Faiz had that in spades in its early days, instantly making me really into it for the first two acts. Yuji being a main protagonist while also being the "bad guy" in that he was the Horse Orphenoch was a great hook, and I really dug his arc on trying to hang onto his humanity despite almost everything in the world telling him not to, even going so far as try and bring peace and unity to both sides.

Add onto that the wonderful interplay he had with both Takumi and Faiz; Being a couple as Yuji and Takumi(they were so into eachother, don't even try to tell me otherwise), yet fierce enemies as the Horse Orphenoch and Kamen Rider Faiz... it made for some really great stuff!

...And then the third act of the show hit and undid all of that great atmosphere and character development onto of adding on a "moral" that the idea of peace and unity is for suckers and that true peace can only be brought about via the complete annihilation of the opposing side, to the point that Yuji goes crazy for very little reason and I was just so completely done with Faiz at that point.

Despite my personal hang ups with the third act of Faiz though, Yuji is a character I'll continue to look back on fondly for those first two acts. Wonderful stuff.