[GoldenXtreme]

I liked this episode overall in spite of some rough spots. George's Rider debut was surprisingly cool, I rather liked Ikki's whole battle in his own mind, and I'm excited to see where the show goes next. Heck, I even love the awful, gaudy Thunder Gale form! It reminds me of Ex-Aid, which I always loved for its absurd visual design. That being said, I do agree with a lot of the people in this thread that parts of the episode seemed... off. I still think there needs to be some acknowledgement that early on Ikki and Vice were really not in tune, which really makes me doubt Vice's intentions towards Ikki were fully altruistic when Ikki was a child. I regularly have this issue with Revice as a show, I can really get into a lot of aspects of it but there are often small details that just take me out of the experience.