[cosmicrescend0]

Oh boy, I know a lot might get heated about this episode? Let's go through this calmly and with our heads on straight!


-The livestream is geniunely one of the Director's smartest ideas? After a long string of baffling and even downright silly decisions, it's nice to see he can form a competent plan when he wants to. The "please don't kill the Igrashi siblings since we are family"

-Hikaru....Let's be clear, I don't particularly care for him, and I'd wager most of you also don't! But I do respect the attempt to do *something* with him that doesn't involve sitting in Weekend HQ or trailing after Sakura. Geniunely curious if this is a fluke (Genta is returning next week and the conflict seems to be Vail-centric, after all..) or they do plan on buliding upon him if he'll continue to be a Rider.

-Oh, Daiji....I'm happy to see that my theories about the loss of Kagerou being part of the cause of Daiji's recent behavior were correct! Dude's so impatient to dish out his own righteous justice that he's actively failing and mucking everything up! Nice to see that confirmed and all, but like.....how's this gonna pan out? He's actively endangering himself and the mission with his reckless behavior, so either something has the change or Daiji's gonna get himself/someone else killed. Interested to see what will happen.

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-I'd never thought I'd say this in a billion years but like. The Vice segment...might've been the 2nd most engaging part of the episode???? Of course, 90% of me saying this is purely because of the sheer potenial that lies within the conflict between Vail and Vice, and the matter of "a devil's pride", and making him confront the idea of Ikki discarding him someday. To me, it's a far better "last minute emotional dillema for our heroes to confront pre/during endgame" concept than "ooga booga what if we did that one Den-O plot but like, Worse!" I mean, it's been set up well-after all, Daiji has managed to "discard" Kagerou, so who's to say Ikki won't do the same to him? Really hope they don't drop the ball on this idea.

Uh oh! Looks like I forgotten a key element about Revice: all of Ikki's (and by extension Vice) problems/potenial issues get resvolved/sanded down super quickly! Like, yeah obviously Ikki would immediately refute Vice's fears, I shouldve expected that! But like...I'm kinda disappointed at Vail's answer to Vice going "Lol I'm just gonna do what I want as Vice, not a demon!", is barely much of anything? Like this was the only interesting bit of their dynamic, and now it's concluded so soon...

Anyway! Time for a little bet! Concerning that red Driver, I think it's pretty obvious who's it's *actually* for, right? (The driver's design, the presence of a certain red Vistamp that was obtained a while back) So....do you think the suit design is a kitbashed Jeanne, they're going to continue maul Demons to make another suit out of it, or taking elements from a non-Revice suit? (No way in hell they could pop out a wholly original Rider suit this late in the game, right?)