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When Jirou turns evil, there's a scene of gold light switching to silver, which might support my theory about Don Dragokuu (good Jirou) and Torabolt (bad Jirou) being split personalities. The silver tiger form itself hasn't showed up yet, but Torabolt might be influencing him indirectly, putting evil thoughts in his head to serve his goal of heroism. Kitou expressed concern about his abrupt execution idea to Tarou, so she was already on to Jirou's problematic behavior. Reminds me of another silver tiger man from Ryuki who had a warped idea about becoming a hero. Another problem with Jirou is that he's trained most of his life for this moment, so he doesn't really have any talent outside of being athletic, only basic competency. He can draw manga, but he self-inserts as a very unsubtle Mary Sue protagonist. He can recite haiku, but it's just redundant repetition. Everybody's annoyed with him. While Tarou is a superhero trying to become a regular dude, Jirou is a regular dude trying to become a superhero and failing at both. It'll be intriguing to see where this goes.

Inubrother's shuriken finally makes its debut and I was surprised by how he can shoot it in midair to change its trajectory. Feels like something you could do in a video game, which is very appropriate. It's cool how these weapons do more than they appear on the surface, like Onisister's missile kanabou.

Speaking of Onisister, we almost got to see Don Dragokuu Avatar Change in to her form, before Kitou knocked some sense in to him. Reminds me of how Hiiro almost became EX-Aid that one time. The way Dragokuu used their glasses like that was also surprising, since I presumed there was going to be some kind of conflict between Don Momotarou and Sarubrother here, but nope, that wasn't the real Sarubrother. It's also symbolic of how Jirou sees himself as the center of the world, instead of relying on companions, he becomes his companions. He's like that guy you find in an MMO who does his own thing and constantly blames teammates for their "mistakes".

Still not a fan of the superfluous Alters, but I love how much Dragokuu's looks like Montgomery Gator!