[TheRaizin]

I really liked the fight choreography here, I loved Gai just showing up behind a bench, umbrella in hand before throwing it away to transform. It was very welcoming to see the Valkyrie suit once again and have Yua get a punch in from Gai.

However, sorry to be coming in here to be such a downer, but this episode brought down Fuwa for me from a 9/10 to a 7/10. And a later movie bringing it down to a 6. I still really like him, but I was just not a fan of how he was handled.

I think Gai revealing to him his memories are fake really broke a huge deal about Fuwa's character. See, his rough childhood encounter with the humagears was sketch, yes. There were no casualties in Daybreak save for the one person who blew the place up.

(Slight tangent here on Daybreak, I see people saying Gai has a lot of blood on his hands, but I would like to say he actually doesn't because it was already stated that there were no casualties during Daybreak save for the one guy who signaled the evacuation and blew up the place, so at best Gai really only has one person. This is not me defending Gai, yet. Just like to let ppl kno)

But coming back to Fuwa, he had a rough encounter with humagears which caused a deep-seated hatred towards them that was only remedied once his life was saved by one, ending his prejudice towards them and believing in Aruto. I personally think making it so the memories were fake just ruins the journey Fuwa went through.

How do I say this, his prejudice towards the Humagears were fake, coded, a lie. It makes it seem like the steps he took to remove this hatred were not genuine and also removes all accountability on his part to take the steps and dump it all on Gai. It's also... kind of pointless for Gai to tell him that, only serving to add into the pile of "Gai's misdeeds of no reason"

One thing this also feeds into is the way Humagears are portrayed in this show. It being fake memories planted by a shady businessman furthers the notion that Humagears did nothing wrong and any concerns or legitimate fears about AI are non-existent. I don't want to be too philosophical, but I will say that I will
be.

Edit: Sorry again for being a downer. Especially with how rare I come on here to say anything. But I'd like to preface that I do have good things to say for Fuwa later in the show, specifically one concerning a new toy and also for two specific episodes for my five-horned golden boy.