[Nokination]

This is a fine episode, it contains things I really like, but it also has some issues, and yet it's probably my favorite of the series. This episode I barely feel as if I can describe, it's filled with so many things to discuss that it's hard to focus on one specifically, this episode has many things that I personally predicted would happen, such as Izu dying and (this is obvious to expect from Kamen Rider) the main hero getting a berserk/evil form, but while I do like those plot beats, the rest isn't as great.

Like, why would Izu go on her own, to face someone who will likely kill her, when she knows that she can't be backed up? Izu has never shown to be illogical like that even if she thinks that she can supposedly convince Horobi that what he's doing is bad, which is obviously a very bad idea. Aside from that, Azu returns, I remember a lot of people back then thinking that Azu was only here for the recap specials, so it's nice to see her again, well not that nice considering what she does, but I'm glad she reappeared.

I don't even know if I can describe my thoughts on the rest of this episode, just that I didn't really like quite a few of its aspects, though I do like Aruto becoming the host for the Ark, but I wish that hadn't happened literally one episode after the Ark was supposedly defeated. I still really like this episode and some of its elements, but s bit of it wasn't too great, but even besides those bad elements, for some reason, I really like this episode and I'd probably call it my favorite in the series even if it has quite a few not so great things.