[Enchilada645]

Okay that might be a mistranslation, because Gulm (That's her name) is not Kouga's mother.

Kodama (The Butler) is like her son though. But yeah this is our first look into the Demon Beast Armor, a similar type of transformation to a Makai Knight's but a lot more grotesque a lot of the time. There's a few different types and we'll be seeing them as we truck along the franchise (or in Dreamsword's case, saw one already)

Also yeah, Lost Soul Beast also makes its debut here in which we basically get a desperate Kouga gunning for everything and not thinking straight. I remember being like "Oh... oh shit, so that's why we've constantly been reminded of the timer."

Because come on, they show the timer and talk about it occasionally in terms of how much time is left. You really think they wouldn't show the consequences?

But yeah in terms of the episode... that's the most I remember it for aside from the sick fight with Barago at the start and his spiel about Light and Darkness from what I recall that made me think "Kingdom Hearts?"