[Androzani84]

This is probably the worst episode of the series.

First off, Rcules’ reveal makes no goddamn sense. It basically requires you to throw out the massively despicable things he did in all of his major appearances and reimagine what comes off as arrogance (which makes some sense) as a needlessly complex gambit that literally could’ve been resolved without any fuss. And the fact the one telling us this is Kaguragi really doesn’t give any brownie points, given how he’s established he would sell his own grandmother for pennies.

Gira’s whole big speech at the end was massively unearned. He didn’t hear either Rcules’ monologue or Kaguragi’s explanation and he has no reason to assume that Rcules has heroic intentions. And there’s the fact this’ll be inevitably all for nothing, since there’s no way this is the end of Dagded (especially since none of the other bad guys have the necessary threat level or intimidation factor to be the final boss), or that they’ll get the chance to use Ohgercalibur ZERO on him again, makes this whole long gambit utterly pointless.

At most, I can praise this episode for finally endin the long, boring and frankly superfluous Rcules plotline.