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Time for SKIP to deal with their first proper alien encounter!

Wow, when aliens are involved Ishido goes from a reasonable and chill coffee lover to Netflix Dan "the only good alien is a dead alien" Moroboshi.

Undone by the alien hand signals...

I can imagine Ishido has a bunch of alien horror stories. They do say 1 in every 5 aliens in an Ultra show is actually not trying to conquer Earth. Though he also seems like he's just looking for an excuse to shoot an alien.

So Arc can trip up Yuma when he needs to do the "Yuma, look at this plot relevant thing" point.

Alien Coro feels like if Alien Pegassa mated with a bird. Also, poor guys' buddies just ditched him. Was that anomaly related to K-Day?

Shagong returns! And he's brought friends! Kind of early to be reusing Kaiju, but when you've got a great suit, best to make good use of it.

So there's an economic downturn going on amidst all these Kaiju attacks!?

Sometimes what matters more than anything is genuine human kindness and acceptance, complete with a running an inn montage. Also I wonder if Numa and the inn proprietress had a thing going beyond business.

Oh snap, he brought back the barrier fan! And it actually finished off one of the Shagong's! Too bad there's more! Good thing Arc has the Solis Armor, which can also be channeled through Arc Eye Sword for a finisher.

I didn't expect Numa to straight up try to kamikaze him, or for Arc to let the last Shagong go with a stern warning...but I guess there'd been enough death Plus, Numa survived!

I never quite linked imagination and empathy together like that, but it makes sense. It really feels like Ishido is learning a lot from Yuma in this show.

Next week: The first recap episode!