[DreamSword]

Episode 48: Ultimate Armament! Ultimate Ryukendo!

It's the final battle! Kinda.

It certainly has all the tellings of one. What if the enemy base touching down in the human world, and Bloody and Gold meeting their ends.

But by the end we're left with a couple of loose ends that prevent the story from ending in any sort of definitive way. We never see what becomes of Dr. Worm or Mechani-Moon, and Gren Ghost isn't quite dead yet.

As for the events of the episode itself, they're overall fun. It's alot of action beats as one should expect for a raid on the enemy fortress. And each fight that the Caster Warriors find themselves in has some cool detail or other that helps them to stand out.

The best one for me by far being Magna Ryugunoh's' final bout with Lady Gold, wherein he discovers the key weakness of his opponent: Her earring. It's the sort of neat detail that I had never actually noticed before, and when Fudo pointed it out I was pleasantly surprised. I also found myself appreciating how Koichi's' quest for vengeance never actually stopped being one, and he got it in the end.

Now it's not a perfect episode. There were a couple moments that made me scratch my head some, like Ryugunoh's' major leap in logic on figuring out that the generals had the Ultimate Keys in them, and how they're somehow the key to regeneration despite that contradicting everything we ever saw with Rock Crimson. But, it's whatever. The episode was still overall fun, and it's capsized off with a finisher from Ultimate Ryukendo that's so over the top that it kinda flips around to being genuinely cool.

So, I liked this. Quite the way of starting off the endgame.