[DreamSword]

Episode 45: Lady Mossa's Pride

I didn't like this episode at all. Infact, I dare say it's my most disliked in BIMA-X.

The premise is that the hook at the end of episode 43, where Mossa absorbed Draconer's' Power Stone goes absolutely nowhere.

Instead, she's immediately captured by Black Lord and gets ten Synthetic Power Stones shoved into her, causing her body to slowly degrade. And despite being the one to declare that she should never be forgiven, Ray wants to save her.

Sure, the episode can talk about how revenge is bad or whatever, and if you, the viewer, want to say that Ray is doing the right thing for taking pity on Mossa's' suffering despite everything that she's done, then you know, sure, fine. That's your prerogative.

Here's my hang up though: What makes Lady Mossa, or even her situation, at all special? All throughout this show both the audience and our heroes alike have seen how Black Lord treats his soldiers like trash and willingly experiments on them. So why should Mossa get any pity where no one else got any? I sure as heck never saw any attempts to save Zombie Draconer, for example.

If I hadn't stopped to look it up, I would've blamed this episode on Riku Sanjo, given how Kamen Rider Drive pulled a similar stunt and it's a big reason I ended up not liking that show. But no, this is all firmly on Daisuke Ishibashi with help from Junko Konmura, apparently? Given how this episode directly connects to episodes 42 and 43(to the point that episode 44 is outright ignored), why not just put this episode before 44 and thus create a three-parter?

What an absolute fumble of a follow up to the great emotional rides we've had over the past few episodes. You could've said that Rexor killed Mossa off screen and even that would've been preferable to this.