[FairyKing]

Episode 5, and a new Phantom Core appears! Based on the glimpse of its robot we got last time, I figured it was probably the Boar, but nope, it's the Rat, and it... is... AWESOME! It love that it just adds gauntlets and a scarf onto the base suit, add-ons like that are one of my favorite ways of doing multiple forms in toku. And the shadowy flash-step power it gives Bataar makes for a very cool fight scene, more than making up for the downplayed one last episode.

Sun Wan Ning's repairman job continues to really endear him to me as a kindhearted yet down-to-earth protagonist, and it looks like it's setting up a future development too with that pig doll. Maybe the next core will be the Boar? Speaking of down-to-earth, so far I'm really liking how this show manages to touch on real social issues like workers being mistreated, financial stress and disposable consumer culture without getting overly preachy about them or having them predictably always be the source of the MOTW.

Oh, and Jiang Ling Chuan is there too, I guess... I'm glad they're not rushing his debut as Tamir and actually giving a sense of it taking time to make, but he really did nothing this episode. Well, maybe he'll recognize Hot Evil Lady as the one who gave him that core back in Ep.3 and not fall for whatever trap she has planned?