[GoldenXtreme]

Another good episode of Omega! Sorato is sick so he is stuck at home where he has to eat bland foods, while Kosei goes out to discover a new Meteo Kaiju at Rekiness's prompting. I found this episode particularly funny in some scenes, like the knockoff X Files theme that played over the faked video of Omega summoning shitty looking UFOs and Sorato's whole scene where he declared he will go to the hospital after he is better. But it was a pretty biting episode too, with a ruthless streamer who tries to stir up distrust against Omega for attention. It also debuts Trigaron, who honestly just looks really good for a quadrupedal kaiju. I'm a big fan of the design and how good it looks on motion. Omega and Trigaron's little hand to tail high-five was also adorable. I really appreciate how consistently useful the Meteo Kaiju are in this show, the Ultra series often struggles with making the human allies a big part of the battles. Once again Kosei is the only one who seems to be able to use the Meteo Kaiju (and Sorato still doesn't recognize them) but I don't think he has any special powers or anything, they just seem to respond to his bond with Omega. I still think my theory that they are transformed fragments of Omega's memories and powers is pretty sound. The episode ends with Sorato and Kosei officially friends! But, I can't help but find this a little foreboding considering two episodes ago we had an episode about a human-nonhuman friendship that ended sadly. I don't think that plot is going to repeat, but I think it will be important that the idea is on Sorato's mind. He'll probably take it pretty hard if Kosei ever gets hurt because of him.