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Looking back it's kind of funny that 2/The Lady had to comment "At least act in the interest of National Defense", considering Sieg's extended sentence was specifically due to rampant acts of vigilante justice.

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As for the meat of this ep itself, it's a very visually impressive debut fight as always.

The speedrun through Sieg's backstory was expected since our (viewers) only real POV in this show is Baku's. Sieg's backstory itself was pretty basic, but doubt Sieg himself would've wanted it any other way.

It definitely solidifies the running theme that the Nightmares, despite all their power, are really just simple minded creatures. While the humans throughout the show are the ones with all the big plans and shadow-y manipulations.

The idea that Baku can now just drag in his opponents into shared premonitory dreams at any moment during a fight and subsequently just "nope" out if the end result is too bad is... honestly pretty terrifying, but Baku seems to at least be using this power while in a much better headspace than when he first got Catastrom. Speaking of which, I was curious to see how Baku plans to deal with Seig, since killing Nox was such a big deal for him. Kind of surprised it was just "Eh, fuck that guy." (I'm sure the show will figure out how bring Sieg back somehow later mind you, but for now it's: Baku 'kicked' him into sparkles and didn't look back)

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Next Week: Good lordy, 6 is finally back and they're sending her in solo against the Final form, poor gal just can't catch a break...