[Paladin]

Baku's latest dream finds him in high school protecting fellow students from a Nightmare death game.

[Fish Sandwich]

First off, I just gotta say I really appreciate the consistent theming going on to name the episode "Shoot" and make sure it features not only a guest character running around with a gun, but NOX debuting a new gun-themed form, and another appearance from Stream just so ZEZTZ himself can have his gun too. (...even if I'm never sure where that sword comes from when the bike isn't around, but hey, it *is* a dream, I guess)

I'm not too sure what else I even want to say about this episode besides that it was quite strong, yet again, and I enjoyed it without caveats, again? Even though the episode preview gave us enough information to figure out the gist of what the real story was ahead of time, I really thought this one was clever in how it makes that pivot from seemingly being a fairly standard mission for Seven into something much bigger. It goes all in on overarching Plot stuff, but I appreciate that it's still within the usual structure of the two-parters so far.

So yeah, excited to see how this one wraps up, but beyond that, I only really have minor stuff I could comment on right now? I miss hearing Zero's English already? I wonder what NOX has against ZEZTZ having green Capsems? Silly little things, but it's still really nice to have the luxury of worrying about things like that after watching an episode of this show, compared to what would generally be weighing on my mind just a month or two ago.

[DreamSword]

Like half the two-parters in this show, I feel like my overall thoughts are gonna heavily depend on how the second part ends up.

I will say though, very cool premise that this episode has set up, at the very least. And it was cool to see Stream be alot more physical this time around.

[GoldenXtreme]

Solid enough this week I guess. I think what has been sticking out the most to me lately is how far out of his depth Baku is. He keeps getting lead on by CODE (and beaten up by his new boss), and is completely outclassed by NOX's power at this point. Watching the protagonist fail so much reminds me of some other toku, but I can't quite remember which...