[Paladin]

Having identified the Nightmare dwelling within Sieg, Baku confronts him once again, and the decisive battle between Zeztz and Dawn begins!

[Frontier]

It's kind of surreal that this is the first time anyone in the supporting cast in the real world has actually seen Zeztz in the flesh, but now they get to see him in all his Ultimate Agent glory. And you know he's back in the game when he can say the mission name in English!

The way Zeztz Exdream transitioned from the real world to the dream world with Agent Baku falling...chef's kiss.

THEY REPLACED CATASTROM'S RIDER KICK IN THE OP WITH EXDREAM!!!!

It's kind of funny how Baku just dumped all the Baby Nightmares on NOX and Lady. NOX can handle it!

Dang, they're doing a full spy shootout, tanking bullets with dream armor!

Zeztz Exdream has its own dream door that lets Baku see the subconscious of the dreamer!!!

That shootout with Sieg felt like a dark parallel with Baku's initial spy dream. Once again an agent is shooting people, only more lethally and viciously, and they're an assassin instead of a spy. There's even a lady in a red dress!

Sieg was the son of a gang boss who got sold out by his dad, only to then turn into a dream assassin who would assassinate and kill the rich, powerful, and corrupt in their dreams and only add to his sentence and the amount of sins he had as he killed people and became an international sensation (even if the public didn't know it).

Then the Dream Learning with CODE introduced him to the Punish Gore Nightmare (Jun Fukuyama!) who shared his kink for bad dreams and punishing people and that's why they fused together to become one being.

Is Minami going to have to clean up the base and everything leftover from Baku's 20 years of belt building?

Paranormal Affairs is BACK! If only because of Nasuka roping Fujimi in! I do love how Fujimi refused to stand for the superintendent but then stood up when he said to sit.

Arize! Absolute! Rider! Zeztz Exdream!

Zeztz Exdream vs Dawn! Good dreams vs bad dreams! But no matter what you throw at Exdream, he shrugs it off and pounds you into the ground. Even if you manipulate the dream world around him, even if you end up tagging him, it doesn't matter...because this is HIS dream world now and HE controls it. And he's controlling it to BEAT YOU SENSELESS.

Where does Sieg end and the Punish Gore Nightmare begin? Do they even know any more? Does it matter? I guess Sieg was never the type who could have fought to protect others.

Rider Kick Duel! Or, with the power of Exdream, going back to before Dawn even used his Finisher to GREAT BANISH him for the Finish!!!!

Uh...RIP Sieg? Zeztz sure showed him a great time. But did he just wake up in the real world now? I doubt he's dead dead.

Odaka seemed almost proud of Baku saving the day there.

Looks like Threaky is about to initiate CODE: Somnia...and control dreams for CODE.

Next week: The gang all together! Baku vs CODE! Threaky trying to replicate the premonitory dream!

[JusticeMagnum]

We finally get a lore dump on Sieg and find out what his whole deal is it was cool to see.

ExDream's abilities were cool and the fight with Dawn was great (I'm honestly surprised Dawn held his own as well as he did during the fight). Also the music during the fight was excellent both the insert by BACK-ON and the bgm used during ExDream's finisher really elevated everything.

It'll be interesting to see next week how CODE tries to combat ExDream's busted abilities with their own dream altering shenanigans with CODE Somnia.

(Also I doubt Dawn's gone for good so I'm interested to see what they do with him if/when he returns).

[JusticeMagnum]

Also interesting thing to note is the ExDreams physical stats are actually slightly weaker than Catastrom (the only stats ExDream is better at is speed and jump height) but the thing that gives ExDream a massive edge is it's absolutely busted dream manipulation abilities.