[Galvantula]

At long last Hurricane Dragon shows up!

Shupei believes that Haruto can teach him magic. How will Haruto break it to him that without Cyclops, he's powerless?

What horrors await Tetsuya at the Wagashi shop? What do the Phantoms want with him?

Could Wiseman be right in wanting to turn all Gates to Phantom? Are the Gates just too dangerous to allowed to be free?

Discuss! PLEASE!

[Den-O]

Discuss the magic!

[bluesparrow]

Enjoyable episode. Didn't mind Shunpei as much as I'd feared. I actually laughed a couple of times.

Interesting overview of the sweets shop. It made me want the manjū more than donuts!

It seems like using the Dragon modes has no real detrimental effect on Haruto, considering how quickly he resorts to them. And their rollout is so predictable. From the preview for next week it's already fairly clear that he'll defeat Valkyrie easily, then Medusa will kick his ass until he uses the Hurricane Dragon finisher(wings).

I'm really hoping some sort of overarching story thread gets introduced soon. Teasing us about Wiseman is only interesting for so long.

[areaseven]

This episode's made me very hungry.

[Kagezuno]

Some raw-viewing thoughts:

Valkyrie looks a little Hellhound-ish, and it's very odd that a "valkyrie" would be a dude in costume, but this is the same show that made a "gnome" a croissant, so there you go.

It was also very cool seeing the opening with the promos for "Ultimatum."

[Matrixbeast]

So, watched the episode.
Shunpei was fun to watch. Still my favorite character.
I'm not sure if Wizard's writers are just making the characters of the week just so interesting to watch, or if Haruto is just so boring that the CotW just look so much more interesting in comparison...Time will tell.

Anyway, considering the upgrades, the Dragon forms never had any sort of detrimental effect. Sure, Flame Dragon had him confront the Dragon Phantom inside him, but using it in the real world had no additional effects. However, this does beg the question of, since the Dragon forms are all just upgraded forms of his base 4, why does he start in standard Fire instead of just jumping straight to Flame Dragon a la Emperor Kiva?

[Switchblade]

God, I fucking hate Shunpei. A good episode, but his stupid antics really brought it down (the bit where he randomly accused people of being a Phantom was funny, but the part where he was selling candy just dragged). I'm sure I'm not the only one whose response to the cliffhanger was "Do it! Kill them both!"

[ZeoRangerV]

Well that was a fairly dull episode. I don't love or hate Shunpei and his stupid tights but much like most of the cast at the moment he just bores me. Credit where credit is due though at least he has an obvious personality.

Very underwhelmed by Hurricane Dragon too. I was hoping we'd get to see the dragon taunt Haruto about using his powers again or something along those lines. I really hope it comes back up again when the other three dragons styles are introduced.

[KRX]

Shunpei obviously has some issues from his childhood that he really needs to deal with. This episode has made it that much clearer. I don't hate him- I feel sorry for the guy. I hate the person who made Shunpei that way.

[Barricade64]

This episode was ok, I probably would have felt better about it if I hadn't watched Go-Busters first as that was pretty good. I do like this week's Phantom though, and the Octopus mascot was awesome.