Decided to try and transcribe the stone tablet from the latest episode; no idea if the info actually spoils anything, so tagging just in case. Some parts are definitely more accurate this time, but only time will tell for sure Definitely didn't get everything right this time ("yi" isn't a ...

Huh. I remember Gold Storm got a darkness-related upgrade late in, so maybe they got the suit from there? For an episode without a lot of conflict (the Horror fight being incidental and very little even in the way of interpersonal conflict like 3 & 4), this was fairly engaging, with a heck of an...

Clip show episodes are nearly always awkward, so I'm not sure what to make of a clip show half-episode, especially when the rest of it introduces a major powerup. Likely preferable to a whole clip show episode, anyway. It's probably there because we've hit the halfway point? Interesting that Gotchar...

Losing a knight is always tragic, but I think this could have been avoided if the crew had donned the Hagane before or at least partway into the fight? As Take noted earlier, the main issue is probably the budget, but without a stated time limit to worry about, I don't see an in-world reason why the...

I'll always be up for a story about well-intentioned and widespread but ultimately shallow and problematic happiness; in this case the problem was more hands-on than philosophical (finding meaning in life through a cult of personality is creepy even without the vampirism. Call it an allegory?), but ...

^ This does feel kind of like a small third party realized YwTM was 10 years old, asked Amemiya really nicely, and could only afford Ryuuga, Zaruba, and the Gold Storm suit (and maybe a paintbrush prop or two). Even the music and sting ubiquitous in the last show is absent here, and the premise of R...

Judging from a couple screenshots, it looks like they're the same. I wasn't able to find any keys or related work, so I just started the attempt from scratch. I was surprised that I couldn't find anything relevant, though; has it been worked out elsewhere?

Looks like the Makai language symbols form a functional cipher! The HwTM stone's inscription being read aloud helped me get through Mutsugi's message in HwTM #1; between those two, all that are missing are L, P, Q, V, and X. The only one of those that natively appears in Japanese is P--we only have ...

Why is he wet sounding? No Horror form for this boss? That's slightly disappointing, especially since we haven't had one since ep 2 Exactly! It's sad but it is confirmed that this is a low budget project and so far it looks like the budget is even less than the budget that they had for JINGA. That ...

So, pretty much the opposite of the last episode in every way. There's a load of action and fight choreography, but very little in the way of character development, exposition, or story beats, outside Souma's willingness to join and Ryuuga's phone call as book-ends. I'm not sure if it was due to the...

A single episode without any armor is a choice, but two in a row is a bold one. (Or, alternatively, they really want to conserve their budget.) This feels like everything the last episode had and more: much like the last one, it allows us to spend some time with the characters' day to day lives, but...

This kind of had the same effect on me as the last one, feeling more like an edgy direct-to-video/TTFC spinoff than a real episode; I suspect the apparent switch back to comedy next time will be rather strange in contrast. I appreciate the more stylish shots and editing in this episode, and we now k...

Had some other thoughts: At the expense of stating what might be obvious, I realized the series subname must refer to Souma, as he is the heir to his father's Hagane in a general legacy sense Ryuuga having started his story with a depowered suit adds some depth to his line about being the Golden Kni...

Huh. I think it improved Spanner? The change in tone from most previous episodes was jarring, with massive differences in story, subject matter (childhood PTSD?), or even makeup; I think this was the intent, but I'm still not sure whether it worked. It feels more like a TTFC special or V-Cinema than...

Plugging Dougai/道外 into Google Translate did give me "outside Hokkaido;" I recognize the second kanji as referring to outside, but I'm surprised they didn't have some human translation aspect that would've caught this. (When I first saw it, though, I thought Isugu was saying "Man, I c...