I was wondering if Takaiwa Seiji was still the primary suit actor. It really is amazing how he can convey totally different characters year after year. I’m feeling a lot more forgiving of the episode on my second watch-through. My criticism of Rider in recent years isn’t so much that it’s aiming you...

Whether you find Misao’s antics amusing or annoying, I think kudos should be given to TheWorld’s suit actor for conveying his mopey moods. That bit at the start of episode where he slumps down the wall when he feels left out was so expressive. Seeing AkaRanger up against Yamato, I’m guessing they ga...

I bit my tongue last week because it was just the preview, but I cannot believe that this show waited until the franchise was celebrating a milestone by bringing back the cast of the last anniversary cast to move their plot along. These are the types of episodes that I would forgive the plot for tak...

About your comment in the spoiler tag, Mac... I'd be tempted to say that the limited movement could be because of an injury, but I think character direction or costuming is to blame for Yui Koike not going all-out with the dance. If you look at the ending dance for the Go-Busters vs. Gokaiger, she d...

I’m so torn about this episode. It got a few laughs from me, but I’m not a fan of a clip show this early in the series. I get having the New Year’s episode be a clip show - it’s close to the end of the run of the series so it can be helpful to the audience (especially if they’re young) to refresh th...

Interesting conflict between the villains...I’m not entirely convinced that Genis is the villain who Cubal is biding his time to attack. Genis seems to be all about his amusement - it could be that he offered Cubal a spot as a Player because he knew Cubal would want to kill Azauld, who is practicall...

I've sworn pretty much from day one that Birdman was Yamato's dad. Not sure what you mean about Kazakiri not being a real Japanese surname, but anytime the writers have Amu observe something (especially if she has dialogue about it), it becomes important later. Nice catch with the flowers on the gra...

For everyone who gets upset that the team doesn't try to attack Naria before she grants the Continue, this episode kinda confirms what I've long-thought: Naria is more than capable of defending herself on the Blood Game playing field. My smoke detectors went off in the middle of watching the episode...

I cackled when Misao started wailing because he thought he blew up Yamato and Tusk. Perfect comedic timing. Using the little cubes to figure out the new mecha combination also had me giggling. Clever that they Misao’s special power is touch to round out the team. I was wondering why they gave Amu ta...

Kind of ironic that the DeathGaliens spent all last episode trying to recapture Misao, and they did it without even trying right off the bat this episode. Speaking of bats, I forgot Cube Koumori was debuting this episode. Honestly, I thought it was one of Azauld's cubes spying on Misao so he could f...

Kaoruuuuuu! When they announced that Garo was doing a special event with Japan Pro Wrestling, I figured it was going to be a wrestling match between two normal wrestlers using Garo names or something with Garo product placement. Instead, there really wasn't anything that I could identify as wrestlin...

I’ll respectfully disagree with you Takenoko - I thought Misao was hysterical, and the reactions the Zyumen had toward his ridiculousness (particularly Leo) were really entertaining. Could his shtick get old? Possibly. But this episode was the most fun I’ve had watching the show in a couple months. ...

There's a major disconnect between the footage that they shot for this sequence and the plot of the series. Maybe... maybe ...an argument can be made that the biting thing was supposed to be symbolic of the Amzaons instinct to eat human meat. But with such a strong story, I'm shocked they went for s...

Pretty disappointing all around. Genis' control over TheWorld was broken way too easily. I forgot about Kuma turning into Gold Panda because it was so out of left field and even the characters remarked about how it didn't make sense. It felt like very lazy writing. I do still enjoy how passionate Ya...

The more I write about this episode, the more I’m finding to nitpick, but I swear I enjoyed it. I’m very happy the episode title was not a tease. I’ve never quite settled in my mind whether I thought Ryuuga’s stuff was set in the distant future or just a more technologically advanced parallel univer...