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You were far more boring than you should have been, Tim Toy.

Impressions:

I expected a lot more from Black Phantom’s return. Tim Toy was just lame. His toy power was sort of interesting, but all he really did was yell at them to use the boost and just stomp around. Fujiko had the highest quotient of sheer badassery, cutting off his mech’s arm and then punching through the damn thing to throttle Tim. Her little beamshot to take out the other arm was small potatoes compared to the other two shots. The rest of the girls really didn’t do anything. Even Kaoru just spiked a jet into the mech and didn’t even Absolute BEAAAAAAAAMU him over anything. *sigh*

What really put me off this episode was the sheer number of flashbacks to the previous Black Phantom episode. Throughout the episode, they popped back to pretty much the entire final 4 minutes or so of Kyosuke telling Minamoto that this is the birth of the Queen and the start of the war between normals and humans. Bleh. It’s not like Black Phantom was even being particularly clever here either. Send out martyr, figure out triple boost, ????, conquer world. Maybe try for something a little more clever next time. Really though, compared to Bullet pressing Kyosuke, getting oneshotted by Fujiko just made Tim Toy a joke in comparison.

Preview:

Minamoto’s past returns… Sweet Caroline.