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I really enjoyed Kamen Rider Zetsu Episode 5,

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which was called Crash, where... Well, there's

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a little theme of secrets going on here, and

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I wanted to talk about that because I liked it

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overall. You can check out my quick reactions

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on my reaction video, which may or may not be

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linked here. I don't know. It's probably off

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to the side. But anyway, yeah, there's secrets

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going on. So we've got a few secrets. We have

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Baku hiding the secret of his... existence as

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Zets from his sister. We have the detectives

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who are working off the books, basically, who

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have broken into his place, and they are aligning

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themselves with him by, they snuck into his window,

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and they, you know, just went into a secret room.

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Somehow they found it. I don't know how. It's

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not really explained. Whatever. While he was

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sleeping, I guess they must have looked in his

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closet, which is kind of silly. And then the

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bride here has secrets. The secrets are not what

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we think they are. I believe her name is Miku.

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Is that right? Miku? Anyway, something like that.

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But she has secrets here. Really, the secret

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and the, not the impetus, but the thing that

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is fueling the nightmare is the fact that she's

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afraid of heights and she's going to get married

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and then fly on a plane to go to her honeymoon

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to go to America so that she can honeymoon in

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America. And it's not a good idea because...

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she's afraid of flying. She's afraid of heights

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and she doesn't want to get on the plane. So

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subconsciously she wants the wedding to be ruined.

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She wants to be kidnapped and taken away so that

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she can avoid this terror, avoid this horror,

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avoid this thing that she's scared of. And I'm

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honestly a little bit worried about, I'll get

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back to the secrets thing, but I'm honestly a

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little bit worried about the message that's being

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said here because I think it's unclear and it's

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incorrect, which is really the problem. But,

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I don't know. We'll discuss it in a little bit.

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I'm worried that the show is saying run away

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from the things that you're afraid of and don't

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deal with them and don't deal with your fears.

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I don't know that it's actually saying that.

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It's too early to say that's the case. I'll wait

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for two more cases that end in a similar way

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where somebody's just able to avoid the thing

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that's causing them trouble as opposed to Baku

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helping them or Zets helping them to work through

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it. I think that's a really good angle. And I've

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been working on tokusatsu stuff of my own, or

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tension hero stories, I should say. And the longer

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I work on it, the more I think, okay, well, how

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do I slow this down? And how do I not just go

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to straight up, this guy's fixing everything

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for everybody. And he instantly knows how to

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do this. And he's this wise, wise person who

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has all this experience. Baku's 18, 20 at the

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most, I think. And he doesn't necessarily, he's

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not equipped. to handle all these things. He's

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not equipped to help people overcome their fears

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and work through their bad dreams and their nightmares,

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work through the skeletons in their closets,

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the things that are in their subconscious. He's

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not equipped for that. So it's kind of bad for

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me to assume that he should be or to expect that

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of him. And therefore, I'm not. I'm pulling back

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on that criticism and I'm not disliking it. I'm

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accepting it for where it is right now. However,

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like I said, if there does emerge a pattern where

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it's just... he solves people's problems for

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them, or rather, he obfuscates their issues and

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lets them hide and run away from their problems,

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that's not good. And we'll have to see if that's

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how it turns out. I doubt it. I don't think Yutakashi

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is going to be that careless. But anyway, I have

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my ability to look at all these beautiful pictures,

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so I will talk about more stuff. Wing suit is

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very cool. So this is a henshin hero show tokusatsu.

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Let's talk about the effects Let's talk about

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the story stuff because overall the story stuff

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was good and I want to get to some lore Tidbits

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at the end, but first let's talk suits. So I

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absolutely love the the wing suit again this

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this little 8 -bit thing inside the capsums really

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bothers me My only hope, my only justification

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for it, or my only hope is that they redeem it

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by saying that the capsules were developed in

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the 1980s or 1990s by a video game company, by

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Dan Kuroch's father. That's it. That's the connection.

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We've got it. Yuya Takahashi, universe confirmed.

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Anyway, yeah, but like, that's dumb, but whatever.

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I'm going to let it slide because look how cool

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this suit is. No, that's more lore stuff to talk

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about later. But yeah, it's... Anyway, the visuals

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in this are really nice. It's really lovely to

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look at. Even like they did something with this

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toy here, this toy camera. It's a little ridiculous,

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but like the way they posed it in the shot is

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really good. So it's interesting because the

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show, it's definitely a kid's show. It's definitely

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made to sell toys, but it's also being done with

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like a polish and with like seriousness that's

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really nice. And I really enjoy it, which is,

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you know, why I can enjoy Kamen Rider as an adult.

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I don't think I'd be watching Blippi or... bluey

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and buying stuff from it. Fujimi and Nasuka are

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great and I really enjoy them. Their banter,

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their back and forth, their weird relationship

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is great. Him being so excited to be on these

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black cases unofficially and helping this secret

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agent in the person of Baku is really cool, really

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fun. They're really strange characters and they

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are almost comedic characters, but they're also

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very relevant to the plot and they're doing things

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that matter as well. So it's an interesting role

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of being like very comedic and very funny, but

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also being serious. And like, they're also allowing

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the like world building to ask questions of itself

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and texture itself. Like they're in here drinking

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this tea, but hey, isn't that tea supposed to

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be fuel that looks like tea? And she's yet to

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drink it. Not because she has to drink it, but

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Fujimi has already drank some and he like throws

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up or whatever. And then you have this bit where

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we get a flashback of them breaking into the

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room and they just crawl into his window. And

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then when they leave, even though the sister's

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already gone, they decided to just jump out the

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window and fall who knows how far. And I wasn't

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sure they were jumping at first. I thought maybe

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it was like a walk or like a step down or something

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like that. But this woman has taken off her shoes

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so that she can jump. I know enough women to

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know that's exactly like she has to do that so

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she doesn't break her shoes. And that's hilarious.

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I love it. It's great. And then Baku's reaction

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to them jumping out the window is great. Also,

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there's this little detail in the dream world

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that he seems to always wake up lying down, or

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he's starting to. And this is the second time

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in the episode he wakes up on a pew in the church.

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And I just love the visual of that. Honestly,

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I'm getting Kiva vibes from the opening where

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Watru gets up from the pile of roses that he's

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buried under. And I just love it. I love Kiva,

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so we won't discuss that anymore. Also, The first

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dream, he failed to stop the bomber really in

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the ideal way. He did it after the fact, but

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he should have done it in the ideal way. And

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he failed to. So we got to see the three doors

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opening. We got to see the monster itself opening

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and Fujimi, the dreamer, going into it. So we

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have a good understanding just from the visuals

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of what we've seen, the mechanics of how these

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things work. Also, we learned that when those

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butterflies spread out, that was seeding new

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nightmares to awaken within people. So that's

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really interesting. and um i'll have to analyze

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the opening at some other point um when i'm caught

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up on everything else uh we don't know really

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why this um tree uh in this park showed up for

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him in the dream while he was talking to the

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bride but it did and he goes there when he does

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I mean, it's an important place to her because

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it's a link to her unconscious mind or her subconscious

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mind. And he uses that in this doorway to go

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into her subconscious and see different things.

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And I love the design here. So we have this nice

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tree. Or no, I guess it's still deciduous. It's

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like the leaves are falling. And then it's here,

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but it's given spooky lighting. It's given chains.

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It's given dark clouds. It's given all this stuff.

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And then there's these other two doors here,

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which there's only two here for some reason.

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There's not a third door. I don't know why the

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third door isn't there or where it should be.

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We didn't know that where the third door is we

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know that we're gonna find out where the third

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door is We're probably not at this point. That's

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okay But yeah, anyway, so we have a lot of high

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-flying action going on in this episode We get

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my favorite so far probably the greatest of all

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time this mr. Bird and bird nightmare crow nightmare

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and he's just uh, he's just great leave this

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guy look at this guy anyway, so Mr. Crow gets

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to be really cool and they have a lot of fun

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flying combat. The swords were in the beginning,

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but it's really cool. He holds these wings like

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swords. You can see, you know, very much it's

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being held in his hand and they're connected

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in a certain way. I guess it's fabric and there's

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hard stuff in there. I don't know how it's made,

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but it looks very cool. And again, you get the

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great contrast of the graying out of the normal

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lines of the suit to emphasize the thing that's

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being... emphasized the thing it's being utilized

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and it's flat there and then i'll show you uh

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i did not like this thing if it's a dream just

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have the gun show up anywhere he needs it but

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here's his new form after he's shot the crow

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and it looks fantastic it looks really slick

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i really like it um i don't know if whenever

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i don't know if the color of it always matches

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him or whatever When he's in different forms,

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but it doesn't really matter to me. It's a small

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detail We'll see how it plays out What I'm really

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interested in going forward is this bit of lore

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that we have dropped where there's a the tide

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The connections between them and Knox. I think

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it's his name are even tighter now because he

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looks at her and he's saying that Like everything

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breaks down except for them and he says he's

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referring to himself and then nem And I think

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he calls her Nemchon, but that doesn't really

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matter. And I'm wondering what that's about.

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And then, like, look at this. We have some cool

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lore stuff going on here. We have this red, blue,

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purple, and green, these figures drawn in this

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book. And that's pretty neat. I wonder exactly

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what they mean, what they refer to. I think those

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are definitely going to be the colors that our

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boy Baku gets to use as Zets. I know. We'll see

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how it goes from there. I'm really curious to

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hear your thoughts on this episode. I liked it

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overall. The series, the show seems to be getting

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better and better. And I'm enjoying it more as

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it goes on. And I'm really enjoying all the character

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dynamics. And it feels really good to me so far.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts. And, yeah, I'm

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going to let you check out a book trailer for

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my book in just a moment. But other than that,

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