*wakes up* Hmm, wha-what? What's been happening? Oh, right. Ghost is still airing. What do we have this time, even though I am a week behind?
Really? You're going to trust this man this easily? You're not going to wave your hand and see if there's a Ganma inside him just like what you did to the girl's deceased father? You would think someone would raise a bit more rudimentary sceptism (Akari being this person would have been appropriate, given how sceptical she has been towards the company from the start). And on that note, how long is this Deep Connect thing going to drag out for? I appreciate having proper buildup and it befits a scientist Ganma to be slow and methodical, but it's been a good dozen episodes and there still does not appear to be any tangible pay-off. We're not learning anything new about Project Demia when it's chiefly Igor mugging the screen. The whole sub-arc has been spinning its wheels non-stop while Alain's story plays out.
Pacing is all over the place. The worst part is just after the Ganmaizer is defeated (is this going to be the new Jabel, i.e. punching bag?), the show suddenly remembers that it has to resolve the girl's dead dad subplot, so Yuki and crew have to suddenly stumble across the warehouse mid-fight, with the dead dad randomly waltzing in just as the fight has concluded. Heck, the funeral scene is hasty and besides understanding the impact the grandma has had on Alain, we only see the most basic of "ohhhh, if it weren't for Grandma Fumi, I wouldn't be who I am today and I am totally going to leave this as vague as possible" from a randomer and from no one else. Come on, Makoto and Kanon. Nothing to say about her?
Hurray, Alain has overcome his limits. Wait, what? True, Alain having to adapt to fighting in a much weaker human body was one of his clear limitations, but I don't think heart and soul is going to suddenly bypass Necrom's built-in need to assimilate Ganma commandos! The show hasn't been very consistent and it's been horribly when it comes to handling form changes, but they at least went out of their way to show Necrom's built-in limitations on the field. That's a limitation with the Necrom system and not him. This is the problem with giving Necrom such an egregious weakness without any way of power-up to help offset it. And when Grateful just nicks Grimm and Sanzo.
I do like Alain's development, really, as cheesy and clichéd as I now find his platitudes about listening to one's heart. I just wish his story with the grandmother that is expounded upon in the Blu-Ray thing actually found its way into the series proper. And whoever came up with that new outfit deserves to be stuffed into a heavy Samurai HaOh suit and left to bake in the sun for a whole day. Symbolism, yahdy yah, but that royal uniform is so much more sexy.