#let's see if i remember to do another one before hitting ZeXal II lol

[kaiowut99]

Have slowly been going through more ZeXal the past weeks--got a bunch going on and all, takes me a while--get back to the WDC for the Kite vs Tron duel, and suddenly there's Hart's face on Tron's causing him to take any shock Tron takes during the duel, what's up

But really, have actually been enjoying the WDC finals well; been a bit since I'd done one of my Lance Watches ZeXal posts [*checks tag* ...apparently not since 21? lol whoops, meant to do a post like every 10 episodes welp], but things have picked up pretty well with motivations dropping, schemes moving, etc. Forget if I posted about it (and may go a bit out of order), but Yuma vs III was dark (making Yuma forget his "bring it to 'em"-ness) but good (and started showing Tron's/Byron's reckless use of his sons as means to an end; poor III), then Kite vs V/Chris was good to get the whole beef between Faker and Tron established and then Kite swearing to use Dyson Sphere to fight Tron for V et al; Yuma vs Gauche was fun while Droite vs Tron was dark but showed her connection to Kite; Shark vs IV was good as he finds out IV was actually helping Rio when he realized the card Tron gave him to duel her with did real damage, but led to another Arclight casualty as Shark accepted Veiss to beat him (and playing into Tron's plans) while swearing to beat Tron for IV (interesting that both Kite and Shark have reasons to go after Tron, and also Yuma finding himself in the middle knowing they have their reasons and Astral telling him to go his own way); Hart appearing to Yuma and Astral when they go see him asking them to save Kite, then Dr. Faker showing up explaining his deal with the Barian World and that he's using the two bros to rule the world in the end (his betraying Byron and Kazuma to start down this path is also interesting, since it then fueled Byron's revenge; do like the double-antagonist setup going here) while Tron's able to get Shark's darkness of the heart to expand in his favor; Yuma vs Shark with the latter getting brainwashed to think Yuma hurt Rio and then his commitment to freeing Shark before he ends the duel by making himself lose was really good ("When will bonds and friendship get out of my way?!")...

...and now 63 with Kite vs Tron starting, Tron's powers letting him see how exhausted Kite is was a neat touch; Kite summoning Dyson Sphere for Chris only to have Genome-Heritage suck up its ATK and effect; the interesting exchange between Kite and Tron when Kite asks how he could use his sons the way he has and Tron comes back with "Sure, you were hunting souls for your brother, but didn't you enjoy it a little after a while?"; the reveal of the fallout from Tron absorbing Hart's power now linking them together so anything Kite does to Tron will get felt by him and Faker getting enraged by it (was also curious about that dark energy ball he pulls out as he talks about losing everything when he was isekai'd, did it lead to the Hart-link thing, I wonder aloud); Yuma, gutsy as he is, flying off with Orbital to check on Hart; the OST especially when Tron's calling Kite out and as the Hart-link reveal happens (the OST in general has definitely also gotten pretty good after I was initially a bit on the softer side on it overall early on)

So yeah, think that about catches me up haha; looking forward to more soon!