It's still really jarring to see Leon as a kid.
We begin with Aichi and Emi running late to Card Capital when Leon happens to be driving by and has them picked up. They explain that Aichi slept in because he was up late working on his deck and talking to his cards to which Leon says he can't wait to have their fight as the trio arrive at a much more crowded shop. People are exicted for the throwdown between the two teams of 4...except Koutei is late and I'm sure we'll see some funny scene of him showing up at the end of the episode to do that. Regardless we see some more antics between Kamui, Emi and Nagisa which at this point I'm indifferent to (Emi is just as oblivious to Kamui's crush as she was in the original) with the latter's jealousy being what sets up the first fight; Kamui vs Nagisa.
Who would win. A team of the main characters or a team with one lost boi?
Unlike the OG series Nagisa plays Granblue just like her brother. We don't actually get to see what her deck does but she pushes Kamui's shit in pretty quickly while Gouki explains that he trained her "relentlessly" in preparation for this day and as such she should not be underestimated (to be fair, Nagisa is one of the few characters in the franchise to out Trigger Sack Chrono in a fight which in VG world does equate to skill) but Kamui is able to mount a counterattack by going full ham with Perfect Raizer, 3 CB and flips a front Trigger for a full 7 attacks for the win which is actually pretty fucking brutal if you ask me.
This is why you play Damage Control against Novas.
Nagisa obviously loses and starts crying which causes Gouki to go into comically dramatic big brother mode that leads to him calling Kamui a monster more or less (Emi even says she'll scold him later for Nagisa) as well as Card Captial a no name shop which Misaki takes exception to and jumps past a set of stairs to challenge him in her anger. Time for game two between Gouki and Misaki which will make this our first Protect vs Protect matchup in the anime.
I wonder what DI's version of this will be?
This fight was clever. I was hoping we'd see Misaki try to outwit a clearly superior opponent since she observed Kamui's fight with Nagisa and her memory would have allowed her to have a good idea of how the Granblue deck works and devise a counter strategy (which she does do to some extent) but this is ultimately foiled by Gouki constantly making her get angry by calling Card Capital a no name shop and she makes some rash plays as a result which get capitalized on when Gouki rides Basskirk and kills her because she threw down most of her hand trying to push. I almost want to say that Gouki was in control of almost the entire game as save for one moment he never seemed to be in any position of danger.
What's better: On ride +1, big power and a crit or a smaller but constant power/crit buff and a +1 each turn?
Misaki goes down and Gouki tells her that despite coming from a no name shop she is one hell of a fighter as Koutei arrives in a manner just as I described and is set to square off against and defeat Kai next week.
Only in the anime would Dimension Police be able to beat Kagero.
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