In Image 12 we are introduced to serious fights of Foo Fighter which injure fighters, but instead of fighters getting Mind Raped by Psy Qualia, we have fighters weiring special gloves that electrocute the fighter painfully whenever they take damage. It's also quite horrifying that even Kamui and his friends who are all 12 years old had to experience serious fights just to keep their shops. It even shows that the loser of the fights faint, because of the amount of pain they received. It's no wonder Eiji and Reiji quit Vanguard after that.
High School Arc
Image 42: Aichi fights against PSYqualia zombie Naoki and despite putting up a good fight still loses against him and becomes a PSYqualia zombie himself.
Image 43: In this episode we have Kourin taunting Misaki by recalling how Misaki got such a good memory: when she was a child she was in the car crash that killed her parents, and repeatedly had the events of her life on loop in her head until paramedics arrived. Seeing her wide-eyed and catatonic in the wreck, with her parents' bodies next to her is a much more horrifying way to go over her past in a kids show.
It's safe to say that Aichi as a PSYqualia zombie is this, full stop. He manages to be just as creepy as his original anime counterpart, if not moreso, precisely because he DOESN'Tgo totally insane like in the previous series and simply acts like he usually does, only evil. And that's not even going into his facial expressions...
High School Arc Continued
Dimension 7:
Throughout the episode, we see Ibuki being tailed by his Avatar Greion who keeps appearing pretty much everywhere on Ibuki's mind. Not helping the matter is that Greion sounds well inhuman.
It seems that Ibuki may have been the most traumatized by the events of the previous arc since every time he wants try one of the Delete skills, he's psychologically and physically unable to do so till a point he pretty much pukes every time he tries to activate their skills.
Shinemon Arc
Remind 25: It is confirmed that the crater was caused by a unit from Cray and that it took the lives of Tatsuya's parents and many others.
Remind 27:
Tatsuya outright takes Chrono hostage to force Shinemon to fight him much to his and Rive's horror.
Tatsuya succeeding at summoning units on Earth.
Remind 28:
Naturally Shinemon is rather scared of attacking with real units considering how much destructive power they have.
Chrono nearly gets sucked into Cray if it wasn't for Rive's intervention which only causes him to get trapped there instead.
Extra Story -IF-
if 1: For all its Lighter and Softer takes, the season does give us a chilling glimpse of this world's Aichi as the antagonist, who has absolutely no qualms with eradicating Blaster Blade, whose priority is to protect Emi and Shuka, or firing on his younger sister, who is forced out of Sanctuary through a wall! Though it's far from the first time he's been in this role, it's very unsettling to watch him take a more violent method, while smiling no less, and that, until Emi spells it out a couple of episodes later that this isn't anything like the real him, there's nothing to disuade the viewer from believing this could be his true personality.
if 7: While on her own on the Tatsunagis' property, Shuka's eyes take on some ominous Hellish Pupils that wouldn't be out of place in Higurashi: When They Cry.
if 14: After deciding their best bet moving forward is to track down Kai, the group does just that by an apparently coincidental meeting with Miwa. After a glimpse at his new life, Miwa starts hinting about Aichi to Kai, and unlike Legion Mate, remembering him is no clean process. Kai starts clutching his head and screaming in panic as the images of a person he shouldn't know start to enter his head. Considering the life he had prior to IF and some of the horrors he had been through, this is only the beginning of truly haunting road. Fortunately, he handles things incredibly well after this first incident.
No sooner is Kai gathering himself that Miwa summons units and abducts his best friend, right out of his bedroom, with the intent of taking him to see Aichi in person. Kai's resistance, as well as Emi and Shuka's in hot pursuit, causes the unit carrying him to lose control of its flight path and collides with a building, exploding and seemingly killing Kai - right in front of the two young girls. Miwa is evidently shaken by the possibility as it's apparent it was never part of the plan.
if 15: Continuing his appearance from if 1, it is now revealed that Aichi HATES Vanguard with every fiber of his being and what started the distortion which made him that way? It turns out Shuka took the Blaster Blade card before Kai could give it to him, which caused Aichi to more or less become High School arc Ibuki. Just a single glance of seeing Blaster Blade was enough for him to fly into a rage. To top everything off he overrode Emi and Shuka's Majesty Lord Blaster and then used its power to blast them, Ibuki, Suiko, Ren and Rekka out of his castle with a violent Sword Beam.
if 21: While taunting Ibuki about the pain he's inflicted on others by the fights wherein he Deleted his opponent during the High School arc, Kourin focuses on Suiko in particular, being someone whom he's grown close to. Kourin questions if he intends to spend the rest of his life paying for his sin, her face contorting into arguably the most unsettling Nightmare Face of the franchise thus far.
if 23:
Aichi completely overwhelming the heroes with Majesty Lord Blaster and attempting to kill Ren. Even when every single unit that the Blaster Pair has Realized appear, they all just get instantly destroyed by Aichi as if they were nothing.
Aichi actually managed to erase Vanguard from history and not even Shuka's sacrifice managed to stop it.
◊ to eleven.
