Screw the soccer friendship plot. More White Wizard, please now.
The mysterious Fueki finally convinces Wajima to create a Wizard Ring for him. Meanwhile, Haruto and his old friend are finally reaching an understanding when it comes to their dreams. Also, Haruto and Kousuke need to defeat the Phantom in order to end this episode.
For starters, I have nothing much to talk about in this episode. Aside from the fact that the show is back into becoming one boring drama series, the only thing worth noting is that Haruto's old friends still trust him even just a little. As seen in this episode, Haruto's former team manager helped him with his bait and switch plan, which is really amazing and showed us that Haruto can actually fool his opponents if he wants to. Second is when it comes to his friend in whom we learned that he still cares for Haruto and at the near end of the episode, the two reached a mutual understanding when it comes to their dreams. It's a really touching scene and I just love that the two relieve some old memories by playing a short football (or soccer) match.
Before talking about the final fight scene in this episode, let's first talk about Fueki. One thing that I like about him is that he has this kind of presence on screen. He gives you this feeling that you should be scared at him every time he makes an appearance. What's more is that based on Wajima's expression, he is kinda forced to create the new Wizard Ring for him. As for the Ring that Wajima made, I will talk about it after I am done talking about the final fight in this episode.
The final fight of this episode is surprisingly, really good. What I like about it is Haruto switching his forms during battle. What I like about it is that it remembers that Haruto has an arsenal of forms that he can use in his advantage. What's more is that when Haruto is in him Wizard Flame Dragon form, the writer remembered that he has a freakin' dragon in his chest once he cast the Special spell. Since this form has something to do with fire, obviously, it has to shoot freakin' fire... and it did shoot fire! Also, the use of Infinity in this episode is for the sake of doing the finisher. I guess they remembered that the Dragon forms are useless to this Phantom when it comes to finishers.
Finally, Fueki's appearance at this part of the episode and not much to my surprise, he is the White Wizard and it didn't help that the Black Cerberus appeared earlier in the episode and that we have spoilers about it floating online. What made his appearance more interesting is the fact that the Wizard Ring that Wajima created is not compatible with the WizarDriver. What's interesting about the said ring is its design, it looks like a crescent moon, but if you at it in a different perspective, and it looks like the moon covering the sun aka a solar eclipse. As we all know, the Phantoms were created during the solar eclipse.
Let's take a look back about the information we have about the Phantoms, and about the White Wizard that we have thus far. The reason why the Wiseman needs to create more Phantoms is that he wants to acquire the Sabbat without the use of a solar eclipse. Second is that the Wiseman can create magic stones used in creating Wizard Rings. As for the White Wizard, he knows the time when the Wiseman created a magic stone and that when the said stone was taken, the Wiseman didn't mind it at all.
Fast forward for a bit around the time Haruto acquired the Infinity Ring, we heard White Wizard say that Haruto is becoming more of a nuisance. Tying up those elements together, guess it is safe to assume that White Wizard is Wiseman after all but then again, White Wizard said something about this episode that they should keep all "final hopes" together and that the fate of the world and Haruto's fate depends if Wajima will create a new Wizard Ring from Fueki's magic stone. If I take it on an evil perspective, it means that he plans to create the ultimate Phantom with the wizards but if I take it on a good perspective, the White Wizard just wants to save the world from the Wiseman.
Thinking about the White Wizard's true motives made me realize that this show is good outside of the standard two-parter episodes and that this show will be better if it is a show with a large story arc with less focus on the victim of the arc, and with more focus on the plot of the bad guys. Speaking of the bad guys, I just love that they continue to bring up the fact that Medusa is just blindly following Wiseman's orders. I think I smell a possibility of Medusa betraying Wiseman at some point in the series.
