This episode is basically where Kohei's grandpa got kidnapped by Kinkel which practically sets up for the "final" battle with him. There's A LOT of "Soultaker" moments in this episode especially the way the camera angles and the color hues has been used.
There's one serious problem which got the viewers very pissed, and that's during the action scenes. From what I heard, there were some serious budget problems to a point that the director Akiyuki Shinbo has to really go on the cheap. Basically, everytime an action scene takes place like when Seiji attacks using paper spells, the focus is shifted to some still image for a couple seconds WHILE THE ACTION IS STILL GOING ON. It would be a nice technique for a little while, but this episode used that technique ON EVERY ACTION SCENE which results a very choppy looking episode.
I really hope the DVD release of this series can fix those because that episode was pretty insulting to the eyes.
