Area no Kishi

[Buffalobiian]

Why does Kakeru always start on the bench? It makes no sense other than like how Ultraman Tiga always runs low on energy before finishing up a fight - for "suspense".

Phi-trick was as superhuman as before, so that was to be expected. Araki's "scorpion kick" was funny though. The commentator said he jumped, be the animation showed that he was still planted on the ground. Indeed, unless you intended to perform an overhead kick like that from the get-go, you couldn't have changed your airborne positioning like that without traction.

From a physics point of view, I'd have thought you can gain more height by putting your energy purely into a thrust with your head instead of wasting the energy in order to induce a spin...

But Mai showed up in street clothes again, so all's cool.