Wow, they actually surprised me with this episode. Really really amazing work here. Also, the quality of the art in this episode was probably the best of the entire series so far, everything was extremely well drawn. The whole thing was perfect.
I was expecting them to take the over the top and ridiculously epic route they've been taking up til now, yet
I can't remember the last time I've seen an animated work surpass the manga source material as well as this series has.