YouTube recommended it to me this morning, and now bluesky recommended me this post.

You have been blessed by the algorithm, or something!

It's also incredibly funny to me that 4's failed ritual is only 10 years before the game's story because the setting looks and feels so rundown it's as if it had been multiple decades since then

The previous games all take place 100 years after their rituals failed

You'd think at some point that you'd run out of these very specific isolated Japanese communities, or that they would have heard about how that village in the mountains screwed up their ritual and got wiped off the map

They need a death ritual convention for trading warnings

We went from a 2nd arc that got progressively darker and more serious in tone to something so laid back it was almost unrecognizable as the same show
All-in-all very confusing, though it can still be fun at times
Very Toei-coded

Then we get a kind-of 10th year anniversary of the first anime climax where the protagonists from past stories all show up via time travel and alternate world hopping ala Toei's tokusatsu anniversary story-telling
It unfortunately doesn't feel earned during this arc