I agree about Akito & Ren--they are both horrible people. I don't feel sympathy for Akito, at all, at best I can just shake my head at how incredibly screwed-up the whole situation is. I don't even know how much sympathy we're supposed to feel for Akito, not too much, I think. Yes, s/he was warped by hir environment, but so were all the other Sohmas, and none of them became raving psychopaths. (Well, not too much.)

I am indifferent to the Momiji/Tohru development; it feels like so much of an afterthought, plot-wise, that I can't get excited about it one way or the other.

Kyo's guilt over Kyoko, however, isn't new. That twist was foreshadowed WAY back, from the first time they all visited Kyoko's grave. I have been waiting on this revelation for FIVE YEARS. And, you know, it's not about whether she'll forgive him (this is Tohru we're talking about), it's whether he'll be able to forgive himself.