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The Forbidden Fruit Saga
Episode 44: Two People Aiming At the Future
Written by:
Gen Urobuchi/Jin Haganeya,
Directed by:
Osamu Kaneda
Chucky and Peko come across a bloodied Kouta, who Peko convinced Chucky to still bring to the garage despite his conditions. I feel like the acting is off from Chucky here though, as she laments about Kouta's fate, her expression seems like smiling instead. Back at the garage, with Akira also staying there, notices that Kouta's wounds are gone, but that's due to him becoming Overlord. In Kouta's dream Mai visited him to apologize for her failure to change fate, that the 3 main Riders all suffer and she can only watch. However, Kouta notices that this is because of her mistake, taking all the responsibility alone, something Mai wants to help Kouta with after Yuuya's death. Despite her gaining godly powers from the golden fruit, she's still human in demeanor, and thus can screw up like this. Though of course if Kouta can forgive Micchy, he'd do it similarly here, returning Mai's words to not suffer alone, and that defying the series' prologue, Kouta invites Mai to forget about fate, as they have full control of their actions despite mistakes, and the future isn't set in the stone. Mai admits that this is the reason she approves Kouta.. but the bad implementation for her starts here.. ironically despite the speech, she decides to leave it to Kaito to change future though his future is different than Kouta's.. it's like the action that is only plausible when she stays human didn't gain any power. Though Kouta realizes this as he wakes up, vowing to stop Kaito despite the other's objections.
The war sequence that shows up in the very prologue of Gaim is actually one of the potential (apocalyptic) future outcomes, with Helheim Forest taking over the world and the inhabitants being forced into a war situation, the Sengoku Rider War period, with Sagara describing the Riders there (Gaim, Baron, Ryugen, Zangetsu) as the potential holders of Forbidden Fruit, and predestinated battle between Gaim and Baron. This is a parallel reality that Mai observes after she gets stuck there while traveling through time, and Mai is only able to return if the future there is decided, though other than the Kouta, the condition to return seems to be an excuse to keep Mai out of the battles right now, further diminishing the potential of the power can do, and later, practically turning her into a reward to be won as she can only be freed by one of the potential obtainers of Golden Fruit... As the result of this, her human body disappears, while Sagara informs the situation to Kaito, Yoko, and Micchy, with Kaito mocking Micchy's decision to give up unlike him who will keep moving forward.
Like Kouta at the garage, as another similarity between them, Kaito's wounds healed, and instead it turns into his power. Yoko feels ecstatic, with a few display of positive emotion coming from her that she made the right choice to use Kaito as Kingmaker. While true that not everyone wants to be in utter spotlight, like Micchy who refuses the power of god himself too, and being submissive is a choice someone is allowed to make, like others I do feel that there's wasted part of Yoko's characterization because they did imply something about her that may lead into something, especially for an actress that has notable achievement for doing the Rider's stunts too. Like about how Ryoma hypes her up as being unpredictable, just like Kouta. Though she'd be understandably beaten by Gaim Kachidoki Arms.. well, probably she's stuck in the treatment that non-relevant Riders get, about her stagnating in Marika, without elevating her game like someone similar to her here Kaito. Or about how Ryoma's separation from her implies a new path for her but it's merely used to prove that she's right for choosing Kaito over Ryoma, potentially elevating herself in pursuit of power too. The other thing known here is that Yoko wouldn't care if Kaito is the type of king who destroys the world, which is a similar aspect of Kaito that she holds power above morality, which also can make her constantly switching sides, like here she approves extremism as that's Kaito's intention, despite Kaito being able to humanize her before. Though the other, last great Yoko moment is her fighting evenly with Oren on their human form, showing off her expertise as a spy to hold off a trained soldier, after Kaito approaches Zack, Oren, and Jonouchi, where Oren notes his strange lifeless blue eyes now. Kaito summons Inves without Lockseed.
Oren and Yoko henshin into their Rider forms to fight each other, with Jonouchi fighting the summoned Inves. However Kaito helps his side by attacking Gridon and Bravo with Helheim plants, and then reveals his Lord Baron form. Kaito declares that he will destroy this world and remake it with the fruit. Though Kaito keeps his mind after turning into a monster, still doesn't mean it's a good outcome for others. Kaito is still someone who is morally ambiguous, and despite him actually hating the social darwinism the world has instead of reveling in it, it still results in a nasty outcome that he resorts to destroy the world that contains social darwinism. Despite the noble goal he had compared to Demushu's who is definitive social darwinist to trample on the weak, Kaito would still cause destruction as severe as him, due to his desire to remake the world that suits his image. Kaito keeping his human mind and hating the world injustice as a monster would make him an anti-villain, though not fully-fledged villain, still a big threat that has to be stopped, like Roshuo before; when Kaito gets a hold of the Forbidden Fruit at this point (or probably before), he'd become a second Roshuo about how he deals with the world. If only Roshuo actually met Kouta and Kaito in not a bitter tone... Zack however, gets a bigger role here, to stand up against his former leader's decision. He apparently 'betrays' the alliance to join Lord Baron, who welcomes him, throwing Gridon high up to the air while Marika destroys his belt with her arrow. Bravo takes on Lord Baron but is quickly beaten, with his belt destroyed too. Both Oren and Jonouchi cannot henshin anymore. Zack's action here is a bit brutal compared to how he's established as an upstanding guy after becoming Knuckle, ironically after he looks worse than Kaito at first being reprimanded for cheating, where later Kaito becomes (anti-)villainous as Zack becomes noble hero, though Zack may be planning for something actually good here.
Oren and Jonouchi reports about Kaito's state, confirming Kouta's suspicion. It seems that Oren's animosity with Kouta ends as he tried to stop Kouta due to his injuries, but his brushed off. Kaito, accompanied with Zack and Yoko, summons an army of Inves that floods the city. Kouta confronts Kaito about his actions, with Kaito, being genuine as usual, explains Mai's situation that she can only return if Golden Fruit is claimed, highlighting the parallel of the alternate world Mai's in, that Gaim and Baron's battle is predetermined too here, pointing out that only Kaito and Kouta can now obtain the Golden Fruit. Ironically, despite what Kaito calls out about Micchy regarding Mai, Kaito would had a faint objectification trait to Mai here, to obtain and save her, while also destroying the world in process. Y'know, something that Mai claims doesn't want to happen in ep. 42 before, which Kouta rightfully points out to Kaito. For the objectification Mai got, at least, it's treated in the wrong, as everyone who treats her like that are villainous characters like Micchy, Sagara, and the newly joining Kaito, while the good or neutral side does treat her as a person who has the right to do what she wants (regardless of her role here), Kouta calls out others like Kaito for this, and it's the action that is being portrayed in the right, and while Kaito quickly henshins into Baron, Kouta only begs for Baron to stop this madness while dodging the attacks in human form, actually taking Mai's wishes into account for them to not fight, but is eventually forced to henshin. Gaim upgrades into Kachidoki Arms for self-preservance, and midway, still begs for Baron to stop, but fires his finisher to revert Baron into Kaito. However Kaito reveals his Lord Baron form and reminds Kouta that he needs to take the golden fruit by force from him, though Kouta reminds Kaito that he'd let the fruit, but Kaito is never interested in saving the world and would let it get destroyed to get Mai.. regardless of her personal wants, Kouta misjudged Kaito, and changes his stance against Kaito to stop him claiming the fruit as he henshins into Kiwami Arms. Kaito's the secondary Rider that never changed his core personality despite being softened up too, and it actually turns himself worse as he gains more power, turning him into the secondary Rider that is the final threat instead, the ensemble of antagonists of Gaim's arcs circling back to him with him retaking the role he had in Beat Riders Saga. Lord Baron had upper hand, but this time it's not due to Kouta's morality, but due to his previous wounds. Seeing this, Zack steps in, fighting Kiwami Arms to back up Lord Baron, but whispers a surprising line to Gaim to fall back for now, reverting Gaim into Kouta, letting Kouta get away while he "apologized" to Kaito. As Kouta runs away, he remembers Zack's words, wondering his purpose, indicating that he's still doing good for now; he won't throw away his newfound scout boy-traits since Knuckle. Though still, this is a cop-out, to have Knuckle knock down freaking Kiwami Arms back into Kouta, this is some ep. 39 Micchy level of huge power increase out of nowhere, even if Kouta is injured, Rider forms should act as armor for that.
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