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Kamen Rider Gotchard Episode 32- "The Great King Appears! The Doll's Dilemma!"
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04-21-2024, 04:08 AM
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Zolda
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Clotho is frustrated for not being able to keep up with Houtarou's growth as a Rider. Atropos then coldly mentions how pointless it is for her to even try due to the fact that her (and The Sisters' "older brothers'") specs is not designed to withstand Dread Type 3's powers. So, Clotho's top strength and performance are basically bottlenecked by her specs as a homunculus. This nicely shows that homunculi (Clotho, Lachesis, and their "older brothers") are only physically stronger than humans, but they can't grow beyond their initial physical "specs", unlike humans who can grow and surpass their yesterday's selves. @ 11:59 Kyouka and Minato acknowledge The Sisters and Glion's other alchemy dolls as homunculi that were created via his dark alchemy arts. Clotho also acknowledge that fact several moments later during her interaction with Houtarou. Clotho channels her inner Fight Club fan @ 17:14 when she declares that the only thing that matters is not the meaning nor the mission, but the fight itself. *cue Michael Jackson's Beat It, haha. Oh, and at least she gets the spec upgrade @ 20:36 that transforms her into Mileena from Mortal Kombat, haha.
Aaaannnddd... Yep. As I've hypothesized
here
and
here
, the scene @ 01:08 officially marks KR Legend's inclusion in the main series' storyline. I'm 95% sure that this inclusion is due to Bandai's sheer influence on the production of this series. The scene @ 01:13 casually shows the Legend Kamen Riser, so I believe that KR Legend's inclusion is solely due to Bandai's intention to market the new DX Legend Kamen Riser to general viewers of the series, not only to the Youtube/TTFC viewers. I'm worried that the story is
officially
going downhill from this episode. Who in their right, sane mind put together two incompatible, unconnectible stories with two completely different internal logic/rules, and hope they will make sense?
Well, no wonder the story is going in this weird, bizarre direction. This episode is written by Hiroki Uchida, one of Kamen Rider Outsiders' alumni. Now I understand why Toei (or perhaps rather,
Bandai
) tasked him with writing this episode (and probably also the several next episodes that feature KR Legend). Outsiders-ism/Yuuya-ism is the term I and my friends coined to label this kind of nonsensical narrative chaos that can only happen in KR Outsiders or stories written by Yuuya Takahashi. Plot, consistency of internal rules, logic, rationality, and common sense never exist in KR Outsiders. Every time the name of any writers from KR Outsiders appears, the only thing I can expect is utterly nonsensical narrative chaos. Now I can quite see who the Achilles' heel in the writing of KR Gotchard's story is.
Houtarou asks Clotho what's the point of her fighting him now that Glion has gone and the door of darkness had apparently closed, and their interaction is casually interrupted by the arrival of the Kasshine troops from KR Legend's world. Might as well make Sougo Tokiwa arrive from KR Zi-O's world. I mentioned how the multiverse trope is a shock factor and asspull generator just less than 12 hours ago
here
, and this episode casually throws the multiverse/parallel world trope into this story when it was never hinted at all in the series. The only hint of the existence of the multiverse in KR Gotchard was in the KR Legend spin-off, but it's just a non-canon spin-off, right? Right?
RIGHT?
The multiverse trope is the laziest, most convenient way to transform (or rather, to
forcefully
transform) non-canon storylines into canon ones, no matter how nonsensical they are. In this year of 2024, if a story contains even the slightest hint of memory manipulation trope, reality manipulation trope, and or multiverse trope, then I can be 99% sure that that story is going to feature gazillion number of very very
very
convenient plot conveniences. Sigh... This is the disease of "modern writing".
As usual, Koichi Sakamoto
will
make the civilian actors fight, haha. Props to him and the actors. I hope Rinne's actor will get her fight scene in the next episode.
Atropos states that Glion's wish has finally come true and then proceeds to introduce the king of darkness. Is this Gigist guy aka the king of darkness just Glion who managed to fuse himself with a small portion of the uber-demon's powers and then escape the Ouroboros gate? No wonder he looks just like an upgraded golden Malgam. Oh, and the 3 spheres on his chest make him look like he has 3 breasts, haha. Now I can't unsee
that
.
The Kasshine captain states that Hundred's reasoning for targeting Houtarou is because he's Kaguya/KR Legend's friend. Yeah, weird. Might as well target other Riders from other worlds as well because they're the source of Kaguya/KR Legend's powers. Or perhaps their worlds
has
fallen into Hundred's hands?
As if the story is not convoluted already, the writers add 3 new enemy generals (Saigetsu, Mimei, and Tasogare) from Hundred @ 22:20. The story has barely delved into The Sisters, and now it adds a new trio. Tasogare acknowledges the existence of KR Gotchard as a super weapon that disrupts the parallel world, and Mimei says that they come to Houtarou's world to dispose of his Driver before "the annoying, glittering fellow" arrives, referring to Kaguya/KR Legend. Saigetsu then declares that Hundred will conquer Houtarou's world. Let's see whether the new trio will make an actual contribution to the story, or be killed unceremoniously in the next 5 episodes. A story about alchemy is abruptly and conveniently transformed into a story about invaders from parallel world at the remaining 40% of the length of the story. Weird!
So... Congratulations to KR Gotchard on
officially
landing on the realm of mediocrity.
Next week:
Saigetsu, Mimei, and Tasogare will transform into KR Dark Kiva, KR Glare, and KR Eternal, respectively. As I hypothesized
here
, Kaguya/KR Legend will make his onscreen debut in the series exactly in episode 33. This episode will probably debut the 3rd OP to mark the start of the new arc, aka the "ruin" arc.
Gotchard's story is forcefully transformed into Decade v3.0 or Zi-O v2.0 just for the sake of advertising the DX Legend Kamen Riser toy. Nice move, Toei... I mean,
Bandai
. *facepalm
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