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Kamen Rider Gotchard Episode 25- "A Young Teachers' Mistake!" Discussion
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03-03-2024, 05:57 AM
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Zolda
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KR Iron Gotchard's main feature is its very high defense ability, thanks to Tenliner's upgraded level 10 form. It can even withstand Dread's new armor which was upgraded with Repli Unicon. It turns out Steamliner can revert back to its default level 9 form, this time due to exhaustion and unstability which are probably caused by it being used alone without another Chemy to share and balance the energy load. An evolved Chemy is like an evolved Pokemon or Digimon in the sense that it can revert to its lower energy form to conserve energy. When Tenliner is used with its evolved best match, Crosshopper, the resulting fusion form (KR Platinum Gotchard) is more stable and balanced. I like that KR Iron Gotchard's Iron Knuckle finisher is a full force train hit.
It's shown @ 02:18 that Houtarou's Ring reverts back from red gem to blue gem, so it's pretty much confirmed that the Ring he's using in this and last week's episodes is his Ring, upgraded by Fuga @ 06:38, not Fuga's Ring lent to him. The scene @ 06:49 where Houtarou's reforging Steamliner makes me think he's gonna scream, "AAAMAZONNNNN!!!", haha.
I thought that Houtarou only needed an upgraded Ring to be able reforge Steamliner into Tenliner, but I was only half correct. What I missed is that he also needs the Gotchar Igniter to do it @ 06:48. It's a nice addition because it's logically and thematically consistent due to fire being a basic element that is needed to forge basic materials into a higher-valued item. "Trial by fire", as people say. Gotchar Igniter's crucial role in giving Houtarou the ability to reforge Steamliner could also be hinting at the important role his dad has (or had) in the story. Perhaps his dad was the Alchemist of Dawn who also invented the elixir to prolong his age??? *gulp!
Fuga's question to Minato @ 02:40 may indirectly have something to do with Houtarou's
past
as a promising young alchemist.
As Fuga states @ 07:30, latching a Chemy directly onto the Gotchardriver (not via RCC) is considered a dangerous, old-school technique, although it does give Houtarou higher amount of raw power. This is a common trope in Kamen Rider where a Driver and or a trinket are considered tools that filter the toxic, negative effect of raw power. There's probably an even more dangerous technique than this one where an alchemist lets a Chemy latch onto his body, thus directly fuses his own body with the Chemy's. This most dangerous technique is probably what was enabled by the ultimate, ancient Driver I hypothesized
here
,
here
, and
here
.
As shown @ 10:21, it turns out that Minato was Glion pupil, like Houtarou is Minato's. Last week I hypothesized about Minato's being the one who gave Daiki recommendation to participate in the grand alchemy experiment that day that eventually ended in total disaster, so Minato had indirectly made him a collateral damage of the incident. Well, I was
very
wrong. As this episode shows, the whole circumstances regarding Minato is far simpler than I previously hypothesized. Glion killed Suzuya (and other nearby AA students) simply to show Minato how powerful he was. There was no grand alchemy experiment because Glion and The Sisters simply ambushed the AU HQ to take all the RCC's from Fuga. And Atropos simply found "the door" which probably was the portal shown in episode 20 where Glion killed Spanner's parents nearby. Glion also Neuralyzed Minato and manipulated his memories with the aim to torture his soul in despair, and probably to prepare Minato to be his puppet in the future in the case that his plan that day fail. I've waited for this reveal to unfold for the last 2 months, and this episode is the payoff. Man, this is soooooo underwhelming.
Minato fails in this episode, and the Dreadriver is recovered by Clotho. He's proven to lose his utility, and Glion commands Lachesis to dispose of him. Lachesis has show signs of doubt since several episodes ago. Will she spare him and empathize with his circumstances, and even join him and defect from Glion?
Next week:
Glion's final plan begins. What is it exactly? Does he also have his own Driver? Or is he gonna use the ultimate form of Dreadriver?
Atropos is gonna transform into KR Dread?!
Fuga will transform with another copy of Alchemis Driver (or rather, the first copy of it) using Gigabaham (Fantastic 1) and Kuroana (Cosmic 9). His unnamed Rider form looks very nice. Dang, I didn't see it coming. This man's got so many tricks up his sleeves. His reappearances already feel like deus ex machina to me, haha.
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