...rampage!

One other thing that stuck out to me were those two secretaries.

Unless they were in on Ryoma's plot or new hires, there really is no way they could forget someone as important as Takatora.

…unless Takatora never used his last name at work.

I don't get the whole Driver issue tbh.

From what I've gathered:

1. The original 6 Sengoku drivers are the only ones that are shown to be user-locked. The mass-produced drivers are confirmed to NOT be user-locked. The Genesis Drivers COULD potentially go either way (I don't remember too much regarding this).

2. The base forms don't seem to be tied to DNA. Even when Zangetsu switched to Shin-Zangetsu, the base form changed, even if just a little bit.



Ryoma probably copy-pasted the suit data from the original Baron onto Kaito's Genesis Driver but used a slightly modified the base suit for Shin-Zangetsu. Furthermore, even if the Genesis Drivers were user-locked, Ryoma could have easily altered Takatora's to not be user-locked, since if he had planned on betraying, it seems like a waste to just have a genesis driver that nobody can utilize.

Excuse me, but I can't seem to find where it says he's still alive. I just double checked the next episode preview, but it doesn't show Takatora. It shows Shin Zangetsu, which is already established has been taken and is being used by Micchi. It also has a voiceover of Kouta saying "Takatora, so it IS you", but given that he doesn't know Takatora's out of the picture, the interpretation I'm getting is that Kouta's being fooled or he's misunderstanding a situation.

Are you referring to an episode summary from a magazine or an episode list from a wiki?

Micchi's never been good, and he's certainly become more antagonistic. But I wouldn't say he's EVIL evil yet. So far he's been prevented from crossing the line. He hasn't "rape the dog" yet. Kicked it? Yes. But he's thus far kept from crossing the line. Who knows, maybe he'll accidentally kill Mai, and that'll turn him full on villain. But he's not yet done anything that can't be redeemed yet.

He's also hardly in Kusaka's league. Kusaka was more of a troublemaker than a big bad, but by golly, he was glorious in his inability to have any decency in him.

My problem is that we are only learning about being able to use different Rider identities as the same person wasn't a plot point until now, in such a critical turn.

In Faiz, they told you about the belt swapping identities before any of the Kusaka identity stuff happened. In this, they never told the audience or showed an example of identity swap. You know how people got pissed that Ouja pulled contract cards out of nowhere? That's my level of anger with this issue.

Let's not forget the Taros being able to now magically possess anyone without a contract. Grrr, Onore Dikeido!

...Wait here.

Personally, I'm not bothered by that. It simply means a new plot element has been introduced. Not only that, it's been introduced in a natural manner. The infighting of the Energy Riders has been hinted at for quite some time. And this is the first point in the show where the opportunity and motivation for identity theft has presented itself.

One of the good things about Gaim is that it doesn't drag out it's plot points too much. The consequence of which is that it has to introduce new plot elements to keep the story going. Like I said, I think this new plot point has been introduced in a manner that makes sense. In contrast, the existence of the Overlords or DJ Sagara's "magical" status, came out with minimal hinting. I'm not bothered by any of this though.

Yes I was referring to the written episode summaries on the Gaim homepage. Here is a qucik translation for you :)

http://henshinjustice.com/2014/05/04...im-episode-29/