I'll send both of you a link through PM to where I watch most anime at. It should be there.

We find this to be disappointing.

That's exactly what I mean, accidentally typed invade when I meant to wright "10 years to take over"...oops :o

My theory though is that it that the barrier between Helheim and earth was still strong and that Helheim would not be currently invading earth if Yggdrasil didn't force open their own cracks. Sometime in the past cracks appeared on earth threatening it with the same destruction as the world Helheim inhabits now but sometime in the ancient past the seed that created the sacred tree crossed demonsions and the shrine and festival somehow helped save the earth/keep Helheim's invasion at bay.

And that the reason their had been a suddenly leap into now uncontrollable amounts of cracks only five months since Ryuma actually started preforming tests on Helheim's fruits(which for me indicates it had only been five months before the show that Yggdrasil actually broke through the barrier) is because of Yggdrasil's tampering and weakening of the 'wall' between earth and Helheim. All the cracks appearing now are natural and Yggdrasil is trying to stop them but that doesn't mean they couldn't accidentally be the reason earth is in trouble. Because the natural cracks would not have happened(at least not now and with such frequency) without their actions.

From what I've seen of that show, it was pretty great.

Oh yeah... still need to watch that. :lol

Despite all these many theories, I'm still curious as to why Gaim is riding a horse in the intro and in the "possible future" like where did his bike go, and when did he find the time to go tame a horse to use in battle?

I've always gone with Rule of Cool :D

Urobotchi knew it wouldn't make sense for Kota to suddenly have a horse he can ride but wanted a scene of him riding a horse into battle so added it to the 'possible future' opening

I know it's all but guaranteed considering who's behind the series, but is anyone else expecting Kaito to either pull a full face-heel turn and then die redeeming himself or replace Michy as Kouta's wingman after the former fully betrays the latter, and pull a Heroic Sacrifice at some point after?

Yeah I see that now though I've always thought for the longest time that Micchy will be the one to die in the series. I also see your situation maybe with a heel-face turn with Takatora if Micchy went evil or Kaito takes over.

There is the distinct possibility of all of the above happening.