Yes he was. His ideals were always the same, but he went from a kid with nothing to a monster with the powers of a demigod.

All the wound did was push him towards eating that fruit.

Pretty much this, through out the whole season they implied so much on Kaito ideal was always just his one single minded goal from the very beginning, by having the Sengoku Driver, Genesis Driver, and Overlord power just gave him the strength and extra push he needed to accomplished his goal (or tried to)

Just watched the episode.

Well. That happened.

I think I'm in overlord. I mean overload.

My 2 cents is that there was no way Kaito could have survived and Kouta still kept harmony. The whole premise was always death and rebirth. Kaito had already gone too far in order to meet his goals. I think the ending was precisely what it should be, even if I always want my Rider endings to be happy, they're always bittersweet.

Takatora and Micchy. Can we call him Micchy again? As much as I wanted to see him squished like Sid, I think the mental break was enough to punish him for a long long time. Trying to make me feel bad about him though isn't going to help my opinion.

Finally, at least now we know what planet Don Dogoier comes from. #badwig

Just a thought....
 

Kouta Kazuraba! You've just been made The Man Of The Beginning! What are you going to do now?

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DANCE.

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Mai Takatsukasa! You've become the Woman Of The Beginning! You can remake the planet however you want! What are you going to do?

DANCE.

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Sorry Baron.

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Kaito, from the very beginning of the series, adopted the idea that the strong must trample the weak and believed firmly that the weak should be weeded out so that the human race could become stronger. However, deep down, Kaito hated that it had to be that way. Really, Kaito wanted more or less what Kouta wanted, but I think Kaito knew that the ideal world couldn't exist with people like him, who sought out power so obsessively to stay at the top. I think Kouta understood this once Kaito stated his desire to destroy the world and start a new one, knowing that even if Kaito succeeded, Kaito was still a product of the old world and was a piece of it that needed to be removed.

Personally I'm hoping for the latter but expecting the former-in the preview it looks like his driver is one of the blank trooper versions.

Actually, shouldn't his and Oren's old yellow-belted prototype drivers still be around somewhere? In storage or labs at Yggdrasil presumably, after they were replaced with the newer models. I mean they could have been thrown out as they were locked to Jonouchi and Oren and as such there's no risk of random people using them, but I imagine Ryouma wouldn't dare let his valuable research be thrown out, he'd keep it locked away somewhere surely.
Also, now that the forest of helheim, such as it is now, is on a barren planet in space, will cracks still work the same way for summoning fruit and such?
Maybe I'm just thinking too much into things, but that's half the fun with such interesting worlds and characters :lol

I think only the version of Helheim that was growing on Earth got sucked up into space. The forest that was home to the... um, not-Grongi (I forget the name - started with an L and had very few vowels) didn't go anywhere and that should still be where the fruit comes from. Clearly they come from somewhere, because we'll have both Grape and Pinecone showing up next week.

How Jonouchi will transform next week isn't complex once you realize Jonouchi's driver was not destroyed in episode 44.

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As you can see only his acorn seed was destroyed. The driver is still intact, though it's worth noting the face plate is now blank. I'm guessing the shock to the driver just wiped the Gridon data. Next week Jonouchi will become Kurokage using the Driver he's always used.

That reminds me, we never got a resolution to The Overlord's species twist (granted we still have one episode but I doubt it would happen). The name used in the subs was a cipher to keep what they really were a secret. The show kept making it seem like there was going to be a payoff on it with how many times the Overlords kept mentioning it over and over but I guess it just ended up a little easter egg for anyone who translated it which I find disappointing.

Yeah, I was puzzled with how the kept calling themselves humans, but the humans apes.