No no no, that's my fave character...crushing my heart here..even if I could see it coming..I was hoping)=

....Urobutcher!!*raises fist*

Last I checked the scratches were implied to turn them into living trees/vines that produce Helheim fruit. Nothing about the scratch made them feral, they just screamed in pain.

The crucial difference could be that Kaito was hurt by an Overlord Inves, not a regular one. The Overlords were genetically altered by their king to adapt to the forest. Maybe Kaito somehow got that.

Haven’t we had someone claiming Baron and Gaim fight in the final episode, showing pics? Baron was in normal Arms there, not an Overlord.

Maybe Kaito becomes an Overlord, although it is what he wished for. Seeing as how he values strength and evolution to a higher state, I find it fitting for him to become an Overlord.

In the end he could be restored when Kouta "heals" the world and both fight a fair and square battle in the last episode. I could even see a "you don’t know who wins"-ending happening, when we see Kouta meeting Kaito, both talk and transform and as they storm against each other the series ends.

I know a lot of people who would hate this kind of ending, but I wouldn’t mind.

I have a feeling that Kouta is going to pull a Madoka by gaining the power of Helheim and removing the invasion of the forest with his power but in turn he has to stay there to keep everything in check. But the only difference is that everybody will actually still remember Kouta's sacrifice and not just one person. but that's just my theory. :lol

Well, its a wrap. Gaim has finished filming.

http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2014/08/...ps-up-filming/

Kouta: My time has come to a end. I will not forget one day, not one moment where I was the rider kids looked up to.

Drive comes beside kouta and puts his hand on his shoulder

Kouta: I leave that job to you drive.

Kouta then changes to orange arms and joins the past fourteen heisei riders.

The Kamen Rider Gaim cast sounds like awesome folks.

Here's my own prediction of the end (see: wrong).

Kouta obtains the power of the Golden Fruit which allows him the ability to more or less shape reality. All of his friends are dead - Takatora (killed by Micchy), Micchy (killed by Kouta), Hase (killed by Sigurd), Zack, Jonouchi, Oren, and Minato (killed by Micchy), Ryouma (killed by Roshuo), and Kaito (kills himself in a sacrifice to save Kouta after his infection takes over). The only survivors are Kouta and Mai (who now possesses the Golden Fruit inside of her). Kouta can continue life as normal and live with Mai forever - or they can both sacrifice themselves and turn back the clock, eliminating everything from ever happening.

Mai will profess that she will cease to exist because she is the Golden Fruit, but it is Kouta who gets to make the decision. He does. Reality fades out to black and then back to white. We are taken back to the start of Gaim, but there are differences - Yggdrasill doesn't exist. The shrine and the tree are there, never taken down. Mai is a priestess at the church and meets Kaito and Yuuya, and there's an obvious three way romantic fight. Because there's no Yggdrasill, Micchy and his brother Takatora are together as a dance team. Oren is still baking things, Jonouchi and Hase are hanging out again, Sid is a street merchant selling Oren's baked goods, Ryouma is a conservation scientist with Minato being a teacher (I dunno).

Mai and Kaito sit down to have lunch together and they pull out an orange and cut it open. As Mai goes to eat it she looks at it and her memory is triggered for an instant - a quick flash of everything with Kouta, to the point she whispers the name Kouta as she has a quick realization that Kouta made sure she survived even as the Golden Fruit resided in her. But as quickly as she remembers the memories are gone.

Flash forward back to Kouta. He is still alive in Helheim forest, but he is very weak. He falls to his knees and his body begins to fade away. His final words are about using his power to protect everyone as he fades away to nothing. A zipper opens and we're taken to a black screen.

THE END.

The first 2 paragraph sounds exactly like Madoka MAgica to me :lol