I'm gonna go ahead and defend Nyelv's surprisingly stupid death and the leadup to it, because I think it's actually very in character, and a fitting fate for someone like him (as with all of the Stomach's fights and the like).

There's no doubt that Nyelv has incredible scientific intellect. He's responsible for many inventions that the Stomachs and later the Jaldaks use. But here's the thing, that doesn't translate to tactics/strategies/scheming. Not only do I think that he and others assumed that him being smart meant his plans would be smart, but the audience did as well (hell, even I fell for it, too).

And just because you're smart in one way, doesn't mean that it'll translate to being smart in a different way. Like for example, a pharmacist can be smart, but that doesn't translate into being able to do surgery. And while we do see Nyelv and Dente seemingly be omnidisciplinary scientists (they have to have some expertise in surgeries, mechanical engineering, biology, and food science to do what they do in the series), it still doesn't mean that can transfer over to creating schemes or plans. It's a very different skillset from being a scientist.

Even then, we see that Nyelv's inventions are either rather simple on his own, or by taking someone else's notes and experiments, and improving upon them. Examples are-

• The simple laser he makes for the twins to fight Shoma with in the Gurucan debut
• The Vrastumgear being based on Dente's notes for Shoma's Gavv.
• The BakeMagnum and Bitter Gavvs being taken from Suga's notes and experiments. In the latter's case, he did improve on what Suga left behind and figured out how to transplant Bitter Gavvs onto others. Though admittedly there's no real clear distinction between what ideas the two exchanged were.
• The gas bubble machine he created for Lango that made it so that their synthesized version of Lakia's toxins were easier to spread.

The only inventions we can really say were his creations is the Hitopress system and that he figured out how to create the artificial Cup Gochizos (something that Dente couldn't do in a short amount of time). But even then, I don't think they ever specify if it was actually Nyelv or Dente who came up with the Hitopresses, since we don't know at what exact point Dente left for the human world was at. And the Cup Gochizos were created after he stole and presumably experimented on some of Shoma's Gochizos he had kidnapped.

Why do I mention this? Because as smart as Nyelv can be, he's not that creative. For several situations he gets involved with, he just comes up with simple and straightforward answers.

But we also know that Nyelv lacks foresight. He's smart enough to figure out that Lakia had his own agenda that he was hiding from Lango and the others, but he didn't have the foresight to actually look into what said agenda could be. Nor did he have the foresight to make contingency plans, like having a remote detonation function on the Vrastumgear, or making the Cup Gochizos loyal to him instead of Lakia. As a result, he's always caught off-guard when others outmaneuver him, showing that he isn't as in control of a situation as he might think.

Which all accumulates into the previous episode and this one. Nyelv's grand plan to take down Bocca is to shoot him with the BakeMagnum and its new hypnosis function to make him obedient enough for Shoma to kill (simple, straightforward, and largely uncreative by using Suga's invention). However, he didn't take into account that Bocca, being the one who provided him the Granute cadaver to begin with, would already have immunized himself, because why wouldn't he (lacking foresight and being outmaneuvered)?

And we see that continue in this episode, with the fact that his scheme to ruin Bocca's plan is by using a detonator to set off bombs in the artificial Gochizos (simple and straightforward, and lacking creativity), only for him to not realize that Bocca was already on the case by getting his servants (most likely the Butlers) to work on a counter-plan against him, leading to his death (lacking foresight and being outmaneuvered).

Nyelv's death being sudden and unceremonious is the entire point, I think. While not as openly smug or sadistic as his siblings were, he falls into the same trap as them; underestimating enemies and overestimating themselves. Siita and Jiip underestimate Shoma, leading to the former's death and the latter's subsequent mental spiral. Lango derided Master Gavv as just being another weak form, which was a mistake when Shoma began using Over and Master correctly. And now Nyelv's happened because he overestimated his intellect and not take into account that others can and will outmaneuver as well.

The greatest thing of all, though, is that like Nyelv, we the audience were tricked into thinking he was a chessmaster, always making moves in the background and furthering his own agenda. But when you actually get down into it, you realize that he never was. He's legitimately smart, but he's not nearly as clever or cunning that he thinks he is.

Granted, I do understand why Nyelv's death is underwhelming for some. But for me, that's the point. Most of the Stomachs that've died so far have had outright pitiable deaths in one way or another.

• Siita dies in a massive explosion that doesn't even leave a body.
• Glotta dies in an alleyway, and thinks she's hallucinating Lango as she laments that she was lonely.
• Bouche dies by being poisoned by his own firstborn son. A pathetic way to go, considering that he might've had enough power to keep his children in control from harming Michiru and Shoma. And since the Stomachs valued strength, it's a very humiliating way to die.
• Lango, if he hadn't managed to survive, would've died to the weakest member of his family, who he absolutely loathed.

And now Nyelv joins them, his death being the result of lacking foresight in spite of his intelligence, and through one of the most simplest ways imaginable.

This episode didn't really do much for me. I did like that Shouma showed genuine care for Nyelv. Shame he had to go out like a bitch.
His death was expected, but it's execution was lacking. Legitimately, if they just had Bocca blast him (And explain away that the signal was hacked so the Gochizos wouldn't explode), it would've been more satisfying than having Nyelv just...Spontaneously combust because reasons.

Then there's Jeep, who I didn't expect to survive to the end. I imagined Lizel would get tired of him and he'd be gone, but guess I was wrong. Though, speaking of, it seems Jeep isn't suffering enough for Lizel anymore. Actually calming down after a brief tantrum, leaving Lizel without words.

I wonder what Lango's doing.

Nyelv's death being so undignified also fits well, at least in my opinion, with the theme of "falling apart" that has plagued both him specifically and the rest of the Stomach family. They began the story at their strongest, with their family whole and united (except the members they themselves cast out or killed), and their business thriving and poised to expand its influence. And then, piece by piece, it all fell apart around them and they lost everything they held dear.

Nyelv started the series as always the smartest guy in the room, conducting whatever schemes and experiments he wanted, too valuable for his allies to get rid of, never having to reveal his secrets or get his hands dirty, able to shrug off setbacks as just interesting new data. But during this time where he's been in focus, his arc has been all about losing that status. He lost his position of power and had to prove his worth to get it back, he's had no choice but to fight directly, his new experiments were under someone else's direction instead of his own initiative, he had to earn people's trust instead of relying on them needing him, he gave away his secrets too early, he was reduced to begging for his life, and finally his last plan literally blew up in his face.

I think this is a great analysis of Nyelve and I agree that the pathetic end he got was fitting, while not necessarily making him totally pathetic. I do have to respect him for defying Bocca until the end. Nyelve, who prided himself on his superior intelligence yet died by stupidity, had the strength to stay true to his ideals even in a hopeless situation. While that's not a strength valued among Granutes, or probably even himself, it is a real strength nevertheless and helped make him a little sympathetic and worth avenging.

Pretty humorous how Liselle got shocked that her usual game of "cheering up" Jeep actually cheered him up. Presuming that the Black Gavv also increases power based on the user's emotional state, then Jeep might be about to get a lot stronger. Vram lost to him last time, but that was before he got A La Mode, so curious to see how that fight will turn out.

His favorite hobby of monologuing on rooftops.

I don't want this to be the case, but it's looking extremely likely. We've got four remaining mega-villains, two of whom have been shown to be nigh-invincible. That's just weird pacing for this kind of show, because we've got *how* many episodes left? Three? We've got an unlikely number of bosses to defeat before we get to "actually end the Dark Candy business and/or sever the Granute world from Earth," and at least one boss doesn't get us closer to that goal.

It feels like there are too many open plot threads for the remaining episode count if we need to have four spectacular battle sequences. There's almost something interesting happening around Jeebh, but he never wavers from his obsession with misdirected revenge, so it feels like wheel-spinning. I can't figure out what the hell the show wants to do with Lango. Then again, I never saw the Nyelv twist coming. Maybe there's something similarly interesting in store for Jeebh and Lango.

I just wanted the show to make good at the hints that it might be possible to save hito-pressed humans that've been broken in half.

To be clear, I'm enjoying the hell out of the show and I'll be bummed when it ends. I just feel like there's no way for the final episodes to feel not-rushed.

Yes, that's exactly it. The show got too carried away with its heroes and almost forgot about the villains in the middle, and now it's forced to rush. Also because of this, some of the statements of the idea suffer. The pacing of Gavv is very uneven and this is noticeable, although for me it is not critical.