Goodbye, Gifu :D

I?m hoping Giff would have a powerful monster warrior form.

thank GOD because my biggest issue with Revice was how terrible of a villain he is (and Akeshi as well as how Akeshi only wins because the characters are dumb)

EDIT also can we give Evil a final form if Daiji's going to fight Ikki a bit(I sadly with this show's track record of rushing through any interesting plots in favor of "IS VICE ACTUALLY EVIL" or making Akeshi win because Daiji's dumb don't think that plot will last longer than 2-3 episodes)

I wouldn't put stock into that image because it's a literal stock image to show off the form and not a picture from the actual like, filming.

Remember Zero-Two vs. Ark-One? It's basically in the same area as that picture.

So basically this is the clear way of Toei saying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

Tbf Zero-Two vs. Ark-One is a special case scenario since they probably had to scrap/rush a bunch of ideas they had for the finale due to only having so many episodes to work because of the pandemic shutting down shooting for like a month (hence why we got like 3 clip shows before continuing the plot).

But like, that fight would still have been physically impossible as both 02 and Ark One are forms of Aruto.

which wasn't planned this way originally.

It was mostly an example but I feel like that example was when people finally woke up to how magazine scans worked.

In that if it's just a promo render on the magazine and isn't in an actual pictured still of the show, then it's likely not going to happen. It's basically just showing off the new form against someone that's already appeared.

That's basically the point I was trying to make in that I don't want people to get their hopes up by seeing just that one image.

I can't think of any other time a magazine scan has showed a fight that hasn't happened outside of 02 vs Ark-One, where we know things were changed extremely last minute (especially the specifics of what Ark-One was).

Here's a more recent example, Volcano vs. SaberTiger Deadman.

http://i.redd.it/3wx4z3rr4o781.jpg

I just pulled from 02 vs Ark-One because that was like the biggest example of it. But like for most form debuts you see them have promo renders of the forms fighting random monsters that already showed up.

I'm not saying that fighting Gif is entirely off the table, I'm just saying I wouldn't expect it to happen in June. Or happen against the original version of Gif we see.

Hey if I'm wrong? Cool. But I've started to notice this when looking at magazine scans more recently.