For me that really wouldnt change anything about it honestly. The Shift Car still comes out of absolutely nowhere, was never hinted at and had absolutely zero build up in the episode. Telling the audience afterwards how Steinbelt build that thing isnt really going to do anything to change that.

I liked this episode and thank god that chaser finally was kicking ass and that heart fought again. The only real downside that I saw was type formula not being hinted at all then being shown in the end but if you think about it krim was hiding it from shinosuke so it's understandable.

The only thing that would make this better for me would be an episode that tells us how Steinbelt invents/builds the Shift Cars and shows us... something. Something that makes me believe it actually was a good choice to work on them in secret and don't tell anyone about them until it was absolutely necessary. But I don't feel like the show could deliver this.

And what makes this even more annoying is that it wouldnt have been all that hard to build up Formula and still have the same payoff we got this episode. Just have Steinbelt earlier in the episode when they are in the Drive Pit say that to destroy Chase and the other Roidmudes Shinnosuke has someday to become more powerful. Then just have Steinbelt look to the side and show Shift Formula hiding under one of the benches but never fully reveal it.

There done. We know that Steinbelt is working on something and when he tells Shinnosuke about it during the fight against Chase it doesnt completely come out of freaking nowhere.

It's incredibly lazy writing. This is pretty much the same way Kiva handled new power-ups and that is never something you want said about your show.

The only thing that would make this somewhat okay for me is if Kaixa would just drive up on his Bike and throws the new Shift Car against Shinnosukes head :lol

The worst part about it to me, and I didn't even realize this until AgileSiamang7 brought it up, is that Krim pretty much had Gou give up the only thing he possesses that is even remotely capable of taking on Heart and Medic for absolutely no reason. Forget secrecy, you have two guys right now that can potentially lose their lives just because you decided to not tell anybody what's going on.

And the set-up was all there. They had the opportunity to have Shinnosuke make a tough moral decision. They could have said Type Formula has the ability to destroy Mashin Chaser and Shinnosuke has to decide whether or not he's prepared to this. He takes Type Formula, but can't do it, which has Chase question why he won't kill him when he had the chance. That would have been great development for both Shinnosuke and Chase and would have worked perfectly considering Krim suggested for him to do this. But nope, they just opted for the transparent toy commercial method.

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Neither Belt-San nor Shinnosuke know who Gou is fighting, they only knew Mach was using Dead Heat. You could argue that it must have been a strong enemy because he used Dead Heat, and that Medic was around since Chase said "Medic set the stage for us" but they didn’t knew he was against two generals and for all they know, Mach could have won the fight and send Dead Heat after he didn’t need it anymore.

At least that's the impression I'm getting from all of this.

Yeah, they didn't know he was fighting Heart as well. But even still they got their asses handed to them the last time they fought Medic, and that was together. Yeah Dead Heat is more powerful than either form they were in at the time but still.

Well technically Steinbelt can connect to the "Body Shift Cars" and see through them so he should have been able to see who Mach was fighting at that time.