I believe that you need to return home. It is quite obvious that you are inebriated.

Or a gun blade :lol

I think everyone is bashing Micchy way too much.He comes across as weak because when you think about it,his second battle as Ryugen is against a trained Baron and two Inves,and he still seemed to hold his own till Gaim came in.I mean look at how Gaim started off.He was swinging wildly,taking guesses,and tipping over in pizza delivery carts.Now he's punching battle shields to pieces in one shot and using new lock seeds like its a second nature.

Just saying,give Micchy some time.If this series goes as dark as I think it will,I can totally see Zangetsu killing Ryugen,not knowing its his own brother till he dies and henshins out of the suit in front of him

What's more effective - shooting grapes out of your grape gun, or attempting to grape-pistol-whip your opponents?

Either way, that fight sounds really juicy :lol. And if Ryugen loses it, he shouldn't wine.

Probably the pistol-whip :lol

I like Micchy. He's not an insta-badass.

Do you think we're getting TOO many characters TOO quickly?

I mean, we're going to be 6 episodes in with 7 Riders. At some point we're going to have to break away from the "INTRODUCE A NEW RIDER EVERY EPISODE!" trend. Is that going to be a disappointment when we eventually get to the more character-driven stories?

As long as all of the rider's get a chance to develop, and have episodes devoted to them sprinkled throughout, I don't really mind. Though I do agree they should slow down before they burn themselves out.

On the other hand, we'd have about 50 Kamen Riders in one show...

I'd say character-driven. Although, if this series is an expy of Ryuki's storyline, we might say bye bye to some of them rather quickly.

Well the driver only has the four jingles so reusing them will not be much of a surprise so not to bummed

Pretty solid episode. Nice to see that the show is almost entirely beyond the wacky exposition. Action scenes were great this episode.

I'm pretty sure some of them won't be around long.

It would've been cool, if they just had of said. In honor of it being Kamen Rider Ryuki 10 year anniversary. The new Kamen Rider Gaim, shall celebrate this by having a gang of Kamen Riders also in the series.

Done, now we know the reasoning for all of Riders that shall be running around. But will they play like Ryuki and start killing off Armored Riders?

Character deaths? In a Gen Urobuchi show? Don't be silly.

It'd be odd if nobody died in this show

Besides Orange, Banana, Grape, and Mellon. Everyone else is secondary stream characters. Meaning they can get killed-off. Because if they are "secretly" honoring Ryuki. Oh people are going to die.

I just had a thought.

What if they do pull off a Ryuki, and try to reboot the timeline… except they end up kick-starting it.

Here's what I'm thinking: someone from the future, in a desperate gamble to prevent the future from happening the way it does, travels back in tie to prevent it. However, this person is trapped in the Halheim Forest, is attacked by Invess, and drops a Sengoku Driver… the same Sengoku Driver found by Kouta.

I don't give Grape very long. Kinda have a bad feeling about that.

Ryugen, Zangetsu, Gaim, Baron and Gridon are gonna survive at least until the flashforward war bit.

After thinking about it for a while,maybe Gridon will survive.But,will it be the same person behind the helmet of Gridon? We know they wouldn't kill off the actors playing the main four,but I just think Gridon doesn't have that kind of role.Sure he's helping Baron,but as a lackey.Not as a main character.So maybe down the line the guy using Gridon now dies,and someone else takes his place.(I mean it's not unheard of.There were multiple different Ixa,Births,and Kaixa)

Your arguments are valid and I agree. But at the same time, although a cliche of the genre, Micchy's first venture as a Rider is supposed to be badass and cool and sell us the character so we go buy the toys. Micchy's first venture in reality involved him being useless, getting his ass kicked and only made me buy Baron toys instead. Maybe that is the point.

And this war could happen pretty much anytime. Nobody said that its going to happen in the 30s or 40s

Thats going to be difficult since the drivers are locked to a persons dna.

The drivers are,yeah.What if,just saying,Gridon gets killed and Baron takes his Lock seed back.Or maybe someone takes the lock seed for themselves.The drivers are DNA based,but are the lock seeds? So far it seems the only thing the seeds record are win loss records.Maybe the lock seeds grow in strength with more wins.

I dont think people using the same lock seed will have the exact same design. Sure the Armor will be the same but the rest of the Suit probably wont be.

But that only changes the fruit armour. The rider design doesn't change with the lock seed. Baron's face is unique to Baron. Considering this episode just debuted Gaim's third armour, I don't see how you don't notice this.

That's a pretty massive what if that flies in the face of everything we see. The show is taking careful steps to establish Riders are unique looking, and that a certain five will be established. I don't know why everyone keeps trying to throw doubt where doubt cannot exist.

Even chumpstyle riders like Kurokage who people are already writing off as a future body, they still gave him a unique "base" suit. Lock seeds are, honestly, entirely without significance or true identity at this point. They're just tools. The belt itself controls everything.

A twin could have the same DNA so they can use the belt ..

Have they said that it is DNA specific?

Because I don't believe they did. They said it locks to the user. I don't see how a belt can make DNA contact through clothes.

EDIT: Yup, says nothing about DNA. Just the first person who puts it on.

Also, that'd be one hell of a shitty cop-out to have Gridon just have an identical twin out of nowhere just so that he can appear in the future very briefly standing in the background.

I like Micchy. We already see his desires (he wants to help Kota and likes dancing with Team Gaim) he has something for Mai and we know that he's smart along with his brother and family pressuring him to work for Yggdrasil.

Micchy might be a character similar to Mutuski from Blade, very impressionable since he's so young but has good intentions.

Okay, this episode was great. I just hope the series goes up from here as it is starting to get interesting. Well, as interesting as a show that seems to be just ripping off Ryuki with fruit can be.

Pretty great episode! I love Ichigo arms :lol

I thought this was the weakest episode of the bunch. It didn't get good till the end when Kota and Micchi were fighting together, hopefully it'll pick back up again next episode. I really enjoyed Takatora and Cid's talk though. Strawberry Arms are awesome though. I thought Kaito went down a bit using the Invess because he honestly doesn't need it. Kota was right about friends bring you power. I am a bit confused with why Kota needed to fight for himself I mean was fighting for others not good to fight for? I feel it's a bit weird but I am still liking it so far.

That was a bit confusing for me too. Perhaps there is a bit of weirdness in phrasing. What I got out of it is that he must fight because he wants to and not because he feels obligated to help others. So when he fights for the sake of others, it must be from within, not out of obligation.

Maybe kind of like charity out of guilt, vs charity out of generosity? That's the best I can think.

If that's what it is supposed to mean that makes the episode a whole hell of a lot better. I also would like to add to my own statement that I think Kaitou's definition of power actually makes sense and using the Invess is just him using his power.