I really wanted Micchy to dehenshin during that fight.


And I love Kaito basically trolling Micchy at this point.

Sentimentality? Or maybe he just remembers what happened to Hase and keeps it as a backup.

Backup seems like a practical reason.

takatora prolly wishes he had his sengoki and melon lock seed now

From what I've read about the Genesis Driver, it out performs the Sengoku Driver by leagues. Though it is uncertain if it can supply nourishment because the Genesis Driver only accepts S Class Lockseeds.

The toy, however does allow regular/non energy lockseeds to be used with the joke "Liquid!" instead of "Soda!" being used. Though the non-energy Lockseeds are incompatible in the Sonic Arrow.

I think he keeps it as more of a honor thing, if he wants to fight fair against a normal armored rider he'll become bananas and mango, but if he's going against the energy riders on a fair fight he'll become lemon arms, that's how I see it anyways.

Except Kaito's entire philosophy and style is built around attacking with overwhelming brute force almost as much as honor. He has no real reason to hold back from breaking out Lemon Arms at the first sign of trouble, especially considering that the only legitimate threats to him (Kouta, Micchy and the rest of the Next Generation Riders, and the Overlords) would require it so he can keep up the pace- and most of them are in the forest with him.

Considering the amount of time he's spent in Helheim and that the speculation about the Genesis Driver's shortcomings are true, he was likely keeping his old Banana Arms primed because he a) didn't know how long he'd be out in the forest, and b) didn't want to be caught off-guard by any Inves or Riders. There isn't a lot of downtime between switching Drivers for him, so he could easily slip into Lemon Energy whenever he decided it was necessary, then revert right back to Banana afterward.

Kaito maybe be straightforward, but he's not stupid.

Guess your right about him being in the forest... Man at this point they should've really just made a Shin Banana form him.

Has it ever explained that the more powerful the drivers are, the more taxing it can be on the person? Like Mitchy was incredibly exhausted after being Zangetsu Shin the first time during Baron & Gaim and the second time, getting his ass kicked by Deemushu and Gaim.

I know Kenzaki was exhausted every time he used Blade King.

I mean I wouldn't understand why Gaim would stay in Orange Arms when Jinba forms are supposedly just as fast as Ichigo Arms and we also have Jinba Cherry that can move at fast speeds.

I hear you there, but they only had so much time and money to put into it. I don't mind it though, as "Knight in Sour Armor" pretty well sums up Kaito's character, I just really freakin' hate the Sonic Arrow. I'd much rather him and Duke use something more... knightly, or even kingly.

I liked the weapon at first since we rarely get bows in Rider but its really getting on my nerves now. We have six characters in the show that use the damn thing. Plus the fact that its supposed to also function as a blade but they never use it as such. They just roll around a bit shooting at each other.