I know that I want chase to stay in the series but if it feels like they raise up some death-flags on chase.

My guess is that that chase will spend most of the episode brainwashed and eventually kiriko, Krim and Shinnosuke's words will reach him and he will break out of the mindwipe.

If he does this I won't imagine him joining immediately but after a while after he has done some soul searching.

I wonder what will happen in later episodes if possible if Chase and Shinnosuke's switch places like in Faiz with Takumi and Kiba.

What do you mean by this exactly, like they swap henshin devices or they swap their allegiances?

The first part. I can see Chase becoming Drive again while Shinnosuke is captured and controlled by the Roidmudes to become the new grim reaper.

Was thinking about Abaranger's Asuka who took on the evil armor later.

I like the idea of chase obtaining his old drive amour again mainly but I would miss chaser form since that is a great outfit.

Now if shinnosuke get captured by the roidmudes and then turn into a new grim reaper that would be cool but it feels unlikely to happen.

At most I just want Chase to make through the end of the series.

Not gonna happen. They wont just make their Main Character the new Villain. maybe for a few Episodes but definitely not forever.

That is why I said it was unlikely to happen at the end of my post.

Soooo I really liked this episode. it was a big step up from the previous ones and even if it had the lame editing humor it did alot of things right. Love that the cats out of the bag with Chaser and I like that he is really just a Roidmude and not a human turned Roidmude or something like that. Really wanna see how this is going to develop with his two conflicting prime directives. The one beinge two protect humans and the other one being to destroy Kamen Rider. Especially now that he knows he himself is a Kamen Rider. Getting some episodes of Chase trying to figure out what he wants to be and to what conclusion he will come could be very very nice. Especially if the connections two the other Riders are explored more.

One of my favorite parts about this episode though was Gou. This Episode really made me love the guy. I thought his jokes were really funny and I really wanna know how he became Mach and why he has such a strong hatred for the Roidmudes. His Roll Call is still every kinds of awesome and always love seeing him doing it.

Shinnosuke kinda became the boring one out of the main trio. I liked him when he was solo during the first episodes but know with Case being more involved in everything and Gou having some nice hints to his backstory and some side effects of the Mach system just makes SHinnosuke kinda bland in comparison.

Anyway cant wait for next episode.

Of course not forever. Eventually Chase will be the grim reaper again but joining team KR and Shinnosuke becomes Drive again (maybe when he gets the final form upgrade).

Wonder how Gou will deal Chase since he learns that he's both a Roidmude and Proto-Drive.

Unless I'm much mistaken, the actress they were trying to protect is Bouken Pink, isn't she?