Pay no attention to Shinj. He's just final venting.

C'mon cut him some slack. Bad enough his helmet looks like a barbecue grill. :lolol

I just now realized that the reason Calibur doesn't use a Swordriver, even though his sword is closer to the Seiken's design than to Buster and Kenzan's weapon-drivers, is because its serrated blade wouldn't fit in the Swordriver's slot.

Not to mention that the serrated blade would utterly damage a DX Swordriver even if it was designed to accomodate Calibur's sword. I'm quite suspicious as to the long term effects of pushing in and pulling out the regular sword into the DX Seiken Swordriver, let alone Calibur's.

It’s spring loaded using a pulley.

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So this caught my attention just now.

Rewatching Gaim again for like the 50th time (man I love this show) and I noticed that (I'll put spoilers for newcomers so that I don't ruin this absolute masterpiece for them) DJ Sagara aka Helheim says that the Forbidden Fruit must be handed according to that race's myths. In this case the Woman of the Beginning has to hand it to the Man of the Beginning.

While the Forbidden Fruit is an obvious nod to the Bible's forbidden fruit, why on Earth does it have to be a woman who hands it to a man? Seems kind of sexist right? And then I realised that the Woman represents Eve (Mai), who gives the fruit to Adam (Kouta). As a result, both gain something, in Gaim's case power while in the Bible it was the knowledge of evil and shame.

To put the cherry on top (pun intended), Kouta and Mai move to a new planet, a nice allusion to the banishment from the Garden of Eden. Granted in Gaim's case they did so willingly rather than being thrown out of Eden.

This does make me wonder though how the Forbidden Fruit would be handed down by other races. Granted, the Femushinmu also had a Woman of the Beginning who handed it down to a Man of Beginning, but it's entirely possible they had a similar creation story.

While this kind of irks my religious side due to the fact that the show sort of presents this whole allusion as hopeful while the real story is not (well, there was a bit of hope in that story), I only have one thing to say from this grand realisation:

Urobutchi, you magnificent madlad.

It's also interesting that they went with specifically the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. I guess it makes sense since Christianity is one of the biggest religions on Earth today (maybe even the biggest, I don't know), but it makes me wonder how the story would've been different if they'd followed Greek or Norse mythology, which also had sacred golden apples, or other legends of magic fruit (IIRC, one of the 1,001 Nights stories involved an apple that could cure any illness, and there's probably others I don't know about).

............... I just found out Jabel from Kamen Rider Ghost was GekiChopper.