Plus, genm was far more interesting personality wise. He was an enormous ham but his hamminess was consistently focused on him being the best video game designer in the world. Gentoku......is just a thing that is there.
Build is good, but holy hell does it need to flesh things out more. We still don't know whats up with the crocodile bottle and I hope they do explain what makes it special

About Crocodile Crack Full Bottle, I think this Full Bottle is evolution from Sclash Jelly. Probably Crocodile Crack Full Bottles wasn't Katsuragi's invention. Hmm....my assumption is the Crocodile Crack Full Bottle is created is by transforming the Scalsh Jelly gel into glass-like material inside Crocodile Crack Full Bottle. Maybe Dragon Scalsh Jelly and Robot Scalsh Jelly can be evolved into Dragon Crack Full Bottle and Robot Crack Full Bottle too.

So I think here is evolution process:

Crocodile Full Bottle (basic) => Crocodile Scalsh Jelly => Crocodile Crack Full Bottle.

This is basically why the joke worked for me, if there was build up to this then the impact over how silly it is would not exist, there was a tiny crack in that smooth dresser serious dude thing from the first episode though if anyone recalls that he wanted to take Sawa to a.....Love...Hotel...."cough"

It is a gag in a show that for the most part is extremely serious, the stakes are pretty large and the characters are clearly quite depressed currently.

And there is another part that a lot of people here are not taking in mind, how does the target audience for the show react to this comedy, because I can say that at least my nephew could not stop laughing about it and wanted to replay it over and over, then did so on his phone after finishing the episode.

So no matter what, there are going to be parts that does not click with many here, and never will, and I do not think it is fair to give the overall tame levels of humor this season has had a major negative point.

Does not mean we cannot be critical on it, but it is really not a subject we are all going to agree on either way due to how subjective this is.

In the end ! Misoras reaction made it totally worth it in my opinion

https://i.imgur.com/1bE7p5Q.jpg

Wait....

https://i.imgur.com/UjgsvRV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/kJpwyr8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fNWwMhZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1wY3F85.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/S3EbuRD.jpg

Huh???

I don't see anyone else confused about this so did I just miss something again? I know during Ex-Aid I lost track of how many Gamer Drivers there were but I'm pretty sure something doesn't add up here.

At any rate, I enjoyed the episode a bunch. I've still got some gripes with this show now (That isn't how comic relief works!), but these last two episodes have actually brought my enjoyment of Build back up a fair bit.

Best way we can solve this one is a new one was made, but in reality it was likely a rushed decision to give Grease something, it kinda feels like he was meant to have been killed off or retired as a rider at this point actually. Honestly I kinda noticed this one and went " wait what ? " myself, but I kinda forgot it for some reason.

Wasn't it said that Sclash Jellies were made from concentrated Nebula Gas? So effectively, couldn't they just make more?

- Gentoku's fashion gags really should've been reserved for some HBV or some other special. It doesn't fit in the main show at all. About the only amusing thing was him putting his hat on Misora and everyone crawling away.

- I might have preferred a Dragon form for Grease after using the Dragon Gel. Or at least some new dragon-based weapon.

Actually, if the Charge suit had actually been a second form for Grease rather than a form for Cross-Z, it might have been less awkward for Cross-Z. Either that, or save Charge for the movie.

I was wondering about that myself.

But I'm still confused about one thing. Aren't the Clone Smashes those that weren't made from humans injected with the gas? These Lost Smashes are made from Clone Smashes infused with the liquid from Lost Bottles. So how then could the Hokuto PM be made into a Lost Smash?

(EDIT: Ok, so she was first dosed with the gas, then she can use the Lost Bottle after two Clone Smashes dissolve and mix with the liquid in the bottle. It's an odd way to depict it, but ok.)

And aren't all of the bottles created by humans, anyway? Sento has been creating bottles the entire show from Smash essences. Or are these Lost Bottles just special?

From what the show seems to have said, the Lost Bottles are different. The main 60 are made from purifying Smash essences that relate to Evolt's power that he lost on the Martian attack. The lost are made purely by humans. If I had to guess, I'd say it was either by experimenting on Nebula Gas to change its properties in some way, or trying to cook up a substitute.

I haven't caught up, but is Stark still around going "All according to keikaku" in each episode

If he is then I might never catch up

^ Hasn't that already been explained by people here? He's been destroying planets for who knows how long. This isn't his first rodeo.