Sure, but I wish there was more variety to either his arrivals, or his departures. We are basically an episode away from Thouser's Blasting Off Again, and I sort of expect better of this show?

Yeah, Zero-One definitely got its money's worth out of the tattered Gai costume during this period. I know it was meant to be cathartic, but law of diminishing returns, man.

I will say this for him: zero scars or blemishes after multiple detonations! Seriously good genetics on that dude.

Well he is supposed to be 45 (Somehow), so yeah he has god-like genetics.

It's Episode 32!

-Delmo is straight up one of my favorite Humagears ever? She's super fun, and I think her pride in her Humagear idenity is just a cool idea?

-If I'm remember correctly, this episode was actually part of a collaboration with the 2020 Tokyo Girls Collection, an actual fashion show! Aruto and Izu's actors happened to model in the show for real, and they looked real good!

-Hey, it's Naki! They and Delmo make for a really fun contrast, someone who is completely defined by the role they were given by someone else, and someone's who's totally in tune within their own self-worth? Not having a dream but assisting with others' dreams to find their own someday, its very sweet. (and happens to vaguely remind me of a certain other wolf in Rider....)

-Yeah at this point Thouser and his goons showing up against the Humagear of the Week is getting a little...? Like it's kinda funny how downright petty and thoughtless his schemes have become, he's become so obsessed with Aruto's downfall even after he's technically "won", but it's also getting kinda grating seeing Gai getting blown up and going "grrrr I'll make you all regret this, 1000%!" every week for a while......Since Raidraisers are apparently for the common citizen to use to defend themselves, couldn't we have thrown in a few civilian Raiders into the mix to shake things up?

That would've been great! Like, top of my head:

-Is there a disgruntled Hiden employee who resents Aruto for ZAIA taking over?
-Is there a roving gang of vigilantes warring against a grassroots pro-Humagear youth group?
-Is there a human who lost their Humagear, and is now taking their rage out on the world?

Like, I get that this story is more about Humagear self-actualization, and that Humagears shouldn't have to prove themselves to humanity in order to be treated with respect. We're not doing A Bigot Learns A Lesson stories anymore; the show's outgrown that. But with Horobi a more background figure, and the Ark plotting in a lake, that just leaves Gai's increasingly cartoonish bits of spite to carry the motivation for superhero fights, and it ain't going great!

One of my favourite episodes. Naki alongside Fuwa is one of my all-time favourite Rider characters and their arc together here is exactly why

Delmo's singularity is so obvious that I'm glad it didn't take Aruto long to figure out. Like, she's practically human to the point where if she had Jin's upgrade you'd probably never realize she was a Humagear. And she played off Fuwa surprisingly well given how different they are in every way possible.

Fuwa feels like he has come full circle in a way to where he started out hating Aruto's guts and wanting to destroy Humagears because he was basically reprogrammed that way, but now he's working for Aruto to protect Humagears as a life choice he has made on his own.

We also get more with Naki who is going through their own self-actualization and character development alongside Fuwa and developing the idea of what it means to be a Humagear and to dream.

It was nice to see Assault Wolf again, I guess...?

Gai is basically a Saturday morning cartoon villain at this point...which I guess checks out, but still. Yua's not that much better.

Aruto and Is got drop both on and off the screen.

FTFY. :p

I totally agree! We've seen HumaGears like Kobe take pride in their job before, but it's inspiring to see Delmo take pride in her HumaGear appearance and want to show the world that HumaGears can be beautiful as well. Just fashion and makeup is enough, no need for pretentious photoshopping.

Oh right. This opened up insights too. Yeah it's common to see one person's success as something inevitably coming from other's failure, which is also why competition (no matter how underhanded it takes, by bringing anyone down) is really encouraged to extreme degree to reach success (albeit in reality it's also said that successful ones like to see others succeed, not those who like to see others fail). But Humagears here are also done to try reaching common success for multiple parties which'd be something good to stop dragging others down for success.

I don't know if Fuwa's someone who follow orders, actually Fuwa had a dog motif as he's more like an attack dog of AIMS, and the reason why Fuwa looked unreliable next to Yua at their debut was that, Fuwa's someone who'd commonly break the rules to pursue his own agendas, total destruction of Humagears and to the point that AIMS can miss their targets for that. More importantly, Fuwa also ignored Yua's warnings when using Progrise Keys, resorting to breaking it. Being a pawn of someone doesn't mean they follow orders, oftentimes being a pawn is something they don't know and used as a reveal, at least in KR. Naki had some comparison for other characters in Jin and Yua though, for the former, he gave humans Raidrisers in contrast to Jin forcefully hacking Humagears to be Magias, and he openly admits to be ZAIA's tool unlike Yua. For this story, it further showed that Fuwa's on Humagear side too though, after rightfully changing his target to ZAIA, agreeing with Naki too that Humagears can dream.

Yes, Delmo's name is an anagram for model. She can reach some diva-status with her sassiness, but she's still a good example for Humagears to follow in her sheer confidence. Delmo's the driving factor to change Naki. There's something disastrous regrding Delmo's personality though, that her pride can lead into her revealing herself when she shouldn't which'd expose herself to ZAIA agents. After Delmo's injured and had to be replaced by Aruto and Izu at modelling stage, it's quite surprising to me that Aruto got as much approval as Izu (to be specific, in look department there, being called handsome too or such, as looks'd be the main attraction of that show), instead of only being treated as Izu's "manager" or such as it's a female show.

I thought there were some big scheme before in Gai taking over Hiden Intelligence, in how he also wanted to stage his own war for profit using Kamen Riders as weapons. Other than that, as you said before, Gai wants to satiate his ego, but something that can be rather big Gai's trying to obtain is just overall enjoying biggest success in life, like attaining immeasurable wealth, enjoying people looking up on him, and do everything unpunished. Not exactly dominating the world, but can feel like one. To become the most successful he gotta try to take down his company rivals, any casualities damned, so only his product got sold (yeah, there are some villains in media outside KR who had goals of depriving a product source except from themselves to get rich). But yeah he failed because Korenosuke had company foresight, it's fair to complain about him getting beaten up and lasting this long but dunno why complain about villain's deserved failures like that (the takeover one). For others though, Gai makes Humagears cry because he shattered Delmo's dreams, it's still the "no one gets to have dreams" thing?

They gotta think up of a better way to still keep Gai active as a Rider while also being beaten up, instead of him easily escaping despite his vulnerable injured state. Another example is in Ex-Aid, some Riders can teleport away after being beaten up, like Cronus (after Muteki debut), and there's an awesome moment later of Muteki negating Para-DX's teleportation to (temporarily) finish him off.