I like Gunman too glade he gets one more episode. It's kind of a cheat when you think about it as even Drive's finishers don't have a 100% success record and while the story for that episode concludes the enemy can still come back the following week.

Gunman is one of my favorite monster themes. I remember there was one in Faiz that also was pretty badass. I know the chances is slim to none, but would still like a figure of this design.

So things I really liked about Gou...He totally is a play on the Showa Kamen Riders! The extra flips, the scarf, the over the top bike...reminded me a lot of Kamen Rider X. He is a caricature of that style, almost like "Well you complained that a Kamen Rider with a car isn't like the old ones, so HERE!" All the extreme moves and even the explosions...he's showy. I will bet dollars to donuts he is overcompensating for something bad going to happen. Maybe he was infected or injured...and this is all to distract from that. Hell, he may be evolving to a Roidmude...perhaps an after effect from the rider system?

I think the show may hit a serious turn in the latter act.

Him being a photographer alone is a pretty big nod to Hayato Ichimonji (Kamen Rider Nigo).

I could see that working as a reference especially given that in Riku Sanjo works there is some part of a rider which references something about the Showa era riders.

I know :) Its not a coincidence that V3 and Accel share pretty much the exact same origin :lol

V3 and Accel..... Holy crap I never thought about that but that makes a crap ton of sense, that is some fridge brilliance there.

I wonder how much references to showa era riders there were in Double i missed, although that would take a while to go through.

This one and Black are the only big ones that come to mind right now since I havent seen W in a long time. Black in particular stand out so much since that was added to Kamen Rider Joker because of Shotaros actor being a huge fan of the character.

Which is probably also the reason why Joker got to fight Black and Black RX in Heisei vs Showa :lol

Thanks for reminding me about that one, I really do like that one probably because I really like Double.

Just a thing I thought of as well related to Gou.

I guess another problem people could have with him is that Gou just adds another obstacle to Shinnosuke defeating the roidmude which Mach could help with if he wasn't as competitive and as much of a show off as he was.

Mach has a lot of style.

I think the story arc of Gou would include something like a growth of maturity and cautiousness, maybe in the future of the show he might the cockiness beaten out of him lol