Kamen Rider Gavv Episode 42- "At The End Of Broken Feelings" Discussion
 

Shoma and Rakia manage to subdue and restrain the rampaging Hanto.

I’m skipping today’s episode as I fear rejection.

In the scene @ 03:19, Nyelv says that he's gonna try a more difficult command. What is that? Is he gonna try hypnotizing/mind-controlling a huge number of humans at one?

In the scene 05:06, the untransformed Hanto is restrained by Lage 9 and Shouma, but Hanto keeps resisting, so Lage 9 ends up using his very very very plot-convenient hApPiNeSs neurotoxin power to tranquilize him. Shouma thinks Lage 9's hApPiNeSs neurotoxin manages to permanently negate the effect of Kenzoumbie's hypnosis, but Lage 9 says his hApPiNeSs neurotoxin doesn't last long, and he doesn't know what Stomach has improved, so when the effect of his neurotoxin has worn off, the hypnotized Hanto will back to causing ruckus again. Well, they might as well administer sleeping pills to Hanto, haha.:lol

In the scene @ 06:37, Shouma concludes that the gun (the Bake Magnum) is what allows Kenzoumbie to hypnotize/mind-control humans. Shouma asks Sachika @ 07:21 to search for the info on social media for the sightings of mysterious men in black robe, since both Kenzoumbie and Nyelv wear similar attire, and even glasses. Well, where the heck's the Tokyo police department?:confused::eyebrow Since people have connected the mysterious men in black robe (Kenzoumbie and Nyelv) with several bizarre mass hypnosis incidents, why haven't the officers from the Tokyo police department at least try to arrest Kenzoumbie and Nyelv?:confused::eyebrow They're brazenly doing their experiments at public places, so it should be easy for the police to locate Kenzoumbie and Nyelv. Yeah, as usual in this atrocious story, it seems like the writers made the Tokyo police department return to being stupid and useless again, simply in order to allow themselves to advance their uber-convoluted, uber-atrocious plot. Stooooooooopid.

In the scene @ 07:37, Kenzoumbie uses his Bake Magnum to hypnotize several people at several very public places (park, tunnel, and tennis court) and commands them to go to the Kazami beach. Those scenes looks so hilariously empty with no other people there. Where the heck are the other people?:confused::eyebrow No way Kenzoumbie is able to commit a felony (shooting at several random innocent bystanders) at several very public places without being seen by anyone. Like I've previously said, this atrocious story is soooooooooooooooooooo sterile, hollow, and empty, both narratively and visually. Of course, as usual in this atrocious story, in a very very very convenient coincidence, @ 08:11 Kenzoumbie encounters Masaru/candy store owner guy (the older brother of Michiru (Shouma's mom)) and hypnotizes him as well. He orders Masaru to go to the Kazami beach, along with another inaudible command.

In the scene @ 08:33, Sachika is doomscrolling on social media and notices that there are no new info about the sightings of mysterious men in black (Kenzoumbie and Nyelv). What a laughably atrocious writing. It makes no sense at all that no one has seen Kenzoumbie shooting at random innocent bystanders at several very public places. Several moments later, a repeat female customer named Yoshida calls Sachika and asks her to accompany her daughter because she's worried about the sightings of mysterious men in black in the last several days.

In the scene @ 09:22, Lage 9 is taking a stroll, and of course, as usual in this atrocious story, in a very very very convenient coincidence, becomes suspicious when he encounters several random people walking toward the same direction like mindless zombies do. Several moments later, in yet another very very very convenient coincidence, Shouma encounters Masaru/candy store owner guy whom he calls Mr. Hidamari. He thinks Masaru's store is closed today, and when he asks the bizarrely rigid Masaru where he's going, he's told that Masaru's going to the Kazami beach. Of course, this bizarre yet very very very conveniently coincidental encounter with Masaru (and several other mindless hypnotized people) makes Shouma become suspicious that it has something to do with Nyelv's mass hypnosis experiment.

In the scene @ 10:16, Sachika has just finished accompanying Yoshida's daughter to the dojo, and in a yet another very very very convenient coincidence, encounters several other mindless hypnotized people as well. She sees a myterious man in black whom she initially mistakes as Kenzoumbie, but is actually just Lango Mango. She wonders where she saw that guy (Lango Mango) before, referring to the scene in episode 11 @ 13:54 when she saw Lango Mango (and feels his creepy aura) at a public pedestrian walkway. Lango Mango wonders whether this mass hypnosis scheme is Nyelv's or Bocca's idea. The abruptly cut scence ends up in him likely concluding that Bocca's endgame (about transforming the entire human world into a planet-scale Hito Press farm) has entered the first stage.

Like I've said above, there have been numerous reports of instances of people doing bizarre repeated motions, and all the protagonists (Shouma, Hanto, Sachika, and Lage 9) have encountered those via several very very very convenient coincidences. Sooooooooooooooooooo, like I asked above: Where the heck's the Tokyo police department?:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow After numerous sightings and reports in social media, it makes no sense at all for the police to be doing absolutely nothing to at least try to deal with this problem. Gosh, how blatantly manipulated this story can be?:confused::eyebrow Just because this is a story about vigilantes fighting otherworldly invaders doesn't mean that the police (and the civilians) can do nothing to at least try to stop them. They still have normal, healthy, and well-functioning logic, rationality, and common sense, right? The police (and the civilians) still have honor, dignity, and courage, right? Right? Right?
*facepalm

In the scene @ 11:27, the effect of Lage 9's hApPiNeSs neurotoxin is starting to wear off, and Hanto is gradually regaining his hypnotized sense of self. He starts experiencing some kind of a psychotic episode and is starting to have an angel-vs-demon inner conflict about Kenzoumbie's hypnosis command about defeating Shouma/KR Gavv and Lage 9/KR Vram. I wonder if he ends up regaining his true sense of self and undoing the ties of the restraint that Lage 9 put on his body by himself, haha.:lol

In the scene @ 14:15, Nyelv is waiting for the mindless hypnotized people at the Kazama beach. And of course, due to the several very very very convenient coincidences earlier, Shouma and Lage 9 (and also Sachika) are able to track them to the Kazama beach. Nyelv's plan is to have those mindless hypnotized people commit suicide by drowning themselves in the water. Shouma and Lage 9 are unable to prevent those people from doing so, so Lage 9 is forced to use his very very very plot-convenient hApPiNeSs neurotoxin power to tranquilize them. Better to tranquilize them than have them commit suicide, says him. What a very very very plot-convenient power Lage 9 has! Nyelv congratulates Lage 9 because he didn't expect that Lage 9's very very very plot-convenient hApPiNeSs neurotoxin power can be used to tranquilize those mindless hypnotized people and undo the effect of Kenzoumbie's hypnosis, albeit for a brief of time. Either way, he declares that this mass hypnosis experiment is a success.

A brawl between Nyelv (who is debuting his full Granute form) & Kenzoumbie/KR Bitter Gavv v4.0 vs Shouma/KR Gavv & Lage 9/KR Gavv ensues. And yeah, in the scene @ 17:36, Hanto arrives at the scene by himself. He likely did regain his true sense of self and is able to break free of Kenzoumbie's hypnosis, and then undid the ties of the restraint that Lage 9 put on his body by himself, haha.:lol Oh, and how the heck could Hanto know that the fight scene is at the Kazama beach?:confused::eyebrow He likely just knows, or, as usual, was told by the writers' favorite tools of information manipulation: The RG's, haha.:lol Long atrocious story short, Kenzoumbie/KR Bitter Gavv v4.0 is finally destroyed and sent to hell for good by Lage 9/KR Vram, haha.:lol Several seconds later, Kenzoumbie/KR Bitter Gavv v4.0's Bake Magnum is also pathetically destroyed by Lage 9/KR Vram, and the mindless hypnotized people (including Masaru/candy store owner guy) regain their senses. Several of the hypnotized people (including Masaru/candy store owner guy) are curious of the ruckus caused by the brawl between the villains vs the Riders, and instead of running away to safety, decide to get near the fight scene. Just when they think that the Riders are monsters, Sachika the heroine-with-virtually-no-backstory-except-2-mundane-facts-that-she-has-a-filthy-rich-grandma-and-that-she-lives-in-the-same-apartment-complex-as-Ritsu arrives out of nowhere at the right moment to convince them that the Riders are the good guys that defeat the monsters, and prompts to evacuate them from the fight scene.

And, about Nyelv. Well, he's actually not killed in this episode and just walks away unscathed, haha.:lol Unlike Glotta, Magen, and Kenzou, he's still useful for Bocca's subplots (especially the human-world-as-a-planet-scale-Hito-Press-farm subplot), so the writers couldn't just eliminate him from the story, haha.:lol

In the scene @ 21:12, after his encounter with the Riders earlier, Masaru/candy store owner guy is searching for the info about the Riders on the internet, and finds an article about the connection of the unsolved cases of mass disappearance, the monsters (Granutes), and the Riders. He reads there that the Granutes are monsters from another world whose human kidnapping operations have been active during the last 20 years. When he realizes about this fact, he's immediately connecting the dots and concludes that Michiru/her younger sister (Shouma's mom) was very likely one of the Granutes' victims as well. Perhaps in episodes 43-45 he'd ultimately learn about the truth about Michiru's disappearance (and her final fate) and the familial connection between him and Shouma.

In the scene @ 21:52, Hanto finally has the guts to stop coddling Shouma's fragile feelings and decides to directly show Shouma the photo of a young Michiru he took in episode 41 @ 12:57. He tells Shouma that that photo was the photo of the younger sister of Masaru/candy store owner guy/Mr. Hidamari who went missing 20 years ago, and her name was Michiru Inoue, which means that Masaru/candy store owner guy/Mr. Hidamari is Shouma's uncle. Shouma is of course surprised about this sudden reveal and is having a hard time to process.

This scene has a gigantic potential to be stupidly atrocious (or atrociously stupid, so pick you poison, haha:lol). Is Shouma surprised because:
- he didn't expect Masaru/candy store owner guy/Mr. Hidamari to be his uncle,
or,
- he didn't expect that he actually has an uncle in the first place?:confused::eyebrow

If what happens is the 1st possibility, then it makes sense, because Michiru/his mom was only able to tell him about her immediate family tree, yet was unable to show him their photos because, well, she didn't have it because she was kidnapped and trafficked to the Granute world by one of Stomach corporation's part-timers. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttttttttttt, on the other hand, if what happens is the 2nd possibility, then it totally makes no sense at all, because it means that Michiru/his mom never told him about her immediate family tree. It means that during those 20 years of being house arrested inside Bouche's mansion, Michiru never actually told Shouma about the details of her immediate family, at all. The fact that Shouma only gave the name 井上みちる/Inoue Michiru to Hanto in episode 29 @ 03:44 is the definite proof that the most possible route is that Shouma didn't actually know that he has an uncle. This means that all the signs point to the 2nd possibility: Michiru/his mom never told him about her immediate family tree! So, Michiru, if you didn't even tell Shouma about your immediate family tree, then what the heck did you teach Shouma during your time (of more than 20 years!) in the Granute world?:confused::eyebrow Dang, this reveal is definitely one of the worst, stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopidest decision ever made by an important character in this story. My Lord in heaven, as usual, the writers of this atrocious story didn't give a flying frak about logic, rationality, and common sense. The writers couldn't even help but making a weak but important character do utterly stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid things merely to advance the uber-convoluted plot and to make it even more convoluted.
*Tony Stark eye-roll
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*Tony Stark facepalm
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Next week:

KR Gavv Caking form reappears, after returning briefly in episode 40. What a feast for sore eyes, haha.:lol

The debut of the Prujelly RG, whichh looks like the green version of the Purujelly RG. What form will it grant to Lage 9/KR Vram?:eyebrow Is it a brand new form or just the green version of the Purujelly form?:eyebrow Or perhaps even a new Rider form for Sachika, since the preview section @ 23:10 shows that Lage 9 is beaten by 2 of Bocca's agents?:confused::eyebrow Gulp! It'd be really really really bad if Sachika the heroine-with-virtually-no-backstory-except-2-mundane-facts-that-she-has-a-filthy-rich-grandma-and-that-she-lives-in-the-same-apartment-complex-as-Ritsu transforms into a Rider.

Bocca introduces himself as the president of the Granute world and have 2 of his agents fight Shouma/KR Gavv and Hanto/KR Valen. It seems like he likes showing contempt and superiority over the Riders. The debut of Bocca's human disguise as an aristocratic man. Can't he and Liselle use less gaudy, conspicuous-looking human disguises to better hide themselves among humans? Haha.:lol

Regarding Bocca, what would happen to the Granute world after he's killed by the Riders?:eyebrow I have a hypothesis that Lage 9 would be elected as the new leader of the Granutes after Bocca's defeat/death. Lage 9 would be exposing all the corrupt practices of Bocca's regime to the entire Granute public, and the resulting social upheaval could likely seriously damage the political trust in his remaining oligarchs/cronies and cause Bocca's remaining regime to crumble. Or perhaps the Granute public's political favorability would simply shift and swing to the other end of the political aisle to the opposition party, and they're the ones who would take power, not Lage 9, haha.:lol

Jeebh/KR Bitter Gavv v3.0 swears to be stronger. Who the heck is he fighting?:confused::eyebrow Is it Lango Mango?:confused::eyebrow He (and Liselle) is totally missing in episode 42, which means that he's vanished completely in 14(!) episodes. A very very very impressive new record for him, haha.:lol Yep, it's crystal clear that the writers wrote themselves sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pathetically, laughably, hilariously into the corner and almost couldn't do anything about Jeebh, even after he returned in episode 29. It means that Shita's death (which I think is ironically was the only one with somewhat satisfying ending among the other Stomach villains) in episode 14 at the hands of Shouma/KR Gavv Caking form was virtually in vain. You can't have nice things when the writers are 1000000000000000000000000% total hacks, haha.:lol:lol:lol

Nyelv is showing a satisfied face. Perhaps his ultimate Driver is finally complete?:confused::eyebrow Or is it just a new tool for Bocca, since he's seemingly satisfied in being Bocca's lackey?:confused::eyebrow Haha.:lol That could be the case, since in episode 42 he declares that the mass hypnosis experiment is a success. He's probably succeeded in creating the bigger, much more powerful version of Kenzoumbie's hypnotizing Bake Magnum. Perhaps it's some kind of broadcast antenna to mind-control the humans, which works in reverse of the Riddler's Remote Encephalogram Stimulator Box aka NygmaTech Box in Batman Forever (1995)?:confused::eyebrow Don't know!

Mmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeee...

P.S.:

Since this episode that focuses on both Nyelv and Kenzoumbie also marks the 4th week anniversary of the resolution for Hanto's revenge subplot about his mom's death in episode 38, I'd like to celebrate it by elaborating a very severe logical anomaly that formed the very fundamental of the chain of events that led to Hanto's debut transformation into KR Valen at the end of episode 6.

I already elaborated in my 1st post in episode 6 thread here that the very very very convenient fact (which I called Minority Report's "orgy of evidence" meme) that the culprit (the mushroom Granute) very very very conveniently left all pieces of incriminating evidence of his crime of killing Mr. Shioya right at the crime scene at the end of episode 5 (with the very very very obvious intention of having them be easily found by Hanto at the beginning of episode 6) was solely done to provoke him into transforming into KR Valen at the end of episode 6. It was soooooooooooooooooooo obvious that someone (or rather, 2 people, i.e. Nyelv and Kenzou) set Hanto up to be the patsy, with Mr. Shioya's death as the bait.

What's the problem with that?:eyebrow As always in this atrocious story, the problem is exactly the same: The mushroom Granute's decision (in leaving all pieces of incriminating evidence of him killing Mr. Shioya right at the very crime scene) was a very very very stupid decision that made no sense at all. The mushroom Granute said to Mr. Shioya in episode 5 @ 22:48 that he was "just doing an errand", which later in episode 6 @ 13:17 was revealed that the one who sent him on the errand was Nyelv who was shown holding the bottom part of Mr. Shioya's broken Hito Press in that scene. The chain of events in episodes 5-6 then led to Hanto debuting his transformation into KR Valen at the end of episode 6.
Gavv 05 @ 22:48
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Gavv 06 @ 13:17
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In my 1st post in episode 6 thread here, I dubbed the mushroom Granute's decision at the end of episode 5 until the beginning of episode 6 Minority Report's "orgy of evidence" meme because it was similar to the plot twist scene in Minority Report where Danny Witwer (an investigator from the DOJ who had been a hardened veteran detective of the police's homicide department) pointed out to Gordon Fletcher (an officer from the Precrime department who previously had had only worked in financial crime department at the Treasury), that the fact that a nobody named Leo Crow had left a suspiciously high number of pieces of incriminating evidence of all his past crimes as a child kidnapper/pedo (including the photos of the protagonist Chief John Anderton's son Sean who had been missing for several years earlier and was strongly suspected to be a victim of kidnapping) at the very crime scene where he was said to have been killed by Anderton, made no sense at all because a culprit would've never left all those pieces of incriminating evidence for everyone to see, unless it had intentionally been done to frame someone else. As the story went, Witwer inferred and did find that it had indeed been a set up. The one who was framed was the protagonist Anderton, who was set up by the real villain of the story, his close friend Lamar Burgess. Burgess had paid Crow, a total nobody outsider who had had nothing to do with Sean's kidnapping, to play the fake role of the culprit who had kidnapped Sean, and by using Anderton's trauma about Sean's kidnapping (which had still been unsolved), he manipulated Anderton's negative emotional tendency and managed to create a quite convincing illusion of the framing of Anderton as the one who had killed Crow (a future event that the Precogs had seen) and fooled everyone but Witwer. Crow would've been a total idiot if he received no compensation for his sacrifice as a pawn in Burgess' scheme, but Crow was a normal human with well-functioning logic, rationality, and common sense, so he received some form of posthumous compensation for his family. TLDR: Although Crow was a mere pawn in Burgess' scheme, at least he (or rather, his family) was compensated.

Soooooooooooooooooooo, compared to Crow's decision in Minority Report, what's stupid about the mushroom Granute's?:eyebrow:eyebrow:eyebrow By now, the answer is as bright as the sun: His decision was soooooooooooooooooooo stupid because he got nothing in return for his sacrifice as a pawn in Nyelv's and Kenzou's scheme. Nothing. None. Nihil. Nada. A big frakkin' nothing. He ended up just being a 10000000000000000000000% stupid pawn who was killed by Hanto/KR Valen at the end of episode 6 merely in order to move Hanto's subplot, i.e. Nyelv's and Kenzou's cahoots in making him transform into KR Valen, which then contributed to the subplots in later episodes about the conflict between Hanto and Kenzou, which culminated in Kenzou's transformation into KR Bake in episode 27 (and then being defeated by Hanto/KR Valen in episode 28), and Hanto's decision to forgive Kenji/Rago/wolf Granute in episode 38. If he had known just a bit of office politics, then he should've been alarmed when Nyelv had asked him to kill Mr. Shioya and leave all the pieces of incriminating evidence of it at the very crime scene. If the mushroom Granute had only had a tiny drop of common sense, then he should've realized that Nyelv's order could only mean one thing and one thing only: He had been thrown under the bus by Nyelv, and he would gain nothing at all in return. When Nyelv told the mushroom Granute, "You kill Mr' Shioya and then leave all the pieces of incriminating evidence of it at the very crime scene," what he really meant was, "You kill Mr' Shioya and then leave all the pieces of incriminating evidence of it at the very crime scene so that they can be tracked back to you, but only I can take advantage of the situation, since you're a mere disposable pawn." The fact that he just gleefully went along with Nyelv's scheme without getting any form of compensation at all demonstrated that he had the absolute worst judgement and decision-making ability. It was worse than a 0 IQ point move. I've said several times that the characters in this atrocious story have room temperature IQ, but in the mushroom Granute's case, his IQ was pretty much equal to freezer temperature, haha.:lol:lol:lol

If the mushroom Granute was a normal person with well-functioning logic, rationality, and common sense, then he would've definitely chosen self-preservation and would've decided to betray Nyelv by at least trying to throw a wrench into his smooth, clean (read: sanitized), sterile scheme. One of the most logical routes of his attempt at derailing Nyelv's scheme is as follows:
- He should've decided to still Hito Press Mr. Shioya,
- but had decided beforehand that he would've not broken Mr. Shioya's Hito Press (aka killing him). Instead, he'd have used the broken top portion of a fake Hito Press that had been made to look identical to Mr. Shioya's. A Hito Press looks like a normal acrylic stand, so it's not hard to forge a fake one. The fake Hito Press had then been covered with his mucus and left with the other pieces of incriminating evidence at the crime scene to provoke Hanto.
- I can hear the writers loudly making an excuse, "b-B-bUt zOlDa, kEnZoU cOuLd'Ve kNoWn iF tHe hItO pReSs hAd bEeN a fAkE oNe!" Well, the scene in episode 6 @ 06:25 showed that Kenzou only took a comically brief examination about 5 or 6 seconds of Mr. Shioya's broken Hito Press under the microscope. In that scene, without even performing the most basic procedures of DNA extraction, he was immediately able to confidently conclude that the mucus on Mr. Shioya's broken Hito Press belonged to a certain Granute with mushroom motif, which means that he'd already been informed by Nyelv that the mushroom Granute had been given the order to kill Mr.Shioya. He didn't also perform any examination (at all!) whether Mr. Shioya's broken Hito Press was a real or a fake one, very likely because he was also informed by Nyelv that Mr. Shioya would be killed by the mushroom Granute, so even if it had been replaced with the fake one by the mushroom Granute, he wouldn't have known due to his excessive confidence in Nyelv's information, completely missing the huge possibility that the mushroom Granute still had had a chance to throw a wrench into his and Nyelv's scheme.
Gavv 06 @ 06:25
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- On the other hand, the piece of evidence that he had submitted to Nyelv (as a proof of having actually killed Mr. Shioya) had not been the broken bottom portion of a fake Hito Press, but a real one of another male human. Nyelv couldn't have been able to tell Mr. Shioya's DNA apart from another male human's, so a real Hito Press of another male human could've fooled him. He could've submitted the broken bottom portion of the fake Hito Press to Nyelv and could've used Nyelv's overconfidence against him, but it would've been riskier since Nyelv was his direct superior.
- Soooooooooooooooooooo, if the mushroom Granute had decided not to break Mr. Shioya's Hito Press, then what would've happened to it?:eyebrow:eyebrow:eyebrow To anyone familiar with the basics of negotiation, the answer is very simple: He would've used it as a bargaining chip in a negotiation with Hanto/KR Valen. At the most crucial moment in episode 6 @ 21:16 when he was about to be finished off by Hanto/KR Valen, he would've told Hanto/KR Valen that Mr. Shioya had actually been still alive, shown him his real Hito Press, and told Hanto/KR Valen that Mr. Shioya's Hito Press that had been left at the crime scene had actually been just the fake one. Hanto/KR Valen would've been very very very grateful if he had found out that Mr. Shioya had been actually alive and well, so, instead of killing the mushroom Granute, he would've been immensely grateful for his intel.
Gavv 06 @ 21:16
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- The mushroom Granute would've then told Hanto/KR Valen about Nyelv's and Kenzou's scheme, because, naturally, Hanto/KR Valen would've been really, really, really pissed off at anyone who had tried to use Mr. Shioya's death as a cheap bait to manipulate him. In exchange for his intel, the mushroom Granute would've asked for Hanto/KR Valen's protection from Nyelv's incoming retaliation. Hanto/KR Valen, being morally indebted to the mushroom Granute in the most immense way possible, would've then definitely agreed to this proposal, since at this point it's crystal clear they both had had the same common enemies: Nyelv and Kenzou.
- I can hear the writers loudly making an excuse again, "b-B-bUt zOlDa, iF tHe mUsHrOoM gRaNuTe hAd dArEd tO bEtRaY nYeLv, tHeN hE wOuLd'Ve bEeN hUnTeD dOWn aNd kIlLeD bY nYeLv aNd oR hIs aGeNtS!" Weeeeeeeeeellllllllll, what had he got to lose? Nyelv had already planned to have him dead anyway (by having him be killed by Hanto/KR Valen), so, whatever choice he made almost no difference. If he had obeyed Nyelv's order, then he would've been killed by Hanto/KR Valen. On the other hand, if he had defied Nyelv's order, then he would've been killed by Nyelv himself and or his agents. I said almost no difference, because if had defied Nyelv's order and chosen to save Mr. Shioya's Hito Press, then he would've at least had a 50-50 chance of getting help from Hanto/KR Valen who would've thanked him for saving Mr. Shioya's Hito Press and leaked the intel about Nyelv's and Kenzou's cahoots.

Maaaaannnnn, if the mushroom Granute had really dared to betray Nyelv and at least try to throw a wrench into his scheme, then he could've been a very interesting villain in this atrocious story. Although his attempt could've failed, at least it would've shown Nyelv that his perfectly smooth, clean (read: sanitized), sterile scheme might've not been perfect. Among all the other villains with pretty much room temperature IQ (especially Lango Mango the stupidest CEO villain who was totally oblivious of Nyelv's scheme for pretty much the whole story until Bocca came along), if he had just had a bit of common sense, then he could've shined as the best one, although he was just a minor weekly villain-of-the-week. But of course, instead of writing characters with common sense, the writers and producers chose to write characters with zero common sense and combine them with a gazillion of plot conveniences, simply in order to craft the most pathetically, laughably, indefensibly lazy, cheap, sloppy, heavy-handed, and atrocious story with the most uber-convoluted plots. No wonder it's very hard to relate with almost all the characters in this atrocious story. They're not characters. They're mere narrative tools.
*mass facepalm
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P.P.S.:

But wait, there's more!
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Since this episode also formally marks Lango Mango's return to the story and the 6th week anniversary of his unceremonious defeat in episode 36, I'd also like to celebrate it by elaborating yet another severe, plot-breaking logical anomaly that involved him. Well, this atrocious story has already got a gazillion of plot-breaking logical anomalies, so what's the harm in adding another one? Haha.:lol

The logical anomaly is:
How the heck the untransformed Shouma was able to break free when he was subdued by 2 of Lango Mango's agents and then escape from Stomach's factory at the very beginning of episode 1?:confused::eyebrow

The very first 1 minute of episode 1 (for example @ 00.10) showed Shouma running away from Lango Mango's agents pursuit and then escaping from Stomach's factory, and that was the only scene inside Stomach's factory in episode 1. Buuuuuuuuuutttttttttt, in episode 4 @ 14:27, there was an elaborated flashback scene which showed the full details of the events that happened right before the first 1 minute of episode 1. In that elaborated flashback scene, it was shown that right after Michiru (Shouma's mom) was successfully Hito Pressed by an unknown/unseen Granute (probably one of the factory workers, not one of the Stomach siblings) and he was failed to be Hito Pressed by a 2nd unknown/unseen Granute (probably another factory worker) due to his body possessing Granute DNA, he was immediately subdued by 2 of Lango Mango's agents @ 16:14. Lango Mango's agents are known to be much stronger than the other agents, and Shouma/KR Gavv himself admitted in episode 11 @ 19:04 that they were much stronger. Shouma/KR Gavv couldn't defeat them by using the Poppin Gummy form, and he needed to use the Gurucan form to defeat them in episode 11 @ 20:10 and destroy them @ 20:36.
Gavv 1 @ 00:10
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Gavv 4 @ 16:16
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Gavv 11 @ 19:04
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Gavv 11 @ 20:36
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As shown in episode 1 @ 11:00 when the untransformed Shouma tried to fight the 1st Granute of the week, he failed miserably because his untransformed-self was (and still is) a pathetic weakling loser. In episode 1 @ 12:16, it's shown that his untransformed-self was just thrown around like a rag doll and virtually couldn't do anything to fight back against the 1st Granute of the week, who was later defeated by Shouma/KR Gavv when he debuted the Poppin Gummy form at the end episode 1. Shouma's untransformed-self was (and still is) a pathetic weakling loser, so it should've been totally impossible for his untransformed-self to be able to break free when he was subdued by 2(!) of Lango Mango's agents which then allowed him to escape from Stomach's factory at the very beginning of episode 1. No matter what he did, it should've been impossible for him to break free from Lango Mango's agents' grip. It should've been totally impossible according to this atrocious story's own internal rules! Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, if Shouma's untransformed-self was (and still is) a pathetic weakling loser that couldn't even fight back against normal/low class Granutes, and if Lango Mango's agents could only be defeated by Shouma/KR Gavv by using the Gurucan form to defeat them, then how the heck was the untransformed Shouma able to break free when he was subdued by 2(!) of Lango Mango's agents and, heck, even outran them which allowed him to escape from Stomach's factory at the very beginning of episode 1?:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow:confused::eyebrow
Gavv 1 @ 12:16
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Holy... shmoly... mother of jolly... It means that this story had already sucked since the very 1st second it was broadcasted!!! At this point, among a gazillion of plot-breaking logical anomalies, this one is definitely, demonstrably, undeniably the absolute worst of the worst of the worst. This is the ultimate proof that the writers of this atrocious story were soooooooooooooooooooooo lazy. They were like a toddler who is attempting to arrange letters from A to Z, except the writers were only able to arrange A-B, Y-Z, and totally screwed up the other 22 letters, haha.:lol:lol:lol I should've already realized that the 100000000000000000000000% brain dead, stupid, idiotic truck crash scene in episode 1 @ 02:33 was the omen of the incoming future that this story was gonna suck in the most gigantic, colossal way possible.
Gavv 01 @ 02:45
https://i.imgur.com/B6P5pyY.jpeg

Thanks for the pathetically, laughably, indefensibly lazy, cheap, sloppy, heavy-handed, and atrocious story, Gavv's producers and writers!
*the ultimate facepalm
https://i.imgur.com/RXljJ0a.jpeg

I was half joking when I said in my 3rd post in episode 8 thread here that this story was written by an AI. On the other hand, as airtime increases, this atrocious story has always managed to convince me that there's an 80-90% probability that it was really an AI slop. All pieces of evidence point to the high probability that the script of this atrocious story was likely indeed a brain rot, AI slop texts which were produced with almost no supervision and no editing by real, actual script doctors/editors. No frakkin' waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy a competently human-supervised, human-edited script can contain a gazillion of logical anomalies like this atrocious story does. At this point, the writing in KR Gavv has reach the same level of atrocity of KR (God forbid) Geats, so I must call it with its proper name: KR (God forbid) Gavv.
*facepalm

KR Gavv has proven that Toei/Bandai is pretty much 95-99% creatively bankrupt. At this point, I won't be surprised at all if KR Zeztz will turn out to be another atrocious slop. Some people have speculated that KR Zeztz writer is Yuuya Takahashi, while my own prediction is that the writer could be Minato Takano (King-Ohger's writer). But really, there's very little difference between Takano and Takahashi. Takano is like the Diet Coke version of Takahashi, since he was Takahashi's padawan, haha.:lol Almost all atrocious writing tactics that Takahashi used in his magnum opus of convoluted, atrocious writing (KR (God forbid) Geats) were also used by Takano in King-Ohger. If KR Zeztz's story is indeed about the dream world(s) like I hypothesizeztzed here, then I see an 80-90% probability that it could be made uber-convoluted and uber-atrocious as well. If KR Zeztz is indeed written by Takahashi, Takano, and or other writers with similar atrocious approach to writing, then it'd mean that this franchise has reached 100% of creative bankruptcy.
*moment of silence for merit, competence, and creativity at Toei/Bandai

Great Godzilla in the Sea, who is actually going to read this voluminous wall of Text, good grief

And isn’t there a rule against double posting without a day’s break? If not, then there probably should be.

Hey Zolda! It's Rakia! You don't have to call him his Granute codename anymore!

I gotta say, Zolda's thorough hatred of this show should be studied in textbooks.

Nyelv's fighting debut.

The key to combating Nyelv's hypnosis lies in Rakia's forgotten ability due to his redemption, his neurotoxin. Injecting it will at least halt the hypnotized person, albeit temporarily, as the hypnosis resumes once its effects wear off. The situation eventually forces Rakia to reveal his true form and abilities in front of Sachika, preventing individuals at the beach from drowning themselves. Stomach Inc. should have seized this opportunity for spices as well, Hitopressing the happy people.

Regarding Hanto's mental image, the "good" side is dressed in white while the "evil" side wears black, but their clothing is ordinary. They are not depicted in the traditional angel and devil imagery typically seen in these types of internal struggles. Hanto is the only character who successfully breaks free from the hypnosis on his own. It seems like an easy solution for the others’ hypnosis to be broken by destroying Suga's gun, preventing bodycounts like usual for Gavv.

Shoma appears to hold a higher opinion of Suga compared to the Granute villains, expressing doubt about whether Suga would do this for Nyelv's sake. Rakia even supports this view by pointing out that Suga is now merely a puppet. It seems Shoma has yet to accept that humans can be monstrous. I believe Suga would still want to do something for Nyelv, even in his real self. For someone who have sacrificed much, including Soji, and boasted to Shoma about this, people drowning should be normal.

Sachika is assigned to investigate the posts regarding the black man. Although she doesn't find anything any, she does stumble upon a figure when she's observing the hypnotized people. However, it's Lango, whom she previously encountered, but believing he's just an ordinary individual. Nevertheless, it's important to report that to Shoma, but she didn't since she is unaware of his identity. She was never afraid of the Riders since the beginning and explains to the public about them.

Nyelv transforms into his Granute form for the first time, resembling Jormungandr. He fights using a bow and can create poison swamps in both his human and Granute forms. Even though people are ultimately saved, Nyelv views the experiment as a success and prefers to avoid fighting if it's unnecessary. After Suga's gun is destroyed, he uses his poison to keep the Riders at bay and walks away. Nyelv is also intrigued by Red Gavv's powers rather than dismissing them.