[Zolda]

Gigist says @ 00:30 that Germain was destroyed, and Glion says @ 00:58 that his soul and Germain's body was fused, so there's little chance that Germain will ever appear again. Germain was supposed to be a God who ate Glion, a mere human, alive. Yet, Glion was not destroyed at all, but was still intact without zero damage whatsoever. The story showed that Germain took Glion into the Door of Darkness and ate him alive. Germain himself stated in the beginning of episode 40 that he was the one who ate Glion. But as it turned out, Germain merely kidnapped and imprisoned Glion inside his body. Germain was supposed to be a God but he couldn't even destroy a mere human. What a dumb God. It seems like Gaelya and Gigist will meet their demise through the same kind of stupid mistake and sheer incompetence. It's more and more the case that the Unholy Trinity (Gigist/Germain/Gaelya) = Gifu v2.0, or rather, Gifu v3.0. *facepalm

The liquid being synthesized by Houtarou is the hilariously named Ugokenakunar solution. Why does he hold it with his hands, not beaker glass holders? At least his inaptitude results in Rinne doing a funny pose, haha.

Sabimaru meets his older brother Kenichi who works at the Kongou lab which is led by an alchemist named Mami Kongou. The aim of the Kongou lab's main research is to create a new Chemy, not in accordance with the order from the AU which banned all Chemy researches 10 years ago. The Kongou lab even has its own library and study room. To avoid the misuse of the new Chemy, the Kongou lab disassociates itself from the AU due to Glion's influence in the AU. Spanner saying "Unfortunately, Glion was resurrected" @ 08:54 sounds like Poe Dameron's "Somehow, Palpatine returned" in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), haha. From the photo @ 13:31 it seems like Glion was once a prominent staff of the Kongou lab, or perhaps even its director. The Kongou lab could be the place where he gained the skills in creating The Sisters and his other homunculi.

Kenichi says that Isaac is the result of his research where he succeeded in applying alchemy in AI. I hope Isaac doesn't hallucinate and create an image of humans with three legs and mutated arms and hands with seven fingers, haha. His next goal is using Isaac as a bridge to communicate with Chemies, a goal which Houtarou also enthusiastically expects. It seems like there was something happened in the past that created some kind of rift between Sabimaru and Kenichi.

The 102nd Chemy that appears @ 14:35 can switch between 2 forms (turtle and tank). It's revealed that this Chemy was designed by Sabimaru and Kenichi when they were kids, and was named Kamedoon. I think the Kongou lab is also attempting to create a fusion/chimera Chemy, similar to the ones created by the Gotchardriver, although the resulting fusion Chemy is still erratic and unstable like shown in the subsequent scenes. If succeeded, this new technology could be later stolen by Glion and used to develop his own Driver (El Dorado Driver?). This new Driver could have the ability to fuse more than 2 Chemies. Glion still has several batches of unused RepliCC's, so this could be the route he's taking. Last week I hypothesized about the 102nd Chemy being an artificial, uber-chimera Malgam-Chemy similar to KR Juuga's chimera demon. It turns out that the 102nd Chemy is not that grandiose, haha.

Thematically, a research that attempts to fuse organic matter (turtle) and inorganic matter (tank) could be an allusion to transhumanism. Spanner's statement @ 18:04 could be an allusion to unethical bioengineering researches such as DNA editing and other forms of invasive genetic engineering, to which he actually agrees on the AU's decision to apply the precautionary principle by forbidding new development of Chemies since a decade ago. This is an interesting theme that should've been developed since early in the story, not in the last 20%. What have you been doing, Gotchard writers?

In the scene @ 21:59 Houtarou seemingly succeeds in defeating and capturing Kamedoon into an upgraded blank RCC, but @ 22:33 it's shown that the captured Chemy melts away from the RCC. Could this be a truly brand new kind of Chemy that can't be captured into an RCC?

And where's Fuga? He's nowhere to be seen when he's actually needed. It doesn't have to be the real Fuga. A surrogate Fuga is adequate. He could've given invaluable insights into the mysterious nature of the 102nd Chemy. It seems like Fuga will only appear when a retcon is needed by the story.

The Sisters are absent in this episode. None of them appear in this episode. Not even one frame.

Next week:

Glion ambushes the Kongou lab. He's shown holding Kenichi's copy of the Isaac tablet. What he's gonna do with it?

Who is the KR Dread that Sabimaru's fighting against? Is it Kenichi behind the mask? Is it just a puppet remote-controlled by Glion? Or is it just Sabimaru's imagination?