[DreadBringer]

The cast is now together.

It seems Bocca is portrayed as evil in this episode, although the show hints at the likely society of the Granute World. Bocca claims the police are on good terms with him, but he questions how they might react, considering the involvement of Dark Treats. Liselle only treats Jeebh well while being condescending to the other Stomachs. She even threatens her father to leave Jeebh alone, suggesting a strained relationship since Bocca disregards Liselle's souvenirs.

Hanto's prejudice against Granutes has diminished. He now wonders if he will end up fighting the entire Granute race because of Bocca, having realized that Stomach Inc. is primarily to blame. I’m uncertain whether Hanto is on Sachika’s payroll, but his journalistic skills are useful for tracking down Granutes and disguises. Rakia's now shown to want to save humans, even snapping Sachika out of her emotional reactions, although he still disapproves of some occupations, such as journalism.

In this situation, Sachika is the one reminding others to prioritize saving people. She understands that the Granute part-timers target happy individuals, and gets mad for it. Unlike Shoma, who has his own issues early in the series, she doesn’t dwell on this, knowing it's their fault to attack innocent people. I wonder if she would set civilians aside for Shoma if she were fully aware of the discussions regarding the President, as it shows that Shoma is still relentlessly hunted by Jeebh.

Though Granute Ochiru appears ordinary, without any significant transformations or upgrades like Yard, he may be the strongest part-timer so far, managing to take on both Gavv and Valen's super forms. Vram could previously defeat Bitter Gavv without problem; however, Lango's Agent poses a greater challenge for him now, even though it was Guruchan who defeated 2 Agents simultaneously before. Liselle can at least de-henshin Guruchan and Vram just by her aura, much like LaToraTah's henshin.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I notice some people calling Lango's demotion "karma", but like, other than being an evil company president, he'd been pretty fair to Jeep, only firing him after several failed chances. On the other hand, Lango wanted Jeep to become more serious and well, I guess you could say that his wish has been granted, just not in the way he wanted. This is a pretty messed-up family.

Obviously, though this isn't necessarily a case for you, people generally are more sympathetic towards the twins compared to the others, as they have suffered for being neglected by their older siblings and father, making them feel more relatively good in people's eyes due to some victim status. I'm fed up with the claims that they turned out evil due to said upbringing, when, Stomach family will have anyone being human kidnappers regardless of upbringing? Lango forcing the twins into an arranged marriage is being terrible to them, regardless of their job, though. Though I doubt if Jeebh do get more serious here like Lango wanted, I still doubt if Jeebh would be more competent, just because he has higher position now, I think he can still just be a a simple vengeful sadist who just wanted to abuse his position for his personal satisfaction, like how he confronted Red Gavv that he revels more in sadistic joy to Lango's dismay, but to more targets now.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

As the new president of Stomach, there's still time for Liselle to live up to her episode title as she will most likely continue her predecessor's dirty work of human trafficking and drug dealing. So far, she reminds me of Beroba, another sadist with a soft spot. We also learn that she is attracted to Jeep in Theta's appearance, which I guess would make her the second openly bi character since Tezuka Miyuki.

While you'd perhaps accept Inoue's work, as Tezuka being bi equals to him being another depraved Rider of Ryuki rather than the only other straight up hero like in the main series, dunno if this should be considered his actual character as a whole. Albeit Tezuka does get different characterization in each of the media, even for 13 Riders, by Inoue too, but though he was Eri's ex who has similar motivation to Ren rather than fortuneteller, he's still good, to question about killing others to save Eri.