[DreadBringer]

Villain no longer idle.

So now they've brought up Rakia's past villainy again, particularly his fear of Sachika discovering the details. While it's expected that Sachika would be forgiving and understanding—leading the audience to likely praise her for being level-headed in processing this, I wonder, if Rakia’s victims were not able to be saved, would the audience (not all) criticize Sachika for reacting like the above upon learning about his crimes?

Additionally, I wonder if the show will now draw parallels between Sachika’s desire to make others happy and Stomach Inc. doing the same, but to kill them off later, including using toxins to induce fleeting joy. Dente, who appears to be dead, is just asleep, tired from the work he has done. I've seen several instances of this in other medias where characters seem to die but are actually resting too.

Lango remains the most level-headed among the Stomach family, recognizing that larger-scale abductions by Stomach Inc. could expose their operations. However, Lizel seems unconcerned and compulsively forces others to comply with her and her father's demands. Holding power doesn’t necessarily equate to competence, including Jeebh, regarding Lango wanting him to become more serious in managing the company.

Lango makes his fight debut, and if Glotta can handle Riders no problem in her human form, obviously Lango would be the same/better, being untouched by Valen and Vram. Vram takes an earlier L and less effort than Valen this time. Lango can create force fields, conjure swords, and teleport. Over Gavv clearly performs better as a final form, making cracks on his force field, and have Lango actually use his Granute form, but he's still clearly losing, and it has time limit too.

Humans being weak is a recurring theme, where Lango's disdain for Shoma and humans is about them being a burden for Stomach family and the might makes right Granute World, where Shoma's scared all the time and the Stomachs have to babysit him all the time. Jeebh and Shita being directly hostile to Shoma wouldn't help Shoma being less afraid y'know. So far, more about Bouche is that he threatens the other Stomach children if they harm Shoma. Bouche himself has harmed Shoma greatly too.

Humans being weak is a recurring theme, particularly through Lango's disdain for Shoma. Lango views humans as burdens to the Stomach family, believing that in a might-makes-right world, Shoma’s constant fear only adds to their troubles. Jeebh and Shita's hostility towards Shoma does nothing to alleviate his fear y'know. Bouche threatens the other Stomach children against harming Shoma, despite having caused him significant harm himself as an abusive dad.

Beyond Lango and the Stomach family’s obvious villainy, I feel the mindset of seeing others as burdens can also manifest among humans. For example, some may dismiss individuals facing challenging situations as lost causes or believe it is acceptable to mistreat them because they feel no one cares. In fan communities, there can be intense hatred towards "weak" characters, even questioning why the main cast chooses to care for them.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

If there's one thing Gavv definitely dropped the ball on, it's Lango.
Despite being the main antagonist and half brother to Gavv, they utilized him so poorly that this big moment feels so half baked.

This seems to be common in many KR series, like how Blade also has a main antagonist seen as underwhelming in Tennoji. The only KR with well-received main antagonist (not other major antagonists, such as Ouja, where Ryuki's main antagonist is Shiro) seems to be Build (Evolt), also arguably OOO (Maki), Drive (Banno), Ex-Aid (Masamune), and Gotchard (Glion).

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

The battle against Shiita and Jeep were much stronger thematically, since we saw the extent to how much they hated Gavv due to their feelings of neglect. Compared to Lango, who hates him because he's simply not a full blooded Granute.

I wonder what people are expecting if Jeebh and Shita don't get 'neglected'.