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Riderwiki: "Great 100 Gochizou Operation is the 34th episode of Kamen Rider Gavv. It features the death of Maagen and Dente Stomach."

Dente: "That was a good nap!"

Riderwiki: "Goddammit!"

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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.

He was just a mean boss concerned with profit, completely unaware of the goings on down on Earth. Most big bads don't dirty their hands until the big climax, which is fair, but they at least tend to know what's happening in the plot.

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.

That's like, the whole point though. Zombu was the visionary CEO who made Stomach the evil organization as we know it today, but he's very old and probably dead. Bouche was the sentimental CEO who saw humans as something other than snacks, but he's old and dead. Lango was the practical CEO who saw little incentive to change a system that's already profitable, but that lack of imagination is exactly why he got usurped by Liselle, the true second Zombu. In other words, we shouldn't be disappointed in Lango as a main antagonist, since he was only ever a pretender to that claim simply for being the first born.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Attempts to stop the disappearances lead all three riders to confront Lango, who turns out to be several orders of magnitude stronger than anyone they've encountered before. And even Over Mode is helpless.
Lango with his huge sword looks impressive and powerful, immediately evoking thoughts of RPGs and dark fantasy. Unfortunately, the fact that this is not a battle, but a beating, does not allow us to call the fight interesting.

That scene of Lango walking away from the plane wreck was pretty bad*ss! For sure, this fight looks like something from an RPG, like expecting Lango to perform a Zantetsuken at some point. Man, terrible display for Over Mode though, only 2 episodes after its debut. While its 1-hit KO was shown to be effective if (big if) Gavv can actually get it to land, Lango's force field spam renders it totally worthless against him. Of course, this is setting up the introduction of Gavv's second Final Form, the speed type Master Mode, but it really makes Over Mode look even lamer, huh.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I would also like to note that Lango and Nyelv get along surprisingly well after the accusations of betrayal in the previous episode. Most likely, because Lango would have done the same in his brother's place.

Yeah, makes sense. Lango is someone who will always put competence above family connection and Nyelve just happens to be both competent and family. Even regarding the rejection of Shouma, the problem wasn't necessarily his human half, but rather how that half made him physically weak by Granute standards, escalated by the way Lango remembers him hiding behind Michiru. Perhaps Lango will be forced to acknowledge Shouma's strength soon.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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?

I'd hope not, as Sachika has the right to forgive anybody for anything, no matter how much the audience may disagree. Even if she can't forgive, she can still acknowledge Lakia's humanity. The audience should remember the wise words of Takeru:

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So far, more about Bouche is that he threatens the other Stomach children if they harm Shoma. Bouche himself has harmed Shoma greatly too.

We also learn from Bouche that Michiru is officially his wife, not merely a concubine, hence why Shouma was born Shouma Stomach before changing to Inoue Shouma upon his arrival on Earth, likely due to Shouma feeling resentful towards Bouche for tormenting Michiru.