[Zolda]

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.

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? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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.

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. Oh, and how the heck could Hanto know that the fight scene is at the Kazama beach? He likely just knows, or, as usual, was told by the writers' favorite tools of information manipulation: The RG's, haha. 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. 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. 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.

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). 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?

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? 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

*Tony Stark facepalm


Next week:

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

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? Is it a brand new form or just the green version of the Purujelly form? 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? 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.

Regarding Bocca, what would happen to the Granute world after he's killed by the Riders? 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.

Jeebh/KR Bitter Gavv v3.0 swears to be stronger. Who the heck is he fighting? Is it Lango Mango? 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. 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.

Nyelv is showing a satisfied face. Perhaps his ultimate Driver is finally complete? Or is it just a new tool for Bocca, since he's seemingly satisfied in being Bocca's lackey? Haha. 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)? Don't know!

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