[DreadBringer]

Recap episode with likely movie tie-in.

Hajime finally reunites with Shoma. The early part of the episode depicts Shoma's escape from Granute World, along with how Hajime managed to find him. Shoma doesn't distance himself from people after his development in ep. 5, leading Hajime to perceive him as less shady now. Hajime is also introduced to Sachika, the second person who found Shoma. It’s unfortunate that this wasn’t addressed in the earlier episode where Hajime was the first to find Shoma, with Sachika being the second.

Regarding Hanto’s visit to Suga’s lab, Rakia's the one colder to him, dismissing Hanto’s greeting, though it's logical thinking where it's obvious he's not well. Rakia provides some insight regarding Bocca and his current intentions, but soon falls asleep again. This seems to be a tactic to entice Hanto into bringing him tasty rocks on his next visit, even though Hanto wouldn’t know which rocks are tasty. There’s also no negotiating about human food— which Shoma enjoys so much—is tastier.

In the next episode preview, Nyelv mentions convincing Shoma to use his powers to halt the production of Dark Treats and stop the invasion of the human world. It’s unclear what might cause this shift, especially since Nyelv remains a strong advocate for Stomach Inc. throughout this episode. He relays information to the part-timers about the Granute Hunters and engages in combat against Valen, whom he clearly views as an enemy, even threatening a Gochizo.

More information about Bouche is revealed: he is the 2nd president of Stomach Inc., advocating for stable and safe business practices. His death is shown onscreen, likely due to Lango poisoning him. People may celebrate Lango’s rebellion against his neglectful father and view Lango's words as truth, about Bouche’s incompetence and ruining the Stomach family. However, it seems spiteful, as Lango clearly harbors hatred for Bouche due to his role in creating Shoma, who he considers a 'mistake' and his biggest obstacle. Zomb also already started the evil practice of the Stomach family if Bouche is blamed for it.

The closing segment of the episode appears to diverge from the main storyline, featuring Glotta checking human foods on her phone and Jeebh and Shita competing in an internal competition. Additionally, Sachika refers to Shoma as Taorin, and a new villain who's also a Kamen Rider, Master Caries, is introduced.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

After all that talk of the strong dominating the weak, Lango had to use poison like a loser. Bouche should've been more cautious though, considering how besides Dente, his whole family disliked him.

That can mean Bouche's seemingly so strong that even Master/Over Gavv can't beat him? And yet a poison is seemingly able to kill him, just that it seems much tamer than final form Rider's barrage. Said poison can be probably used against Bocca too this way for an easy way.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

If Nyelve has been waiting for Team Gavv to become stronger before joining them against his former allies, then he would remind me of Cubal from Zyuohger, another Komura show. I'm curious to find out more about his motivation soon.

This rather feels 180 from how Nyelv is established in this episode, but dunno if this is intentional for this episode. And would he even be able to join as Team Gavv shouldn't accept him.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

That also happens on those couple of occasions where the exposition goes beyond what's previously been explicitly said, which I'm a little more mixed on? I always thought it was significant we were only ever *told* Shouma's father was dead, for example, but apparently it wasn't *so* significant that a recap episode can't be the place we get something more concrete on what went down? Usually when I have a complaint about how something fits into the long-term structure of Gavv, though, it ends up making sense to me *in* the long-term, so I don't expect this to be any different. It seems strange to me now, but probably won't later.

Maybe he's not intended to be that significant, where he was only used to make Shoma realize he's turning like his father when he distanced himself until ep. 5, where he stops, and by this episode, Hajime acknowledges Shoma as less shady.