[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by ArmadaPrime

Personally I'm hoping for the latter but expecting the former-in the preview it looks like his driver is one of the blank trooper versions.

Actually, shouldn't his and Oren's old yellow-belted prototype drivers still be around somewhere? In storage or labs at Yggdrasil presumably, after they were replaced with the newer models. I mean they could have been thrown out as they were locked to Jonouchi and Oren and as such there's no risk of random people using them, but I imagine Ryouma wouldn't dare let his valuable research be thrown out, he'd keep it locked away somewhere surely.
Also, now that the forest of helheim, such as it is now, is on a barren planet in space, will cracks still work the same way for summoning fruit and such?
Maybe I'm just thinking too much into things, but that's half the fun with such interesting worlds and characters

How Jonouchi will transform next week isn't complex once you realize Jonouchi's driver was not destroyed in episode 44.



As you can see only his acorn seed was destroyed. The driver is still intact, though it's worth noting the face plate is now blank. I'm guessing the shock to the driver just wiped the Gridon data. Next week Jonouchi will become Kurokage using the Driver he's always used.