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Originally Posted by Kurona

I've also gotta say that much as I'm trying to sort of gloss over it to work out what they're trying to say with it... what, exactly, is the legality of anything going on right now? Humagears legally belong to Gai and he's ordered a recall, but a huge modelling company still holds onto one of theirs with no repercussion and apparently no fall in public support? So, okay, I guess Delmo is their private property. So ZAIA/Hiden Intelligence is just, allowed to walk up and smash their stuff with incredibly powerful weapons?

The worst part is I'm not even sure... what this is supposed to represent, exactly. A lot of people here complained about Gai doing stuff like turning Humagear into Magias even in front of live television, and that's fair; but I was able to read into that as him being a CEO that holds so much power and public support that he is able to just get away with this and have rabid defenders no matter what; and he'll have whole PR teams at his beck and call to make him look like the good guy somehow. It was all about him being at the top and having absolute power and agency, whether the other characters realised it or not.

But I don't see that here? Nothing about it makes any sense and it stretches my sense of disbelief just a little too far. At what point do the authorities step in?

Actually, Aruto legally owns the rights to Humagears. I did a quick rewatch of episode 30, and the patent for Humagears was part of the things passed down to Aruto along with the 01-Driver.

The reason why the public believes Gai is in charge is because he broadcasted himself saying that he owns the rights to Humagears, and that ZAIA+Hiden has made a decision to scrap them.

So legally what Gai is doing is illegal, but the authorities can't/won't stop him because the "authorities" in this scenario are technically A.I.M.S. who are ordered by the government to deal with all cases of rampaging AI. But A.I.M.S. is funded and supplied weapons by ZAIA, so there's no way in hell they'll disobey him.

So what is happening in this entire scenario is:

• Aruto is trying to restore public faith in Humagears, and reactivating them one at a time.
• Gai is pointing his finger at all of this and going "That fashion model humagear is clearly out of control, A.I.M.S. go destroy her!!!"
• A.I.M.S. obeys
• Fight scene