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I presume the sealing function of Ride Chemy Cards also prevents Chemies from accidentally leaking in to their emotions. We did see Bolt merge with Hawkstar though, so it seems that the alchemists do need some level of restraint around unsealed Chemies, hence why the Alchemy Academy are so strict about the rules.

Makes sense. So far, it seems like the RCC's function like a leash, cage, or Poke Ball. They function as some kind of alchemical separator that prevent humans' psyche from binding with Chemies. The Sisters are probably able to unseal the Chemies from the RCC's without the use of Chemy Riser. But, if so, then how was Tsurugi still able to seal Raidenji into its own RCC in episode 10? Do the RCC's tampered by The Sisters work like jailbroken iPhones, similar to how the delinquent Beat Riders used jailbroken Lockseeds to control Inves?

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This is certainly more plausible now that we know exactly what the memory loss spell is capable of. It's possible that the father even erased their memories personally to protect them from whatever dangerous secret alchemy he might be involved with.

One of the plausible reasons of why Houtarou and his mom remember the dad as a world traveler is because the dad tampered with their true memories and planted this false one. He could still be alive and only left his family temporarily. He planned to return to his family one day, after he finishes whatever secret stuff he must be doing now. He didn't want to give them bad memories, hence why he only made them remember him as an absent dad, not a dead one.

Another possibility is the one I mentioned here that Houtarou's and his mom's memories were manipulated by the mastermind(s) of the story. Them remembering the dad as a world traveler was just a random made-up story to fill the holes in their memories, without any further reasoning, kinda like when agent J or K of the MIB create made-up, ridiculous stories after they Neuralyze the civilians. The dad might have been dead all along. I think this is a better, super impactful, dramatic setup for the main plot twist and Gotchard's berserker form.

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Yeah, I was thinking Bountybunny as well. I see her as kind of like Kiryu Sento as a girl. Buglesia also makes sense, as the petals resemble a long dress. Hard to judge the Chemies we haven't seen yet, but it's true that Kinkiravenus' namesake (well, the namesake's namesake) is a Greco-Roman goddess, which would also apply to Gaiard, so I could imagine them as potentially female depending on how they look. If there's a human-shaped Chemy though, I think they'll be #101. Might even be Rinne.

Oh, yeah. I forgot about Gaiard. The name Gaia is basically where the phrase "mother Earth" came from.

You're right. The transmution of a human into Chemy is still within the realm of possibility. I mentioned here that Atropos could be having a bigger plan than just making Rinne a Rider, a title which The Sisters have always derided. She could be planning to transform Rinne into the ultimate Chemy that can control all Chemies, or even better: Create new ones, control the Ouroboros, and bend the rules of natural order. Rinne could be transformed into an inhuman, powerful puppet entity who possess a power that is an amalgamation of Sagara and Hajimari no Onna/Unmei no Miko in Gaim.

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Agreed. Takahashi always has an ambitious vision for a big story, but never for a long story, which is required of the KR format. For some reason, Toei have allowed him twice to write a whole show without any secondary writers, even though it's pretty clear that he doesn't have the stamina of Inoue. Behind the scenes, even Takebe was like, "dude, slow down!", when Takahashi's vision for Keiwa's arc was moving too quickly. Hasegawa has experience carrying a story with Saber, while Fukuda was tasked with writing Trio of Deep Sin, so I have faith in Gotchard's staff to maintain the momentum.

The huge, very huge problem with Takahashi is not only that he doesn't have the mental stamina. He did have secondary writers: His writing team. So, had he correctly managed his writing team, he could've avoided 90-95% of the problems that plagued Geats. His main problem is that he has a very very very wrong philosophy of storytelling. He has consistently demonstrated a very unhealthy, destructive preference (or rather, obsession) of writing the most bloated, contrived, convoluted stories, at the expense of simplicity, logic, rationality, common sense, consequences, or even the consistency of the stories' own internal logic. If a normal, rational human with a functional logic and common sense can get from point A to point B in 2 or 3 steps or in 5 steps at most when being irrational or under stress, then he will do the same thing in 20 steps. He will gleefully kill all forms of logic, common sense, and meaning, as long as he can project a false image of a grandiose narrative that look deceptively complex, yet is actually a mere bloated, convoluted mess that will immediately, pathetically, miserably fall apart and crumble to pieces when exposed to just a tiny dose of common sense. During the 24 times the Earth has revolved around the Sun since the day of my birth, I had never seen a story as logically fragile as Geats was.

As bad as Takahashi's performance in Geats was, there was an even bigger culprit: Naomi Takebe. After she scored two jackpots with Ryuki and Gaim, perhaps she thought that she'd score the third one with Geats. She probably thought that all writers were equal in ability. She probably thought that Takahashi was just another Yasuko Kobayashi or Gen Urobuchi, who were award-winning writers. Ouch, how very wrong she was. No, ma'am. If everyone were equal, everyone would be Elon Musk.

Virtually everything in Geats was moving too quickly for the sake of moving too quickly, hence why here I called Geats a very neurotic story. The images of many chaotic, clashing, quickly passing thoughts are what you'll find inside the mind of a neurotic person. These many chaotic, clashing, quickly passing thoughts act like a constant supply of high/dopamine, hence why I stated (here and here) that Geats writers were so drunk with their own bullshit.

Takebe should've slowed Takahashi down waaay before the Keiwa arc or episode 1 even began. She should've done it since planning/pre-production phase. The story had activated the self-destruct mode since episode 3 or 4, during the zombie hunting game. If she'd just realized it during the Keiwa arc, then it was already too late. At that point, the story was already damaged beyond repair. It was already impossible to fix it, let alone reverse course.

I'm convinced that Takebe herself probably didn't actually watch Geats as a finished product as it aired weekly, at all. She might not even know about the obvious fact that had been demonstrated since Ex-Aid (!) that Takahashi had always had an unhealthy, destructive obsession with plot convolution. Had she, as a producer, watched the show that she was produced and actually followed the resulting story and scolded Takahashi accordingly, she might've prevented 90-95% of the problems in Geats that almost always, if not always, came from Takahashi's utterly messed up storytelling philosophy.