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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

The problem with this theory is that all 101 Ride Chemy Cards were already seen with Fuuga in Episode 1. If what Dragonalos Malgam said is true, then I'm inclined to believe that Nijigon is the youngest Chemy, perhaps born from the collective powers of the others, or otherwise enhanced by them. So, like your theory, but inverted. And since we know that Fuuga can create doppelgangers of himself to pilot remotely, then it's possible for him and Nijigon to be in the same place at the same time even if they're the same being. Maybe Houtarou needs to create #102 to have the strongest Gotcha-N-Go with Nijigon.

There were 101 RCC's with Fuga in the second scene of episode 1, but several of them were partially obscured, including #101, probably because the artworks weren't finished, haha. Like what I posted here, Nijigon has at least 3 cards, 2 of which very likely exist simultaneously, so the RCC #101 that appeared in that scene could've been Nijigon's egg/default card.

Anyway, I'm worried about the direction of this story when I realized that the mooks appearing in the preview for the next episode were the Kasshines aka the Hundred's mooks from KR Legend spin-off, so the next episode could be the start of the new arc that features KR Legend who could also debut in the same episode or episode 33. This king of darkness guy Gigist may be a villain from KR Legend's world who crossed over to Houtarou's world to mess up the storyline, haha.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

The 3 main Riders are basically 3-in-1 alchemists, there are 3 Dark Sisters, Geryon's golden cube is 3^3, Houtarou and Rinne have advanced to Class 3-A and 3 dragon Chemies coming soon. If we get a new insert song after What's Your Fire, then that will be the third. Maybe the final boss will add a 4 instead, just to be ominous.

And maybe the next episode will be the debut of the 3rd OP to mark the start of the new arc? Haha.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Either way, I think memory loss for lazy plot twists is still better than memory loss as a lazy plot twist, looking at you Revice.

I also thought that Revice was the prime example of the laziest of the laziest of the laziest, the cheapest of the cheapest of the cheapest, the shallowest of the shallowest of the shallowest of plot twists. ...Until this putrid, hideous, monstrous abomination came along.

Kamen Rider Geats should be rightly called Kamen Rider Gotcha for constantly barraging viewers with lazy, cheap, shallow "Gotcha!" moments in virtually every single episode. Another story screwed up by an out-of-nowhere memory manipulation powers to create a lazy, cheap, shallow "Gotcha!" moment is The High School Heroes (2021), where the story went FUBAR in the last 2 episodes, especially in the last one. It's no wonder because those episodes were written by *drum roll* *drum roll* *drum roll* *wait for it* the great, mighty God of asspull: Yuuya Takahashi.

This is why stories that abuse the memory loss or memory manipulation trope make me cringe, especially the memory manipulation one. That trope is often used as the easiest, the most convenient tools to create lazy, cheap, shallow plot twists and an infinite number of asspulls. Two other tropes often used as asspull and shock factor generators are reality manipulation trope and multiverse trope. These 3 tropes are often abused by hack writers to create a false image of excitement and narrative grandeur. At this point I'm 95% sure that if a story features a memory or reality manipulation trope, then it will throw at least one lazy, cheap, shallow plot twist at me, like in Gotchard's story where it was revealed that Glion was the one who manipulated the AU's top brasses' memories, or like in (God forbid) Geats. Sigh... So, this is the so-called "modern writing".