[DreadBringer]

The OP really emphasizes the primary, secondary, and the heroine being a trio to feature almost every scenes of them being together.

It seems like the Gochizos appear every time Shoma eats something, almost like Shoma's "poops", but just for snacks, not full dishes like bentos. For Gavv's other forms like Zakuzakuchips, I wonder if the Gochizos' abilities are unique to the type of snacks (candy, potato chips, etc.), or if they would be different for separate brands as well. I expect Shoma to make up stories about his interest in snacks to Sachika to cover up his origins (including using Inoue as his surname), but it's actually honest that Michiru talks a lot about foods in the flashbacks.

Feels Sachika lives up more to her character description than Sakura (too aggressive) and Rinne (rather haughty) did before, except for the small stern moment of telling Shoma to shower. I don't think Sachika needs to act as an inspiration for Shoma, because Shoma already cares about others, just with a new quote here to reprimand the Granute that he has no right to use human happiness for consumption. I think Shoma'd strive for everyone's happiness on his own sooner or later. This could be mutual with Sachika, as well, because she puts her heart into her job, like ensuring Ritsu's joy. I still think her picking up and nursing Shoma is better proof, especially since Shoma is a stranger.

Guess this is another time when a female's kind nature got acknowledged by a main cast member, other than Sougo bringing up Tsukuyomi in ep. 4. She's even the one who's seen as suspicious due to her generosity, by the main Rider himself, while other main Riders usually get this treatment (e.g. Ryuki ep. 4). Though perhaps she might not get acknowledged as heroic/noble by the fans, especially without action scenes or a job seen as heroic like a soldier, firefighter, or nurse (picking daily job as the choice to "help others in need" like Keitaro being a laundrist), and if Sachika ends up becoming a Rider, I'm not sure if she'd be hailed as a "true Kamen Rider" like many male Riders goody two shoes tbh.

It's good that they make use of Shoma's superhuman traits to have him easily complete Sachika's job in lifting heavy things. Though usually in KR, character traits are used as a one-off thing. Also I hope that Rider's abilities will also be used for this (for this, when others accept Shoma being Gavv). This part reminds me of Gaim (same producer), where Kouta tried to help with jobs using Rider powers, but ruins things instead by going overboard, and Sachika having a handyman job reminds me of what Akira reprimanded Kouta for in Gaim, where he's goofing off and playing rather than doing these types of helpful jobs.

It's nice to see Hajime featured again. It's related to the journey of the other main characters too, especially Hanto wanting more evidence about the Granute attacks for his writing career. Hajime has more experience with that than others. Like many secondary Riders, Hanto's backstory is also about losing a beloved woman, in this case, his mother as a child, being eaten by a Granute, which sparked his journey to take missing person cases. It's also similar to Shoma's issues. At least for Ritsu, there's hope to save the victims, that they're just turned into something else and can be reverted back.