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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

He didn't. Hajime asked, "you're not a human, are you?", which Shouma could hardly deny after he no-sold a car crash and exposed his Gavv. Hajime's a smart kid.

I'm aware of the truck crash scene and the Gochizous popping out scene. What I didn't understand was why Shouma disclosed other confidential information. If he was already outed as a non-human, then yes he should've just admitted it, but why did he show Hajime the Gavv and tell him additional confidential information such as the name of the mouth device (Gavv)?

Another problem was that the truck crash scene was unnecessarily stupid and lazily written. It was unnecessary because the Gochizous popping out scene was already enough to show that Shouma was not a human. The truck crash scene could've only happened if the driver and co-driver were blind, sleepy, drunk, or stupid. The scene showed that the driver and co-driver weren't blind, sleepy, nor drunk, which meant that the only conclusion I could draw was that they were stupid, or rather, were made to be stupid. I mean, seriously, how could they not see Hajime, a human of that size, crossing the street? He was the only person crossing the street, and the driver didn't even bother to hit the brake and chose to drive straight instead? It made no sense at all.

If the writers really needed a crash scene, then they should've made it more sensical. My basic outline of a possible solution would be:
- Start the episode with Hajime chilling inside his secret base. Maybe add a scene of him eating snacks.
- Out of the blue, an object (Shouma) fell on or in front of Hajime's secret base, kinda like Mr. Bean falling from the sky or the Sirius (9 Canis Major) light falling from the fake sky in The Truman Show (1998).
- Hajime was surprised to see a person fell from the sky yet was still alive and sustained no visible injury, only becoming dizzy.
- Hajime waited until Shouma becoming fully conscious for several minutes.
- Instead of checking his body for injury, Shouma asked for foods instead, and Hajime gave him the snacks.
- Then the Gochizous popping out scene happened.
- Hajime had previously scanned the sky to search for a passing plane/helicopter right after Shouma fell, but found none, so he concluded that Shouma was very likely a non-human due to being alive after somehow falling from the sky, and also due to the Gochizous popping out of his stomach.
This way, you still get the bizarre, out-of-context absurd comedy, but at least you manage to avoid writing a stupid, nonsensical scene like the truck crash scene. Shouma didn't need to tell Hajime (and the viewers) that the name of the mouth device was Gavv, because when the Granute of the week wondered what the heck the red Gavv was, it was already enough of an information.

This series has dispensed too many pieces of crucial information in just 3 episodes. Hanto's motivation has even been disclosed since episode 2, and in episode 3 today it's revealed that Mr. Shioya (Hanto's boss) is some kind of a surrogate parent to him. I'm afraid that if too much information and secret is dispensed in such a short time, then the story will quickly run out of secrets to keep viewers' interest. A story should dispense crucial information sparsely, or else it will potentially lose its steam quickly.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

That's the most apparent theory at the moment. However, we may consider other possibilities. Based on the actors' ages, the gap is big enough for Lango to have had a kid in the early-mid 00s, so he might be the father instead. Or maybe Shouma is the result of an experiment that Stomach performed on his mother.

An actor's age is not always indicative of the age of the character he's playing. For example, Kijino's and Sonoza's actors from Donbrothers appeared as members of the owarai club in KR Gotchard episode 30, although they looked too old for high schoolers, especially Kijino's, haha. He was even older than Minato's actor.

A scene in the preview section of episode 3 today shows another part/angle of the pre-beginning scene of episode 1, where Lango says that they don't consider a human to be their family, so it's likely that Shouma is indeed their half-brother.

I also think that Shouma is the result of an experiment, but the experiment was done on him via the red Gavv on his body. Perhaps the goal of the experiment was to see Shouma's true nature as a human-Granute hybrid, and also to see how the red Gavv would behave if Shouma ate human foods.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

The GotcharDriver was partially inspired by a bento box and the similarity was acknowledged in the Class 3-G special, so I guess it would be confusing for bento to be used for 2 consecutive years.

It doesn't have to be in the shape of a box. At least Bandai can design it in other shapes like circle. They can also design it as a powerup device, not a trinket. It'd be really awesome if Bandai goes all out on the food theme.