[DreadBringer]

It seems like the show is progressing faster than I expected, with a big event already being revealed.

It's ironic that Shoma had dealt with a thief last week, and now he unknowingly steals from others by picking vegetables to eat. I wonder what would have happened if Shoma didn't resemble Makoto, and if the old couple had reported him to the police instead. Now Shoma realizes that he has to work to earn money for food. It's not just big eaters like him; humans in general work to eat.

The Stomach family is racist towards humans, which explains why they are cruel to them. They not only use humans for food but also eliminate any humans in their family, like Michiru and Shoma, although Shoma can't be turned into a Human Press as he is a half-Granute. If Shoma is the oddity as a part-human, it likely means that the Stomach's father has multiple wives. Shoma's reason for caring for humans is because it was the world his mom grew up in. Shoma still refers to his mother's murderers with -niisan suffix.

Shoma really embodies Showa and Kekera's views, about the lonely suffering of a Kamen Rider. He endures bad food, his mom's murder, and has to stay away from people, as otherwise he'd make them happy and get them targeted by the Stomachs, leaving people sad, like the old couple. I wonder what would happen to Sachika if her vow to make people happy would also cause disaster instead. Shoma's triumph in this episode is a power of friendship cliche, with him remembering the humans he bonds with to beat the Agents.

Dunno if the early part of the show emphasizing plants references previous works by Takebe; Gaim and Geats, which both had plant monsters. The agents also remind me of the latter, wearing masks in a hoodie and keeping them while fighting, like the Game Masters. Gavv does a fine job in its finishers, making the opponents suffer a barrage from multiple copies of the food form, and now the multiple foods in Fuwamallow form turn him into a bulldozer.

Hanto meeting Suga is a jackpot for him, where Hanto can learn more about the species of his mother's murderer. And as a toku scientist, it's expected that Suga would be really useful, successfully developing a countermeasure against the Granutes, storing a Gochizo that seems like it will be used for Valen's debut. Like George before, Suga uses English phrases like "yes," and for now, Soji is suspicious of him.