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Originally Posted by Sunred

Shoma and Hanto are just

Aka Gavv-sempai and Chocolate-kun.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

I actually laughed when the Chocodon Gochizo just ripped the Poppin Gummy out of the belt and sent it straight to Snack Valhalla.

No, that was Chocodan. The one used by Valen is Chocodon.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

In my mind I'm seeing her adopted by Stomach Inc. and turned into a puppet at first or something, please no.

That could be interesting.

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Originally Posted by weedle013ZiO

She still has her conspicuously empty bubble in the OP, and Hanto's has been filled. It looks like they planned to fill in Hanto?s bubble after his debut as Valen?

I hope you're right. Some of us are still a little disappointed about the Kamen Rider Saber ED teasing us with Meispada.

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Originally Posted by FairyKing

IDK if it was the actual dialogue or just the fan-translators doing something odd, but the subtitles I read had Shouma say something about how "guns and chocolate go together." Is that a reference to something? The only answer I can think of is that he's talking about Valen, but I'm wondering if there's an association between guns and chocolate in Japanese culture, or some other iconic media that links the two?

Chocolate can restore the Dead Eye meter in Red Dead Redemption. Probably not the reference they were going for, but that's my headcanon.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So Hanto is still his swell self when dealing with humans, like of course his embarrassments above when he interacts with Shoma in Hapipare, still awkwardly laughing with each other. But when he confronts Glotta, he seems to have a prejudice against the Granutes, wanting all of them to die, not exclusively the ones that murdered his mom and mentor. Wonder if he learns that Granutes are a normal society that is threatened by Stomach Inc. too later, or even if he knows Shoma is one too.

I mean, Glotta did just kick Hanto across the room, so I think Hanto's reaction here is justified.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Fortunately for Shoma, one of the patrons Tamaki Tatehori is pleased with Shoma's ability to break stuff. Tamaki's first shot of the location on the statue she's sawing with is insane stuff though.

Tamaki gets it, destruction can be an art as well! And she accepts criticism, so she has strong potential to hone her talent. Iwashimizu has no right to mess with that.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It's a dick move for Suetsugu to splash Sachika with paint for this, but this is also something Sachika needs to work on.

Now we know why Suetsugu's art won't sell, he thinks orange and pink go together.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Gavv has another form debut here, Chocodan, and like Valen, he's armed with long-ranged Chocodangun, but with a different finisher.

Chocodan Gun could be a cool pun as it's pronounced "chokodangan", with dangan meaning bullet, since the bullets are also chocolate. Like how "gan" means both gun and eye for some weapons in Kamen Rider Ghost, which also had a brown cowboy form that debuted in Episode 7 and a belt with a mouth.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Their conversations in and out of costume here take advantage of how Shouma and Hanto have more similar overall personalities than a lot of main Rider duos do, playing up their mutual panic at the thought of being exposed, as well as the very similar-yet-opposite mistaken conclusions they jump to about each other's backstory.

It's a little extreme to claim that Shouma and Hanto have similar overall personalities based on a few comedic internal monologues, when the way they act openly is actually pretty different. I'd say their dynamic as Riders is more like Drive and Mach, with Gavv fighting to protect the innocents and Valen fighting to destroy the evil Granutes. Two sides of the same coin, but still opposite sides.