[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Sachika is fantastic female lead, really dig her character. It's interesting how she wants to bring happiness to everyone, with an emphasis on everyone, it ties nicely into Shoma always asking the Granute monster of the week if they would rather stop and drop the Dark Treats before going for the finisher.

For the emphasis of everyone, it may lead to decisions that fans won't like/support, like trying to give happiness to the people the fans would rather see deservingly suffer or die a painful death, like villains with large-scale crimes. But unfortunately, bad guys are also still people and aren't expendable lives. It does obviously happen before to characters her type, like many of the main Riders. Shoma did that too albeit I don't think it's Sachika influence or such.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

It makes me pretty sad to think about, which is exactly why I love it. I love that Shouma is this stray puppy of a guy where you can occasionally see all this deep-seated trauma starting to surface. I'm rooting for him like crazy already, and given the way these things tend to go, I'm looking forward to the dramatic irony of the end here paying off someday, with our lonely Kamen Rider speeding off towards solitude on his bike, right over a guy who, just like Sachika, is no doubt going to eventually be one of those people who lets Shouma believe in himself a little more.

I wonder what'd you think of Kekera (from Geats) and if you'd actually support and encourage his views... (not talking about enjoying his character or writing)

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Originally Posted by Leo Novum

I especially like how he gives the monster of the week a chance to redeem himself. Makes him quite a moral character, I think.

If a female does this, it might be depicted negatively instead.... like it's just her getting hit by Stockholm syndrome or such.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

If Sachika does get acknowledged for her efforts, then I hope people will look back on Sakurai Sara with the same appreciation, as Sara also helped her friend move in to a new house and worked hard to make others happy.

Well, I did ask to you before about Sara's reception here. Dunno if this'd be meant to be your take. But, for this one, this is a really tall order, as Sara's just a supporting character. People wouldn't give much credit to female supporting characters (there are types similar to Sara too before, like Airi from Den-O), including those that are only one-off Riders, they're only brought up to complain about their treatment (e.g. not relevant, useless, fridged, etc.). So I brought that up for Sachika, who is one of the main characters, and she's so far well-received (as if they aren't well-received, their views would be dismissed entirely... but still doesn't mean she'd get that). Though yeah it applies when for minor Riders, Ittetsu is remembered for his heroic efforts but not Sara....

Albeit though your example is a similar one to this episode, and Sara obviously fits for the goody two shoes description (I wouldn't want for the females appreciated as heroic to be the violent and brutal ones because they beat up bad guys and/or getting hurt for a cause), I wouldn't put helping a friend move really high, as I think even a mean female who looks down on those she deems inferior can be really nice to their female friends. I don't know what you refer to about working to make others happy though as Sara's just an office worker.... and for Takebe show, Akira from Gaim (another big sister, also protects a child like Sara) would be who touched upon this about using jobs to help out people.

[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

The villains were clearly shopping in the same store as Geryon and the Sisters. Besides the obvious comparison to the Sonozaki family, I also get a strong Sentai vibe from the Stomatch clan. Moreover, at the same time the villains and the team. We also learn that their father is dead and, most likely, it was his death that triggered the chain of events that led to the absorption of Shoma?s mother and his escape. I wonder how these CG locations will be used.

A Sentai villain family, huh, reminds me of the Saima family, except the mother was the matron for the latter. The CGI locations were made by the same company that made the colorful kingdoms of Terra in King-Ohger, so maybe we'll get to see some cool fight scenes here.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

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.

That's why I only said it was a possibility, since we don't yet have any official confirmation about the characters' ages, so it's reasonable to use the actors' ages for the sake of speculation. Family can refer to half-brother or son and with the Stomach father allegedly dead, that would make Lango the active patron.

I think the red Gavv may have been created as an artificial interface between human and Granute biologies, perhaps as a way to expedite production of dark snacks for bigger profit by using Shouma as a living plant.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

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.

I guess Shouma can only produce Gochizous from clear flavors. Everybody knows about the taste of stuff like milk chocolate and salted potato chips, but bentos can be a mix of various ingredients, so they may taste too abstract to convert in to something practical that Kamen Rider Gavv can use.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Albeit though your example is a similar one to this episode, and Sara obviously fits for the goody two shoes description (I wouldn't want for the females appreciated as heroic to be the violent and brutal ones because they beat up bad guys and/or getting hurt for a cause), I wouldn't put helping a friend move really high, as I think even a mean female who looks down on those she deems inferior can be really nice to their female friends. I don't know what you refer to about working to make others happy though as Sara's just an office worker.... and for Takebe show, Akira from Gaim (another big sister, also protects a child like Sara) would be who touched upon this about using jobs to help out people.

In the Heaven and Hell Game, Sara protected the kid until the end, which was more impressive than anything she did as Hakubi. In the Parasite Game, Sara was more than just an office worker as she took a part time job to support Keiwa while he was participating in Ace's rewardless DGP, presumably also needing extra money to pay for Neon's furniture. Even though Sara was a supporting character, Takebe acknowledged her importance as the beacon of hope to Neon and Keiwa, which would at least make her more critical to Geats than Akira was to Gaim. Sara was always doing something for the happiness of her friend and little brother.

[Eclipyon]

Apparently there's a short scene in this episode which reveals that the lady whom Hanto has questioned in Episode 1 did indeed murder her husband, proving Hanto's boss's intuition to be correct!!!