[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by FairyKing

I was worried the Gochizous would be annoying but after two episodes these little fellas are really growing on me. I love how in addition to being Shoma's transformation trinkets, in this episode they also served as his monster-detecting system by scurrying around and reporting back when they saw something. I hope that continues!

*Waiting for the Gavv and Despicable Me comparison memes.*
Jokes aside yeah I agree, it's cool how the Gochizos were positioned as more than just sentient trinkets.

[gashatfreak]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

There's the obvious aspect of it where he's scared people won't accept him for who he is, but it definitely comes off like the deeper problem is really that Shouma doesn't fully accept himself yet. He's so quick to resign himself to not fitting in with humanity, but he can't turn a blind eye to the Granute either, which leaves him struggling in this sort of void without a proper sense of place or identity. Which is a lot more messed up than I expected from Kamen Rider Candyman!

The best part about this is that we see proof that his fears of not being accepted has some weight in it. He's mistaken for amonster by the kid's mother last episode, and the person he saves this episode thinks of him as one as well. I know that he'll eventually find acceptance (this *is* a kid's show) but it's these details that make it a pleasure to see his journey.

Kekera would absolutly love this guy.

[Switchblade]

I really hope the show can keep up the quality with these action scenes, it's probably the best the show's combat has looked since Zero-One.

As much as I'd like the idea of Shouma being a wandering hero, I really like Sachika. She's fun and I'm glad she's one of our main characters.

So the Gochizos are basically sentient poop? Am I reading that right?

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

So the Gochizos are basically sentient poop? Am I reading that right?

Yes, sentient dookie without the stench and in the form of treats.

[gashatfreak]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

So the Gochizos are basically sentient poop? Am I reading that right?

What a terrible day to be literate.

[FairyKing]

Oh another thing: I really like how Shouma himself narrates the "previously on" segments, it's a nice way to get into his head a bit more and hear what he's thinking about last episode's events. And maybe I'm reading too much into it, but to me it also seems to emphasize just how alone he is (at least for now). Even when other Riders couldn't lean on other characters for support, at least they still had the narrator watching over them, but Shouma doesn't even have that so he has to do the narration himself!

[Leo Novum]

Hi there, hello!

Just wanted to say, still enjoying Gavv. It's good so far. I especially like how he gives the monster of the week a chance to redeem himself. Makes him quite a moral character, I think.

I hope the second rider and Shouma do not have a bitter rivalry. I mean, it doesn't seem to be building towards it but at the same time. I don't want it to.

That's all. Thanks

[Sh Ranger]

The OP credits has a cat. 10/10

People complained about the Zakuzaku Chipslashers looking breakable and now, that seems to be the point. Sharpness and brittleness are both valuable qualities for a blade, but usually if you increase one, the other decreases. So these swords prioritize sharpness over brittleness, which is compensated by their ability to regenerate. Pretty neat!

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Shouma also says that he thinks it's best to keep his true identity a secret. Well, if so, then why did he told Hajime that he was not a human in episode 1?

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.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Shita says @ 03:55 that their father is dead, and "that" woman is no more. So, the patron of the Stomach family is already dead. The woman that she's referring to is likely Shouma's mom. Shouma is their half-brother who along with his mom were likely protected and given place to live in the Granute world by the father Stomach.

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.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Like shown in the trailer, @ 05:56 Shouma does eat a proper/heavy meal from a bento box, but his Gavv doesn't produce RG's based on it. It seems like Bandai isn't planning to go all out on the food theme.

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.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

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.

While Granutes seem to only attack isolated targets, this one attacked Hanto's mother right in front of the poor kid! I wonder if they got in trouble with Stomach for their audacity. Must've been traumatizing as hell for Hanto, especially after he and his mother were just having fun playing with a ball, like a normal activity. Otherwise, Hanto seems like a pretty chill dude, but I imagine he'll get serious when he fights as Valen.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

The spooky lighting and Gavv's wildness do a great job actually making him look like a monster. Has the same kind of feeling as the "Moonsault of Anger" moment from Build Episode 6. Another scene that I think shows Shouma's loneliness is when he watches Sachika and Ritsu hugging, instead of joining in. He's happy for them, but he seems afraid to be happy for himself, like that happiness would be stealing from them the same way that other Granutes do. There's a sadness to his smile.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Like, I'm imagining all these random college students or washed-out middle-aged men just trying to scrape money for their rent or something and then suddenly getting attacked by this random purple guy out of nowhere while they're doing minimum-wage labor.

So it's basically FNAF, huh.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Kekera would absolutly love this guy.

Well, the Henshin Belt Gavv has been compared to a frog before.

[Mesnick]

I looked. Well, this was an interesting episode, continuing and expanding acquaintance with the worlds of Gavv. The return of the boy from the pilot was expected, but it seems no one expected that he would be shown so quickly. Also, contrary to expectations, Shoma also leaves the hospitable Sachika, although it is obvious that they will meet again. And the show hasn?t forgotten about his two motorcycles yet.
Regarding Sachika herself. She is a good and kind person plus in a practical sense. Some good-natured people from tokusatsu and not only seem completely impossible in the real world, but she is the person you can and want to meet. I look forward to learning more about her.
We also learn about Hanta's past. It?s interesting that it specifically mirrors Shoma?s fate as much as possible. Also the preview of the next episode proves that it is still quite adequate for a secondary rider who has lost a loved one.
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.
The battle was interesting, although intended to showcase the new form. Chips Samurai was visually disappointing, but I liked that the fragility of swords, so carefully discussed in the comments, was played out in the show itself. Also, Shoma again invites the defeated Granut to renounce the Dark Path. This is definitely a hook for the future, although I'm not sure exactly which direction the script will go.
Also, the theme of Gavv being mistaken for a monster is also very important. And in the announcement of the next episode, the words of K
And the opening. A pleasant, albeit a little pop song. I think I'll love it more over time.amen Rider are heard. I wonder what they mean in this show?

[Zolda]

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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.