[Paladin]

A stranger from another world appears only to collapse in hunger...

[Omnikaiser]

Nice first ep. Cool ref to Agito when Shouma lands on earth.

Didn't expect few hints of lore about his mother already. So he is half human (unless she is not his biological mom).

I found the kid actor was surprisingly good for his age.


only cons I would find to the ep are maybe the containers scene to be a bit on the long side and as I expected before the show start, the Gouchizo interupting the action (and their voice) to be a bit on the annoying side (but it's a kid show and they're here for comedy I guess. Hope not too much)

Also I don't remember where but pretty sure I already saw Valen's pal somewhere. I don't see him mentioned in the cast.

[Zolda]

Shouma's homeworld has a surreal vibe similar to the Ideon, the homeworld of the Noto from Donbrothers. The trope of a group of kaijin (Granutes) disguising as and living among humans is also similar to the Anoni and the Juuto. Granutes feeding off humans' psyche is also similar to the Noto relying on humans' brainwaves as consumable goods. The Stomach family also feels like a combination of the Sonozaki family from KR W and the Noto.

Why is Shouma chased by the Stomach guards inside the Stomach facility? It seems like he's running away from them, and bringing (or stealing?) something valuable. That valuable thing could be his Henshin Belt Gavv, which is a modified/upgraded version of the standard ones owned by all Granutes. And why is he banished to the Earth, not captured by the guards? Why does that particular (trap?) door lead to the Earth? Does someone control that door (or the whole place) and let him escape? Shouma says @ 01:00 that this is the world his mom lived in. My hypothesis last week here about Shouma being a human-Granute hybrid is very likely correct. And if he recognizes the Earth as his mom's homeworld, then does it mean that he had visited it before, at least once? He can't recognize something he has never seen.

The pedestrian crosswalk light is green @ 02:34, so the driver that almost hit Hajime (the kid of the week) must be the stupidest, most irresponsible driver I've ever seen. I get that the writers intended to point out Shouma's nature as a super strong non-human creature, but they should've done it without making other character(s) do a dangerously stupid thing. Making one character look good/smart/competent/strong by making another one look bad/stupid/incompetent/weak is a sign of crappy, cheap, lazy writing. Shouma says @ 07:41 to Hajime that the people of his species have a mouth on their stomach called Gavv. If Granutes have a mouth on their stomach, then does it mean that the mouth on a Granute's face only functions as a speech/respiratory organ, but not as a digestive system? Shouma is likely the only Granute with a functioning upper mouth due to him being a being a human-Granute hybrid. That's why Shouma creates Gochizous that come out of his Gavv every time he eats something via the upper mouth. Perhaps that's also why his mom told him to never eat any of their snacks @ 09:11 because eating foods through the upper mouth will cause his Gavv to produce Gochizous. But this scene @ 09:11 raises several questions. If the Gavv is his (and the other Granutes') true mouth, then isn't that where he's supposed to put food into, not the upper mouth? What happens if he put actual foods (not Gochizous) into the Gavv? Does it digest foods like the mouth on a normal human does? The trailer video also showed him eating proper/heavy meal from a bento box (through the upper mouth, of course), so doesn't it mean that he'll also create Gochizous based on proper/heavy meals, not just candies/snacks?

Hanto says to a woman @ 03:35 that her husband disappeared 6 months ago, and he's trying to connect the man's disappearance with a Granute. He was described as a freelance writer in the synopsis, but this scene shows that he's closer to an amateur/novice journalist like Shinji Kido in KR Ryuki. Like Shinji did, Hanto also has a boss/superior, albeit his boss is seemingly less bright than Shinji's because he's suggesting that the man was murdered by his wife.

The Granute of the week submits several human souls to a Stomach field agent, and he's rewarded with a Dark Sweets/Dark Snack that looks like youkan. He then eats (through his upper mouth) some of the Dark Sweets @ 08:45, very likely to enable him to transform into his kaijin form @ 10:01. So, it turns out an ordinary Granute's upper mouth can also function as a digestive system, similar to Shouma's. He's planning to attack Hajime and begin to act suspicious in front of him, which drives him away. Then a weird scene happens. Hajime, who is supposed to be heading home, is heading to a pier instead, after being driven away by the Granute of the week. Why does he do that? It seems like he's being Jedi-mind-tricked or mind-controlled by the writers to take a detour to the pier, haha. It looks like a higher force is making him head to the pier only because that's where Shouma is supposed to debut his transformation into KR Gavv. Just right at the moment the Granute of the week is about to attack Hajime, Shouma conveniently appears to save him. Or perhaps Shouma is able to sense a Granute's presence as shown @ 09:34? The Granute of the week actually uses a trinket that looks similar to the one used by the Stomach leader guy like shown in the trailer. That trinket is likely produced when a Granute in human form eats a sufficient amount of Dark Sweets through the upper mouth. A brief flashback scene @ 11:28 shows all members of the Stomach family in their kaijin forms in front of a woman who could be Shouma's mom, who was captured and ended up as a victim of the Granutes. That flashback scene also shows Shouma being in pain, which could imply that he was likely a test subject who was experimented on and imprisoned in the Stomach's facility due to his nature as a human-Granute hybrid, and the first scene in this episode is actually his escape from there. Shouma's situation could be similar to Souji Kusakabe's (Souji Tendou's mimic) from KR Kabuto who was imprisoned by ZECT and used as a test subject for the Zecter experiments. As shown @ 13:24, Shouma has only been 30 minutes in the Earth, but he has produced multiple copies of at least 6 different types of Gochizous, haha. The debut fight scene in the next 7 minutes is quite typical for this franchise. What I didn't expect is that the Henshin Belt Gavv also produces the sword, Gavvgablade. What else can be produced by this thing? I hope it doesn't work like Doraemon's 4D Pocket that'll provide every solution to every problem faced by Nobita, I mean, Shouma.

What's weirder than Hajime taking a detour to the pier is that his mom also arrives there, haha. Does Hajime call his mom to come to the crime scene and pick him up? I understand that the writers' intention was to make a civilian character (Hajime's mom) view Shouma/KR Gavv as a monster and lump him with the Granute of the week, but it'd be better if it's done gradually, not in a rushed manner like this. If done in a rushed, heavy-handed manner like the pier scene, then it'll feel forced, unnatural, and weird. Why would a kid take a detour to a pier when he's told by his dad to go straight home? His mom also being there adds an extra dose of weirdness.

There's another weird thing. If Shouma has already produced so many Gochizous as shown @ 13:24 (at least 30 units), then where are they when Shouma is fainting @ 22:29? Gochizous aren't Chemies that could be conveniently stored inside RCC's. Why don't they help him? Aren't the Gochizous supposed to be Shouma's minions/retainers/helpers? If they can help him during battle, then they surely can at least help him find some foods.

There's a potential logical anomaly @ 20:25 when the news anchor mentions that several explosions of unknown cause occurred yesterday at 11:30 at Nagihama, Tokyo. No way in God's green Earth that the authorities are unable to determine the cause of several explosions of that scale occurring in the middle of a metropolitan city. Pickpockets and other small-time criminals are almost always identifiable via ubiquitous CCTV cameras, yet the authorities are unable to determine the cause of those explosions? I smell something very fishy here. No way the authorities has no intelligence regarding the Granute invasion. I think the authorities are not unable, but unwilling to disclose the cause. The authorities (government, police, military, intelligence agencies, media, etc) could be merely playing their parts in covering up the Granute invasion, and bits of information only appear sporadically in social media as shown by Hanto during the preview section @ 22:55. This cover-up could be orchestrated by the third faction: A governmental/extra-governmental/inter-governmental/clandestine organization that has been secretly investigating the Granute invasion like I hypothesized last week here, and very likely has also been secretly planning to gain something from it. This organization also likely have an indirect connection with Stomach.

The OP is quite nice, but I much prefer the battle theme. It's more upbeat.

Next week:

The debut of the KR Gavv Zakuzakuchips form.

I hope KR Valen will debut in episode 3 or 4. I'm curious as to who'll provide Hanto with the Valen Buster. I hope it's not Shouma.

[Mesnick]

I looked. Well, it's not a brilliant first episode, but it's a pretty good one. I like that setting up the status quo for the show was left until later, making the pilot essentially an introduction to Shoma. He's a very likable main character, if a bit goofy. Still, I would prefer not to be led by the hand by a boy in the human world and Gochizo in battle. Besides, it would have been much more fun if Shoma had grabbed different Gochizo at random, not always getting the desired effect, rather than using their prompts. But overall, I like him. It's also great that it was immediately established that, despite the terrible fate of his mother, Shoma's goal is to protect people, not revenge.
Granuts are quite creepy and disgusting, although in the guise of kaijins they stand out only for their mouth on their stomachs.By the way, Gavv (at least from what has been shown so far) is simply a feature of physiology, and not a living, much less an intelligent, organism. Although I also don’t rule out the twist that it’s actually a parasite.
The battle was colorful and stylish. And if we have already seen trips through skyscrapers and races around the city, then a stretch fight between containers is cool.
A few more words about Hanta. He turned out to be much more lively and awkward than expected from the descriptions and trailer. At the very least, we were shown that he is not just a typical secondary brawler. It's very interesting to know more about him.
Overall, I enjoyed this start and am looking forward to the continuation of Gavv's adventures.
P.S. Also Hanta`s Master seemed very suspicious to me. Although, IMHO, everyone whose belly we haven’t seen is suspicious here.
P.P.S. By the way, even if Gochizo die during use, they go to heaven for that. So there is no need to be sad. Also, considering that Candy Gochizo has created different types of motorcycles, then, at least in theory, Gavv is the rider with the most bikes in the franchise.

[Llyot42]

I'm not sure what's komura's cooking, but i liked it. I think, i could safely said that the granutes are essentially addicts, and the agents would fill their addictions in exchange of doing whatever evil stuff the plot demands.

The gochizo being used as a replenishment for the battle damaged armor is a clever way to justifies the large amount of trinkets, also a way to emphasize the "mouth" aspect of gavv

I wonder if shouma is somehow related to the stomach's families (maybe a cousin or a distant relative), i'm not sure if komura would ever go in that direction, probably takebe would

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Omnikaiser

Nice first ep. Cool ref to Agito when Shouma lands on earth.

Didn't expect few hints of lore about his mother already. So he is half human (unless she is not his biological mom).

Ah, so I wasn't the only one who thought this.
Also, while it doesn't closely resemble it, the chase scene at the beginning gave me Kamen Rider BLACK vibes.

[Kiwami]

I very much enjoyed the first episode of Gavv.

The protagonist is super interesting and unconventional in certain ways, he's half-alien and the belt actually an organ of his body, not something artificial. Although it is special and unlike the ones other members of his species have so let's see where this leads.

Love the style too, candy as a theme works strangely well for Kamen Rider, maybe because the "Juicy!" line from the transformation jingle is such a nice callback to the real life Kamen Rider gummy advertisements of the past. And present, I doubt they will let that opportunity slip away.

The action was awesome, super fun and well done. I really like the suit too; how attacks eat away at the armor but snacking some additional gummies restores it.

I'm 100% in on Gavv; it's really fun so far. Also, as a fan of King-Ohger I smiled when I saw the merch cameo

[gashatfreak]

I do like how Gavv reinserts Gochizous into his stomach in order to regenerate armor. I don't believe we've seen something like that before. Really ties in to how he has to eat to gain powers. I did actually laugh when the Gochizou's soul flew out after the fight, that's some peak black comedy right there.

Also, they're totally gonna sell those Dark Treats as actual candy in the future. They better or I'll be dissapointed.

Also also, for a candy-themed series, the fight music goes surprisingly hard.

[henshinzero]

As much as this new rider is fun.... I think I'm gonna pass on this one until he gains friends who know his secret, as well as people to start treating him like a hero and not a monster.

[DaikaijuSokogeki01]

Is it just me or did this pilot feel the most Kamen Rider that Kamen Rider has felt in a long time? It's hard to put my finger on it. But the villains in this feel legitimately threatening in ways that past Rider villains haven't (probably because they're implying that normal people are actually dying), it features a main character who isn't truly human, and the added emphasis on the bike in the final scene is a bonus (I hope it lasts).

The fight choreography in this was sensational, especially the bit where they were fighting while wedged between the shipping containers. The gimmick actually seems to work, and Komura's brand of humor is on full display here. This was the best first episode of a Rider I've seen since Zero-One. Here's hoping Gavv can hold the momentum.