Kamen Rider Gotchard Reviews

Gotchard Episode 36 Review

Who knew an episode that could start off funny and end up with something that would be heartbreaking and potentially a sign for darker things to come? Wait, this is Kamen Rider, that happens almost every season.

Trying to make a technically inorganic humanoid test for humanity is both interesting and odd. Though it's debatable whether their father, creator, and debatable abuser had this in mind, the sisters have their own default personalities, initially two dimensional but quickly became more complex and nuanced, but similar to Humagears, and probably be design, maybe recontextualizing their bodies with a source that can act as their heart could work. But it's not out of character for Kyoka for be experimental with her jokes.

But while the jokes don't land with Lachesis, it's nice to see the variety of each person's characterizations on display: Renge's botched attempts to use jokes that'd land better at her city, Rinne and Sabimaru making an entire comedy sketch that was their actor's idea, and it only working because Hopper1, someone made similarly to her, a life made for a purpose but ultimately decides to form their own, slowly gained humanity by following their own will.

The jokes didn't have to land, they just had to make Lachesis feel something, and she's mostly responded to three forms of emotions: intrigue over a person's actions whether good or bad, anger and concern when she or someone she loves is bested or put in a position beyond her consent, and appreciation when her efforts end up satisfying or benefiting someone with her consent to do so.

After all, it only makes sense for the girl who found value to only react to the genuine comedy, accidental or not, from human interaction. Sorry Renge, the Sabi ship is strong, but he's right.

Speaking of humans with complicated issues, something people have noticed with Saber is Hasegawa stories as a head or co head writer loves to include a bunch of old farts who do nothing but let the status quo run rampart and only observe or take the easy way out instead of taking action or being proactive: which could be a metaphor for those at the top only seeking to act when it benefits them.

Save for Kyoka and debatably Fuga and Minato, almost every antagonist associated with the Union has either used their status to commit crimes: Licht used their entire magic system to prepare himself for revenge against Geats, Shiori consumed herself in the knowledge and love for forbidden alchemy, Geyron was able to alter their minds to let him back into the organization without even second guessing his actions and barely giving the heroes credit after trying to throw them out to save favor.

And when you think about that's resulted in someone like Spanner becoming a traumatized mess who has good reason to not want more alchemist inaction to result in the deaths and suffering like he endured, Gigist comes off as the more reasonable one than the entire Union.

It's also nice they tied back Fuga's reading with Rinne back to the Daybreak Alchemist who saved the world from a demon, potential Gigist or who/whatever else is in the Door of Darkness.

Gigist's fight with Spanner does serve as more than just a demonstration of his insane alchemy powers, triggering the black flame and even hinting at Valvarad's progress to develop his powers. The Black Flames were either considered a manifestation of Spanner's trauma or an "excuse" for his development,s o it's nice to see they're progressing that plotline.

There can be some arguments from Houtaro finding Timelord while shopping for groceries at a supermarket, but knowing Daybreak is future Hotaro from way back in the third arc meant he was going to catch the original Timelord eventually.

So Gigist's claims the Chemies are naturally evil gives a lot of introspection on what the Chemies respect. Like Zero-One, Gotchard also focuses on the themes of human malice and how we can overcome it regardless or because of our background.

The reveal Gigist made the Chemies to be intentionally to be naturally evil to the point he accuses our protagonist of messing with their minds to make them good against their nature, puts our hero and villain in an oddly parental light.

You have one parent who created the original children ala Adam and Eve in Chemies Dragonalos and Gaiard, intended for malice, while the other Chemies were emulated by later alchemists. One nurtures their children with full intent to give into negativity and apathy for destruction while those who never understood their intentions figured, didn't have the means to understand without risk of harm, or never bothered to nurture them into acting with benevolence.

Then you have someone ala Houtaro who actually offers to take these innocent creatures with not so respectful parents and bothering to raise them right: befriending them akin to like a brother (Hopper1 and Tenliner), trying to cure them from their virus (Skewbows), giving them closure for their issues when outside of their home (Wrestler G), helping them move on from a friendship that can't continue (Saboneedle).

For someone like Gigst, who sees proper nurture as against his mentality and nature, it both makes sense and puts into perspective how inhuman he comes across: he created life as a tool for destruction with no care towards their well being.

It's not too different from children being born from terrible situations, but either the parents take no responsibility to not let affect or impact the newborn, or the people who champion the disgusting behavior because of their mentality a certain subset of humanity exist only for the wellbeing of another without taking that's persons thoughts and feelings into account.

Had the Daybreak Alchemist not defeated the Dark Kings in the past...allegedly, all of the Chemies would've had some use. It would be so cool if Gigist talked about his intents for destruction which each single Chemy: the flying grasshopper was created to be a pest that devoured everything including wildlife to cause a famine?

But what about Skewbows?Skateboards didn't exist one hundred twenty years ago? Well if you do that math and research, the earliest attempt to create a skateboard was in 1643 where someone in London noticed riding wooden boards with wheels attached while in 1876, James Plimption invented the first roller skate with four wheels, before the 1900s fleshed the idea out.