Recap: Kamen Rider Gavv, Episode 14 – Miraculous Awakening! Caking

The twins spit Agents out of their Stomach and order them to find Shoma after he falls over the cliff.

At Hapipare, Sachika wonders what’s happened to Shoma and she tries to call him. Shoma wakes up in the forest and crawls over to his phone to see all her missed calls.

Hanto is able to find Shoma first. He knows he can’t bring him to the hospital, but Shoma asks if he has anything to eat. Hanto has some ramune in his pocket and Shoma gratefully accepts the refreshment.

Shoma forces himself to stand, but Hanto urges him to just rest. Shoma says he has to make it home before they find and attack him again. He is determined to keep his promise to Sachika. Hanto helps him as they walk home.

It is already morning when Sachika wakes up and the guys arrive at Hapipare. Hanto tries to assure Sachika that everything’s fine. Shoma gets the cake and asks Sachika to try it with him. He wants to share it while he has a chance before he has to leave again.

Hanty is busy looking through Twitter for updates while Sachika takes her first bite of the cake. She thinks it is absolutely delicious.

Shoma takes a bite as well and in addition to thinking it is delicious, he also has a different feeling. He feels the warmth and happiness from being able to share something like cake together and that it is very fulfilling.

Meanwhile, the twins shoot the Agents after failing to find Shoma. But they decide they can draw him out while he is injured. They blow up a train station downtown.

Hanty secretly sends Shoma the photos of the scene and in them, Shoma sees a message from his siblings written in Granutism calling him to a different location, otherwise more people will die.

Before they hurry out, Shoma and Hanto assure Sachika that they’ll be fine. Thinking they are getting into another gang fight, Sachika wants to come with. But Shoma insists she stay here where it is safe. She says Shoma better come home safe.

Outside, Hanto stops Shoma and points out he’s going the wrong way. But he immediately realizes that Shoma saw something in the photos and also that Shoma is hiding things from him. Especially after what happened yesterday with the two Granutes. Shoma tells him that those two are the ones who killed his mother.

Just then, a Gochizo comes to inform them of the location of the Granute from yesterday. Shoma asks Hanto if he can handle it on his own.

Hanto says he can, so long as Shoma promises him that he won’t die. They fist pump.

Nearby, Nyelv is at the train station bombing and is happy to pick up a few Gochizo.

Hanto finds Stinger the singing Granute who says he’s just a goon doing the dirty work of Stomach Inc, the true culprits behind the manufacture of Dark Treats. Hanto is taken aback. The Granute is able to run away.

Meanwhile, Shoma finds the twins. They are amused that he can still read Granute, thinking he’d be too human now. Shoma cannot believe they would kill people just to draw him out. But the twins say every single thing that is happening now is Shoma’s fault.

They flashback to the birthday party. After their older siblings gave them their gifts, they quickly left to get back to work. They the twins sneak out and eavesdrop on Shoma and his mother talking about delicious cake.

The twins then went to see their father who just brushes them off and tells them to get lost as he is busy on the phone with Uncle Dente asking about what could make Shoma stronger.

It is at that moment when the twins promised to never leave each other’s side. All they have left is each other. And even that, Shoma has taken away

Hearing that triggers Shoma. An indignant Shoma points out that they have not only taken his mother away from him, but also the countless lives of humans they use for drugs. The twins are disgusted by being equated to humans and they vow to erase Shoma and all humans from this world.

Shoma declares that this will end today. He henshins and the twins transform.

The siblings battle. The twins don’t understand how Shoma could have recovered so quickly after yesterday. Shoma tells himself that the cake is the only thing keeping him going. The cake that he made and shared with Sachika has brought him the kind of happiness that Stomach Inc had taken away from him.

Shoma refuses to die here. He will continue to put a smile on Sachika’s face.

Just then, a Gochizo pops out of his Stomach. A cake Gochizo! Shoma locks it in and he uphenshins to Caking.

Shoma charges toward the twins who release more Agents. But Shoma is able to produce his Hoippu-hei Whipped Soldiers as well.

Both Hanto and Nyelv watch in awe and amusement at Shoma’s new power.

The twins refuse to lose to their little brother. Shoma charges up his cake. He remembers gifting them some flowers and also spending some positive moments with them. He thinks it would’ve been nice to share some cake with them as well.

Shoma shoots a finisher at them. But Siita shoves Jiip out of the way and absorbs the attack herself. She explodes. Jiip picks Siita’s mouth off the ground and runs away, screaming in agony.

Shoma is forced to dehenshin and falls to the ground. Hanto runs over as Shoma’s stomach growls. Shoma says Caking must take a lot out of him. Hanto is relieved that Shoma’s alright.

Hanto helps Shoma up.

At Hapipare, Sachika welcomes Shoma home. She has prepared a feast for them. And Shoma is about to grab some treats, but she tells him and Hanty to wash their hands first.

Meanwhile, Jiip is crying in the rain and begins to cut his hair.

Elsewhere, Suga-san sits in the dark and says it’s time to spice things up for Hanto. Just then, Nyelv walks in and greets Suga-san a Good Evening.

Episode Thoughts

Well, sad for the twins, I guess? But, also, sorry your dad and siblings suck. Doesn’t mean you can go and kill people. Especially your own brother, the only person in the world (Granute OR human world at that! Lol) who ever actually cared about you.

So…

I’m supposed to feel sorry for that bitch? I don’t! an old lady in a wheelchair getting interviewed by the news & not feeling sorry for that bitch reaction video meme pic.twitter.com/1RAxWHJpT7

— all reaction videos (@allreactionvidz) September 22, 2020

Honestly lolol

As soon as the twins were all, You humans can’t even compare to us!, I was like “Shoma, do us all a favor and go ahead and end them. Now!” lololol

Now, is she actually done? Probably not. But my biggest takeaway from this episode is less on the twins or the Stomach Sibs, but really more on Shoma himself.

First, I love Shoma snapping back at the twins and bringing up how they first killed his mother AND have been killing countless other humans for who knows how long. All just to produce drugs for monsters? Yeah, Shoma’s righteous indignation was more than warranted. And I loved seeing it.

This is a season about candies. But there was no sugar coating how Shoma felt at that moment. And it really worked so well. Aside from being a badass moment for him, it goes a long way in establishing Shoma’s heroic and selfless attitude and personality. That’s the kind of hero you can easily love to root for.

Then there’s the discussion of the happiness that the cake he made with Sachika brought him. A happiness that he once shared with his mother which was then ripped away from him care of his siblings.

I guess it’s a nice contrast with the lack thereof for the twins from their own full-blooded family. So yeah, I get all that. But the episode definitely made me more interested in Shoma and seeing him be able to experience these positive feelings. And gaining an understanding of these feelings that he had been unable to because of his abusive family.

So definitely an excellent showcase for Shoma’s character development here.

Elsewhere, great to see some big movement with Suga-san and Nyelv at the cliffhanger. We’ll also wait and see what’s next for the twins. They can finally experience the loneliness and suffering that Shoma had to endure all these years! Deserved!

And also, I didn’t know they can spit Agents out of their Stomachs lol I was surprised when the twins did it. But then made sense to allow Shoma to do the same later.

Though I really felt bad for that Hoippuhei throwing up whipped cream.

Hope they’re okay! lol

So, let’s get it out of the way too. lol I’m sure there’s some Shoma-Sachika shippers out there that are well fed today. lol But what’s interesting is how this episode’s progression actually made me see Sachika as like a mother figure for both Shoma and Hanty. Especially at the end.

Nonetheless, the show did a great job being able to use Sachika and the cake to drive Shoma throughout this episode. Well crafted narrative for this and the last episode to bring about a truly satisfying emotional climax.

Next week seems to be about Shoma wanting to help Granutes escape the clutches of Stomach Inc. Perhaps Stinger… I mean, the singing Granute? That would be great! I really like the reformed or misunderstood or nice MOTW plots that Sentai usually does.

So overall, big developments. Great action. Another great episode of Gavv!