Recap: Kamen Rider Gavv, Episode 29 – Jiip’s Surprise Wedding

A month has passed since the midseason climax. And in that time, Shoma has eaten lots of great food thanks to Sachika. Rakia has moved into Suga-san’s abandoned lab. Hanto also gifted Rakia some delicious rocks and Uncle Dente some delicious cookies to thank them for their help.

Shoma continues to help Sachika at Hapipare and also take down more Stomach Inc employees.

One day, Shoma enjoys a frappe to pop out some Gochizos for his boyfriend Hanto. Hanto asks if he remembers his mother’s name. Inoue Michiru, Shoma replies. Hanto says they can look for any of her family that might still be around in this world.

Shoma flashes back to their time in the Granute world when his mother would cry at night. He thanks Hanto for the idea, but he admits he’s scared.

Meanwhile, over at the mansion castle factory, the actually-working siblings are meeting. Glotta asks Lango about needing to increase procurement of the premium ingredients, to which he says he’s already initiated the orders. Nyelv says he’s got plenty of ideas to take care of akaGavv and friends.

Just then, Jiip pops in for the first time in a long time to announce that he has gotten married to Liselle. Grotta refers to Liselle as “that woman” which offends her. But Nyelv explains that this is Liselle Jarudak.

Just then, her father “President” Bocca Jarudak arrives and the Stomach Sibs bow to him. He comments on their human forms and how the Stomachs have monopolized the routes to this unknown, yet lucrative world.

Lango is upset that Jiip has spilled the tea. Liselle tells her father that she’s already visited this cute and vulgar world. President Bocca wants Lango to build her a vacation home there.

Back in the vulgar world, Sachika has Shoma and Rakia join her for a job being backups on a basketball team. Rakia balls out, Shoma uses his super strength to make impossible threes and Sachika does her part by running out the clock.

But a Granute man in the audience recognizes Rakia as the wanted traitor. He wants the reward, but decides to procure ingredients here instead.

Meanwhile, Hanto looks through missing persons database for Mama Michiru.

On the other side of town, Jiip brings Liselle to her new human world vacation home. Lango and Glotta confront Nyelv about helping Liselle since she wouldn’t have been able to get a human form otherwise.

Lango is still annoyed Jiip leaked their secrets to the actual president of the world. But they’re not too surprised Jiip would hold a grudge against Lango and possibly have ulterior motives too other than forcing them to kneel before someone higher up than them.

Jiip admires the fixed Siita doll as Liselle pops up to express how grateful she is that Jiip was so depressed that she was able to pick him up off the street. He is grateful to her for picking him up off the street too, especially not wanting to bow to Lango and having no home to return to.

Jiip flashes back. He was alone and in despair, contemplating suicide to join his sister on the other side. That’s when Liselle saw him and wanted to take his “cute” Siita doll. He refused and she warned him against doing so. But Jiip realized this could be the perfect way to get back at Lango-niisan who planned to marry him and Siita off to rich people and also to defeat akaGavv.

That’s when Jiip told her about this other world. She is excited to explore this world some more, especially now that she has a doll of her own.

Over at Hapipare, Sachika pays Rakia his cash and rocks for today. Shoma realizes he took one of their teammates’ towels so Sachika tries to reach him. She calls his work, but has not even called in sick. They wonder if a Granute has targeted winning people so they hurry out and search.

They split up at the gym. But Rakia immediately bumps into the old man Granute.

Rakia calls Shoma over and the Granute reveals himself. It runs into the forest. Rakia and Shoma chase after him. They henshin, but the Granute jumps in trees to try and avoid them.

Shoma uses a PopBurn Gochizo which pops out popcorn from his stomach. Rakia slams the tree the Granute is on and it slides down with the popcorn exploding on his butt.

Just before they can finish the Granute off, Liselle appears to spoil the fun.

Episode Thoughts

Definitely a mellow episode to kick off this next arc and really second half of the season. Very much an episode to kind of reset everything. And it was good.

For me, the best part was seeing Team Hapipare having fun and enjoying life in the month since the big drama. Lol The basketball game was fun. Rakia enjoying rocks was amusing. And Hanto caring about his boyfriend and wanting to help him potentially find his human family is nice. (And definitely setting up some future plot of course! Lol)

But of course the biggest development this week was the introduction of the Jarudak family.

First off, I didn’t even realize Jiip has been gone since Episode 16. That’s like half of the series so far. Also, has Siita’s actress gotten like a bigger job or something? That’s why she’s been gone this long? Or is it really the way the plot was originally meant to go? Very interesting either way. Though I wouldn’t hate Siita just popping up in the end to turn out to be the Final Boss lol

Also interesting either way. I never thought about the Stomach Sibs’ human forms that much before. They seem to enjoy them? Like, for the workers in human world, they obviously need them. But the Sibs don’t really need the human forms while at home. So I wonder if there’s a plot reason for them to walk around in their skin suits or is it just an excuse so we can have face actors for the antagonists? Either way, it’s cool. lol

But as for the new father and daughter, we’ll see what kind of terror they’ll bring to the proceedings. It’s nice to give the Stomachs a new foe, especially one that makes them kind of smaller than they’ve been so far. So that will be a good dynamic to explore as well.

And I would like to think the Jarudaks are even crazier and more evil than the Stomachs for the Siblings, who have overseen the murders of countless humans over the years with no remorse, to sort of sink into their seats in their presence. Perhaps this is the start of the Stomach Sibs’ road to redemption lol In a “They’re not that bad compared to these wackos!” kind of way. Lol

Overall, a good episode. Definitely setting the stage for this next section of the season and potentially starting to plant seeds for the endgame too.