Recap: Kamen Rider Gavv, Episode 42 – At the End of Broken Feelings

Shoma and Rakia battle with Hanto. Shoma tries to get Hanto to snap out of it, but it doesn’t work. Rakia is able to force Hanto to dehenshin.

Meanwhile, Nyelv is able to get away and meets Suga, commending him on the good work. Nyelv says this hypnosis power would’ve come in handy with Suga’s modification surgery when he was alive. But it doesn’t really matter now anyway.

Nyelv thinks it’s time to try out more complex instructions.

That evening, Shoma and Rakia have Hanto tied up as he acts like a rabid dog intent on killing them both. Not wanting to ever use it against humans again, Rakia reluctantly transforms into his Granute form and uses his toxin to help Hanto calm down.

Rakia assures Shoma that his toxins don’t last long, but the modified Stomach version is another story.

Shoma thanks Rakia.

Next morning at Hapipare, Shoma and Rakia tell Sachika about what’s happened. Shoma thinks they just have to destroy the gun and hopefully everyone is back to normal.

Shoma and Rakia head out to search for Suga while Sachika scours Twitter for potential sightings. As the boys leave, Sachika gets a call from a friend asking if she can accompany her daughter to training. She is worried with all the strange happenings around, so she asks Sachika to help make sure she safely gets to the training center.

Suga continues going around shooting people into hypnosis, instructing them to go to the Kazumi coastline. That includes Uncle Masaru. Shoma runs into him, but realizes he and other people are all under the control of Suga’s gun. Rakia also sees people being controlled and follows them.

After Sachika drops her friend’s daughter off, she spots a hooded figure nearby. She tries to get a photo of him to show Shoma, but it isn’t Suga or Nyelv. It’s Lango who is annoyed someone wants to take a photo of him.

Sachika apologizes for mistaking him for someone and leaves. But she feels she’s seen this man somewhere before.

Lango watches the zombie people walking and thinks it’s either Nyelv’s work or the president’s doing. Either way, he knows what it might be leading to.

Back at Rakia’s place, the sedated Hanto is visited by his shoulder angel and devil who argue over what he is destined to do. Kill Shoma and Rakia or not. The Gochizos try to get Hanto to snap out of it.

AngelHanto reminds Hanto what his powers were originally for. Killing Shoma or something else? The memories of all that he’s been through run through his mind as DevilHanto continues to push him to kill Shoma and Rakia.

Nyelv is waiting at Kazumi beach when all the hypnotized people arrive and begin walking toward the water to drown themselves. Shoma and Rakia quickly run to stop them from doing so.

Sachika, having followed the people as well, arrives at the beach just as Rakia transforms into his Granute form and injects all the people with his toxin to sedate them. Sachika is shocked to see them all collapse to the ground.

Nyelv is impressed with Rakia’s clever use of his toxin. Nonetheless, he deems his experiment a success.

As Nyelv walks away, Shoma tries to chase after him. But Suga jumps in, already henshined. Shoma yells over to Nyelv to reiterate that human lives and minds are not toys to be experimented with.

Nyelv turns and raises his eyebrow as Shoma and Rakia henshin. They first battle Suga. But Nyelv creates a poison pool on the sand before transforming into his Granute form.

They take their battle into the forest as Hanto arrives. Hanto henshins and he charges toward them. Shoma and Rakia brace themselves, but Hanto spins straight to Nyelv, knocking him against a tree.

Nyelv can’t believe Hanto was able to break free of the hypnosis on his own. Hanto says he did want to become stronger in his own way. Shoma and Rakia are happy to see him back.

Hanto tells Shoma and Rakia to focus on destroying the gun while he takes on Nyelv.

Shoma knocks the chocolate out of Suga who is intent on protecting the gun. Shoma can’t believe Suga would do all this for Nyelv. But Rakia reminds Shoma that this is just an empty shell and is no longer Suga.

Rakia takes the lead, delivering an attack to finish off Suga who tosses the gun away. But Rakia shoots and destroys the gun as well. All the hypnotized people are back to normal.

Uncle Masaru and a few other previously hypnotized people follow the commotion in the forest and watch as Hanto and Nyelv continue battling. Nyelv can’t believe the hypnosis wore off.

He tells Rakia that his new form is very impressive and asks if the Gochizo is from AkaGavv. So what if it is, Rakia says. Nyelv comments that everything leads back to AkaGavv and leaves.

Uncle Masaru and the others are afraid, calling Shoma-tachi “monsters”. Sachika comes to assure them that the Kamen Riders are the ones protecting them all from actual monsters. She leads them to safety.

That evening, Uncle Masaru researches about Kamen Riders. And seeing that Granutes have been kidnapping humans for 20 years, he wonders if that is what happened to his little sister.

Next day, Hanto is with Shoma at a coffee shop. Hanto says he wants to tell Shoma this just in case things don’t go well like they did yesterday. Shoma is a bit worried.

Hanto knows this might come across as meddling, but he shows Shoma the photo he got from Masaru. When Shoma confirms that is his mother, Hanto explains that the woman is the younger sister of Inoue Masaru, the owner of the snack shop.

Inoue Masaru is Shoma’s Uncle!

Episode Thoughts

What an interesting episode! Kind of a mellow episode. A more subdued episode. But I love it! I really like the way it was really a more character-focused, dramatic kind of episode. It very much worked for pretty much every single main character that appeared on this episode.

And now that I write this, I realize, No Jarudaks! No wonder I loved this episode! lololol

I think we all knew Hanty would be able to break out of the hypnosis. But that inner struggle between his light and dark side was a great way to remind us of all the sh!t he’s been throuh. And that’s all at the hands of the Stomachs, let us also not forget.

It also solidified how much he cares about his two bros. Though it would’ve been just as easy if the angel Hanto reminded him that he had feelings for Shoma or something. That might have snapped him out of his hypnosis faster lolol

With Rakia, there were two moments for him. First, Sachika seeing him in his Granute form and injecting the people with his toxin. I hope it leads to a nice convo between them about Rakia’s past. And then we get some cute romantic moments (open to interpretation) for us hopeless romantics and shippers out there. Lololol We demand crumbs! lolol

And then him finishing off Suga was kind of like another way to show the strong bond of the three of them. Rakia was definitely not a fan of Suga, partly because of his part in Shoma and Hanto’s troubles. So finishing him off for his bros was a nice moment. Especially since I guess Hanto already had his turn.

An unceremonious end for Suga’s big return though. Unless Nyelv saves his body again. They could do either way.

For Nyelv, I wanted to see a bit more interaction between him and Shoma. Maybe that’s saved for the endgame. Especially after Nyelv remarked about something like all roads lead back to AkaGavv.

But Shoma reiterating that humans and Granutes are not play things for experiments was good. Nyelv getting hypnotized people to almost kill themselves in the ocean was obviously to lure out Shoma as well as provide him more data on whatever he’s ultimately planning. It also gives me hope that he does have something big planned and makes more signs point in his direction as the final or at least penultimate boss, since Lango is lurking about until he’s ready to pounce I guess.

The moment with Sachika was fun, but also good for the plot as well. Kind of bringing all the pieces together. Which is something that Gavv has done very well.

And finally, wonderful build up to Hanto finally telling Shoma about his Uncle.
I think that scene played out so well. The way Hanto didn’t want to waste any more time knowing that it’s probably going to get more dangerous in the coming episodes… I mean, days. Lol But also to add to what will weigh on Shoma moving toward the endgame as well. I think we can assume that the endgame will be heavily influenced by the family aspect of Shoma and the Stomachs. So Shoma knowing about his uncle obviously will lead into learning potentially why Mama Michiru was the chosen one for Papa Bouche in the first place.

So with confirmation that Gavv will be 50 episodes, that means we only have eight left! Exactly two months! Ahh! I think it’s really time to buckle down and hang on for the ride!

Also, hope next week is the last we’ll see of the Jarudaks lololl