Zolda
Super Lawyer
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 300
Shouma/KR Gavv has encountered Hanto/KR Valen several times, yet he's never wondered how and where KR Valen gets his Gochizous from. Shouma is the only person in the story who is able to produce Gochizous, yet he's never questioned how several of his Gochizous could end up in KR Valen's possession. Even after KR Valen revealed in the end of episode 10 last week that he got his Gochizous from another person (Kenzou), Shouma's never questioned how his Gochizous could end up in Kenzou's possession. And like I elaborated in episode 7 thread here, Shouma's never wondered how there could be a Granute (KR Valen) who has no Gavv at all, not a mere subnormal/dysfunctional Gavv like his own red Gavv. This story has a very weird reasoning.
Shouma brings in 2 new clients named Emi (the victim of the week) and Hana, her younger sister. A guy named Niwa who is said to be Emi's internet boyfriend is said to be a shady love bomber. This Niwa guy stole Hanto's photo and uses it as his profile photo. Convenient. Instead of using the stolen photos of real people, he should've used AI-generated photos, like many internet scammers actually do. Also, Emi must be a first day on the internet kid. She looks like she's veeery incompetent in even the most basic internet research because a reverse image search on many search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, etc will reveal where the source of an image within 3 seconds. In Google Chrome she simply needs to right click and then choose "Search image with Google" and 99% of the time Google is able to show the links to the pages that contain that photo. I bet if Niwa the scammer guy says that he's the prince of a wealthy, ancient dynasty in Korea who owns a private land and 20 bank accounts in Swiss banks she'd actually believe it, haha. I get it if she's a naive high schooler, but she's a grown up woman! Haha. And for that simple task she and Hana need to use Sachika's shop's service. Sooooo, it seems like they're both the first day on the internet kids, haha.
In the scene @ 06:40 Lango is officially firing Shita and Jeebh, and from now on he himself will supervise the Hitopress procurement task. His next plan for them is preparing and arranging their marriages to some random wealthy Granutes to consolidate Stomach corporation's position within the Granute society. It seems like they don't like Lango's plan, and will likely do anything to sabotage it, maybe by making themselves look unattractive and uninteresting to the wealthy Granutes, which will likely result it several mishaps.
In the scene @ 11:34 Emi decides to meet up with Niwa the scammer guy anyway to see what kind of a real person he is since his words are able to make her fall in love with him, so yes, she's a naive, gullible, easily manipulated person indeed, like the title of this episode suggested. Hana, Sachika, and Shouma arrive at the meet up location at a cafe where Hanto has already been waiting for an hour without seeing Emi nor Niwa the scammer guy. Hana is unable to reach Emi's phone, and Hanto is very conveniently reminded of the event when Mr. Shioya was killed by the Granute of the week in the end of episode 5. Shouma is also very conveniently reminded of a strange kid who he bumped into several seconds earlier when he was walking upstairs, and he thinks that the kid somehow knows something about Emi or Niwa the scammer guy? Very convenient chain of events. Also, Hanto said earlier that he had been waiting for an hour, but the strange kid had only made his move 1 or 2 minutes ago. That's a very long window of time.
Sachika sees Lango when he's walking among a crowd of humans and feels a creepy aura around him. But why are there a random group of people looking at him and even a random guy taking photo of Lango @ 14:13? It's not that he's wearing a gaudy, conspicuous attire, haha. And Sachika is the only person who is feeling Lango's creepy aura, while everyone else feel nothing.
Shouma finally finds the strange kid @ 14:34. He sees a Stomach agent is waiting for the kid and thinks that the agent is about to harm the kid. Shouma realizes that the strange kid is holding a Hitopress bearing Emi's face, and it's revealed that the strange kid is actually Niwa the scammer guy aka the Granute that licked Emi and Hitopressed her. So yeah, Niwa the scammer guy is actually an online predator, quite literally. Haha. Oh, and why did the scammer Granute need to rush and run away from the crime scene and raise suspicion? He's disguising himself as a harmless kid, so there's no reason to act suspicious after he Hitopressed Emi. The answer: Because the plot needs it. Or maybe he's just a novice kidnapper, haha.
What I've just realized is how convoluted the Hitopress collection system is. Instead of using agents (who look sooooooo hilariously conspicuous since they have no human disguises) to collect Hitopresses from the Granute part-timers, why doesn't Lango/Stomach rent several places and create several drop point locations supervised by Shita and Jeebh where the Granute part-timers submit the Hitopresses they've created? Or, why doesn't Lango/Stomach use other Granute part-timers tasked with collecting the Hitopresses and then pool it to the drop point locations? If Granutes can easily fool humans by wearing an infinite number of human disguises, then why does Lango/Stomach use the conspicuous, gaudy-looking, obviously non-human agents and create a huuuuuuuuge risk of being discovered by humans (and or the Granute police/law enforcement like I hypothesized in episode 6 thread here)? Why bother using human disguises if the Stomach family's agents are still involved at the most crucial point in the Dark Sweets production chain (the collection of Hitopressed humans from the Granute part-timers in the human world)? Isn't using agents defeat the main purpose (or maybe the purpose) of using human disguises in the first place? Why use a subpar solution when a much easier, better solution exists?
The Hitopress collection system makes little sense. It only makes Lango look incompetent. This is another symptom of the very very very lazy and heavy-handed writing of this series.
Another very convenient scene happens @ 19:08 where the scammer Granute manages to run away from Shouma/KR Gavv, yet he's still in Granute form and forgot to put his human disguise on, so Hanto can see him easily. If he put his human disguise (the strange kid) on, then he'd be able to fool Hanto and run away safely since Hanto never saw the strange kid, so it's impossible for Hanto to recognize him in that disguise. Dumb Granute.
Aaannnddd... My hypothesis in episode 10 thread last week here is proven correct where in the scene @ 22:37 KR Valen is indeed detransformed after getting a considerable amount of damage from the scammer Granute's attack, and Hanto is revealed to be the man behind KR Valen's mask. So yes, Shouma does find out about the real identity of the person behind KR Valen's mask not via deduction of his own, but simply via a convenient circumstance when KR Valen is detransformed due to sheer damage. Yep, Shouma/KR Gavv and Hanto/KR Valen are equally dumb. This story has no need for common sense, reasoning, and simple logical deduction. This story only needs manipulations, coincidences, and conveniences by the writers. Congratulations for the lazy, heavy-handed writing.
Next week:
Hanto doesn't like the fact that his real identity has been revealed in front of KR Gavv. Kenzou is asking Hanto to rely on him. What does it mean? Does it mean that he secretly knows that Hanto is slowly forming an alliance with Shouma?
Shouma and Hanto will transform together for the first time. How will Hanto discover the real identity of Shouma as KR Gavv? Is it via convenient coincidence like in episode 11, or is it via deduction? Perhaps Hanto will be low-key asked several vague questions by Shouma which raise his suspicion, but I doubt that he'll discover it via deduction.
The debut of KR Valen Doumaru form.
