Nightmare Fuel / Kamen Rider Geats

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Newborn Jyamato with large human eyes? Definitely belongs to the Shnasty Zone!^note And yes — it looks as if it's watching you...

Lots of scary and dark moments in Kamen Rider Geats are pretty much to be expected — courtesy of the same guy behind two previous entries.

General

• The Jyamato. While they have silly moments, their evolution ability makes them terrifying. While at first this is just getting stronger, it gradually becomes apparent that they're getting progressively smarter. With each round, they become exponentially more dangerous to the point Girori is scared of how fast they're evolving. Before even the midseries mark, they've gained the ability to assume human form, speak, and even use Drivers. This leaves a looming sense of dread, as with each round there's no telling exactly what their next evolution will be or how dangerous they'll actually get. By the Jyamato Grand Prix, the Jyamato are able to perfectly intimate the people fed to them to the point of being considered that person reborn.

• Following the reveal that DGP is a reality show from the future, its production staff is played in a more negative light as a majority of them are apathetic to the people dragged into their program as long as the ratings are good. Even Suel, the man in charge of production, considered the Kamen Riders to be no different from circus animals. Some of the Sponsors and audience members are no different, with their eventual interference in DGP affairs turning what started as a reality show with mostly childish games into a series of blood sports and gladiator battles by the finale.

Main series

Episode 1: Dawn F: Invitation to Be a Rider

• An area is isolated with a force field at the beginning of the battle, leaving anyone trapped in to be slaughtered by the Jyamato.
• The barrier goes right between Sara and Keiwa, leaving him trapped in and her out, so she is forced to watch as the monsters fatally injure the soba shop's owner and then go for her brother.
• It doesn't help that the force field manifests as red glowing barbed wire.
• Neon's bodyguards are last seen holding off one of the Jyamato.
• One Jyamato energy-slashes a woman, which in a tokusatsu show may or may not be fatal. But then it knocks a man to the ground and though it's just offscreen, clearly impales him.
  • The next episode mitigates this some, by making it clear that whenever the world is reset anyone killed by the Jyamato is brought back. Except Kamen Riders, who are Killed Off for Real.
• The Jyamato themselves are pretty creepy, speaking only in weird moaning sounds as they murder everyone in sight.
• Then there's the Fortress: a gigantic kaiju sized monster capable of laying waste to the city all by itself.

Episode 3: Encounter II: Zombie Hunting

• First off, we have the shot of Sumida staring at the Magnum Buckle while in school, eerily similar to the memes surrounding the "quiet kid in class reaching into his bag," which are generally an allegory for a school shooting.
• There's also Sumida's motivation for being in the DGP - he actively hates humanity, to the point where his wish for the DGP is "A world without humans."
• Getting infected by a zombie causes the affected area to start turning a sickly purplish-green, with pulsating purple veins extending out from the wound.
• On that note, there's also how the Zombie Jyamato bite people - what you might think are their eyes is actually their mouth, and opening it causes their heads to split in half, connected only by green tissue.
• The fact that the rider armor does NOT protect you from the zombie's bite!
• Let's talk about a critical matter with this episode: Tsumuri details how the Zombie Jyamato operate, including how they attack in three waves and the major risk they present by reaching urban areas. The implication is that this happened before and there was a zombie apocalypse due to it.
• Sumida's wish if he wins the Desire Grand Prix is "A world without humans". His basketball career was ruined by an accident...leading him to be jealous and resentful of everyone around him. Is it a very immature, petty wish? Oh absolutely. But Da·Paan highlights how anyone can be a part of the DGP and how no one is exempt from having their desires granted, no matter how crazy they are or how destructive their wish is.

Episode 6: Encounter V: Turnabout Boost

• The reason Michinaga's friend died is fully revealed. Two Kamen Riders beat him up and stole the Zombie Buckle from him, leaving him utterly defenseless against the Jyamato. It's little wonder why he hates them as much as he does. From what we saw, one had an elephant theme and the other a gazelle, though it's unclear if said individuals are still even alive, given the nature of the DGP...

Episode 7: Encounter VI: Kick the Can with the Last Boss

• Rule 7, Just Rule 7. If all players lose, everyone with the game area is terminated. And the final boss is one who has already done it once to a previous group of players.
  • As a reminder, that includes all civilians, ambient life, and even the physical space itself. Just gone.

Episode 8: Encounter VII: Trump Card Ninja

• It is revealed that Sara and Keiwa's parents were killed by Jyamato while trapped in the Jyamar Area, with Sara helplessly watching on the other side — the exact same situation in #1. This makes it twice now that Sara had to watch the (potential) demise of her family.
  • What makes this worse is that their parents are still dead even after the reset, meaning that something was screwed up in that game since they still remember their parents so it wasn't a failed game.

Episode 9: Encounter F: Wake Up! Monster

• The opening has a young couple and their child happily going about their day... and then the Knight Jyamato appears. The parents are crushed to death under its foot, with the helpless, crying baby being approached by a Pawn Jyamato. From the way the Jyamato draws back its arm to strike, it's obvious what happens next. This pretty much makes the episode's Reset Button Ending come as a relief by showing they and the other civilians were of course brought back and could carry on where they left off.

Episode 10: Scheme I: Beat of the New World

• Yukie/Letter's death is arguably one of the most brutal of the show thus far. Besides the fact that she's the first female Rider to die in a Reiwa series, the manner of her demise is also pretty shocking. As she attempts to fly away from the battlefield with the Propeller Armed Buckle, the Jyamato shoot her down with a rocket launcher, then proceed to gang up on her and beat her up as her Core ID disintegrates.

Episode 11: Scheme II: Labyrinth of the Jyamato

• We learn that losers in the DGP (assuming they survive) lose the desire behind their wish. Keiwa's abnormal behavior over the last two episodes shows exactly how abrupt (and potentially harmful) the resulting change is.
  • It gets worse the more you think about it. What if Taira had survived in #2 and merely been disqualified? He'd be robbed of his love for his son at worst, but at best he would have just given up trying to find a way to treat his son, but Ace already got that covered anyways.
• The Jyamato are being grown as fetus-like like plants in a greenhouse, raised by a man who is feeding them the broken ID cores of dead Riders. Jesus Christ...

Episode 14: Scheme V: Glare of Anger

• We finally see Kamen Rider Glare in action, and he is a horrifying sight to behold. Not only does he toss PunkJack around like a ragdoll, his drone smashes his former subordinate's helmet and takes control over his body, making him forcibly retire Ace from the DGP.
  • According to the parts page for the Desire Driver, it's powered by a hydrogen reactor for a self renewing energy source of unlimited energy... according to the Vision Driver's parts page, it's powered by a pseudo BLACK HOLE, allowing the suit to have a strange effect on space-time, such as ignoring the strain of weight, or standing on air.

Episode 16: Scheme IR: Fox Hunting

• As though Glare's abilities weren't horrifying enough, he's also able to make suicide bombers out of the Riders he controls, as shown with Win/PunkJack. The latter actually gets his head BLOWN OFF.
• Archimedel arriving to check out the new fertilizer that's arrived...with the camera revealing Azuma surrounded by shoes and discarded clothing, leaving little to the imagination of what he's using for fertilizer...
  • One has to wonder if what are in those "fertilizer bags" are what is left of PunkJack, given the way he was eliminated.

Episode 17: Divergence I: Welcome! To the New Season!

• A Rook Jyamato that Archimedel was shown growing for some time has matured, which it demonstrates by assuming the form of Takeshi Goutokuji / Kamen Rider Shirowe.
  • It's obvious when the realization hits from how Michinaga's expression changes from the usual Death Glare to that of horror as he is watching the Jyamato shapeshift.
  • The Uncanny Valley of the Jyamato's human form. It has roots growing from face to neck, uncoordinated movements and it repeats the few lines the man said before dying.
  • Also the way it shapeshifts is reminiscent of the green tentacle alien / Serleena from Men in Black II.
  • The new opening sneaks in a few shots of Michinaga to confirm that he has survived his elimination, but the Ominous Visual Glitch that distorts those scenes highlights his uncertain status now that he has fallen through the cracks in the system.

Episode 18: Divergence II: Bravo! Jyamar Ball Showdown!

• Michinaga is alive and well, but not in a good place, especially since his I.D. Core is damaged. When he forces a transformation, he is constantly harmed by it, he forced to perform a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on a Jyamato Rider, then forces a transformation using a Jyamato Buckle, becoming Buffa Jyamato, tearing himself up in pain.
  • The transformations are quite painful for Michinaga - since the Buffa I.D. Core is damaged, he's constantly getting electrocuted from the faulty device and when he transforms into Buffa Jyamato, he completely writhes in pain as the transformation takes hold and unleashes Combat Tentacles on two approaching Jyamato to take them out.
  • Perhaps the most unsettling thing about this fight isn't that he managed to beat and destroy a Jyamato Rider with his bare hands. It's that in the process he very clearly and deliberately dislocated, if not broke the Jyamato's arm, complete with crack and the limb going limp. It's a disturbingly realistic tactic and result in an otherwise fantastical fight.
  • His life expectancy is that of a suicidal fruitfly because he is alone, only with the clothes on his back and a driver with a damaged ID Core, in a another dimension that's crawling with Jyamato Riders.
  • Archimedel watches him struggle onward, pondering on how Michinaga doesn't belong anywhere anymore.
• Buffa successfully manages to escape the greenhouse, and, discovers that the Jyamato are being grown in the remains of an entire destroyed city. This situation brings to mind the civilization-destroying Helheim Forest.

Episode 19: Divergence III: Vote! Who Is the Desastar?

• Michinaga's predicament is complicated further by the cruelty of Niram and Samas, who drag him back to the Jyamato greenhouse area. When Samas questions Niram of returning Michinaga there, Niram complains of how him returning from the dead would mean the Desire Grand Prix would "lack realism" and he wants him to return... as a Jyamato.
• There are a couple of jumpscares involving baby Jyamato suddenly opening eyes that are far too large for their tiny frames.

Episode 20: Divergence IV: Delivery from the Jyamato!

• The fact that the victims trapped by the time bomb would be gone forever if they're caught in the bomb's explosions.

Episode 21: Divergence V: Gazer's Iron Hammer!

• Keiwa's close shave to save Sara doesn't compare with Sae having to not only cut two wires out of three in less than 15 seconds, but also the melon bomb retaliating after one wire was cut by wrapping Sae in wires as well, with Neon coming in to save them all in the very last three seconds.
• If Kamen Rider Glare wasn't horrifying enough, we have Kamen Rider Gazer; not only does he constantly keep Buffa on the backfoot, Gazer took little effort to sock him with enough force to send him several stories in the air, and had the buffalo rider not activated the Zombie buckle he would've been killed right then and there.

Episode 23: Divergence T: Now! For the One You Support

• The truth of the Jyamar Garden comes out at last: it is the area that is effectively "erased" after the Kamen Riders lose.
• Niram not only refuses to answer any of Ace's questions, but justifies that even answering them wouldn't matter because he would wipe it all: their memories, their existence, the very world they are in. That is the extent that the Producer would go to keep the show going.
  • Towards the end, Niram justifies that they might have to erase this world anyways, based on the judgement. It's how casual he makes this delivery that shows how little he cares.
• Beroba transforms into a giant, mecha-like Rider; and decides to blow the Jyamar Garden to smithereens once the cat's out of the bag. The heroes go full Mass "Oh, Crap!" with this one. Even Archimedel tries to persuade her not to destroy his garden, but Beroba does not care and proceeds anyway. The result is the Jyamar Garden gets obliterated and everyone is engulfed in the explosion. And the last thing we can see in this episode is Beroba giving an Evil Laugh while standing in flaming ruins that looks like Hell — just seconds before the episode ends. And if that wasn't enough of a horror reminder, this is the exact same Rider that stole the Vision Driver last episode. No, seeing it in the flesh does NOT make it any better.

Episode 24: Divergence SP: Special Feature! All About the DGP!

• As if Beroba wasn't terrifying enough, she takes over the DGP and essentially sets the Jyamato loose for them to ABOSOLUTELY MASSACRE THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Like the antics of Girori and Kanato weren't bad enough. And Girori tried to warn Niram about the Jyamato.

Episode 25: Lamentation I: The Jyamato Grand Prix ♡

• With the villains in charge of the game now, the Jyamato now have full access to all of the power up items that the heroes used to and use them with deadly results. From two Jyamato Riders getting the Feverslot Buckle to Michinaga getting the Command Twin Buckle, it's clear that the heroes are fighting a losing battle. And this is only round one of the Jyamato running the game.

Episode 27: Lamentation III: The Thrilling Sengoku Game ♡

• As if Beroba wasn't scary enough, she can now use the Vision Driver to transform... And the fact that she is far more effective with the Glare2 powers than Chirami is makes it more than unsettling when she uses controlled Riders to beat the stuffing out of Ziin.
  • There's also the fact that she decides to attack Ace when he's passed out from the speed boost of Boost MK-II. It was already bad enough when the Jyamato attacked their families with bombs. It would be an entirely different matter if they decided to do this when they were actually asleep at their homes.

Episode 28: Lamentation IV: The LaserBoost of Bonds!

• Ace is a reincarnator, as revealed by the previous two epsiodes. Here, he reveals that his first life ended when he realized he was never going to see his mother again. The implications of that statement are very easy to figure out.

Episode 29: Lamentation V: Surprise! A Game of Bullfighting ♡

• Kamen Rider has, for a long time, avoided depicting the Death of a Child in any form, with some people even saying that this hasn't been done since Showa era, and once they finally did it again in this episode it's not hard to see why.
• Crosses with tearjerker, but you get to witness the horror Kousei felt when he realized where his daughter Akari was being held for ransom, and when he saw the police carrying out her body.
  • Later on, after signing his wish for a new ideal child, you can see not just the despair in his eyes, but also all the Suppressed Rage he feels over whoever claimed Akari's life. All while Niram gleefully accepts it like a devil looking over a newly signed contract with Girori looking on, concealing his face behind his trademark mask.
• Neon's memory of the kidnapping is juxtaposed with the original reality, with the former being presented as an illusion that is dispelled when the events of the original are revealed. Irumi's reaction in particular is as horrifying as it is heartbreaking: she falls to her knees when Kousei returns home alone, and the next shot we see is of her catatonic and alone in the dining room, singing "Happy Birthday" to Akari's cake.
• The Dunkleosteus Jyamato, and not just because it's an utter powerhouse. Just LOOK AT IT!
• We also bear witness to what happens when Ace gets pushed. He pushes Tranquil Fury to its extreme, cutting out all the flair in his combat, to simply focus on one thing: destroying them in the quickest and most efficient manner. What makes this different from something like Hazard Build or Ark-One is that he has willingly shut off all of his emotions, and is still in full control of himself as he focuses on the one and only desire he has at the moment: Destroying the Jyamato and eventually, Beroba.
  • Just to cement how terrifying Geats can be, even the Jyamato are afraid of him at this point, with the Dunkleosteus Jyamato leaving the battle, and the Bishop Jyamato barely trying to fight and focusing on trying to get away from Geats instead.

Episode 30: Lamentation VI: The Prince in The Letter

• While none of the Kuramas take the truth being exposed well, Kousei appears the most...unhinged by it. It's hard to tell whether Kyuun is more disgusted or disturbed.
  • Attention to the moment Kyuun confronts him makes it more clear that he is not unhinged, but rather broken and defeated, yet the way he manages to recompose himself instantly as Kyuun comes to confront him and return to being stoic and a little smug might be the unsettling part of their interaction that really leaves Kyuun both conflicted and disturbed.
• Even if it comes off as a funny moment, Archimedel is contemplating cutting off his own hand just to save his beloved Jyamato with a childlike glee, which can come off as rather unsettling.
  Archimedel: Don't worry, I have a very special fertilizer I saved just for you!

Episode 31: Lamentation VII: Heaven or Hell Game ♡

• The Heaven or Hell game as a whole probably deserves the title of "the most horrifying game of all the games" in the Jyamato Grand Prix.
  • The game starts with a large area of the city breaks away and levitates into the air. Those who are unfortunate enough to be on that area are targeted by the Jyamato. Luckily, on the ground lie a few color circles — the Jyamato can't attack if you are standing on one of the circles. So you think you could just stay in the circles and wait for the Riders to save the day, right? Uhh, nope. It gets worse. When the "judgment" begins, the game announces which circles are turned into pits, based on the color. If you fall into a pit, you turn into bubbles. And don't even think about jumping away from a circle to another as soon as the previous circle forms a pit, because the circles can also change their colors to the "hell" color, so either way, you're really, really screwed.
  • And it doesn't help that anyone can and will shove you into a pit. A girl sees that the circle she's standing changes its color to the "hell" color, so she leaps from that circle and pushes a person into a pit, much to Keiwa and Sara's horror. Granted, she just wants to survive, but still...
  • And Does This Remind You of Anything? It should, the game is basically the Mushroom Mix-Up minigame come to life, only with the horror factor raised to the power of ten.
• The scene where Archimedel let the Dunkleosteus Jyamato eat him. Yes, this happens; Archimedel is so desperate, he makes himself a man-sized food for the Dunkleosteus Jyamato to munch. He even tells his own creation to "eat up so that [it] will grow".
  Archimedel: You want more nutrients? I'll give you as much as you want!
  • Worse yet? Archimedel is laughing the entire time. The end result is the Dunkleosteus Jyamato not only being fully restored, but obtaining Archimedel's intelligent, memory, and form. The thing was already one of the strongest Jyamato so far, and now it's got human level intelligence combined with Archimedel's insanity and desire to destroy the DGP.
  • And Daichi sees the whole thing from start to finish. Just look at his face! That poor guy is so horrified that he almost faints. But Daichi seeing Dunkleosteus Jyamato transform into Archimedel in both body and mind adds a touch of Admiring the Abomination to his reaction.

Episode 32: Lamentation F: Final Judgement

• Mid-season we get a The Bad Guy Wins scenario where even the main character is gone in a few seconds, with the only evidence that they were there being the Vision Driver they were carrying dropping to the ground.
• The Final Judgement cast by the Evil Goddess escalates the "hell" color to not only consist of one color, but multiple colors in targeting every bright-colored circles... dropping everyone into the pits except Sara and the boy she was protecting, leaving behind what can be effectively called a ghost town. And no one there will be brought back for now, except the Jyamatos that were eliminated during the game.
• Michinaga's wish helps recreate the Desire Royale, and given the implications of the next episode it will be basically him hunting every single Kamen Rider.

Episode 33: Yearning I: Buffa Unrivaled!

• We finally see Michinaga's wish fully granted and in effect, and he is a monstrous opponent. Not only does he end a fight before the combatants can even touch him, he actively enjoys it, Beroba's influence having no doubt rubbed off on him. What mitigates it some is that he wants to crush all hopes of someone becoming a Kamen Rider again by destroying their ID Core, rather than killing them.
  • To put his power into perspective, he shrugs off Ziin's finisher at point-blank range and deflects Chirami's Glare2 finisher with ease, and the latter is only saved from certain destruction by a resurrected Ace.

Episode 34: Yearning II: Geats's Spearhead

• While Ace wishes for a world with no DGP, similar to Colus' wish in the movie. This will not guarantee freeing his mother from being the Goddess of Creation since the Game Master can hold other variants of the tournaments such as the Desire Royale itself to continue using Mitsume's powers.
  • Or alternatively, use another reality warper that has no one to potentially advocate for her. Tsumuri did just awaken her powers after all.
  • This also means that the wishes of his close friends would never happen, which means that he is fine with allowing Neon's damaged relationship with her family due to her ousting as a Replacement Goldfish or allowing the Riders who have died in the Desire Grand Prix, some of whom were just good people trying to do the right thing, stayed dead.
  • More specifically, his wish (as he told Tsumuri) is for his mother to be free and happy. Still, doesn't mean her freedom and happiness can last as long as the DGP or Sueru exists, and as mentioned above this could mean that Tsumuri gets exploited next.

Episode 37: Yearning V: Pure White Destruction

• Sueru does not hesitate to let Mitsume perish after she has expended her powers, as well as using their current Navigator to replace her.
• If you thought Ace was scary in #29, then this episode will make you feel like he was doing little more than being a Bedsheet Ghost back then. Overwhelmed by nothing but pure rage as he sees his mother dying before him, Geats unlocks the Boost Mk III form, and its power seems to erase anything it touches, as evidenced by one swipe of its energy tail crushing Gazer's Dominion Ray into a pulp and sucking it into a mini-black hole.
  • And it seems to extend beyond the reality he is in, as it is also seen erasing the last line of the Desire Royale's rule.

Episode 38: Yearning F: The Nine-tailed White Fox!

• The Grand End is nothing short of a nightmare: a dark veil shrouds the world slowly but surely as the closing of the DGP and draws near, there's nothing but blackness everywhere, and once it is concluded, DGP's existence will no longer be known in this era.
• This scene would like to remind you that how dark a family-friendly series like Kamen Rider can be: Niramu gets shot by Samas. With a real gun. And there's blood coming out of him. And good Lord, all of these are shown on-screen.

Episode 39: Genesis I: This Is My DGP

• Even if the DGP is gone, the Jyamato are still a threat and even scarier now, due to the fact they've become parasitic. A normal-sized Jyamato was scary as is, but now imagine not being able to see the Tiny-Jyamato take over your body without even noticing it run up before it was too late.
  • Then there's Daichi's apparent Jyamato cultivating as we see he's now taking over where Archimedel left off yet somehow topped him in terms of insanity. As he starts his own Parasite Game.
• There's also how the Jyamato-possessed people shamble towards Geats, their movements that of an average zombie moving up to it's prey before shifting into Jyamatos.

Episode 40: Genesis II: Tycoon's Awakening

• To show how far Daichi has lost his sanity, he eats a live baby Jyamato right in front of Kekera and Beroba. It's telling enough that Beroba, who normally enjoys the suffering of others, reacts to the whole thing with disgust.
• Then there's his Marrella Jyamato form, which somehow manages to be even more horrifying than the Dunkleosteus Jyamato. It looks like the unholy love-child of a cockroach and a silverfish, with the ability to sink into the area around you. Meaning even if you could outrun him, he'd immediately be right behind you without you knowing until it was too late.
• The sight of the parasite Jyamato infecting Sara en masse and mutating her into a cocoon-like abomination.
  • It get worse you realized that Daichi may have had intentionally framed Michinaga, meaning he's true to his words before getting eliminated in #35. That along with Beroba and Kekera having intended this to happen during the Yearning arc.
• Sara's "death" involves her being covered in Jyamato roots and sucked underground. Depending on how things play out, that's either a horrible way to die or Daichi and the Jyamato aren't done with her yet.

Episode 41: Genesis III: The Jet-Black Shogun

• We finally learn the fate of those defeated while infected with Stage 2 Parasite Jyamato; they're sent to Daichi's new Jyamar Garden where they are absorbed into special trees that allow Daichi to access their memories. You can see the bark morph into the faces of the victims with every absorption. And somehow the low budget effect makes it even creepier.
  • Michinaga doesn't learn from his previous mistake with Sara and continues to defeat the infected victims, without stopping to think what will happen to them.
• Jitto's fight with Ace and Win shows why Suel chose him in particular to finish the Grand End. Jitto isn't concerned with the pretenses of justice that Girori put up nor is he the ineffectual goof that Chirami was. He's there to get the job done and he'll do it, no matter how many bones he has to break to do so.
• Keiwa's Sanity Slippage is truly horrifying to watch. The bright young kid hoping for world peace has become as brutal and ruthless as the Sengoku Era warlords his new form is modeled after.
  • On a minor note, the arms that pull the armor parts onto Keiwa during the Bujin Sword transformation aren't the usual sleek, mechanized hands. Instead, they're green ghost-like hands that crush the words Bujin and Sword and seem to force them to meet Keiwa in the middle rather than cleanly attaching them to the entry suit. This is probably meant to hint at the dark, hate-filled wish that brought the buckle into existence in the first place.
  • As if to illustrate just how disturbed and dangerous Keiwa has become, the cape that serves as Bujin Sword's most defining feature is called the "Delude" Mantle. That's right, unlike the previous Protagonist Journey to Villain form, not even Bujin's Sword's own systems try to pretend they're anything heroic, or that what Keiwa is doing is right in any sort of way. The very suit itself will always be a walking contradiction that gladly informs all who face it of such.
  • Its weapon is also a rather realistic and sharp-looking katana instead of the cartoony and toyish weapons the Rider's have used up to this point. It doesn't seem to have any interface with the buckles either (instead the Driver does not) it's made purely for stabbing people with.
  • "Dark Keiwa" is not just lashing out in rage either. He pretty clearly emotionally manipulates Tsumuri into giving him Bujin Sword via first appearing as a friend, then breaking down to get her to comfort him, then shows his usual lack of confidence to get her to pep talk him, which he then spins into convincing her to give him new power, and then immediately goes blank when she isn't looking showing that none of those emotions were genuine. True to his Tanuki motif, Keiwa became a very cunning manipulator very fast.
  • Said new form is also brutally effective at the one goal Keiwa has in mind, getting revenge. Michinaga couldn't even so much as leave a single dent in the form. The finisher highlights just how dangerous Bujin Sword is, with it looking like the form cleaved right through Michinaga's Rider form and into his human body.
  • Even more, the kind and selfless Keiwa was gone right from the very start of the episode, when he is shown cracking his finger, which is a metaphor of self-harm, cementing how far he's brought down by his despair.

Episode 42: Genesis IV: The Goddess' Transformation, The Blade of Darkness

• Daichi's false cult has numerous shades of this to the point people think they'll be saved, only for Daichi to personally infect them with Stage 2 Jyamato Parasites. The horror part kicks in with this mirrors real-life cults promising salvation only for that to be a false claim.
• There's also more shades of "Dark Keiwa", as we see he decides to keep Michinaga alive so he could live with the guilt of killing his sister.
  • Last but not least, there's his actions as Tycoon Bujin Sword as after he beats the everliving daylights out of Daichi. Daichi begs for his life, trying to spin Kekera as the bad guy, but after all Daichi's done to Keiwa it falls on deaf ears as he was about to Rider Punch him outside of his monster form. This is one of the many times a rider has tried to hurt someone outside of their Armor or Suit, yet Keiwa's willingness to do so makes it all the more horrifying. The same rider who wanted World Peace.

Episode 43: Genesis V: The Name Is Gya-Go!

• Keiwa's wish ends up reviving those who can only be considered merciless criminals, one of them being a gang leader who ends up killing his family a second time. The other one is the same man behind Akari's demise, and it doesn't take long before he takes Neon hostage. As Jitt very well makes clear: He did revive every victim, but not everyone who died was good, and Keiwa only has himself to blame for making the wish.
• Jitt reveals he has a full title: Game Master of the Bad End. And with that, his purpose is to bring misery and suffering to the current era for an audience in the future that appreciates tragedy.

Episode 44: Genesis VI: Neon, Shine Bright

• Beroba just casually strolls into the hospital courtyard gleefully musing on how killing Kousei will drive Neon into even deeper despair. Nowhere is safe; this is truly a world where death can pop up around any corner at any time.
• When Michinaga comes to mock how Beroba is now the one in despair when got her own just deserts from being curbstomped by Neon, she looks at her reflection and is horrified by what she sees, and for a second the viewers are given a glance at what scared her: Half her face has become corrupted into a sickly purple Jyamato form partially resembling her Premium Beroba form.

Episode 45: Genesis VII: Where Wishes Go

• Keiwa, now desperate for his family, makes a last-ditch effort to make Tsumuri submit to him; targeting Ace.
• Kanato/Da·Paan is back. Under Beroba. YABEI.
• The fact that Jitt brings more people from the future wanting to see a Bad End, and these people aren't given names and are wearing masquerade masks, which brings a bit of nod towards Squid Game (Or the majority of Deadly Games in general). This just adds more nightmare to what the future might be like in the world of Geats.
  • What gives some levity to this is, as Kekera points out in the next episode, only a few people from the future are like this, and even fewer would rather do something to contribute to the bad end than just watch.

Episode 47: Genesis IX: A True Kamen Rider

• The three hostages seemed to be unaware of their surroundings up until the spotlight hit them. Imagine waking up in an unfamiliar location with chains on your wrist and then being told your life depended on a stranger overcoming a fixed game.
• Kekera's Sadistic Game Show. He nonchalantly explains that if Keiwa fails to stop him before time runs out, a pack of hungry Jyamato will rip the three innocent civilians to pieces.
• The Jyamato in the cell look like wild animals chomping at the bit in full view of the hostages. The slowly opening door to their cell adds to the terror of the hostages since they can see their doom gradually arriving.

Episode 48: Genesis X: Tsumuri's Requiem

• Suel and his cohorts still want to mess this world up for what it is worth. How so? They turn random civilians into Riders and force them all to fight to the death with the defeated killed by the Game Masters. Don't wanna fight? The Game Masters hope that you like explosions! Two poor, unfortunate souls learnt this the hard way.
  • And as though the audience couldn't get any more depraved, we have them baying for the heads of said poor souls, with Samas acquiescing with a smile.
  • And what's worse, Suel's game causes collateral and property damage everywhere — all according to plan. And the audiences clearly enjoy it. Had it not been for the heroic Riders, you could've been caught in the crossfire and died.
• After taking away Ace's power, Suel summons Tsumuri to finally kill him once and for all. The last scene is Tsumuri aiming the Magnum Shooter 40X at Ace's head, just like the scene in the opening intro. Ace tells her to do it, she pulls the trigger, a loud "bang" is heard, and the episode ends, with the DGP rule card being shown in absolute silence while having a black background instead of the usual white... Terrifying on so many levels.

Movies and Specials

Kamen Rider Geats X Kamen Rider Revice Movie Battle Royale

• The Desire Royale returns to the conflicts seen in Kamen Rider Ryuki by having Kamen Riders fight to the death to achieve their greatest wish. Colus, the tournament's founder, seeks to make the entire universe his audience.
• The return of Kamen Riders Ohja and Ryuga as they participate in the Desire Royale, the latter stating his wish is to destroy the real world.
• Kagero discovering Keiwa has an obscenely powerful inner demon desires world peace, that intent and aura being enough to unnerve Kagero.

Kamen Rider Geats Extra: Kamen Rider Punk Jack

• Given how hurt Win was and Niramu's statement, they barely made it in time to save him from becoming Jyamato Fertilizer.
• DGP's facilities shows the device they use to erase the memories of eliminated players and civilians who survived the Jyamato causes enough pain that they scream while unconscious.
• The cruelty of the DGP Staff and the guards knows no bounds: rather than simply attempt to reason with players trying to flee the game and covering for them while making their withdraw official, they opt to beat them and willfully let any Jyamato present attack the deserter without a second thought. Had Win not intervened, Hiroki would have been dead and forgotten by all but Win.
• We get to bear witness to Girori converting a squad of five corrupt DGP Guards into the mindless GM Riders seen in the series. And unlike Win, they have not even an ounce of their own will after being brainwashed.

Kamen Rider Geats: Jyamato Awaking

• The future explained in full: Earth has been overtaken by plant lifeform, mankind decided to upload themselves to a virtual world, and then the God Jyamato was able to somehow manifest in there and start killing humans. And he is big enough to be compared to Godzilla with lots of agile tendrils.
• Doom Geats, an Ace from the future, gets to give everyone a run for their money due to the sheer might he possesses. And the worst part is that this is an ace who is cold and calculating that would do anything to avert the bad future, even kill a child.
• Everything about Aoto: he's a complete antithesis to Hazuki, wants to see humanity extinct, killed humans in cold blood and enjoyed, sent his goons to kill her son, and tried to combine with his sister to create a God Jyamato to exterminate mankind. The man is a sociopath that not even Beroba would want to have under her command.
• Beroba tries to turn Michinaga into an ultimate Jyamato by literally stabbing him in the back through his heart to activate his Jyamato genes. There's even blood splattering out of him as she does that.