Recap / Kamen Rider Geats Ep 25 Lamentation I The Jyamato Grand Prix

Lamentation I: The Jyamato Grand Prix ♡

Original Airdate: March 5, 2023
Written by: Yuya Takahashi
Directed by: Takayuki Shibasaki

Summary

Haven't eaten anything.
It's a secret, unknown.
Any questions you're facing. Always acting so vaguely.

Archimedel: Welcome to the Jyamato Grand Prix: a game where Jyamato fight humanity in order to obtain their ideal world.
The time has come for the Jyamato to supplant humanity, and seek out their happiness!
Heh heh... who will survive until the end to become the Jyamashin, I wonder...?

The first round of the Jyamato Grand Prix has officially begun! The name of the game: Lightning Jyamato Festival, where the players' objective is to successfully erect five lightning turrets powerful enough to reduce the city to rubble, while causing as much havoc and misery to the humans as they can.

Despite the DGP being completely turned on its head, Ace, Keiwa, and Neon remain determined to stop Beroba's ambitions and put an end to her twisted schemes. However, their former ally, Michinaga, is now a participant of the Jyamato Grand Prix. To his shock, the friend he once thought had died, Tohru, appears before him, determined to make his dream a reality...

Tropes

• Broken Masquerade: Defied. While a few people are now aware the Jyamato exists, the Kurama Zaibatsu are bribing the police and government to suppress information from getting widespread. Niram also mentions that if things get too out of hand, he’ll simply hit the Reset Button.
• Cliffhanger: The episode ends as Buffa in Command Form is about to attack Geats.
• Contrived Coincidence: Beroba distributes to the Jyamato a chain of bells that represent their participation of the JGP. Their first site of attack for the JGP was a festival centered on the tradition of stealing chains of bells from oni for good luck, leading civilians to initially assume they were the actual oni from the tradition itself. Although given how Beroba chose the festival as the site for the round, this might not be a coincidence but intentional on her end.
  • Out of universe, the fact this episode and the first episode of Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger aired immediately afterwards feature references to festivals, the week after Avataro Sentai Donbrothers ended, seems like quite the coincidence too.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Chirami is baffled when Neon urges the group to help the people who are attacked by the JGP despite having nothing to gain from it, as well as acting like if he's touched with Crocodile Tears when Keiwa supports that by insisting they minimize the victims.
• Evil Costume Switch: Invoked. To commemorate the start of the Jyamato Grand Prix, Beroba gave Michinaga a new set of clothes for him to wear rather than his DGP uniform.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: The Jyamato now hunt the former DGP participants, after the game was hijacked by Beroba.
• Indy Ploy: To charge enough energy on the Raising Sword to activate his Command Form, Buffa slashes himself, and it works.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Niram points out that if Kousei had treated Neon with the genuine love that she wished for she wouldn't have to fight in the DGP to fulfill her wish.
• Lucky Charms Title: As with #12, the episode has a symbol in its title — a heart, this time.
• Off the Rails: With Beroba running the game, the rules are in flux, thus our heroes are uncertain as to what can happen. Indeed, one of the things that happens is that two Feverslot Buckles are discovered and used by Jyamato.
• The Reveal:
  • The Jyamato have evolved further in sapience to the point where a Knight Jyamato that's taken on the appearance of Michinaga's friend Tohru is virtually indistinguishable from the original.
  • Ziin elaborates more on the future he hails from. It's... not all that it's cracked up to be, to put it mildly.
  • Niram reveals that Neon was a gift to Kousei from the Goddess of Creation, implying that Kousei, not Mitsume, was the DGP Participant mentioned in the previous episode who wished for a child.

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Mission 1 — Lightning Jyamato Festival
CURRENT STANDINGS

Lightning Turrets Constructed (1/5)

Entry Players

Michinaga Azuma/Buffa
Jyamato Rider ×2
Knight Jyamato
Rook Jyamato
Bishop Jyamato

Enemy Players

Ace Ukiyo/Geats
Keiwa Sakurai/Tycoon
Neon Kurama/Na-Go

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JGP Rule #2

The Jyamato with the highest score at the end of the game shall be crowned Jyamashin, and granted their world of misery.