Toppa Bashin – Episode 31

So I was raring to go with this episode as this seems to be the second half of our team-forming subplot, given we need to see what happens involving J, Kyouka and My Sunshine.

What I was not expecting was fucking KAMEN RIDER DECADE to greet me during the opening.

It appears to be some kind of Collaboration among many different TV shows.

Since it won’t get discussed given Collaborations are not shown in the show for OBVIOUS reasons, Kamen Rider tends to be a common representation in Battle Spirits for their Collab Boosters, other IPs that have ended up in Battle Spirits include Ultraman, Kaiju films, Digimon, Aikatsu and even Evangelion.

I’m not familiar with this one but I BELIEVE based on my 2-seconds of googling that this is Love Momozono from Pretty Cure.

Shinken Red from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

And finally someone actually from the show, its someone portraying Galaxy Watanabe.

It appears to have popped up on whatever footage shomentoppa ended up watching, but I still found it kinda amusing.

Alright, so far so good, the Episode title appears to be doing me some favours. The only place we know that has a strong student council presence is J’s school

YES, SO FAR SO GOOD, ITS J’S SCHOOL.

Though I’m not sure how My Sunsine managed to smooth over with the Student Council to let them record a day in the life of My Sunshine in Middle School, especially considering that they were quite literally driven off by them as the Principal AND Chairman have banned recording on school property.

That isn’t a recipe for bullying whatsoever, your test scores SHOULD be kept private if you want them to be.

What are they trying to do? Shame students into doing well?

Threats are the worst form of motivation for anything besides retaliation.

My Sunshine did SO poorly on her test results that they PUBLICALLY DISPLAYED that she has to take EXTRA LESSONS in order to catch up to the rest of the student body.

Again, you can’t shame a person into success! That’s not a viable course of action! Motivation should not be sourced from fear it should be sourced from excitement!

If she’s also making a movie then it’s painfully obvious why she’s falling behind in school, you can’t be in full-time education as WELL as doing hours doing your actual job.

She’d be better off getting homeschooled so that she at least gets an education because her career is already perfectly set.

Ah, My Sunshine is now officially announcing that she’s a Battler, and her movie is thematically designed AROUND the game.

This is a good, tactical plan, her main fanbase generally consists of Battlers but the few who are NOT battlers will want to learn to battle and those who ARE battlers will be even more engrossed with her.

It may bottleneck newcomers who weren’t fans of her at all given that they have the barrier of Battle Spirits to overcome before they can get engrossed in what she does but she’s clearly doing this for her, specifically to allow her to play Battle Spirits in her My Sunshine persona without arousing suspicion after her saying she didn’t like it on LIVE FUCKING TV.

See that’s the thing Announcer-chan.

She was ALWAYS a comrade.

It gives her an excuse to do this as well, its slowly joining her Suiren and My Sunshine personas together just that small bit.

Slowly but surely her two egos are becoming one.

So, will they pull a Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains and give her a Dummy deck or will she proudly yield her own deck?

She ACTUALLY reaches for her own deck but Announcer-chan seems to identify a completely different one.

My Sunshine’s face is one of apparent “Wait wut?”

It appears this deck consists of Yellow Spirits, which are very well known for being cute.

My Sunshine DID express disliking the cards because they weren’t cute, so Yellow providing a large ball of cuteness among its ranks probably helps a ton.

It seems the Manager has involved himself in this somehow, he’s provided My Sunshine with a deck of cute spirits not knowing that she is actually invested with her own deck.

Which also means that she’s likely going to have to play with a Deck she is not comfortable with.

She’s just rollin’ with it, personally I wouldn’t mind in her position, Battle Spirits is a wide game, I like to play with as many different decks as I possibly can.

Okay this shot is AMAZING for several reasons, firstly, her persona is slipping, her voice notably shifts in pitch to match her Suiren personality, and even worse, the naturally occurring hearts in her eyes have become copies of Suiren’s glasses.

She’s got a passionate spirit, its probably really easy for her to get wrapped up in the heat of the moment because of how much she enjoys battling.

Pink saves the day, muzzling her to prevent her yielding even more of her Suiren persona, and more specifically, maintaining her cute idol persona.

Force of habit is probably the easiest way to give yourself away.

And to piss me off when its something you actively fail to pay attention to.

Waaaaait.

Oohhhhh I see what’s happened here. Her last expression of distaste was not poor mood handling, its because her Manager BARRED her from liking it officially.

So when she had to talk about it in that moment on TV she was berated by the Manager because she expressly went much harsher than she was supposed to on the game which likely drove away some of her Batosupi fans. It certainly sent Bashin on a tirade.

This is likely an “Oh shit” moment from the Manager because they explicitly had an argument about this exact fucking thing and now he’s just made the entire event redundant.

Colour purists. They do exist, and you simply have to respect them.

Because their investment in singular colours means they likely have much more experience within that colour than anyone gallavanting about across colours like indecisive schmucks (Like me!)

And therefore they are good sources of information, cherish them.

I wonder, The Manager appears to be very much aware of My Sunshine’s status as a Battler and her preference for Purple cards.

He just seems to be trying to cater her TV-Battler persona towards what he thinks is the cutest for an idol.

My Sunshine reluctantly agrees to use the Deck the Manager created for her.

Besides Eight who seems to have an on and off relationship with Purple and Green there are no other straight Purple users though, did we seriously need a THIRD Yellow main?

Kyouka pops up to chat with My Sunshine and My Sunshine directs her to the test score rankings.

Based on the fact that the surnames are written first and are the exact same, J is in 2nd, and Kyouka is in first, interesting how they use J’s shortened name rather than his given name of “Juri”

Must have been a special request that was honoured.

Really? The Manager wanted J for the movie?

Okay that’s not TOO farfetched in reality, Celebrity Actors are quite common.

Hell at time of writing we have Chris Pratt playing Mario for the MARIO MOVIE.

The Manager is… losing his nerve around J. Is he a fan? Or perhaps is he scared of the wealthy and powerful Sawaragi family of which J is the male heir?

Calm down, you’re talking to a literal middle schooler.

J does not seem too interested. Which is fair, he’s got other things to worry about.

Appeal to desire, good start.

Until you get fact-checked by Kyouka apparently.

Excuse me, I meant fact-wrecked.

He’s trying, he really is trying to appeal to the tiny middle schooler that is J.

Unfortunately you cannot promise a girl to a person who is ALREADY drowning in harems.

…He’s a CELEBRITY ALREADY.

Fact-wrecked x3

To be honest I would have a hard time figuring out what WOULD convince J to participate in the Movie, especially considering that he already has the world at his fingertips, and the only thing he doesn’t have is a way to destroy Thousupi Group.

And well, Movies aren’t going to be much help in that department.

My Sunshine’s sympathies are apparently non-existent, deciding to settle for small chatter instead.

Why does Japanese education enforce 1 Extra-curricular club? Let the people have their free time if they want it, god.

But also J’s lack of interest to join a club seems to imply that there isn’t a club he wants to join…

But he said he would join a Batosupi club if he were to join one.

Does that imply that there isn’t in fact a Batosupi club?

Your principal tried to open a UNIVERSITY DEDICATED TO THE FUCKING GAME HOW DID THEY MANAGE THAT!?

Hell hath no fury like a Card Battler denied Card Games.

I do love the directness though. She realizes there isn’t a club for what she wants to do so she just goes to fucking RAIL THE PRINCIPAL FOR IT.

So how are these guys the villains again if they’re getting halfway threatened by a mildly inconvenienced middle schooler?

While you’re at it do you mind dissolving Thousupi Group and giving us the keys to defeat Uchuuchouten? Thanks.

I somewhat expected these losers to get involved, it WAS in the Episode title after all.

But also, I’m PRETTY sure the Student Council can’t overrule the PRINCIPAL of the school!

I assume the Principal is like England’s Head Teachers, basically what they say goes. A Student Council shouldn’t be able to overrule them on that.

Upon My Sunshine asking “Who the hell are you guys?” apparently the President’s Bitch-boy decides to give her a whole-ass WRITTEN INTRODUCTION.

So her name is Setsuko… Though I assume this show will refer to her by Kirishima-san or something.

Wasn’t Kyouka Number 1 on the Test Score tables though?

And J was just under her.

So she’s nowhere near Number 1 right?

Imagine being brown-nosed all the way to being the president of the student council?

Ah yes, the number one trigger-line for anyone who has devoted themselves to the art of study.

How dare one make the suggestion that there could be anything worth your time besides preparing for the future.

Some people prepare for their futures so religiously that they basically never live for their present out of the idea that they will be able to live the rest of their present when they’re done.

But one is never “Done” with life, so might as well take what enjoyment is offered to you, when it is offered to you.

Let’s see here:

1. Being rude to the Principal by insisting he “Be quiet” during a talk in which he is the MOST qualified to give his opinion.
2. Attempting to assert your authority in order to bar the formation of a Club even the PRINCIPAL agrees with.
3. Doing so in order to benefit what you and ONLY you believe to be good for the school without consulting anyone else.

I’d call this woman’s parents and potentially have her put in detention for such an infraction.

I would say expel but thinking critically it is minor in the grand scheme of things, but she definitely would get at LEAST a reprimand, and given she’s Student Council president she’d at least think twice before trying to overrule staff again.

No but having the Principal’s consent does.

I guess we’re just ignoring the fact that the guy who RUNS THE FUCKING SCHOOL IS ON BOARD WITH THIS, YOU LITERALLY DO NOT MATTER.

Where is your Disciplinary Committee so we can kick the shit out of the lot of you?

We call that determination, but I’d REALLY prefer the Appeal to Authority plan.

“Only if I say so” is a really hard bar to clear, do not EVER appoint ANYONE to a position of power who employs their “Word as law” so frequently and meaninglessly. That is a privilege that is only designed to be used in extreme situations, like people being unreasonable.

It’s a Club for Fun, let them have it, its not going to hurt you.

I’m pretty sure joining a Club is mandatory irregardless of how you feel about it.

My Sunshine did say it was “the Rule”

Something else that requires more urgent attention than Clubs?

You all probably are wondering how I’m going to tear into this one.

And the answer is: I’m not.

I agree wholeheartedly with J’s situation here, he has significantly more problems that require his immediate attention, breaking a few school rules and setting some personal activities aside for the sake of dealing with those issues is definitely the more mature thing to do.

That on the other hand ISN’T particularly mature and you should really stop making a habit of it.

Apologizing for something someone has told you to stop doing, and then continuing to do it is probably the most frustrating thing ever.

Of course in J’s case he kind of doesn’t have their thoughts on his mind, he’s too busy lost in his own.

He’s still a muppet.

J can’t bring himself to face Bashin even after the promise he made to take on Uchuuchouten with him?

…Waaaait is this concerning his alliance with Smile?

Bashin is quite literally IN A CLUB with the fucker, I really don’t think he’s going to mind.

For the record, that sign says “Welcome! Let’s play Batosupi with My Sunshine”

Kyouka questions My Sunshine taking on her Suiren persona for the sake of this plan to get Students invested in Battle Spirits.

Except Suiren isn’t a Student here, and the sign says “My Sunshine.”

Even Kyouka agrees.

I feel like the downsides to this might be that Yellow Deck your Manager unfortunately made for you.

Unfortunately all the Students start demanding a Live instead of Battle Spirits.

There’s even a Mic prepared, she doesn’t seem to have been anticipating this.

That timing was way too precise… I smell sabotage.

At least that is what it looks like at the moment you walked in, yes.

The Students who all came to see My Sunshine do a Live literally up and leave.

It doesn’t appear like she can use her Idol influence to get people into Battle Spirits as the game is directly conflicting with those who don’t play AND enjoy her music.

It was a good plan, it was just woefully uninformed.

Of course, only Kyouka would manage to nab that much interest in a short time.

You failed to anticipate how the body would react given My Sunshine up until now has been a singer, not a battler, people are bound to get the wrong idea.

I’m… having Vanguard flashbacks, I am PRETTY sure an Idol trying to start a club but has clashes with the Student Council happened there.

Slight sub-mistake, this is Tonari, not Toaru. (They are stupidly similar names)

Secondly, if we’re talking about what’s appropriate for Tonari Middle, then removing you from that Student Council President position would be a good start.

Kyouka, I dunno how I feel about you weaponizing your appearance like that.

Like good on you for doing it but holy shit lady.

Also is it REALLY just that? A 6-people requirement?

Yes, failing to divulge the rules of the school to those trying to conform to it is really shitty and you should be dragged down from your presidential position by your god damn socks.

Jesus christ lady do your Mum and Dad still wipe your arse when you go to the toilet? How the hell do you get this pompous?

Welp, that’s now 5, so now you just need J.

The Kid in the middle apparently has a “Goradon” collection, he just really likes Goradons.

You have to take what you can get, collectors can still be lovers of the game too.

To be honest I did have a hard time identifying what this was meant to be.

But it turns out this girl collects Master Rares.

Which given that X-Rares are only given out by Nazo-Otonas, this girl actually has the strongest collection of cards available, she’s awesome and actually could be pretty strong if she managed to turn those into a deck.

Our odd one out has a Beatbeetle collection.

You have got to be kidding me.

My Sunshine offers to show them her deck, but otherwise wants to try battling them.

Awww geez.

Every bone in my body wants to wreak havoc on Card Collectors but you can’t knock them, they’re good for supply and buying cards. I understand the need to have a Card Collection and not having the need to Battle but come on cap’n.

Lady don’t you fucking start, do not even for a SECOND insinuate that Battlers have a knack for treating their cards poorly.

Yes, some people suck but we SLEEVE THEM FOR A REASON.

It’s not for identification, ITS FOR PROTECTION.

Invitation to what?

Yeah invoking the “Chairman can do X” on his Son who abhors him isn’t going to be the best plan of action.

Okay so this isn’t concerning the movie, what is J getting at here?

His Dad is also in the room, so.

A Power up to WHAT!?

Why are you all being so cryptic?

What are these “Adult affairs” that you’re on about!?

That’s EXTREMELY ominous.

Judging by the seriousness of the conversation, Elliott’s apparent opposition to it, and his J’s apparent suggestion that Kiano doesn’t want him part of whatever it is he’s joining.

J is trying to become a Nazo-Otona in order to understand where his Cornerstone comes into play.

Kiano, as per usual, being the exact opposite of supportive. Praise his decision! Oppose it! Show SOME INVESTMENT into your child’s life that isn’t just cold indifference!

Elliott is also confused, was I on the money about the request?

Ayyyy.

It appears Kiano doesn’t want J as a member of the Numbers Elite for some reason.

I wonder if its literally like “Well I’m not strong enough to beat it so maybe if I be an asshole to my son enough he’ll get strong enough to take us all down even with me assisting the enemy” or some dumb shit like that.

Or perhaps he thinks what he’s doing is wrong anyway and doesn’t want J dirtying his hands by getting involved in it.

Both issues are solvable by just… fighting for the right side to begin with.

J’s looks resigned to his fate, “Oh god girls are dragging me off again”

The way your eyebrows are positioned makes that sound way less benevolent than it is.

Why?

I think you’re being overly dismissive here J, I understand your Dad is being distant but like holy shit Kyouka of all people is in the same boat as well and is nowhere near as broken up about it as you are, lighten up.

If the Club is Mandatory, no.

If the Club is optional, probably?

First of all that LITERALLY has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING.

Second of all, yeah thank FUCK J didn’t see that, he didn’t have to suffer through those 30 minutes of uselessness.

You wanna know who did? ME!

And as with all things, there is only one way to settle any given problem.

You clear off a table, shuffle your deck and play some god damn CARD GAMES.

Your face is not threatening in the slightest, you are quite literally completely designed to be as adorably cute as possible.

Gee wiz Lizard! Maybe its because she’s NOT ON GOD DAMN CAMERA!

J changing the terms from “He’ll help” to “He’ll discuss helping”

When people do this sort of thing, you can expect them to be as irredeemably uncooperative as possible.

REALLY.

He just pulls off his Uniform to reveal his caped form beneath.

Are they literally just doing that for-

LAZY FUCKS.

And My Sunshine didn’t get to do a “Gate Open” chant!

I applauded them for redoing Bashin’s sequence but then they lazed out on J’s and My Sunshine’s? Come oooon.

It appears Isekai changing from day to night is some indication of… something.

…Oh no.

Well I WAS curious to see what the hell was gonna be in it so I’m not even mad!

J’s got a Level 2 Dualcannon-Bell and a Level 2 Mjolnir on his board, pretty tame.

My Sunshine’s got a whopping FIVE Spirits on her board though.

The ones we know are the LV2 Frogger, the LV2 Pom and the LV1 Piyon.

There are 2 new Spirits here however, both from BS03.

The Cool Dragon looking thing at Level 3 is this, The Arcanabeast-Paira of the Magician Family.

It even has a keyword we’ve yet to see, Light.

Translated as “Brilliance” in the English came, Light is a keyword where while the card is attacking, every Magic you used during that battle comes back to your end once the battle ends.

Basically, while you pay cost for your Magic during their attacks and so on and so forth, if the Spirit survives the battle, you effectively haven’t committed to giving up that card and can freely use it again.

E.g. A Flame Tempest I used to clear my opponent of Blockers can now be used to defend myself against my opponent’s counterattack.

The Text is greyed out because those are effects inherent to the “Light” keyword, much like Crush has its own, and such.

The Second effect is less impressive, but it does give Paira a sizeable BP for a Cost 4. +2000 to all “Arcana” monsters means that LV3 Paira is sitting at 7000 BP.

Gnarly.

The other card, Ponysus, which I assume is meant to be a Pony-Pegasus, is MUCH less exciting as it is a Vanilla from the Imaginary Beast family, its a Cost 5 and its max BP is 6k. Paira is actually BEATING it in power.

Both of them hold 5 lives at present.

Dualcannon-Bell blocks an attack made by Piyon, causing Piyon to be destroyed.

I’m going to guess she made that silly play to goad J into making a block.

J isn’t screwing around, he blocks Ponysus with a Defensive Aura boosted Mjolnir, that’s an 8000 BP Mjolnir vs a 6000 BP Ponysus.

Ponysus gets DUNKED.

This is a real “Please stop” moment. J not letting anything through and My Sunshine has twice the Spirits.

J blocks Frogger with Dualcannon-Bell and the animation involves Dualcannon-Bell taking out a fucking BOMB after catching Frogger’s line, and attaching the bomb to it.

Frogger then EATS the bomb and fucking DIES.

ALRIGHT. WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THAT ONE.

My Sunshine makes a mistake by attacking with Arcanabeast-Paira, thinking she has enough BP to topple Mjolnir but forgetting that Defensive Aura lasts the whole turn.

So even Paira’s boosted 7000 BP doesn’t match against Mjolnir’s 8000.

More LV2’s for J’s legion.

He really is just throwing out spirits though, this is all stuff we’ve seen and I really don’t see anything interesting to talk about

Pom blocks one of the Mjolnirs and gets flattened.

Sphereroid snatches a life from My Sunshine, J then ends his turn.

A little cautious but I guess he can’t just straight up win from here.

My Sunshine returns to form by playing 2 Hellscorpio and a new card, The Count Wyhl at Level 3.

6 Core for level 3, WHEW, especially considering My Sunshine just played 2 Purple Spirits to provide the reduction for it!

8000 BP is pretty strong, and if Wyhl defeats a Spirit during the controller’s attack step, anything with a matching level gets exhausted. Its in a similar vein to how Destlord punishes LV2 spirits.

Your Deck is still kind of weird for having Yellow and Purple that don’t really mesh here but hey, being competent with half your deck is better than being competent with none of it.

More new cards. This one is called “Weakness”

This one is also from BS03, it reduces an opposing Spirit to 1 Core if used on your Main Step, and otherwise provides a generic battle boost.

All of J’s Spirits are level 2 though, wouldn’t you WANT it that way for Wyhl’s effect?

Oh, that’s big brain, I completely brainfarted on the fact that Mjolnir needs 2 core to maintain because that’s completely rare nowadays.

The Count Wyhl attacks, blocked by Dualcannon-Bell who is then destroyed.

J’s only remaining blocker, Mjolnir, is exhausted by Wyhl’s effect.

Hellscorpio attacks, J has to take from the life (5->4) and My Sunshine leaves it at that.

J response is to just drop Thor at Level 3, as he does.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen him NOT play it at that Level.

Thor swings and Hellscorpio gets hit by the banhammer (it blocked)

I guess My Sunshine is blocking here to make sure J doesn’t suddenly get in range to just kill her, keeping her lives high.

She comments J doesn’t have enough Armed Machines to start his “Combo” but he CAN still get an extra attack.

Though if that’s what he wanted he would have attacked with Mjolnir first…

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case, Summon a Dragon!”

Zane Truesdale – Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

She’s desperate, she’s conveniently forgetting J’s other refresh magic.

Yeah, like that one.

Now the ol’ White God of Thunder is ready to swing his hammer again, AND he’s got enough for 4 attacks.

Checkmate?

Nailed it.

No Club for you lady, besides, J’s on a “join the enemy” mission.

Always the best part of playing for variety, you get to do so much fun stuff, limiting yourself to one colour is one thing I could never do.

Kyouka makes a last ditch effort to make that battle entirely meaningless by appealing to his interest in playing against different decks.

Actually no one promised SHIT to you if you won. They could tie your ass down and it’d be entirely within the deal they made.

You have fun with that, personally I can’t think of another 4 characters that would be interesting enough to actually form this club.

J thinks Isekai’s appearance is a sign of things to come, a bad omen.

I’d say “For what” but given how cryptic the Nazo-Otonas have been with information, its likely he’s just not planning to sit around and find out.

“I already can’t refuse to use anything other than white at this point”?

Does J feel like his reliance on White-only cards is limiting him? And that he’s willing to tap into other colours to gain strength? Or is this just worded weirdly in the sense that he has no time and therefore has to use the White cards he currently has?

Dangit, I wanted an answer.

On an upside, the other 3 came back and are actually playing.

Oh, I remember, lets see if I can’t fish it out-

Oh, nevermind, thanks show.

It was an interesting and endearing statement but didn’t hold much weight on its own considering they’re cards.

How… How does one do that?

Well, let me consider cases where “Main deck” has been used in this series, there IS one other instance which referred to a specific type of card, and Battle Spirits has no “Extra Deck” like features.

So its possible that “Goradon Main” just means that Goradon is the main card and the rest of the deck supports that.

Yeah, especially if the rest of the deck are ALSO weenies.

Every card has a use, even if the card isn’t particularly good at that use or the use is incredibly niche, one should never ignore a card’s use, and I implore everyone to try put each and every card to use if they can.

They are indeed down one.

I dunno, how long do you plan on being a bitch?

Under the list of things that fall under “something proper” I think annoying the shit out of you until you tear your hair out in frustration sounds like something that’d be in there.

SEE. THERE IS NO BENEFIT TO THE STUPID SCOREBOARD EXCEPT TO SHAME LOWER STUDENTS.

She’s LITERALLY number 1.

Why has it taken the entire episode to bring forth this information when we literally saw it written on a fucking wall at the beginning of the episode?

Oh wow, Kyouka using her appearance to sway him actually had a much bigger effect than anticipated.

Oh shut the fuck up about studying. You literally need a cabin boy just to fucking CONCENTRATE on studying!

Secondly, they have 6 members! Its over! You can’t start making new protests after they made your one and ONLY condition!

Don’t indulge her!

By WHAT MARGIN!? SET A BAR!

Or how about this, have some god damn humility and TAKE THE GOD DAMN CHOCOLATE COVERED GLACIER CHERRY-TOPPED L

OH GO TO HELL!

Wait does she genuinely believe that Battle Spirits can improve one’s grades?

No!

Like I’m fairly sure due to the fact that all questions you get are RANDOM, there’s a small percentage of Grades you literally can’t get, at a certain position at the top of the ranking the difference in Grades are practically negligible!

At least maybe the President might learn that she can actually have some free time not spent studying.

Scene skipping to something that makes me wanna pull my hair out a little less, J is standing outside Uchuuchouten’s door.

J’s pulled an Evil wardrobe switch, he’s traded out his usual white clothing for a black variant, and has changed his name to “Jack Knight”

This seems a bit out of left field considering he was so ready to defeat his father earlier, but it appears this might be a result of wanting to be closer to his father regardless of the cirmcumstances surrounding why his Dad is being such a distant punkass.

So he wants to be a member of the Numbers Elite, he wants to see what his Dad sees.

This just… looks a bit silly but at least the Cat is loyal. So now we have “Jack Knight” and “Queen”

Though he didn’t mention his father as a motivation earlier and he was already thinking about this. So perhaps this has more to do with wanting to learn about the Cornerstone and what to do with it. So he’s directly going to the person who wants its power the most, Uchuuchouten.

It appears the number he’s been assigned by Uchuuchouten is “Eleven”

The only 2-digit number amongst the Elites so far.

Ah, is the Numbers Elite grading meant to reference Poker?

That would explain the existence of a lack of “One”

That would instead be the Ace, which can be 1 OR 11, that would evidently be Uchuuchouten. Though it appears that the show might be suggesting Uchuuchouten is the “King” as he’s never given a number.

And 11 refers to Face cards, or cards beyond 10. Jack Knight wishes to serve his “King” (whom he perceives to be Uchuuchouten) and is aided by “Queen” basically making all the Face cards taken up.

Based on that theory, the only Numbers we’ve yet to see now are Six, and Ten.

So Numbers Elite can be identified by their rings? Do all of them have this?

This is good, it puts Smile and Jack Knight in close proximity to each other enabling them to communicate easier, and J will likely have access to stronger cards thanks to this.

I’m still foggy on what the plan is here but I’m sure we’ll learn the details later.

And that’s the episode!

What a doozy, we got a new villain, and it’s the main rival, that isn’t going to generate some beautiful drama between Bashin and the new “Jack Knight”, not at all!

It does feel a bit forced though, or perhaps its just handled badly?

Elliott and Smile spend a large part of the series seeming like they’re trying to coax J into the Numbers Elite, but then J’s father turns up and everything gets a bit foggy.

Across all of this, J shows no actual inclination to join until Smile gets wrecked by him.

J gets his ass beat by his father, and Kiano proceeds to continue telling him nothing.

Smile reaches the pinnacle of his losing streak to J and J agrees that its okay to join forces if he’s aiming to defeat Uchuuchouten.

And then barely a few episodes later J decides he wants to join Numbers Elite which his father seems to be hostile towards the idea.

And then J expresses a desire to be “used by a King” and learn more about his Cornerstone and to that end he joins up with Uchuuchouten and the Numbers Elite.

his motivations kept sort of switching and previous motivations were not mentioned by him whatsoever so its hard to keep track on WHY he’s doing this, but I suppose across all that he’s got 3 main digestable ones.

1. He and Smile wish to defeat Uchuuchouten.
2. His Father is a member of Numbers Elite and J wishes to be closer to him.
3. Uchuuchouten wants the Cornerstones, and J is in the dark about how to use them, he can learn how to wield his Cornerstone if he stays close to the person who does know how to use them.

Its a bit of a mess considering they usually stick with one reason or so without bringing up others so it does seem a bit strange.

Anyway, Batosupi lecture has nothing interesting, so I guess I’ll see you all for the next one! Buh-bye!