Kamen Rider Ghost 22 – The Ganma World

Well this is a warm welcome.

Takeru has arrived in the Ganma World and much to his surprise, this is not the utopia that Alain's been bragging about. Back in our world, with the help of Cubi, Akari and Onari realized that the company Deep Connect might be involved in this debacle.

Another strong episode of the series as it continues to build up what was left dangling in previous episodes and goes all out with this one. I mean seriously, the previous episodes only gave us a glimpse and hints on what's like living in the Ganma World and if you piece the hints together, this is the result of all of it. The episode revealed that Ganma have multiple bodies that they can use, that is why they don't care if they lost a body in battle. 

Also further established about the Ganma World in this episode is that for a utopia, it doesn't look like one. I mean, I am fine with the red skies and a dessert, but this place barely looks habitable just basing on the grounds. No decent looking buildings for Eyecons to live on or something? Because Takeru is an outsider, he is of course met by an army of Ganma. The only thing worth noting about the scene is that we see Takeru wield the GanGun Saber out of suit. This is something that rarely happens in the series and hopefully we will see more regular Takeru wielding that sword in the future. 

While Takeru is busy running away and fighting the guards and eventually, fight Alain, the Ganma Emperor gets a surprise visit from Adel who then executes his plan. He kills his own father. Well, this is one plot twist I did not expect see. I mean, for the past few episodes, they keep on building up that the Ganma Emperor is the big boss of the series. The one that Ghost and Specter will face at the end of the series, but nope, turns out that it's Adel. What's great about this twist is Adel's reasoning on why he killed his dad, he's not anymore following his ideals. It's an interesting twist, and it shows how twisted this world is when it comes to ideals of utopia and peace. 

Since he doesn't want to be involved with the death of his own father, Adel of course blames it to his brother, Alain, leading us to an army of Ganma chasing after him. This eventually leads to the confrontation between the brothers. To be honest, their confrontation scene was a bit underwhelming compared to the manhunt that happens after it. The only thing that this scene established is the possibility of Alain switching sides. 

As expected, Alain lost to his brother, resulting to the disintegration of his body and him moving to a new body. What's interesting about the move to the new body is that after his previous body was disintegrated, we see him in the new body after one scene in the human world. Speaking of human world stuff, Cubi continues to be useful as Akari and Onari finally discovered that the company Deep Connect  is involved with the Ganma. It was then confirmed thanks to the appearance of the Ganma from the previous episode. What's fascinating about her appearance is that instead of fighting these three, she decided to wait for Takeru's return so that she can duel him. So yeah, I seriously wish to see more of her in the future. I want more chivalry, especially after seeing Adel's betrayal.

Back in the Ganma World, after he's done running away from the Ganma, Takeru has stumbled upon an interesting sight. Bodies in coffins and see one body disintegrate. These are the souls that Igor captured. The scene showed us what they are doing with said souls and why they find it valuable. If I piece it up correctly, they are using these bodies as fuel in the utopia. I mean, that's the only clear explanation for the ashes. 

This enrages Takeru who values human life above everything else. But before he has time to grief or fined a way to free the souls from captivity, he is attacked by enemy Ganma. Meanwhile, Makoto also discovers this thanks to Alia, who informed this to Makoto because she knows that Alain doesn't want to kill their father. This later led to his confrontation with Adel, and he has two reasons why he wants to fight him. To get his body and to prevent him from doing more harm to others. The fight between the two is really great. Not only that we see Adel's Ganma form, the fight alone is really fun to watch. 

Much to my disappointment, the ending of this fight is really bad. It's just Specter sending Adel away so that he can escape. The only thing positive about it is that it led his reunion with Takeru and Alain and the discovery of Eadith's lab. In the lab, they discovered a giant Eyecon, which Takeru picked and his Eyecons, which he grabbed before leaving. Because they are being chased by the Ganma, these three decide to go back to the human world, connecting us to the other thing that's happening, the Ganma from the previous episode wanting a rematch.

What's great about the rematch is that this is Alain's first exposure to the concept of one-on-one duels and the chivalry and honor behind it. For him, all he cares is winning, it doesn't matter what method used as long as he won. This duel showed him that there's more to it than just winning. Winning also involves the pride of those who fought, and even though he didn't grasp the concept at first and just finds it dumb, at least he is learning to see what makes life really interesting. 

As for the duel itself, it's really good. Aside that we got the classic clashing of swords thing, we get to see a cool way on how to use the Sunglasseslasher without making it look like a toy. Seriously, the way Takeru executed the release of that stronger fire attack made the sword cooler. At the end of the day, the Ganma was defeated, Alain leaves because he still can't get it, and Javert returns with a new body thanks to Adel. As for the giant Eyecon that Takeru picked up, we don't know its use yet until the next episode.