Divergence SP: Special Feature! All About the DGP!
- Original Airdate: February 26, 2023
Written by: Yuya Takahashi
Directed by: Shojiro Nakazawa
Summary
Announcer: To our loyal viewers of the Desire Grand Prix:
Due to unforeseen operational troubles, there has been a change in our scheduled programming.
We bring you this special feature, as management works to resolve these issues.
Due to unforeseen operational troubles, there has been a change in our scheduled programming.
We bring you this special feature, as management works to resolve these issues.
In the wake of the... technical difficulties that happened last episode, the Desire Grand Prix hastily organizes a special presentation to fill us, the audience, in on the truth behind the battles the Riders have gone through.
However, Beroba interferes in the broadcast once more, prompting one final clash between the Riders and their supporters!
Tropes
- Ambiguous Situation: We see a flashback of Ace in what appears to be the modern day, which is when he supposedly first became a Kamen Rider, seemingly showing that he was lying about being around since 1 A.D. However, with the nature of the series as well as the reveal of alternate worlds and reset worlds, means that Ace's words may still have merit. The scene also does not outright say that's his first Desire Grand Prix, with it being the time Ziin first gets an interest in him.
- Camera Abuse: Tsumuri's attempts to recover the broadcast from Beroba was to keep hitting the camera.
- Engineered Heroics: The reveal of the Jyamato's nature in this episode makes DGP's premise of Saving the World more or less this.
- Foreshadowing: Keiwa talking with Neon about them becoming more proper Kamen Riders while the DGP is suspended in the previous episode teased them going out defending civilians from Jyamato attacks outside of a DGP round, which offers them no reward, as Ace lampshades when he joins them with a Suspiciously Specific Denial, but it exemplifies Kamen Rider's core values of sincerely protecting innocents from monsters.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Lampshaded. Kekera appears on the field as a human but flaunts his "new" body, implying he had just explicitly acquired a human form in order to join the fight against Beroba.
- Frame Break: During one of Tsumuri's attempts to fix the broadcast, the image is visibly knocked out of alignment.
- History Repeats: Like Korath before her, Beroba creates a new DGP-esque tournament after she steals the Game Master's Vision Driver.
- Hostile Show Takeover: Beroba takes over the broadcast mid episode, unleashing a wave of Jyamato in what she likes to call "The Jyamato Grand Prix".
- Ironic Echo: As usual, Tsumuri informs the DGP Riders about the Jyamato attacks, but this time, it's done when the Jyamatos become actual threat outside of the game, making those who confront them actually Saving the World.
- No Inner Fourth Wall: Beroba literally hacks the episode itself.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: Happens shortly before Beroba is revealed to have taken over the broadcast.
- Recap Episode: The first half of the episode is presented as such for the in-universe audience and partially for the actual audience as well. It stops being one once Beroba hijacks the broadcast and announces the "Jyamato Grand Prix."
- The Reveal:
- Kekera, Keiwa's supporter, finally shows his human form.
- The Jyamatos are created for the sole purpose of being DGP's antagonists, and using humans as their fertilisers evolves them into having more human-like traits.
- All supporters decide if their preferred player can have their desire granted.
JGP Rule #1
The Jyamato Grand Prix is a game that grants Jyamato their ideal world, in exchange for them fighting against humanity.
