#shugoddom

[sonia-kate]

She literally has one dream of her own, and not only she's calling it "small" and "childish", but she was willing to throw it all away for the sake of her brother and her country, without hesitation

And on top of that, she did that before, 17 years ago, when she agreed to be a fiancee candidate for some dude she had never met, just because of her feeling of duty towards Kaguragi and Toufu

Then again, if they got married and she didn't like him she'd probably just kill him, like she tried this episode, so I guess it wouldn't have to be a life-long sacrifice

That being said, she sacrificed her personal desires and dedicated her life to her nation, just like Racules did. No wonder, they caught on so well. Now, after 17 years of dedication let them finally relax and enjoy life. If any of them dies, I won't forgive the writers/producers

Also, it seems that original plan was to kill Racules and for Kaguragi to take over Shugoddom

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

[mofffun]

[sonia-kate]

Ok, I guess that confirms it

From Twitter

Mr. Yano's birthday at King-Ohger set

He's alive and back in black red!

I guess that solves it. At least for the next episode. Christmas is saved! XD

Everyone is so beaten up, though XD I imagine it's the final battle or sth

EDIT: Then again that could be from a flashback, damn! But I doubt he'd be so beaten up in a flashback and those short hair, plus other hints, so I guess we can be quite certain about next week's episode anyway!

[sonia-kate]

Remember how after timeskip we learnt that the kings got arrested and at the end of the episode we learnt why? So, why would Kaguragi weaponize Shugods if the war with Bugnarok was over and I doubt he'd invade another kingdom?

Well, after what we saw in latest episode, he most likely knew about everything all along! Makes me wonder how would Racules and Kaguragi's schemes from first part of the season look like through that perspective, I might think about it later

That being said, it's highly possible that Yanma made his Super-Computer out of ambition, but the fact that it unlocks the cosmic power, that just so happens to be necessary to defeat Dugded and his crew? And we know that Yanma and Racules used to work together on Shugods and we don't know what caused the beef between them. What if... what if Yanma is in it too and he's just pretending?

What if everyone is in on the conspiracy except Gira?! And Jerami, I guess, since he wasn't present before?!

Would explain why everyone (except Gira and Jerami) just gtfo'd out of the castle after Racules' return and didn't seem to give a single shit about him...

puts on a tin foil hat

Ok, so back to "it's all part of Racules' master plan" theories

[sonia-kate]

OhgerCalibur ZERO is the OG sword!

So, I'm writing this because I'm tired of arguing with people who claim that OhgerCalibur ZERO is a knock off based on the "original" ones. (It's not) So because of that I decided to write a scientific paper tumblr post on the matter

OhgerCalibur ZERO is the original sword and the other five were based on ZERO's design

Source comes from the magazine. Here is a picture of the page that interests us

The information on the sword is in the top right corner

Translated by Google Translate, so of course there could be mistakes of butchered grammar, so I also rewrote the Japanese text and put it through translator - now in that form

Transcription: シュゴツダムの初代国王からうけつがれてきた剣. この剣をもとにして,5本のオージャカリバーが作られたという

Translation: A sword inherited from the first king of Shugotsdam. It is said that five Ojakalibur were made based on this sword.

PS

Interestingly, it appears that the situation with mecha is reversed. It's the regular King-Ohger that was the original, and King-Ohger ZERO was made on its basis

[sonia-kate]

When no one believed when Racules fans have been saying for months that everything was planned by Racules and he was the one deceiving Kaguragi and that Suzume really loves him and that his laugh at Yanma's death was just Racules losing sanity

[sonia-kate]

Racules' threats so far

Racules has been giving threats and displays of power quite often and even all the other kings together wouldn't go openly against him. But what did he actually do?

Episode 1

He didn't

Episode 5

He didn't

Episode 6

He could have blocked the King-Ohger ever since to force compliance. He didn't

Episode 10

He's kinda right, though

Episode 12

Here he threatens Suzume, yet as we know now, he's not actually keeping her hostage, but she clung to him. Hell, he would let her out but she didn't want to. His face was screaming "See what I have to deal with? Please, take her back"

This face screams "Please, help me". Argh, I love them so much!

To sum up, Racules has been talking big about conquering everyone, doing all those dirty immoral stuff, but in reality he did none or just a display of power once and never again, which brings me to conclusion that all of it is just an Evil King act, just like Gira's but much more subtle and effective. But let's be honest, he had many more years of practice behind him. Gira, you could take a lesson or two

Btw, if true, it's funny how both Hasties are doing Evil King act and both Dybowskis are acting over the top to cover up their schemes

[sonia-kate]

Ok, I got a thought with all those theories* that Gira was specifically raised and imbued with power as a new tool for Dugded (since Dugded says that he can release real Gira or sth along those lines). Hell, maybe it wasn't even something the previous king came up with himself but maybe Dugded specifically requested that

Anyway, even if it's not exactly the case, we can assume that because of his "gift", his fate doesn't bode well, because he would be most likely used as a tool by either side

So, Racules, being good older brother, wanted to spare Gira such fate and decided to hide him. BUT because Gira was crusial for Dugded's plans, or even simply desired, Dugded got furious and as a punishment he unleashed the Wrath of God

Now, Racules would obviously feel responsible for that. Hell, that would explain his attitude change, why he's so grumpy now, why he considers his previous ideals as child's dream. He wanted to protect everyone, especially the people around him, the ones he cared about the most - his younger brother. But by doing so, he doomed countless people on the whole world

That's why current Racules doesn't believe that it's possible to protect everyone. That's why he claims people are tools and that it's justified to sacrifice a few people to save the rest

Hell, maybe that's why he was insisting on killing Gira back in the first part, even if he still cares about him. Because he didn't want to risk a catastrophe like that to happen again, now that Gira has resurfaced again

*have a link and another one