Something that has always bothered me since the reveal of CODE purpose as a group that deals with the supernatural and anomalies instead of just nightmares is that the agent numbers are just so small, like counting zero and all the other agents of CODE there is only eight people in total and they are all fully dedicated to the nightmare phenomenum. Hell if Zero is a CODE higher up then why is he seemingly only concerned with nightmares?
So what if all the structure we have seen is only for nightmares? Maybe the way CODE operates is that for every phenomenum they deal with they grab someone and make them the Zero for that specific thing, a manager basicly, and the job of Zero is to research and resolve the case they have been asigned to using the resources they received. Making every team work indempendently of the others, like the nightmare team is doing their own thing seperately from the aliens team for example. All of them working under the supervision of the true higher ups but probably they are left for their own devices.
Watched the first two episodes of Zeztz and woah,,
I can understand why people are like “eh this start is kinda mid” but me?
This season was made for me.
Dream/nightmare/sleep theme? Main guy who’s silly half the time but then cool and serious the other half? ZERO IN GENERAL????… that bit of Baku getting on Zeros back while he was in robot form- Absolutely amazing start to the season, for me, I’m already clawing for episode 3
Baku and robot form Zero need to kiss now, because if Baku doesn’t, then I will
Guess i gotta wait one more episode to see what Nightmares are. Spoilers bellow
My favorite revelation was about how Zero is the source of Baku misfortune, i was kind of expecting the "dad" reveal but him being the source of his misfortune is really interesting but ill have to wait to see what that means because it could be something born out of malice to make Baku Zeztz or it could be Zero fears and anxiety manifesting itself.
Im more inclined towards the latter because of all the things from Zero revealing that CODE was going to try and assasinate him and his friends and family in their sleep thus ruining the point of a assasination, the part where he almost patted Baku on the shoulder but had to hold himself back and became frustrated with himself and memory of child Baku playing with the Zeroider while Zero watched and took a picture it like someone trying to record that memory (notice that he used a recolored version of Baku dream camera that can cross the barrier between dreams and reality while Zero also said that he would have good dreams). And thats not counting all the other shit that happened in the show before like the "witty joke" scene.
We also saw Nem and the Lady talking without the Lady being creepy as hell, we will have to see what they will actually talk about next episode but im still happy about it. Same thing with Nox and Fujimi.
Also my theory was right! There are higher ups above Zero! We will have to wait till next episode but im still right!
I didnt write this out yesterday but Huh what huh what huh what huh what
It doesnt have to same effect after i slept on it, shame. Here are my thoughts about this bombshell of a halfway point so spoilers for episode 24
Ok so since this is apparently the last episode with the VISIONS op i want to point out a cute detail that the wonder form changes size each episode, going from being so huge he cant get through the door to being a little guy, i like it.
Anyways apparently Nem is either a nightmare or a result of a nightmare reality warping affecting the real world something that we have seen sometimes before with the paintings and the students (looking back on it, i wonder if the lightning strikes were a symptom of Baku getting closer to becoming a nightmare like Nox said in his final words). Speaking of Nox, this kind of answers why Nox said that she was an exception to the things of the world breaking down because she is not a natural part of the world, but now i do wonder if the us Nox used was just referring to him and Nem or if there are more people that exist outside this natural law.
Nem being The lady daughter made all my theories about 2 using her as a power source wrong, but it also raises the question of why the fuck would she allow her daughter to be targeted by the Wolf Nightmare, like what the fuck. Was there no other way to bait robot Zero?
And last main Nem speculation, why does CODE call her a replica? Not subject or anomaly, but replica. I highly doubt they mean that as a replica of another specific person and i dont think they mean it in the way of being a replica of the baby from lady dream, so what does this mean. Im betting there was another nightmare baby before but i dont have a lot to support this.
Now going to Baku and i did not expect him to become a rogue agent from the get go, i assumed that with him abandoning his Baku personality to only be Seven meant that he would be a loyal CODE agent so seeing him turn down his orders to do his own thing was a surprise. I mean he still went to HQ but i guess he was only there to figure out where the nightmares came from since that could be a lead to Nem location. But now that i think about it i dont think the Seven persona Baku used this episode is the same persona he had for most of the show, the Seven we loved was still a confident spy who took orders into his own hands but he was also kind and would go out of his way to save the people in need. But now he is a selfish person that only cares for his goal, like when he saw that couple he could have helped them in an instant with recovery but he just walked away to continue wandering aimlessly until he found Nem and the Lady. And before i forget i have to apologize to all the youtubers who said the kids taken by the Disaster nightmare were dead (and the people near the explosion) because i didnt think the show would paint Baku as a heartless man who would leave people to die but not only did this episode showed Baku doing exactly that but it also retroactively made that moment even worse because Baku could have dealt with the nightmare with a rider kick but he instead chose to use the most destructive and unnecessary attack possible.
Speaking of Catastrom, the show kind of proved my theory about it right! I wont have to keep thinking about its accuracy late at night like i do with my Booster theory! Turns out that Catastrophe really can choose to not help Baku if he stops acting in the way Catastrophe wants, and i think what they want is to have Baku "break" everything which explains the collateral damage that this form causes. With this in mind i wonder if Baku would have deflated had he helped that couple, because not only would he stop his in his path (which could be interpreted as hesitation) but he would use Recovery, something that is the exact opposite of what Catastrophe wants. The rider kick also had him turn into lightning which ties into Catastrophe being the progenitor of at least some of Baku's capsems* (i have some theories but they have toy spoilers so im putting them in the bottom of the post, like i know most people probably know but i don't want to spoil people who avoid these like i used to do with my earlier posts). And to round this out i do think that Catastrom is a different take on a berserk/hazard form because instead of making Baku go berserk it only works when Baku is in a berserker state because Catastrophe wants wanton destruction and i think Baku would only act on these desires when he is blinded by rage, maybe he can use Catastrom when he isnt angry if he is in a situation where massive destruction is needed like with the moon thing but being berserk is the state least likely for him to hesitate and break the fusion.
And a small detail i haven't seem anyone talk about, when Baku defeated the nightmares there were no butterflies they just turned into black smoke the same way Barrier did when Nox erased them. I wonder if its because the Lady wouldn't need them anymore so she turned off the butterflies causing the nightmares to just die, i dont think its because Baku overkilled them because of toy stuff.
Speaking of nightmares the Lady used a variation of the Nox driver to summon them, there wasnt a lot of details on it so i have to speculate. First she was using a new capsem, or if i understood it correctly, multiple capsems of the same type, one that serves only as temporary housing to nightmares until she releases them and most likely to control them. My reasoning is that every time one of the nightmares was defeated she seemed to pull out a new one but instead of summoning them all at once she only had one at a time, that could mean that she can only control one at a time, maybe.
And last one before the big reveal, Lord three has two to three capsems and i have no idea about what they are. He transforms using extra and thats all we know about it, like what the fuck is extra. we also see him using an invisibility power (that has the same effect as the Nox knight transformation) and later he uses a capsem that separates the driver from Baku, i dont know if these are the same capsem but they are interesting. Well this was something i guess.
And now for the big twist, Baku got a bad end and reset to his last check point like he has return by death. This along with red moon showing up makes a really strong case to the dream layers theory but i feel like i should put another theory out even if its kind of weak. My theory is that CODE is behind the world reset, my reasoning comes from the fact that Nox and the Lady kept saying that CODE controlled the world and things like it and CODE being able to reset the world to avoid things they didnt want is a pretty good way to do that, and with the preview showing Zero talk about CODE:SOMNIA that could be the name to the thing that allows them to do that (if anyone reading this knows lobcorp you know why im thinking of this). The main problem with this theory is that there is no reason for CODE to reset the world, they got exactly what they wanted and its not like they care about all the people who died to reset the world to bring them back. This specific theory probably wrong but i do think that some of its ideas could be true, like im pretty sure CODE had something to do with the reset due to the way Three and human Zero acted in the preview, to tie this to dream layer theory maybe CODE is the reason why the world is in a dream.
And now the previews, im not making a full breakdown because Mariinetact made an incredible analysis with details i didnt even notice so go check their work. So im only making theories based on the preview here.
First off: KUREHA IS BACK, along Five and Nox! Many celebrations are to be held but before that i do think its worth noting some oddities: first we see Nox confronting Nem directly which is something he didnt do in the original timeline, secondly we see Five and Kureha together and Kureha is using the photographer outfit and her Six ring. I have a theory but before that im going to try to make explanations for these things without it. For Nox the change in his actions could be because of a ripple effect caused by Baku acting differently (he seems to remember last timeline and he still has his capsems), and for Kureha it could indicate that her being pursued by the rival org (probably the Lady) and having her memory erased was something extremely recent that happened after the show started. Now for my theory, i think the other agents also kept their memory, explaining why Nox was acting that way when he originally kept his distance and why Kureha is with Five and the ring while using her reporter clothes. Again this doesnt have a lot of evidence and there is the possibility that this is only partially correct, maybe only Nox and Baku remember because they are the only ones who fuse with their nightmares while the others have vague recollections because they use the invoker system, this is all speculation.
To take a break before making another big theory, the reset kind of shows that the capsems bond with their user soul/mind since we see that Baku capsems also came back in time. I already suspected this since we see Baku and the others get their capsems from out of nowhere even in the real world (unlike their drivers which they have to bring with them in the real world) but its nice to see concrete evidence for this. And if my theory above is correct it could give a way for Nox to go back to his full rider form faster since he wont have to defeat his nightmare again but this does raise two questions but one is toy related so ill put it on the bottom, the non spoiler one is that i dont know how will he get his driver back because like i said before they cant be summoned so unless the Lady had it ready and was just waiting for Nox to deal with his nnightmare?
And the last non toy thing is a Zero theory, i think that robot Zero and human Zero are separate entities. The reason i believe this is because not only do both have different behaviors, with bike Zero, while being pragmatic and kind of cold, he also had more empathy and care as he acted like a mentor to Baku and he even forgave Baku after he went against his orders and even agreed to tell the truth about CODE before he died while human Zero only showed his coldness, not even trying to get Baku back in line before Three went to kill him. The second thing is that the crystal Zero had wasnt a control module or something like it, it was a memory core, why would a "drone" have a memory core especially one with classified information that could be targeted by enemies? And my smoking gun: Bike Zero met Nem, he met her back during the poison arc and he made no move to capture her for CODE, meanwhile Human Zero was smiling like a maniac the moment he saw Nem. So i think that those two are two different people that while sharing some memories are completely different, this also explains the "my one and only agent" line! Sure, Human Zero has Three and Five but Bike Zero can only count on Baku, the agent he commands far from CODE. This raises a lot of questions like why does Bike Zero exist and why did he keep away from the rest of CODE but i think overall this holds up, and it also makes a cool contrast by having the robot copy be more human than the original human (and it also allows for the robot to be on Baku side and i really want that robot to be around).
These were all the episode stuff, next is my toy theories so if you dont want to get spoiled dont read whats bellow. And if you are leaving thank you for reading all this, i hope this was fun.
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Ok so first off we see that the bomb nightmare came back and that includes wolf because he is going to be the next capsem, but what happened to the Shadow and Gun nightmare? Ok Gun is less paradoxical since the reset happens after he is defeated but what about Shadow? Are they free again to cause havoc on Nox mind or are they stuck on the shadow capsem? Hell maybe there are two Shadow nightmares like a certain sword from legacy of kaine.
The other thing i want to talk about is the Ordem form of the Dualmare capsem, i expect and hope that its a side grade to Catastrom instead of an upgrade because not only would a second nightmare inside Baku explain where capsems like barrier and machinery came from but it could also be a "wizard" form that has Baku use powers and abilities instead of raw strength and durability, maybe this is the reality bender form that Baku imposes his "order" on reality? But assuming that the Ordem nightmare has a similar deal as Catastrom i do wonder what it wants from Baku in exchange for their power, control maybe? But i dont think thats the type of thing you get to represent in a form the same way you can do with destruction, if anyone has a theory i would be happy to read them because i dont think ill be able to make a solid guess before their debut. Last thing but i hope this Nightmare talks to contrast Catastrom.
What a season, huh? Thanks for reading all my late night ramblings, again. Hope this was fun.
Oh my god i just thought of something, what if Zero was an agent who also got stuck in the dream world and in order to exist in the real world he had to use a robot body as a drone to interact with real people.
Like this explains why he has his fuel in the form of tea, if this was just simply a vessel to show himself to Baku why would he get fuel for this robot as tea,? It makes no sense and its probably inneficient. Unless you consider it a way to replicate eating or drinking as normal human so he doesnt go insane for not doing these very human things for a long period of time.
And now that i think about it i have a theory that the "human" version of Zero in episode one wasnt dramaticly hiding in shadows, maybe he has spent so much time as a robot that he only vaguely remembers his human self and all thats is left is a shadowy outline. That could maybe tie into how he is able to control his bike form so well since the vibe i get when he is a bike isnt that he is controling it remotely it feels like how a transformer operates in their vehicle forms.
And hey we see Zero use the sword and i think he knew how to use it even if he didnt want to fight Nox (probably his health).
It could also tie into the theme of capsems ruining the body of the users, Baku is already getting problems with plasma and we see Nox in a coma from his time as a agent and he only uses erase which i suspect is not a normal capsem. Maybe Zero is agent number one and his current state shows what happened to someone who stayed with CODE and went beyond what his body could take, i would bet that if we see his real body it will not be a pretty sight.
And it would also make him a very tragic figure, having the backstory of agent number one whose loyalty and dedication was rewarded by having his life ruined. Probably make his dedication to CODE and the mission something real sad.
