 This article is about an item in Kamen Rider Gavv.
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A Human Press (ヒトプレス, Hito Puresu)[1] is the compressed form of a human after being captured by a Granute. Developed by Dente Stomach, it uses the happiness of the people inside to flavor the Dark Snacks.
Overview[]
A Human Press is created by a part-timer Granute wrapping their Gavv's tongue around a human. The human takes on the appearance of acrylic and is frozen in the state they were in when captured. After being given Human Presses, Agents will reward the Granute with the appropriate number of Dark Snacks. The Human Presses are then taken to the Granute world. At Stomach Inc.'s factory, the happiness of the captured humans is extracted and used as a spice to flavor the Dark Snacks. The process to produce the Snack makes the Human Presses brittle and presumably kills the person inside.
The happier a human is when captured, the more delicious the resulting Dark Snack will taste. As a result, the quality of Human Presses will determine the number of Dark Snacks they are exchanged for. Humans captured at a random moment will result in a low-quality Human Press. Normally, four of these Human Presses are only worth a single Dark Snack. More experienced Granutes will set up happy situations for their targets or in Lage Nine case, using a neurotoxin that temporarily put his targets in euphoric bliss, before ambushing them can produce High Quality Human Presses that worth roughly one Dark Snack each. The color of a Human Press denotes its grade. In order of ascending quality, the colors are brown, green, blue, red, and yellow, with the yellow presses possessing the highest quality.
If the Human Press is yet to be processed, cutting the tongue-like ribbon will free the person, though they will not remember anything that happened since they were captured. The ribbon is very tough and cannot be torn off by a human. Gavv usually cuts the tongue with the Gavvgablade, though he has removed it by hand on one occasion. Valen blasts apart the tongue with the Valenbuster. If the Human Press itself is broken, the person will die. Only full-blooded humans can be turned into Human Presses, as the part-Granute Shoma can be grabbed by a Granute's tongue without consequence.
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Behind the Scenes[]
Etymology[]
- The name of the Human Press is similar to "heat press" (ヒートプレス, Hīto puresu), though this may just be a coincidence.
Notes[]
- Human Press resemble plant presses and Oshibana.
- Kenzo Suga likens the process of humans being turned into Human Presses to freeze-drying food.
- According to Granute Rojoe, the Human Press was a recent innovation within the past 20 years, with prior methods of acquiring humans involving conventional kidnapping.
Appearances[]
Kamen Rider Gavv
- Episode 1: A Snack Kamen Rider!?
- Episode 2: Happy Zakuzakuchips
- Episode 3: Soda Punch Is a Guilty Pleasure
- Episode 4: More Marshmallows Please! (flashback)
- Episode 5: The Memories Are Painful
- Episode 6: Transformation Is Bitter Chocolate
- Episode 7: What Flavor Lies Beneath the Mask
- Episode 8: Dual Chocolate
- Episode 10: Extra Large! Candy Cannon!
- Episode 11: Beware of Sweet Words!
- Episode 13: Promised Homemade Cake
- Episode 15: Escaped Granute!
- Episode 16: The Gift of Noël
- Episode 17: Caramel Tentacles Taste Like Happiness
- Episode 18: Extremely Strong! The Pudding Bodyguard
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