Beautiful Cancer! The Magnificent Earthroller DX

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**Beautiful Cancer! The Magnificent Earthroller DX** is the twelfth episode of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. It first aired in Japan on TV Osaka on June 19, 2022.

## Content

### Summary

Ryo is asked to search for the missing Bottle King. As soon as he meets the Bottle Star Roland Asue in a back alley, a Bottle Battle suddenly begins! Sensing the hatred in Ryo's battle style, Roland tells him that it's not beautiful. Ryo has no sympathy at all for Roland's thoughts on the Bottle Battle. Their different beliefs collide with each other! Meanwhile, Cota Coga is fiercely training with Tsubasa and...!?

### Plot

Right after Ryo receives the request from Machiko to track down the long-absent Citrus, he is approached by a hooded individual. At first, Ryo believes this comer to be Citrus, until the latter unveils and introduces himself to be Roland Asue. Ryo recognizes Roland but isn't too impressed by his flamboyance. Roland then explains to Ryo that this area is his hometown, even though he knows Ryo is unimpressed by his statement. He then comments on how Ryo doesn't understand true beauty, and both boys decide to settle the score with a Bottle Battle after Roland prompts Ryo, who wants to leave, to be more like Ryo's father Io.

Meanwile, Tsubasa continues his training for Cota, through honing Cota's skills via shooting 1000 bottles with tightening shot. Tsubasa decides to take a short break at 500, but is then impressed by how Cota has the motivation to continue. Cota explains to Tsubasa that by adhering to the "bubbling" philosophy, he and Colamaru's minds seem to have connected into one. Suddenly, Mitsuya and Iroha arrive to tell Cota that Ryo has gotten himself into a Bottle Battle with Roland. As explained by Tsubasa, Mitsuya and Iroha, there are only ten Bottle Stars in the world, with Roland being one of them, who is two ranks above Ryo. Due to the respective popularities of both Bottle Battlers, their live-stream battle is blowing up online.

At the Bottle Battle ground, Ryo isn't pleased to have so much attention, which Roland apologizes for since he has so many Rolans, who are his particularly avid fans that admire and adore his beauty in both battling style and appearance. Among the passionate fans, a figure which is the cloaked Citrus is hiding in the crowd. Seeing how Ryo isn't being too motivated, Roland decides on the format being Sniper Smash, which is the format he is best at.

Roland proceeds to introduce his Bottleman partner Earthroller DX in a flamboyant manner. He then uses Rolling Crab to shoot down several bottles, much to Cota's astonishment. Iroha explains that Earthroller is a unique Bottleman which can slide horizontally like a crab, due to its special parts of Rolling Arm and Rolling Foot that assist smooth horizontal movements. Ryo attempts to counter with rapid-firing, only to misfire one of his shots. Despite another attempt, Ryo still ends up missing another shot.

As it turns out, Iroha explains to his friends that Ryo, who is a rapid-fire Bottleman player, is at a disadvantage due to Sniper Smash's emphasis on having good control. Cota is eager for Ryo to win, but Tsubasa reminds him to focus on his own skills first and resumes the training.

Watching Ryo's rather poor performance, Roland remarks on how Ryo's battling style is lacking in true beauty. In fact, Roland has seen through Ryo's misguided attitude on exploiting Aquasports DX a a tool for assisting revenge. Roland then recounts how as a child, he didn't understand what made his hometown beautiful. It is then revealed in Roland's flashback that he used to be a penniless and lonely child who couldn't make any friends, thus always being in a depressed state. However, one day Io and Eri encountered the younger Roland on the streets, and Io polished and gifted him a bottle cap. With Io and Eri's kindness, Roland was inspired to Bottle Battle and befriend new people as a result.

After retelling his past, Roland tells Ryo that Bottle Battling is meant for making friends with both Bottleman partner and other players, and also to chase radiant dreams. Ryo isn't convinced by Roland's speech, while Roland doesn't change his own mind on wanting to show his beautiful self to everybody else, and allows Ryo to have an opportunity to end the match in a tie. As Ryo reveals his resentment towards Io through Bottle Battling, still unable to move on from how Io intensively trained him, Roland is very disappointed in Ryo's stubbornness and misguidance. Roland then explains to Ryo that Ryo will never understand his father if he lets his hatred overtake him, but Ryo refuses to heed Roland's advice, much to Roland's further disappointment. Because of Ryo's judgement clouded by his hatred towards Io, he is unable to even land a single shot, leading to Roland winning the match.

Ryo doesn't understand what Roland meant by whispering how Ryo himself has gotten the wrong idea stuck in his head, while Roland basks in victory of falling caps and tells Ryo that he won't explain unless Ryo gets to overcome him in another match before departing. Citrus then departs from the crowd as well.

Cota, on the other hand, has finally completed his 1000 tightening shots training. Just as Tsubasa leaves with Iroha and Mitsuya to buy some robust beef, Io abruptly shows up with a bottle of soft drink in front of Cota, who is shocked by his arrival. Io then bluntly warns Cota that both Colamaru and the boy himself are targeted, which perplexes and surprises Cota even more.

## Trivia

### In the episode

* Earthroller DX is introduced in this episode.
* Footages of Cota winning the last round against Kaori, Tsubasa proposing to train Cota, Machiko contacting Ryo about Citrus, as well as Roland's debut in the previous episode are recapped at the beginning of this episode.
* The Sniper Smash format is introduced in this episode.
	+ During the two rounds of this format, players have to determine who shoots the most Bottle Targets lined up to the board in all five shots. It aims to practice adaptability, skills, and controlled precision of players. Speed types are more disadvantageous in this kind of match, owing to their lack of control. Conversely, Control types benefit the most from this match format.

### Characters

*Note:* All characters are listed in order of their first appearances in the episode. The time they appear is the time from the Japanese dub.

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