Throw Away the Bubbling!?

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**Throw Away the Bubbling!?** is the forty-fourth episode of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. It first aired in Japan on TV Osaka on February 05, 2023.

## Content

### Summary

Cota fires his most bubbling special shot!! Citrus, taken over by the AI, shoots down all the gimmicks!? "You have to throw away the bubbling." The AI says emotionlessly. Cota is forced to seal away his emotions, the source of his bubbling…!? …Meanwhile, Ryo and Haku are carrying on the fierce Bottle Battle! Ryo bursts out a super shot with his determination and feelings!!

### Plot

During his battle with the AI, Cota keeps getting overwhelmed due to the AI taking advantage of Citrus's athletic capabilities, while the AI still believes Cota should give up his "bubbling" philosophy. According to the AI, Cota's physical abilities are impressive and even on par with Citrus's, but his emotions are obstructions to his impending success, as he lets them get the best of his judgement. Cota still strongly disagrees, despite the AI's argument on how his emotions are getting in the way of his improvements.

The AI then proposes the prospect of Cota forgoing his emotions in order to become stronger. However, Cota rejects its ideals, saying that the real Ponta wouldn't agree with such an absurd idea. His determination to continue being a Bottle Battler and saving Ponta triggers his first time activating Sparkling Nova, much to the AI's surprise. As the AI is caught off guard, Ponta begins regaining control for his own body as he has always wanted to go all-out in a Bottle Battle with Cota, who is glad that his friend is returning.

Having temporally regained control, Ponta challenges Cota to shoot once again. Despite that the AI deduces Cota's shot in Sparkling Nova state as unfathomable, Ponta still successfully knocks down all of the gimmick bottles triggered by Cota by utilizing Dragogina DX's capability on reloading to fire consecutive eight vertical shots. Ponta then uses this as an evidence to rebuke the AI about the power of motivational "bubbling", and even fights inside his own body to retaliate against the AI regarding the importance of emotions. While Cota is confused regarding Ponta and the AI's internal fight, Ponta finally manages to expel the AI from his body via a Quattro Impact inside his mind.

Cota, seeing that his friend has returned, is immensely relieved. Ponta is also happy to see his friend, but decides to disqualify himself so the damage of Team Citrus can be halted. Thanks to Ponta's self-disqualification, those affected by Reburst regain their normal selves and are freed from the AI's control. With the Team Citrus members all forfeit, BMA automatically wins the special Bottle Royale.

Meanwhile, Ryo regains focus and starts countering against Haku. As for Cota, he is unsatisfied with how he's not able to have a conclusive match, until Tsubasa shows up and declares himself to be Cota's opponent on determining which of them reach the DX Target first.

As for Ryo, while he knows Haku might not be fully wrong about his mother Eri's condition being caused by him, he vows to never repeat the same mistake again. With this epiphany, Ryo also activates his Sparkling Nova, due to being able to enjoy battles with fun and good sportsmanship. This effectively makes Ryo defeat Haku in the match. Haku originally wants to keep stalling from giving Ryo the key to the mother computer system's room, until Ryo presents him a message of Team Citrus having forfeit, which forces Haku to submit to Ryo's demand.

On the other hand, the AI, despite its efforts to shoot caps, fails to recreate the sensation of being motivated. Furious, it declares its plan to recreate the "bubbling" by itself, as it returns to the mother computer system.

## Trivia

### In the episode

* Footage of Ponta briefly regaining control and Cota triggering trap bottles but getting overpowered by the AI from the previous episode are reused.

### Background

* Sparkling Nova, a phenomenon introduced in the web series, is reintroduced in this episode.

### 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.

## Gallery

### Title screens

#### Title Cards

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