Ponta Hayari Returns

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**Ponta Hayari Returns** is the forty-seventh episode of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. It first aired in Japan on TV Osaka on February 26, 2023.

## Content

### Summary

Citrus gives up the title of Bottle King!? After escaping from the AI's control and returning as Ponta, Citrus makes a shocking declaration. With the throne of Bottle King becoming empty, the administration nominates Cota as the new Bottle King!? Ponta appears at the panicked Cota, and starts a Bottle Battle with a smile! Ponta talks about the secret of the encounter between Cota and Colamaru DX...? On the other hand, Ryo rushes to his mother after receiving the news...

### Plot

After the BMA crisis, Haku meets up with Ponta at the beach, where Ponta apologizes for having bottled all of his feelings up. It is then revealed that Ponta was the one who sent coordinates to Haku during the battle between BMA and B-DACT, so Haku could retrieve L Milkaiser DX. With that in mind, Haku could stall the time to give Ponta a grand entrance. However, Ponta does admit that Haku suddenly switching to B-DACT temporarily was unexpected even for him, to which Haku apologizes for.

Ponta later reveals that he is actually worried about Haku, who became a shut-in for a long time after Ponta went undercover. He then sincerely apologizes to Haku, as he considers Haku his friend and that he shouldn't have burdened him, for Haku has believed in him so much. Ponta then suggests making rice balls together, to which Haku agrees.

At the press conference, Ryo announces his retirement from Bottle Battling, due to needing to succeed his father's position as the new BMA President. He also announces Ponta's decision to give up being the Bottle King, and BMA has nominated a provisional Bottle King. It turns out, Cota has been nominated as the Bottle King candidate!

Just as Cota, Mitsuya and Iroha are panicking over the news of Cota being chosen, Ponta and Haku have arrived with food to talk things out, and Ponta's three friends all welcome him back. Mitsuya immediately gets carried away and asks for Ponta's autograph, to which Iroha drgas him away. Cota then decides to have a casual Bottle Battle with Ponta so they can have some fun together.

Haku is in charge of overseeing the Bottle Battle, which is Bowling of three rounds and thirty seconds each. During the first round, Ponta reveals that he is the one who got Colamaru, which was originally called Origin, which shocks the other boys. They are so shocked, they completely ignore Haku and start questioning Ponta about the whole deal. It turns out when Origin was still frozen in research, Ponta feared that Origin would fall into the hands of B-DACT, so he disguised himself, got an ID which he was experimented on to enter the research facility, and took Origin from Ryo. As the security was too tight for him to sneak Origin out, Ponta decided to hide it in his locker, but Cota ended up noticing it as Ponta forgot to lock the locker and Cota mistook the locker as his own. Cota is happy that this mistake has given him the chance to be Colamaru's partner, but Iroha and Mitsuya simply question why Ponta was forgetful enough to lock the locker.

As for Ryo, after the press conference he receives news from one of the Black Suits that his mother Eri has regained consciousness, to which he instantly gets into the car to the hospital.

Ponta and Cota continue their match, and Ponta admits that back then he was very perturbed when Cota first received Colamaru, fearing he had gotten his friend into a disaster. But he adds that as he spent time with Cota and the other boys, he finally begins to remember what it's like to be an everyday Bottle Battler who enjoys Bottle Battling after being the Bottle King for eight years. As round two ends with another draw, Ponta says he believes that Cota can change the world of Bottle Battling into a better landscape, where everybody will have more thrill and enjoyment for the sport. So when B-DACT started forcing every person the concept of Vital Sync, Ponta couldn't bear the power struggles any longer and decided to return to the throne in hopes of stopping the two-way fight. However, during the battlefield Ponta was knocked out by the robot dogs and encountered the AI, who proposed to use him as an external device. Ponta underestimated the AI and gave it a rhetorical challenge, only to regret his reckless choice when the AI actually hijacked his body. There, he apologizes for making everyone suffer from his wrong decision against the powerful AI.

At the hospital, the doctor tells Ryo that Professor Rootbeer has been assisting for Eri's treatment, and Rootbeer explains fervently that the AI circumvented the medical system and entered Eri's conscious but he managed to negate the effects, before the doctor pushes Rootbeer away and tells Ryo he can visit his mother now. As Ryo finally gets to be reunited with his recovering mother, he begins to get emotional.

Back at the Bowling battle, Cota reassures Ponta that even though all that has happened, it's not truly Ponta's fault, to which the other boys agree. Ponta is grateful for having such kind and supportive friends, which motivates him for the final round. He unleashes Dragogina DX's Quadro Impact, which gives him a landslide victory. Cota is actually overjoyed that Ponta has regained motivation and congratulates his friend for the win. Just as Ponta is going to leave, it is then shown Up Nana, Ayata Ebarata and a crowd of fans have arrived regarding the news of Cota being the provisional Bottle King, to which Cota panics and tries escape from.

Again at the hospital, Eri tells Ryo how she feels she had a dream with a little imp inside. She describes how the AI would childishly roam around, while she attempted to tell it off for being mischievous. Then she says it suddenly disappeared and she woke up afterwards as she tried to stop him. Ryo apologizes to Eri for being too engrossed with his misguided goal on Bottle Battling, believing that his stubbornness made her sick in the first place, until Eri reassures him that she just happened to have gotten ill at the bad timing. She then returns him his bent gold cap, telling him that the best caps are the ones that soar freely. However, she admits she does have a premonition that the AI's plan is still being carried on.

While the AI seems to be proceeding its plan in the computer system, Cota is still being chased by Ayata, Up Nana, and the rest of the enthusiastic fans, and he wishes Ryo was there to help him as he panics and runs off into the sunset.

## Trivia

### In the episode

* ResQ!! was not played as the opening in this episode, but as an insert song instead.
* Footage of Ryo announcing his retirement from Bottle Battling from the previous episode is recapped in the beginning of this episode.
* Footages of Ryo stealing Origin and encountering the "mysterious person", and later Cota finding Colamaru from the first episode are reused in this episode.
* Mitsuya is revealed to have received signatures on his shirt from several characters, including Tsubasa Akaushi, Leo Kinjishi, Shiman Ijuin, Kaori Hakase, Seimei Usami, and Santa Zan, in this episode.
* Several events from previous episodes are explained in this episode:
	+ Ponta was the mysterious person who took Colamaru, then named Origin, from Ryo, and he was also the reason why Cota got Colamaru in the first place in Episode 01. This also means he already knew B-DACT might rise in the first place.
	+ Ponta being in battlefields despite later getting blasted away was about protecting Cota from harm, due to him worrying about Cota and Colamaru falling into the wrong hands.
	+ Haku was given instructions by Ponta, who was planning to do his big reveal, on retrieving L Milkaiser DX at the beginning of the first match between BMA and B-DACT, and that Ponta had long planned his return as Citrus.
	+ Ponta being hijacked and possessed by the AI in Episode 39 was a mistake on his part near the end of Episode 38, which was due to him recklessly underestimating and challenging the AI who chose him to be an external operator for it, before he came to regret his decision.

### 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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