#friend on earth) and ishiro (the informant who would have found out and can keep quiet)

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reminder that taiya has known genba longer than anyone on the team. this was implied in the series and in the episode blogs, but was also shown in chapter three of the comic when genba notes taiya has a new informant, confirming that he already knew taiya prior. i think back to early episodes and recall that genba had a boonboom booster prior to getting his change axe. he also noted that he and taiya had prior conversations in which he turned down taiya's offers for him to fight as a boonboomger. genba has really been a part of this team the longest, he just didn't officially change until after the others (excluding sakito bc that's a separate thing that we don't have an exact timeline on).