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Mashin Sentai Kiramager Episode 45- "You Guys Shined!" Discussion
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03-01-2021, 11:49 AM
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Kurona
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Kiramager, huh?
Hard to deny some of the flaws – there’s areas the imagination aspect could have been stronger, royalty is never fantastic, and of course Garza’s ending failed to stick the landing. I think if he had been the final boss we could be looking at one of the best Sentais ever here, and I'll always say that's the biggest problem Kiramager has. I keep thinking about Fish's wish for a world where Garza was the final boss and how that would have brought all the season's themes full circle, and compared to Emperor Yodon himself? Yeah, it's hard to deny. It's a shame really.
All of which is to say… fuck me those are minor quibbles against an INCREDIBLE season! I haven’t felt so invested in and excited about a Sentai in a while; every character is stunning, it goes out of its way every other episode to do something completely wild and unexpected and anti-tropey of the franchise and pulls it off so so well, the direction is BRILLIANT, I just… it uses such a simple setting to dazzle and shine in every which way. In many ways it feels like they took the very specific Showa era of Sentai and revived that for the modern age, and I can hardly think of a better way to start off its 45th anniversary.
Something I always think about with Kiramager that to me sums up what I feel about this show? The episode they got the Kiramei arrow. Usually an episode about limits - ESPECIALLY in toku - will have the characters surpassing those limits with determination and willpower to get their new power-up. And I’m cool with it! If I wasn’t I probably wouldn’t be into this franchise; it’s a great awesome statement of intent. But it just makes Kiramager all the more special when their lesson is that surpassing your limits is not a good thing and will burn you out and hurt you, and to that end they give the power-up a time limit and that’s the lesson here. The inspiration to know your limits, and that everyone has them and that it’s fine to have them. That’s the sort of subversion Kiramager always went for and it’s always to the end of a wonderful lesson, and that’s why I love this show
There’s some issues to be sure, but… Kiramager was so special to me. I’m so glad I watched that.
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