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Avataro Sentai Donbrothers Episode 17- "Light & Tsubasa!" Discussion
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06-27-2022, 06:47 PM
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Fish Sandwich
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Look out everyone! Inoue's writing about romance again! You don't want to get stuck in
that
kind of plot if you can help it! So of course, Tsubasa's eternally terrible luck means he couldn't help but get stuck in this story.
That's why we love the guy though, right? Or at least it's a huge part of why
I
enjoy Tsubasa's role in the series. It's pretty crazy that even among a cast of heroes largely created by misfortune, Tsubasa always seems to have it the worst. A tragic backstory is one thing, but Tsubasa is always on the run from the law, constantly out of the loop about all the things the rest of the cast know, regularly patronized by Haruka and now Jirou for looking like an adorable cartoon dog, and frequently subjected to any number of more isolated troubles. He even nearly gets in a traffic accident here... which is admittedly a
weirdly
common occurrence in Donbrothers, so maybe that one isn't actually worth noting.
But still, the man simply can't catch a break. Even in this episode about him finally getting to see Natsumi again after a long hard year of the fugitive lifestyle, he does for like, a couple seconds? From a distance? If we're even absolutely, totally sure this mystery is as simple as Miho being Natsumi yet?
It's like,
was that it?
Poor guy. He gets caught up helping someone else out with their romantic problems, and his end up getting totally sidelined. But that too, is why I love the guy. I've said this before, but I still really appreciate how often we see the Donbrothers saving people from dangers unrelated to monsters? There's just something really wholesome about Inu Brother stopping some dude from jumping off a building. These people are all completely nuts, but it's balanced out a ton by how fundamentally kind they generally are. I think it's maybe one of the key reasons Donbrothers is such a watchable show.
Tsubasa in particular, you know, he has the
outfit
of the cool guy loner archetype, and literally nothing else? I'll emphasize it again -- he's only on his own because nobody has ever told him what's going on. He's clearly perfectly happy to be around other people, to the extent he can be while wanted for crimes he didn't commit. If I said he doesn't think he can ask anyone for more help, I wouldn't be saying he thinks he's above that sort of thing; I'd be saying he literally hasn't yet figured out he could ask his new friends for more help. Probably doesn't make things any better that, in what few interactions he's had with the other team members out of uniform,
they haven't always been very helpful.
So the idea of Tsubasa being an actor prior to his life going down the tubes, it really doesn't surprise me at all. I
absolutely
believe this guy was just some dorky theatre dude who got caught up in something way beyond him. It really explains a lot, honestly. Like, why would he ever accidentally pretend to be a real dog as Inu Brother? His passion for his trade makes him get too into whatever role he's playing! He can't help it, because he's not actually a loner who hides all his emotions to look cool. If you even thought for a second he was, well then, that just shows you how good he is as what he really cares about. (He probably started wearing that coat specifically to fit the whole fugitive image, for all we know.)
I'm not really talking that much
about
the episode itself, I realize, but all of the above is to say -- I quite enjoyed this one. The designated Tsubasa Doesn't Catch A Break episodes are always highlights for me (as much as a series this consistently great can have highlights), and this was no exception. Being made to suffer, whether comedically or dramatically, is very much the dude's niche at this point, and it makes him possibly the single most endearing hero in the whole show? Again, comedic/dramatic suffering is a common point for basically everyone, but I feel like Tsubasa consistently suffers the most while deserving it the least. This is a man who won't hesitate to run around town in a cheap devil costume all for the sake of reuniting a couple who only kinda seem to want each other. But like, Tsubasa's gonna root for 'em with all he's got anyway! On a day that was supposed to be all about him, no less!
And all of this is perfect for him. I can't think of a more fitting way to further explore this character than to have that exploration immediately get derailed by some other nonsense going on. We still learn a lot about Tsubasa anyway, we get a silly and amusing monster plot out of it, and in the end, everything is all well and happy for two people in love. At least in the exact moment Tsubasa saw them at the end, at any rate. Something tells me this kind of thing happens with them a lot...
Well, what Katsu-nii is up to after Ultraman R/B is none of my business anyway, so I'll stop sweating it! The point is, I had a great time with this one. Inoue's particular brand of romantic madness can have its ups and its downs, but I think this episode did a great job harnessing that insanity into something that stayed goofy and fun the whole way through, without completely abandoning actual drama in the process.
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