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Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger Episode 8- "Runaway & Divide!" Discussion
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04-24-2024, 10:52 AM
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The theme of the show is meant to be like, taking independence of your life, ?taking the wheel?, like how in the first episode Pink decided to become a Boonboomger so she wasn?t being forced to do things or have to rely on other people. This theme ties in here because Red is going for his own dream without considering the other people on the team, or at least that?s how it seems. I?m going to bet that Red?s intergalactic racing dreams are also because he wanted to escape from his own dependence on something.
This is also probably why the ISA stuff is here, Boonboomger is going to be stuck under the thumb of government bureaucracy and have to escape from it, or the ISA lady is going to break from it.
Also I always kinda felt like Red was intended to be a little off, since none of the episodes so far have focused on him, and Pink has always been treated as our point of view character.
For me, the problem with highlighting autonomy as a major theme is that it's already a common theme in Sentai. For example, Kiramager was about the importance of self-improvement by helping each other to shine brighter and there was a lot of focus on their personal lives and dreams. What drives the Boonboomgers, other than Jou? This important detail is unclear, so the show loses autonomy by relying on Taiya acting as a walking metaphor for every moral, even when he turns out to be wrong. Mira didn't even need to become a Boonboomger to gain autonomy, if she was going to dump her poor bf anyway then she could've done literally anything else.
That's why I like the drama that ISA bring to the plot, as it shows how Jou is conflicted about his loyalty to Shirabe, his own morality and now towards Taiya as well. Jou is transparent, so I can appreciate why he values autonomy as means to be a hero while struggling against restrictions to heroism imposed by his superiors.
I speculated from the bio that Taiya was going to be like Akashi and Sousuke. Right now though, he's more like Lucky and Ukiyo Ace. While those characters did become more complex as the story progressed, the early part was mostly them saying weird stuff and solving problems with little effort. I imagine that Taiya is most likely a better person than the show is currently making him out to be, since Chassirou and Genba both vouch for him, but the journey to that part is tedious for me so far. I'd also argue that Mira stopped being a viewer perspective in Episode 3, since the plot twist relied on viewers taking Taiya's instinct at face value and not knowing what Mira was thinking.
So yeah, the show has reached a point where I can kind of see where it's going and now I'm just waiting to see how that changes the status quo.
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I?m willing to bet, considering we have a Pok?mon writer as showrunner, that their ending is going to be less? depressing than the fates of the Gaiark Ministers. We?ll have to see if they like, fully go good or if it?s a bit where they quit but are still bad guys.
It's humorous to me how Go-Onger has a reputation for being lighthearted despite so many sympathetic characters getting killed, albeit temporarily. The Go-Ongers and Gaiark Ministers are doing okay in Shinkenger VS and 10 Years Grand Prix anyway. While I'm only a casual when it comes to anime, I heard that Takegami also wrote for Pokemon, so if he can go dark sometimes then I think Tomioka should be capable of this as well. For the current Super Hero Time, I find the Dark Sisters a lot more intriguing and different than the Hashiliens.
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