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DreamSword Watches Unfamiliar Toku: Part 6 - Tokusatsu GaGaGa
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Episode #3: Extra Hero
This episode was kinda scary to me.
Not in the sort of way in that a horror movie scares you or something of that nature, mind you, but more in the way of how close to home it hit.
At first, the premise of the episode seems straight-forward enough: How those with keen interests attempt to find more like them. But, failing that, instead might opt to expand their fandom via making new fans.
However, things take a bit of a turn when Kitashiro, the anti-social co-worker at the office, gets involved. She's keen on Nakamura's' secret, and what exactly she thinks of the entire situation leads a big part of the drama of the episode. To an outside viewer, it's obvious Kitashiro hides a secret as well.
But that's not what takes the episode's' content into scary territory. Well, not entirely anyway. What really got to me about this whole situation was that, to put it bluntly, I pretty much was Kitashiro at one point in my life. The secrecy, the attitude, the jealousy, all of it. It was a level of depth that I honestly wasn't expecting, as it's not something I've often seen in media in general.
The moment that Nakamura began to see things from Kitashiro's' perspective, I felt like I instantly knew everything about Kitashiro. Someone with a niche interest who grew up seeing how unfair their treatment was compared to so many others. In the eyes of Kitashiro, Nakamura has an interest that Kitashiro would be shamed for, but yet Nakamura is popular. Nakamura is well liked by her peers. Nakamura is allowed to say and do whatever she pleases.
It's the sort of depressing trap that many of us who grow up as outcasts fall into. At one point people around you start dismissing the things you're passionate about as "dumb kid's' stuff" yet the exception seems to be that if you're popular to begin with, you're allowed to like and say whatever you want. But if you're unpopular, not only are you not allowed to have "stupid" interests or hobbies, but no one actually cares to indulge or even get to know you either. And it's hard to not build resentment at that.
So what do you do? The easy, survivalist way is to close yourself off from others as much as possible. Don't look at anyone. Don't talk to anyone. Only exist in the eyes of others as much as is needed for your own day to day necessities. It's soul crushing, and you begin to feel that even those who do genuinely try to reach out to you are only doing so out of pity or mockery, which is exactly how I think Kitashiro felt at the episode's' climax when Nakamura tries to desperately create a connection between the two. While it's not any sort of moral ideal, I absolutely do not blame Kitashiro for acting the way she does.
Don't get me wrong, there's other stuff throughout the episode that make for a nice time too, like the meta gags, the character development for Damian, and Yoshida showing a bit of her darker side with the commander bit. Heck, I felt it was very important to show just how inspiring TV heroes can actually be. But the highlight to me absolutely was Kitashiro, and I think the writers knew that too, given how the episode title does refer to her(it makes sense in context) and how her character development dominates the third act of the episode. The result being that episode 3 is my favorite so far, and I am very eager to see where things go from here.
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