[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Thanks!

Always a pleasure.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Man, I've seen this trope so many times I didn't even realize it originated in Japan.

Speaking of which, one cliche in Japanese fiction that intrigued me when I was younger was the harisen-to-head slap. It could be a little hand-sized one or a huge-ass one that's on par with Kaori's mallet from City Hunter, it's a very unique to Japan cliche that fascinated me when I started getting more invested in anime and Japanese comedy shows.

[DreamSword]

I'm finding that, like W, my overall thoughts on these episodes tend to be shaped by how each pair of episodes work together, rather than on a one by one basis.

Zeztz slamming the Nightmare into the energy shield was a pretty sick maneuver though.

[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

But a twist that turns the exisiting context of something upside down is probably going to hit harder the more there actually *is* an existing context, so I do sorta wish the show were making it seem like we already have most of the answers we need about some of these very basic facts of the setting.

Like Visions says, whether it's good or bad luck is up in the air. I guess it would've been more appropriate if Baku had asked about the color meanings after he drew 2 Technoloms in Episode 6, considering how prominent the symbols are inside the Prison Nightmare.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

But I guess I won't really hold the show to the fire for any of that until I see where some of these things are actually going first. I kind of assume the big turning point comes at the end of the year? Although I'm also liking how frequently the bike gets screentime so far, so with this writer, I guess we'll all have to hope that whatever else goes down, nothing too bad will happen with Zero around Christmas.

At least in Zero's case, he's only piloting the body remotely, so he should be spared the fate of a certain other talking bike. I think everybody besides Baku and Nem are not safe from Christmas though.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Speaking of which, one cliche in Japanese fiction that intrigued me when I was younger was the harisen-to-head slap. It could be a little hand-sized one or a huge-ass one that's on par with Kaori's mallet from City Hunter, it's a very unique to Japan cliche that fascinated me when I started getting more invested in anime and Japanese comedy shows.

In my Shinkenger rewatch, Act 45, Kaoru used a projectile variant, which I thought was pretty cool!

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by StardustWhip

- Nagumo seems to have gone backwards in development? Like, she's still denying the dreams are relevant. And shocked that Fujimi wants help from a civilian who they've already been working with for several episodes. And she says this while standing in a lair which belongs to that civilian.

I think she was just trying to bring some rationality to the situation by making it clear that the stuff they see in dreams can't exactly be relied on for evidence and that there's only so much they can let Baku get involved as a civilian compared to what they already have him doing because Fujimi was acting like they should just take him to crime scenes/questioning.