It's that the show used past history to tell new stories. Asumu isn't just attacked on the street, he's beaten up by the same shoplifter who threatened him before. It's all a consequence of previous storylines, and it feels like something that gets a resolution here.

She's a great mom. (And, as a taxi driver, probably an incredibly hard worker.) And, yeah, I don't know if she's going to them for advice so much as unloading all of her doubts and hopes and concerns about Asumu. She's a single mom, she's probably got no one to vent this stuff to, at least who would understand her position.

I mean, those pillows are already on the grass! They're plenty dirty!

Well, you can forbid a child, you can't really forbid an adult. Forbidding an adult means the adult has to accept someone else's control over their life and autonomy. That's something that takes agreement. For Tsutomu and training to be an Oni, it might be something he revisits in a few years, when he can.

As far as children training to fight... do you mean like martial arts? Because there's a huge difference between sparring in a competition and fighting a literal giant to the death. There are vastly different stakes!

Well, I’ve made my peace with the first half being something that’s good, just not for me a while ago. Now, it’s time for my three points in favour of the next leg.

Point 1: This video (Beware of minor character spoilers)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ra-fSBdgxMU

Taka has been described by someone on Twitter as “the Mr. Rodgers of the Toku community”, and his voice certainly carries some weight.

Point 2: This tweet from MrChangeDragon of the Ranger Crew forum (spoilers will be censored this time)

[QUOTE]4 episodes into the retool, yeah there's some obvious changes (Having Makamou fighting in the city, writing out the Black and White Hime & Doujis for the Super ones, the fact there's actual conflict now) but so far nothing that feels like a disgrace. It's kinda proto-Kabuto.

This guy is someone with a lot of sway in the fandom (he’s been in the Tokusatsu continuity before there was a widespread Tokusatsu continuity) and even at the end of the show, he was willing to say that Hibiki had displaced Kuuga as his favourite Rider show of the Heisei era (his overall favourite is Black RX)

Point 3: This quote from earlier in the thread.
Okay, my reasons for this one are a little bit of bias on my part, but I felt I needed three reasons for this post.

Oh yeah Taka! I don't wanna derailed the post about Hibiki but he's a really cool guy! And his content is something invaluable to non-asian toku fans. Because despite knowing that there a fandom on the opposite side of the world and also social media interaction is often times limited. And it's honestly refreshing hearing what Japanese people look for into toku show and how they feel about thier stuff being known outside of the world. At the same time I've seen Taka being confused over stuff from here that people have clarified. Such as knowing that Power Rangers is kind of like what happening now with Kamen Rider with a couples of seasons being released officially but otherwise having to rely on fansubs for the rest.(Though sadly for the japanese fansubs for PR isn't as worked on like Rider in the english community) And generally these interaction help's him improve his english which is great because learning a different language is very hard and I'm glad the guy has a way to continuisly practice his skills. Sorry about the tangent but I do generally think that all the stuff Taka has made has given great insight on the japanese toku fandom.

I will agree with him on one thing: there is a pair of characters that actually do get some pretty great stuff after the production change. That is, of course, Todoroki and Zanki. I don’t think it’s worth sitting through everything else, though.

hey maybe now is a good time to reiterate that spoiler tags don't show up in the notification emails i get for these threads

just saying

I believe I missed that, but I’ll keep it in mind in the future.

Thanks! I mean, nothing's been said yet that's problematic, but it's a thing that folks could consider before big stuff gets tossed out.

Maybe in the future it'd be a good idea to explicitly mention the issue with tags when you lay out your spoiler policy at the start of each thread?

It's not the most obvious thing (in fact, I'd say it's downright counterintuitive), and I'd hate to see you accidentally get spoiled on something major by somebody genuinely trying to make an effort not to just throw major plot beats or twists out there.

I'll try to remember that for next time!

And, I hope my tone didn't seem confrontational or anything? I wasn't really put out or anything, and I'm sorry if I came off as though I was. It wasn't meant to be anything more than a reminder, but I can see how the joking tone was maybe more aggressive (or insulting) than I'd intended.

I honestly don't get mad if people accidentally (either through being too excited or getting thwarted by TokuNation's emails) spoil stuff. I get that it's unintentional, and it'd be weird to get super-upset about story beats from 1 to 20 years ago being discussed.

I hope this puts things right! I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone by being flippant.

Oof, you almost found out that the final villain is Sabaki after he finds this little trinket known as the Kaixa Belt and he gets posessed by the spirit of Kusaka.