SaGoZou was my second favorite combo. My absolute favorite is ShaUTa.

So episode 21 of OOO was OOOs turn at doing a 'is it possible that the monsters of this season can be good?' episode. Which I guess it already answered since Ankh, albeit PAINFULLY SLOWLY, is showing signs of heroism as he goes.

To be fair I kinda like OOOs take better, as it was kinda awesome and badass to have your own hideous grasshopper Yummy to take down assholes for you. I'd love to unleash one of those amongst a bunch of haters on the internet :lol

The scenes with Happy Birthday are always amazing, they are just so bizarre, with the guys overacting I can never tell what place he is in so I never know what the hell is coming next. It's amazing that in a show about monsters made of medals, an old man, his scientist and his secretary are the weirdest things in the show.

Gotou has really grown on me as well, it took a while to get there but between him, Eiji and Date OOO has got some great characters.

Fourze 26, maybe it's just residual bitterness but this episode is just ew. My time in secondary school were some of the worst years of my life, at that awkward age between child and adult, unable to do the things I wanna do and able to only do the stuff I didn't. Plus I was the short fat goth kid who liked dying his hair and wasn't actually scared of the teachers, so the thugs hated me. So the last thing I wanted from Fourze was a soppy prom episode complete with an extremely tacky and artificial JPop song.

About the only thing I liked in this episode was Shun, who was just such a fucking bro in this episode. They really constructed his emotions well and although the whole conflict with Miu falling in love with Gen, and Shun having to learn to accept that may feel innocuous, even romance isn't really allowed in American adaptations so it was pretty refreshing.

Really my only real complaints with all this is how easily it was all resolved, this would have been the perfect note to have them leave the show and maybe come back towards the end, but literally next scene, 'oh yeah our colleges are nearby so we'll continue as we were just not in uniform'. Well, this arc was completely pointless then. Do I even wanna ask how they get on the school campus?

His return to the Dizer was pretty great, I just wish Ryusei hadn't basically pushed him out of the show. I adore Meteor, I really do, but I'm realising now how little time we've actually spent with the Rider club outside of fights despite giving them each a proper introduction arc. Just as Shun was introduced and earned his place, Meteor turned up and Shun and the Dizer were no longer needed. Meteor basically removes the purpose for all other characters as well, as the Dizer was able to be used by everyone it gave each of the characters a chance to shine and do something awesome but Meteor has taken that from everyone.

That's actually one of the more prominent issues with Fourze. Outside of Gen, Ryuusei, and Kengo, the rest of the KRC are really just...There.
We still get good bits with them all, and some get a few character arcs post introduction (Like JK), but for the most part, outside of the brief occasions of Shun in the Power Dizer, none of them really do much (Miu feels especially useless).

I maintain Shun doesn't need arcs to be awesome. His brief comic moments are enough for me :lol

Miu is just there to accentuate Shun's greatness and be hot :D

It just makes me wonder why they bothered making the main cast so huge if they weren't going to do anything with them. Gen, Kengo, JK and Shun had a purpose but really Ryusei could replace and does replace Kengo to some extent and Shun basically completely.

Other characters like Miu and Yuuki were always useless and Tomoko isn't much better but maybe leave her in since she has a sorta purpose and would keep the team from being a sausagefest.

I'm glad we have Meteor in the show but I can't help but wish he came in the final third of the show, rather than in the first third, so the huge cast gets something to do.

Anyway, what am I watching? Episode 22 of OOO. And it was kinda meh. For a show that has so far managed to avoid painting things down the middle and being completely back and white, this was a really by the numbers resolution to this kind of story. Plus everything I hated about Ankh was magnified in this episode.

Still though, OOO has become really badass lately and all the action was awesome because of it. I guess it helps that all of Ankh's medals are awesome, except maybe the helmet one which if I remember correctly has no special powers at all. TaJaDor ftw!

If you don't mind can you explain this joke to me? I'm not offended but the meaning's lost on me.

You said it Split Lip. Gates suck and when this is all over I will be so glad.

You want me to explain an entire critique of the genre and the joke it has become?

I don't mean to be pedantic, but toku isn't a genre. It's a medium.

I know the whole Toku business is a big debate about what it actually means blahblah but I use it specifically to mean Japanese superhero shows. I may as well make a specific use, since it has no defined one.

The Taka helmet has a special power. It enhances Eiji's vision, like lets him see invisible stuff and whatnot. It only gets used a handful of times, but it's there.