[Locke]

Gobus 28.

So the music continues to change. If anything though I haven't found any drastic changes to individual aspects of the show - like someone said Hiromu feels like a totally different character - he does? I haven't noticed that, I've just noticed that Go-Busters has gotten a whole lot sillier and a lot less focused. Honestly, I've not particularly enjoyed this show at all since I've come back to it. The action and production values have been solid but it feels much more homogenised in the most marketable (see: worst) sentai tropes.

What made the first fifteen or so episodes of Gobus enjoyable for me is how much it didn't feel like sentai. It largely avoided the goofy juvenile smash yourself over the head with a pan humour that sentai normally goes for, and every episode had strong and solid world building and character focus. Y'know, it was sentai which was actually well paced. But apparently being a GOOD SHOW is not what sentai fans want, so off we go back to the usual sentai formula of "look at the pretty colours while you dribble in your lap."

I mean take this episode centred around what would go on to be the ToQ gimmick with a monster who talks like DJ Sagura. It also provides an explanation for the chicken thing, in a move that is even sillier than the weakness in the first place, which was utterly ridiculous to begin with. Hopefully with the way this episode ended, it's going to pick up again next episode as the 20s have so far been a painful slog. But if it continues like this then...meh.