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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

The goofiness, I thought, was used to emphasize how hopeless Jin's situation is -- his over-the-top exuberance masks deep pain. There's a lot of sadness in Jin and his story, and I thought it was really nicely handled in this episode. Hiromu and Jin's last fight left a bit of an impact.

Indeed, he just wants to hide his desperation.

I found that Jin and J made a great duo, because even if they followed the classic comedic duo routine they played with it, Jin was the one who was always trying to make things funnier yet he was the smart one, his jokes simply a way to hide his troubles, on the other hand J is always serious, everything he says he means it in a perfectly straight way, it's just that he is well dumb, and everything he says ends up being a riot.

So yeah, they may be embracing the usual sentai goofiness but even so they are playing with expectations, and isn't that the whole point of Go-Busters? It's not about rejecting previous sentai standards, it's about reinventing them.

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Originally Posted by Locke

I get that we're told this, but Jin also remarks himself on how poorly integrated into the show he is, and pointing this out doesn't make it any less true. It lacks proper build up, it doesn't feel directly entwined in the narrative and honestly despite some sweet battles, it hasn't really felt like Gobus really knows what it plans to do for at least the last fifteen episodes. This is a shame as it was such a tight, focused and enjoyable series for the first ten or fifteen or so episodes. But then that seems to be the case with a lot of sentai.

It does give that impression, but the show does know where it's headed even if it desn't show inmediately.