[Fish Sandwich]

Hopefully this one was good enough for everyone?

I mean, I'm not even sure what there'd be to complain about, this episode was really strong. Definitely the best one yet. That being said:

- Oh man, I mean, Earth is a cool place and all, and it's great that you guys wanna save it, on account of I'm from there, but can you maybe... just kinda... not save it right now? Hopefully they'll at least make occasional trips elsewhere. It's not really a complaint with the episode itself but when they were like "Also this planet has a ton of MotW on it!" it sort of crushed my heart.

- Also the Kyulette. On the upside, it means tighter focus for the stories, on the downside, much like the whole "they're a Space Sentai that hangs out on Earth" thing, this is exactly the sort of thing I was worried would happen before the series aired, especially once we found out there's five humans (i.e. proper actors) and four dudes in suits for the members. At least the suit guys are treated as equals, I guess. And presumably they'll all get together for all the bigger scenes. Like next week. I'm a lot less bummed about this than them staying on Earth, basically.

On to the episode proper though, and it's all good. The focus on Raptor here was really strong, and Kyuranger is once again being very smart about its writing by both using Lucky very properly, showing his heroic side and having him only say よっしゃラッキー！ a few times, AND topping it all off (does that count as a food pun?) by fleshing out Spada fairly nicely, all without taking the attention away from Raptor herself. Really well done stuff.

As for next week, I'm slightly bummed they're not playing out Stinger's whole bit a little longer but I also kinda knew in the back of my head it wasn't going to last, so I'm not too bothered.

EDIT: Oh, also I forgot to point out that Raptor did the narration for both last week's preview and the intro this week, further taking Lucky out of the spotlight. That was actually one of the coolest things about this episode to me.