[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

I'm very late on this one

Not as late as I am! Turns out writing huge novels about Kuuga episodes really cuts in on time to talk about Kiramager!



But that's all cleared up now, which means, holy crap do I get to talk about this one. This is definitely my new favorite episode of the show. It embodies everything that makes Kiramager so amazing, which is basically just how good I always feel after watching it. This episode, it's like, wall-to-wall hilarious gags, wrapped around a solid and fulfilling little plot, based in fun characters, and with cool action to boot. It's just everything I could want out of Sentai, polished to perfection.

Arakawa totally crushed the script here. Shiguru just regained a ton of ground on the whole "I actively want him to be my favorite" thing, because the way this episode expands on the idea of him as a wannabe cool guy is wonderful. He's just like, a huge dork who needs to actively avoid any situation that makes him look bad to even get close to maintaining that image, but he constantly betrays himself anyway, and shows what a big kid he is. I loved in particular how the show is actively critical of his totally-not-a-rejection rejection, while still being hilarious about it, with all the Machines just having no sympathy for no him. The kind of dialogue Shiguru has in that flashback is the sort of thing that would be played straight a lot of the time, which I think really goes to show how thoughtful a writer Arakawa can be. And the fact that the gag at the end had the guts to not just be a quick subversion where it immediately turns out Iyo doesn't mean that kind of 付き合う, I don't even have the words to praise that enough. This show is just the absolute bomb, and I can't wait for the day when I have more of it back in my life.