[Fish Sandwich]

You know, it'd be hilarious enough for Stacey to randomly wake up in a place like this, but it's the implications of the music video existing in-universe that really take the scene to the next level. Apparently God has some very particular hobbies! (I wonder if there's a Karaoketopia...?)

And strangely enough, "potentially using Stacey to moonlight as a (successful?) singer" is legitimately one of the most concrete pieces of information we have on this guy right now! This plotline really is totally up in the air at the moment. Zenkaiger's just such an insane series, this could be leading to anything from a straightforward big bad to trounce in the finale, all the way to the team having to finally take down Saburou Hatte once and for all, thus restoring Shoutarou Ishinomori to his rightful place as the progenitor of all the Sentai worlds. It's like that "Special Thanks" in the opening would turn out to have been foreshadowing this entire time? ...I'm totally joking about all this, by the way. I don't really want to see that actually be the plot at all, because that doesn't really sound like Zenkaiger to me, but then, on the same token, if Zenkaiger *did* decide to do that, I have no doubt it could pull it off in a way that would convince me it's completely brilliant.

What was I talking about again? Not Magine? Well, I'd better fix that right away then!

So yeah, this isn't an episode that's particularly dead-set on moving the Plot along, as is often the case with Zenkaiger, and while I get the feeling this may finally be the for-real last "standard" episode of the series, even if it isn't, I still don't ever, ever see myself getting tired of episodes like this. I mean, the show's only on the air for another month before we all get thrown into the Inoue Zone! I'm gonna savor every last bit of Zenkaiger while I still can! Especially when those episodes are placing such a heavy focus on Magine. I guess it's nowhere near as surprising to see her saying "Checkmate" as it was to hear that "Ready~ Go!" back in the sixth episode, but that doesn't mean I'm any less happy to see her lending the team some courage when it counts. And who even needs that Kyuranger Gear when she can just convince everyone that their bad fortune is secretly good fortune? Talk about lucky! Only the best Zenkaiger could be doing this many past teams so proud in just one episode.

Not that the Zenkaigers as a whole aren't doing themselves proud by managing to defeat yet another tough opponent with nothing but a positive can-do attitude and lots of fumbling around like buffoons. What an absolutely beautiful sequence. Chaotically beautiful, mind you, but then, that's Zenkaiger. Always getting the job done, no matter how absurdly unorthodox the process ends up being.