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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

stares into the middle distance and sighs wistfully.

*Bonk*, go to Horny Yodenheim.

Anyway, Kiramager continues to be pretty good, going as far as excellent as we reach the mid 20's.

EP 23 - The Gang Entertain Mabusheen's Mum
Nice to see a healthy family relatonship for once in Sentai, and honestly nice to have 'a' family relationship visited at all. It would have been easy to keep her the typical dead idealised mum, but to center what seems like a comedy episode around her, only to end with her being there for her daughter after a song-and-dance number, surprisingly heartwarming. A good one!

EP 24 - The Gang Start a Band
I'm a sucker for stories about the power of music. How it brings us together, how we express ourselves with it, or in this case, how we can use it to get through a bad time. This one hits the mark perfectly for me. 10/10

Ep 25/26 - The Gang hit their mid-season power-up
What can I say about this one that others haven't said better? Obviously, the big Yodonna twist doesn't really work after she became the breakout star of the show, and when a suspicious alien shows up it's kinda obvious what's happening, but it's still good, even if I hope they build on Tametomo and her's bond that gets set here - it's an odd thing to picture her initial episode through to just drop. Episode 26, which basically looks at the perennial Sentai trope of 'Just break your limits! Go all out! Be stronger!" and decides that the message needs a little bit of nuance, is great. The stakes are high, the bow metaphor with King Josph DiamondStar is such an easy way to express the premise so a child can understand it, and the Go Kiramagers are a nice upgrade, always a fan of when it's a team power-up.

Ep 27 - The Gang star in a Gekiranger tribute
So I enjoyed this one. While putting a solid minute of Geki footage may have been on the nose, the plot about Yodonna wanting to test each of the Kiramagers to their limit works well, solid stuff about relying on friends, which is obviously paralleled by SCRTCH's support of the Gekis back in the day. Not having any of the main Gekis show up is a good choice, since otherwise they might easily overshadow the plot as written, and the focus here isn't on the legacy of the past or anything, it's about being able to push yourself because you'll always have your team to fall back on. I do have to ask - why Geki though? Is it the same writer? Same director? The actors were free and they thought 'why not'?