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Originally Posted by Name

This is THE episode everyone remembers from Flamenco. We went from a common every day hero with relatively normal struggles to a supernatural god damn toku monster straight out of Kamen Rider just out of nowhere.

If not for the episode, I doubt anybody would have even HEARD about this show. There is a not small group of viewers who completely dropped the show when this hit, some would pick it back up and drop it again every few episodes because they couldn't cope, and others flocked to forums in confusion believing it was just a fever dream they had.

To this day I still have not seen anything quite like Samurai Flamenco and it's because of this episode... And I adore it for it.

What makes the whole thing better is that as crazy and sudden as the entire sequence is, it not only still fits the themes of the show, but was outright foreshadowed in episode 2. It's very clear that the show had a roadmap, and it knew that if it wanted to be a postmodern look at superhero shows, then one of the best ways to do that would be to become one.