[Nokination]

'Donbrothers was crazy good this year.' could basically encapsulate my thoughts on this show as a whole. While many people might have issues with the show (Murasame barely having anything to do in the last 10 episodes before randomly showing up at the end, Donbros Kaito never being explained, and not really having main villain), I just can't bring myself to care all too much about these issues. I don't have some long thesis I've written about why the show works for me, it just feels nice to watch, and all of the cast are great.

But onto the actual episode this thread is for, the last episode was what I was always most worried about for this show, by last episode, I could safely say that I had really enjoyed Donbrothers so far, but if the finale was bad, I wasn't sure what my thoughts would be on the show after it. But, Inoue delivered an actually good and enjoyable finale; doing a plot with the main character losing their memory/having amnesia can sometimes go badly in stories, but here, it actually worked for me.

It's hard for me to fully describe my thoughts on this episode, but seeing all of the flashbacks from the past 49 weeks just made me feel nostalgic, even though it hasn't even been a year since the series started. And the role call and how it tied into the plot was just amazing, nothing I could say would be able to do my feelings on the episode justice, while Inoue has a reputation among Toku fans for having very controversial and decisive series no matter what you think of them, Donbrothers is a show that just works great, and I hope King-Ohger maintains the same level of quality.