[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I think I've decided I am going to take this excuse to rewatch the show, so hopefully I can get caught up soon and maybe offer some more in-depth thoughts about the episodes so far

I don't think I quite managed "soon", but regardless, I'm really glad you gave me this excuse to go back through Tokusatsu GaGaGa! I kinda wish I had more to kick in when it comes to specific thoughts on episodes, but I sorta missed the boat already and if I try to do it all at once, it's like... man, where do I even start? Or no, scratch that, it's more like when is that going to end?

I'm still not really back in a groove where I can just pump out a novel's worth of thoughts on stuff again, but rest assured that if I was, there's scarcely a moment that goes by in this show I wouldn't have something to say about. A lot of times that might just be about how funny it is, but when it's not, it'll probably be about how much this series resonated with me thanks to its deep understanding of how much a series or whatever else can resonate with me or anybody else.

If I was going to limit myself to one specific thing to talk about here, I suppose I might choose the way the final episode beautifully contrasts Kano watching Emerjason's finale across three different points in time, and how it's treated like a reunion with an old friend and how Kano's own connection with the show mirrors the drama in it and all that, because that's an extremely well done climactic scene for the finale. So yeah, I might choose that, but there's just as much reason to pick any of the other moments in this show that effortlessly nail all sorts of subtle nuances to bring forth a larger more obvious point in an extremely graceful fashion, because Tokusatsu GaGaGa is full of that sort of thing. Like, man, just in the episode before that, where you get Mr Yakuza's deep childhood connection to Love Cute? And just from those couple of lines of dialogue from some episode he's watching you can get that it was offering a timid kid a relatable vision of courage that helped him push forward in a way whatever macho hero a young boy was "supposed" to look up to couldn't have? It's too good, man. This show is too good.

So that's two specific things I guess, and I'll leave it at that for now, and just reiterate how happy I am both to see you enjoying this show, DreamSword, and how happy I am I finally went back through it for the first time in a good couple years.