[DreamSword]

Data 4: Attack of the Hyper Zoanoid - Team 5

This episode was so stupid.

It's an episode that's entirely fueled by the lead character being incredibly dense, and a climax that doesn't amount to much.

And I'm not talking about Sho here, but rather Tetsuro. I've grown to really dislike this character, because he barely even qualifies as one. Rather, he's just a walking method to make the plot move forward.

Now you might be thinking "But DS, don't you like it when it's the characters who push the plot forward?" And the answer to that is, yes. But the way it's done in this episode is incredibly forced and at the detriment of the character who's actually supposed to be our lead.

Because here's the thing. Tetsuro's' involvement robs Sho of any and all agency, and Tetsuro's' own deductions about the plot not only come right out of nowhere(he makes a ton of baseless assumptions about Chronos), but also lack any and all forethought to the point of idiocy. It made it very heard to not just roll my eyes at the entire episode.

For example. Tetsuro and Sho both acknowledge that Chronos kills anyone who even comes close to discovering anything about the Zoanoids or Guyver. So Tetsuro's' master plan is to... tell a friend of his and try to spread the word farther. Somehow it never dawns on Tetsuro that doing so just paints alot more people as targets, and Sho claims he figured such a thing would happen, meaning he lost all of his backbone and let innocent people die.

It made me immediately not give the slightest care about the climax, inwhich Sho has to fend off a raid on the school by the Hyper Zoanoids. Especially since Guyver III comes to the rescue anyway, thus sort of invalidating any involvement Sho even had. The shining star of the original movie is now taking a backseat to the side characters, and as someone who grew to rather like Sho, I am not at all okay with that. It makes everything alot more boring and tiring, especially after it seemed like the writers had learned better with the previous episode.

So, yeah. A total flop on basically all fronts. Wasn't pleased with this one.