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Originally Posted by Sunred

Hiromu at the time was also something I felt the creative staff were trying to be different so to speak. Aside from Captain Marvelous from Gokaiger, Takeru from Shinkenger, and Satoru from Boukenger, a good majority of the 2000s red rangers were upbeat or loud in the name of hotbloodedness or nekketsu, the Japanese term, for a lack of better words. While I have no qualms about red rangers who fall under that category, it was refreshing to see a red ranger like Hiromu for a change. Off topic, this talk of Hiromu has me craving fried chicken.

I think it's more of a Kobayashi thing. Tatsuya, Takeru and Hiromu are a little more cool-tempered than your average "Screaming Red" type. Feels like her Riders Shinji, Momotaros and Eiji are more like typical Red Rangers than her actual Red Rangers. Even among the examples you mentioned, Marvelous switches to nekketsu whenever he's hungry and Akashi often gets fired up about the thrill of the adventure.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 9 - ?USADA RESCUE OPERATION!?

Luckily, the execution is layered and ridiculous, and that makes up for thinness of the emotional conflict. Hinging this story on No Metaroids means we get a more tense story where Enter is fully featured, and there isn?t a goofy robot suit to muddy the stakes. It?s just the Go-Busters trying to outwit a kidnapper, and that turns out to be plenty. (I could not have cared less about the destruction of the two random Alpha Megazords at the end, and I think the show felt the same.) Yoko gets to prove her chops by helping devise a multi-staged ploy to trick Enter, which is exactly the sort of intricate plotting that makes me care about these fast-paced superhero narratives. Bonus points ? it includes Morishita and Glasses Lady as duplicate Busters and solo work for Nick and Gorisaki, which is such a crucial part of this Every Go-Buster Matters Even The Annoying Rabbit Dad story, and I love it. This whole thing is half a complete goof, and half a sweet story of the bond between an overbearing parent and a bratty teen. It?s great. It?s dumb, and it?s great.

The Usada Heist seems too dumb to work at first but then it actually becomes impressive how it depends on Enter being perceptive enough to see through all the obvious stunt doubles and chain of amateur errors until eventually he's left watching with the viewer in disbelief at their incompetence, while the actual trick is happening right under his nose. Shows that overestimating your enemy can be just as dangerous as underestimating them. It's the kind of ridiculous heist that only someone as dense as Yoko can pull off.

As someone who hated homework and would procrastinate doing it until the last moment, I can relate to the conflict between Yoko and Usada. Their relationship is the most turbulent one but I have to disagree about it being less complex than the others. I think it's necessary to show that even though child and parent can fight sometimes, they still care about each other. Rather, if they didn't care, they wouldn't fight at all, which is why it feels right to Nakamura (glasses lady) at the end. This plot just wouldn't work the same with Hiromu and Nick or Ryuji and Gorisaki, as they're either too chill or too introverted to fight as hard as Yoko and Usada do.