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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 20 - ?5-WAY FUSION! GREAT GO-BUSTER!?

Much like last time, I mostly didn?t care about the grand debut of a new toy. Great Go-Buster has all the problems of Go-Buster Oh that I?ve grown to tolerate, but now with the added flaws of being far too bulky to actually move its limbs effectively. Regardless of your thoughts on the suit's appearance, I think we can all agree that making a suit more cumbersome on the performer wearing it is probably a negative.

The DX version is so clustery that it doesn't even look humanoid. Certainly not the kind of clusterfudge that I'd want to display on my mantlepiece. Oh well, since it's so complicated that it has to be performed manually in the hangar, at least we won't have to look at it too often. This time the Oh part is removed from the name, despite Gobuster Oh being the base of the Gattai.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 21 - ?FAREWELL, BLUE BUSTER!?

And it?s amazing. There?s a general emotional through-line in here about how much Ryuji means to the team ? Commander tries super hard at the end to make this all seem like a testament to Ryuji?s value to his friends and co-workers ? but it?s barely applicable. This is a story where Gorisaki mistakenly thinks Ryuji?s going to die, so the entire staff (sans Commander) makes Ryuji think he?s too old to be a Go-Buster -slash- everyone hates him and thinks he?s holding the team back and can be easily replaced by the first black-haired guy within Hiromu?s reach. It?s hilariously cruel to Ryuji, in the name of everyone caring so goddamn much about Ryuji that they're desperate to save his life, but it eventually gives him a gigantic series of heroic victories to make it clear that Ryuji is more than just Old Man Buster. We are not in a story where Ryuji overcomes anything, really; the joke is that Ryuji?s selfless dedication to the team this time out is hysterically unnecessary and satirical in its application. This episode is a parody of episodes where heroes die, right down to its definitive statement of a title.

They basically tried to send Ryuji to NASA: An in-joke among Showa Sentai fans when a main character is suddenly required somewhere else (like NASA) or killed, prompting a new character to replace that Ranger. Gobusters takes some inspiration from Showa Sentai, like Goranger's agent theme. Morishita didn't receive the Gobuster program though, so Ryuji is the only one who can become Bluebuster. As a Kobayashi show, it's also expected that somebody will have a crippling illness or injury, after Kitaoka, Yuto and Date, so it's pretty amusing in a meta way that she subverts her own serious dramatic trope for comedic effect instead.