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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 23 - ?INHERITORS OF THE WILL?

Making Jin an accidentally worried dad to Yoko is a neat twist on his mentor-y status with Hiromu and Ryuji. It?s a little patronizing to see Jin get overprotective for the one girl Buster, especially once the story really gets cooking, but it?s both understandable ? he can?t bear the thought of letting Yokaasan down by not keeping Yoko safe ? and exactly what the episode ends up being about. It?s not really a story about haunting lost loves or secret hyperspace disintegrations or ulterior motives or attraction (actually wait it is about attraction in a way), it?s a story where Jin needs to learn that the women he cares for don?t need him protecting them; the thing that he admires about these women is their strength, so he shouldn't stand in the way of that. It?s a great lesson in general, and it?s specifically great to see it in a toku show. These franchises are sometimes not great about treating the lady characters as capable and powerful!

Jin's compulsion to protect his loved ones at his own expense finally reveals his weakpoint as well, that everytime he sacrifices himself damages the integrity of the real Jin in Hyperspace. So Kobayashi found a way to play her favorite trope after all. Fortunately, Jin doesn't have to sacrifice himself this time, as Yoko protects him instead. Similar to Ryuji in Episode 5, Jin learns that Yoko isn't a 3 year-old kid anymore and he needs to treat her as an equal. Especially since Jin and J are still the new guys, so they have to conform to the way the core 3 do things if they want to be part of the team, or else they really would just be getting in the way. I like how this time Yoko takes a more active part in the moral, proving to Jin that she's just as reliable and brave as her mother, perhaps even more.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The rest of the episode, the non-Jin/Yoko stuff, it was fine. It?s a lot of goofy physical comedy that never quite grabbed me, and felt a little padded out. I like the idea of Go-Busters and Buddyroids being taken out of action in a comedic way so that Yoko and Jin can bond, but the reality got a little same-y. They fall over a lot! That?s the gag! It was fine.

Yeah, this plot device was pretty stupid. Serious decline from the typical high standard of comedy I expect from this show.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

The one I still remember to this day is Rio's and Retsu's from Gekiranger.

For me, it's Crystal Signal by Mabusheena. I think there's a lot of these that I haven't heard before though, so this is based on what I remember.