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Episode 35: Akebono Stage is Targeted

The mayor's' son, Hiroshi, is back, and here to help the police put on a show!

So of course some love triangle elements show up, but they're actually surprisingly downplayed.

The episode is moreso about Hiroshi and Kenji learning to see eye to eye, all while the Jamanga raid the center that the stage show is taking place in. All while Kenji is unable to transform due to his hilariously weaksauce weakness.

It makes for a surprising amount of fun, actually, as it leads to a bunch of shots and sequences that one doesn't typically see in Toku, and proves that Memory of Heroez was onto something by having half its stages be set inside of office buildings. They can be surprisingly fun!

But of course, that's not all that the episode has to offer, as it right away teases us with the latest scheme from Baron Bloody: Reanimating the corpse of Jack Moon and turning it into Mechni-Moon. His time in the episode is short, and very smartly saved for the climax, but it does make quite the impression, as I legit got upset that Jack Moon had been treated this way. And that's a good thing!

That said, the episode ends on the note that Rin will need to choose between Hiroshi and Kenji eventually, and uh, maybe I'm dense, but was she shipping the two at the end there? Cause I honestly have no idea what else she could mean given her gesture. Maybe seeing both of them as friends...?

Anyway, it's another fun episode with a pinch of darkness thrown in. A darkness that I imagine will fully come to fruition in the next episode.