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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 25 - “UNRAVEL THE AVATARS’ SECRETS!”

This is another episode where, more than anything I could say off the top of my head about the story, it's actually just some particular visuals that are lodged in my head for whatever reasons. One is the big Blue Buster/Escape fight, for taking place in another really unusual location and working that into the fight itself well.

The other is the fight scene at the start, for the exact opposite reason that it takes place in a *very* usual location for Rider and Sentai, "under that one bridge." I mostly think of it as the place Kamen Rider Bravo made his debut in Gaim. What makes Go-Busters' use of it particularly amusing though is the idea that the team have a special one of those secret hatches specifically for quickly getting to under this bridge, which makes me imagine that every common filming location Toei uses for fight scenes has a secret Go-Busters hatch somewhere around the place, as if the people who set up that network in-universe knew the kind of show they were in.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 26 - “TINY BUT DEADLY! THE COMMAND CENTER’S S.O.S.!”

This one is definitely a standout. First of all, it has a rare appearance from Go-Buster Ace Stag Custom, which is low-key probably my favorite mecha combination in the show? I think it only makes like one more appearance somewhere down the line, which is admittedly probably the right amount of appearances for what it is, but still, it means I've gotta savor every frame of screen-time it got.

Even without that bonus, however, I'd be savoring this episode anyway. In retrospect -- and even though I'm saying this without having rewatched it in a good while -- it's probably like a proto-Ninninger episode in a lot of ways? What made me fall in love with that show was how Shimoyama could just bust out these amazing scripts that were uproariously silly throughout, even by Sentai standards, yet also frequently quite clever, and with thoughtful character writing. The out-there concept of a tiny eraser monster still somehow being a genuine threat that also makes natural room to focus a ton on characters who otherwise don't lend themselves to the spotlight definitely hits all three of those bullet points quite handily.