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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 45 - “HAPPY NEW YEAR - TINY BUT DEADLY, AGAIN”

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But it isn’t really about much, beyond the gags.

Hard to say too much when I'm only skimming back through the odd episode here or there for this thread, but having poked around this one, I feel like it's more that it doesn't have a singular specific point to make, or message, or whatever you'd call it, which ~maybe~ isn't quite the same thing as the episode not being about anything beyond the raw comedic value?

There's a particular level of familial intimacy to this one, with the whole thing predicated on the characters being worried about potential additions to that family, and even Yoko and Hiromu explicitly introducing themselves as Ryuuji's younger siblings to his date, and all of that is about the laughs, first and foremost, for sure, but... like, I think the true value of the episode is that it gets everyone out of the house for a bit, so to speak?

The last time we had a gap in the stakes, everyone had to go shill Gavan for two weeks and then the plot started right back up before we could explore that idea too much, but here, Shimoyama gets to give us one nice episode where everyone can get out of their uniforms and mostly goof around as flawed people instead of fighting as trained professionals.

It's an episode that's worth it anyway, because, again, it IS pretty dang funny, but I feel like in a more amorphous sense than usual, it's probably adding a lot to the series as a whole. Either way though, definitely not a bad note for Shimoyama to leave on as the last episode of the show from the sub-writers. Between this and Pink Buster, I actually really like that both of them got to use their final Go-Busters scripts to focus on just playing around and stretching the style of the show in their own way.