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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

The goofiness, I thought, was used to emphasize how hopeless Jin's situation is -- his over-the-top exuberance masks deep pain. There's a lot of sadness in Jin and his story, and I thought it was really nicely handled in this episode. Hiromu and Jin's last fight left a bit of an impact.

I get that we're told this, but Jin also remarks himself on how poorly integrated into the show he is, and pointing this out doesn't make it any less true. It lacks proper build up, it doesn't feel directly entwined in the narrative and honestly despite some sweet battles, it hasn't really felt like Gobus really knows what it plans to do for at least the last fifteen episodes. This is a shame as it was such a tight, focused and enjoyable series for the first ten or fifteen or so episodes. But then that seems to be the case with a lot of sentai.