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Kaiketsu Zubat Episode 3
Buddy the way to seduce a lady is by being sweet, cunning, caring, basically being Don Juan. Blowing smoke in her face is not going to capture her in your claw game of love.

I like Killer Joe. I think it's his fancy/aristocratic attitude which does it for me.

These bits never get old I kinda find it ironic that the two shows I'm focusing on reviewing right now both have main protagonists who cocky sumsofbitches. Of course Hayakawa has nothing on Tendou in that department though

Shizuka's plight actually makes a lot of sense compared to the last one. While it is common for gangs to try and muscle in an somebody's business, especially family run ones, it seemed a little bit odd. Though once again, not completely out of place especially with the wild west theme we have going on. But this woman's plight makes more sense story wise to me, as it means we get to possibly see some development/progression with Hayakawa since Asuka was killed in a similar fashion. Her brother poked his nose around too much and got himself killed. Now that she's doing the same thing, she's next on the extinction list. Hayakawa can easily relate to that, and hopefully this episode will provide some development for him.

Holy gold rush Batman! This guy is covered in gold. Gold teeth, gold rings, golden hair (okay not actual golden hair but golden colored hair), he's just all gold. Well except for his voice. It is certainly not a voice of gold, and I'm willing to be he doesn't have a heart of gold either considering he just caned a kid.

Man Hayakawa has his plate full this episode. He has to protect a girl, a family, and a golden statue. But if anybody can juggle that much crime fighting, I'm sure it's Hayakawa who can.

You got it from Hong Kong? How much you guys want to be it's fake?

When the hell did Osamu and Midori show up? And how the hell did Osamu get a job? He's a kid, kids aren't allowed to work.

Let me guess, Shizuka's a spy isn't she?

Holy shit did they beat up Ichiro good. The same goes for his papi but damn, Ichiro got it. Also Hayakawa look at what you pulled out and it's safe to say you know who the assailant was. If you can't figure that out, well then maybe detective work is not suited for you.

Why the hell are all of the generals wearing a mask over one side of their face? I don't freaking get it. Oh and one more thing, CALLED IT!

Uhhh Hayakawa that's a pretty stupid reason. You wanted to see if she could kill in cold blood. I repeat, you wanted to see if she could kill in cold blood. Well guess what, she nearly did. If you knew she was the spy you should have called her out on it immediately and imprisoned her ass. Not keep playing along with the charade until somebody gets hurt. It isn't like you were doing undercover work or anything, you were a bodyguard. So the minute you figured it out, you should have detained her, not let her walk around freely. You're suppose to be the smart guy, not the one who allowed somebody to hurt a kid!

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't instantly kill you. It would probably paralyze you but I don't think it would kill you. But hey, I guess somebody had to die in this episode and the producers didn't have the balls to make it be the kid. Plus this way they got to kill off a bad guy/anti-hero/I don't know what. So I suppose it all works out, even if it's medically incorrect.

Woah how the hell did he know where Killer Joe hanged out at?

Jump in anytime guys.

Well it wasn't him. I guess I was wrong. But surely anybody could why somebody would suspect him. Shizuka got killed by a knife that was thrown at her, Killer Joe is a master at using knives. It's easy enough to assume he'd be her killed. But alast he is not, and I am without one of my favorite characters from this show. Poor poor Joe.

That would be the most bitching car ever in tokusatsu my dear Gold Mask.

Let's see murder, assault, murder, assault, theft, and now bribery. Yeah this guy is going away for a loooooooooooooooong time. Well, that is unless Hayakawa kills him. Though it is pretty funny seeing him run about and offer Haykawa those random gold things.

That was...a very weird and slightly bud cut to the next location. They really couldn't have shown Golden Mask running away? Just cutting straight to Hayakawa coming in like a pirate after they go through the door is just bad editing in my opinion.

You know I've been forgetting to mention it, but the Zubat Attack is pretty lame. He's just sitting on him after falling. There's nothing great and final about that attack. Well it is if you're Yokozuna, but if you aren't then it's not that great. Definitely one of the lamest final attacks I've ever seen.

You also forgot to mention that he is guilty of theft. Where is Hayakawa getting these business cards anyways?

Well episode three is done and I have to say that it didn't really impress me that much.

The story element was once again pretty much not there. Well let me rephrase that, it was there but not really all that great. I'll give the show credit for tying up both the golden angel and Shizuka stories together in a fairly nice way. However it's pretty predictable once Ichiro and his dad are attacked what's going on. And like the other two, nothing really is added to the main plot. I's a real shame because when this episode started I thought it would be great. Hayakawa having to deal with a case similar to his own. It would have been great and allowed development for him. Unfortunately we did not get that, and instead got a pretty lackluster episode.

The characters like the last two didn't really grow. Hayakawa is still Hayakawa. Nothing has changed about his character at all which is a shame once again because of the potential this episode had. I'm really shocked though at how stupid he acted this episode with the whole spy part. Seriously man, you're just retarded for not acting out on it sooner. Other then him, the other characters weren't really all that impressive.

Surprisingly while I've praised the action all throughout the last two episodes, I found it slightly boring here. The civilian fights were nice, but the fight as Zubat was just plain boring. And as I mentioned, the finishing attack is utterly lame. So on the upside we had great civilian fights as per usual, but got a pretty boring suit fight, which should be the most exciting fight of the episode. Unfortunately it isn't.

This episode really didn't do it for me, and I'm starting to really see the traditional Showa era type of stuff I don't like that much: episodes with a story set into it which isn't that important, a main character who hasn't had any development, and side characters which don't really mean anything that important. Though it is strange considering this is my favorite Showa toku show that isn't Kamen Rider or Sentai so far. But even though I consider it my favorite, it doesn't mean that I can't spot the flaws. Hopefully the show proves me wrong and improves on some of these things and makes the ride even more enjoyable then it is so far.