[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Coffee-tachi 33

Big episode this time. A lot of major stuff happened, but I want to start by pointing out something I just discovered a couple days ago. Ryoutarou's friend from school - the one who remembered Sakurai - is played by Hikari Mitsushima, who had a much larger role on Ultraman Max as Elly, the android girl. She's great on that show and I highly recommend watching it if you haven't. Even if the last few episodes are only available with HK subs.

Anyway, the big change this time is Kohana. I get that the show needed to replace Shiratori somehow, and this actually was a pretty clever way to do it, but I never really liked Kohana. The actress does a fine job, but she never really feels like the same character and she gets so marginalized as the Den-O franchise keeps going that I honestly never noticed when she just disappeared for good. Even know, I'm having trouble remembering if that was before or after the Chou Den-O trilogy.

The other thing to note is that this is the crazy piano guy arc. I knew it was coming up, but forgot it was these episodes. I love this dude's story, mostly for reasons that we'll see in episode 34. The actor should also look familiar if you've seen Agito or Shougeki Gouraigan.

Piano Guy is my favorite civilian character like ever. He's one of the best story of the week characters out there. And the piece they composed for his character to play? Magnificent. I generally can't stand piano music, weired right? But this piece just engages me.

As for Kohana she was around for cho Den-O albeit briefly. I think she may have only been in the first two films, possibly not in the third one at all. Either way I thought she did a fine job working with what was given to her and sort of made the role her own by the the end of it.