[Fish Sandwich]

Ninninger had a recap episode right before the final stretch too. I can't remember other shows off the top of my head but I'm pretty sure this is a fairly normal thing for Sentai. It's likely to help save some budget up for the big climactic endgame stuff.

And as recap episodes go, this was great. Mario has always been a delight (especially how his wackiness never conflicts with his ability to actually get *serious*), so it was cool to see him get the credit he deserves. Ranger Key when, Bandai?

Maybe part of the reason I'm so satisfied with this episode is because seeing all those old clips actually reminded me how much I really have enjoyed Zyuohger. It was this kind of feeling of like "oh, I remember that! That was a great episode!" throughout that made the whole thing surprisingly enjoyable.

Zyuohger's been really knocking it out of the park with this last stretch so far and I think this episode is no exception. There's even all sorts of Plot progression stuff going on in it. On that note, I'm really kind of amazed how much payoff we've been getting on all these seemingly innocuous things lately. The show is even teasing that's Bard's changer being a different color actually means something beyond Bandai getting to pretend it's a different toy. That's nuts. Either Zyuohger has deceptively great long-term planning, or they're extremely good at making stuff up as they go along. Either scenario is pretty impressive.