[Fish Sandwich]

Wow, this was actually pretty amazing. Best episode of the show so far, even. I mean, it has everything! Including but not limited to:

- Backstory! The flashbacks with Captain Dumplings (I think I'm just gonna keep rolling with that name because it amuses me) did a great job building him up, giving a tragic element to him and explaining some of his behavior.

- Effects! That prop for Ryu Voyager is nice. Not quite Dairanger levels of rad, but way closer than I'd expect to get nowadays. Which is to say I wouldn't have been surprised if it was just CG.

- Yossha Lucky~! He continues to not hog the screentime, and instead keeps doing his thing of talking up the other characters. Though one could argue it's rather lucky he always ends up being right about whatever thing he's running his mouth about this week.

- Deus ex machina! Okay, maybe that one's not exactly a good thing, but I'll let it slide. The Kyutamas are magic anyway, so sure, they're also actual Dragonballs. Why not?

- Ryu Commander's sweet coat! 'Nuff said!

- The joke I was REALLY hoping wouldn't slip by the writers! I loved loved loved seeing the crack about rebranding, with the new logo and everything. What I loved even more was Lucky's line about "being even better than the legend". It reminds me a lot of how Gekiranger warmed me up to the idea of adding a fourth side to its Triangle when they got their purple guy. Taking the obvious idea of treating him as a distinct "extra" member, and then subverting that by having the other guys go "no dude, you're one of us. It's as simple as that". That's awesome and really elevated this episode for me.

- Insert songs! There was a line in there I couldn't make out because part of it got covered by ~lasers~, but it went something like "one plus nine may be ten, but *somethingsomething* Kyuranger", so clearly somebody was having a lot of fun writing the lyrics.