[Kiwami]

Episode 09 of Super-1... damn, what a ride!

So the setup promises us a look inside Dogma's monster production facility. That's kinda cool, seeing how a monster is made. It starts with a Dogma Fighter stealing a truck full of crabs, and apparently, that happened all over the place. Unlike Kamen Rider Black's "fish-stealing" episode where a monster was just really hungry, they need all those crabs to make one monster.

So they sort out all the bad parts until they have perfect pincers, perfect shells etc. (which made me a bit hungry, to be honest) and then they enlargen the parts chosen and flick them together with machinery and weapons. So that's how it works? Well, not exclusively I guess since we had humans volunteer to become Dogma monsters before.

Anyways, the crab-monster Ganigani is born and the proud evil doctor wants to show his monster off, so they have some tests going on. The doctor lets us know that at the end of the tests the monster will get its "obedience capsule" installed so it can receive commands. At the end, huh? Whatever could possibly go wrong here?

And that's exactly what happens, one of Terror Macrow's Imperial guards (yes, they are called that) flips a switch by accident and some bonding stuff happens which finishes the monster but it has no obedience capsule yet so it escapes.

So now you expect the monster to run berserk and use those scary pincers of his to tear people apart like it did in the demonstration tests? That's where you'd be wrong and that's why this episode is awesome:



OMG

That hit me by surprise, I wasn't ready for that shit

So yeah, the monster just goes to town and spooks a few people while it's at it, leading to Kazuya and the gang to find it. Dogma is also after it to get that capsule installed which eventually happens, after that Ganigani gets his assignment to steal some sort of crystal Dogma needs for a weapon.

Super-1 beats Ganigani, the end. Very fun episode I must say, solely for the moments where the monster dicks around.

I also like the rising tension between General Magaal and the Imperial guards, it's fun seeing them bickering at each other.

The only missed opportunity is not having any conflict on Kazuya's side if he should destroy the monster or save it. But I guess since it doesn't seem to have any sentience beyond that of a regular crab it wouldn't work out like it did with the Mole Beastman or the Whale Mutant.

Also, this is probably my favorite caption from the entire episode, you should all save that one, it seems the uses to describe certain moments in Toku are endless