[Fish Sandwich]

It's still extremely bizarre to me to see this kind of conversation happening so casually between Sentai heroes, but I will begrudgingly admit this episode was alright. It's not quite great. I have some problems with how little growth Towa actually underwent here, in particular. I don't feel like he had a particularly impactful change of heart, and we still don't know much about him or Bamba other than that Koh is probably right in thinking they would murder a child for the greater good, but we get a decent feel for their personalities, and while I still violently hate Towa's smug, ambiguously sociopathic face, I did actually like Bamba here a fair bit. I'll concede I probably was being unfair last week by lumping him in with his stupid little brother.

His dialogue towards the end about family is clearly meant to be meaningful setup for something or other too, so hopefully that explains some things down the line. I still don't know why we can't just have good character development right now, but this episode did restore my hope that Ryusoulger will eventually get its act together. We've got the first big showdown with the enemy commander coming up right on cue for episode 5, so I'm definitely looking forward to that.