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Believe it or not, this is not the first Toku show debuting in 2005 to reference the story of the honest Axe (which is about a woodcutter who drops his axe in a spring, and the goddess tries to tempt him with gold and silver axes, but when he gets his old axe back, she gives him the other two). It was previously spoofed in Magiranger’s Super Video (Sentai’s answer to the HBVs), with red hero Kai dropping his changer into a spring and the goddess (who looks surprisingly like his mother) offers him either a silver version of it or a gold version of the sixth hero’s changer as a replacement. Despite 75% of his siblings saying “no”, Kai goes with the gold one and ends up learning a lesson about lying.

Now for episode 47’s music choice, Armed Hibiki’s theme song (even though I’m not sure it actually appeared in the episode)

Sore wa yami no sekai
Dare mo shiranai fushigi na hanashi
Tatakai wa mou hajimatte iru
Tsuki ga michiru you ni
Atsumatte kuru jaaku na chikara
Subete wo ima kowasu mae ni
?€” Masatoshi Ono, Hibiki Kenzan

And the song choice for episode 48, the last episode (which is a slightly obvious choice). It’s not the last contribution to this feature though.

Marude tōmei ni natta mitai
Zenbu jibun wo surinukete yuku
Sonna fuu ni Kanjiteta no kai?

Shonen yo! Tabitatsu no nara
Hareta hi ni mune wo hatte

Hit to beat! Keep your beat!
Kokoro ga furueru bashō sagashite
Hit to beat! Keep your beat!
Dare ni mo dekinai koto mitsuke dase
Sore ga kimi no hibiki
- Akira Fuse, Shonen Yo.