[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Before I start, thank you Switchblade for making these threads every year! I was looking forward to this one.

Favorite New-to-You Show of 2021

Choukou Senshi Changerion. I actually didn't know this show existed until Sentinel put the figure up for pre-order a few weeks ago, but I fell in love with it very quickly.

Don't get me wrong, it sucks. It's really bad. Completely insane plots with an unlikeable main protagonist and the suit battles are reduced to awkward flailing around at the end of the episode when one side-character reveals they were the monster all along.

But! It is never boring. Not once. It's brutally hilarious actually, even though probably unintended it makes for a fantastic parody of the genre.

My favorite twist on a genre-classic story so far is that when the main character's secretary leaves and he searches for a new one, a whole slew of strong bad guys go after him all at once, so his support crew wants to get him a "power-up". So far so good, we know this kind of plot. A magic crystal is bought out of storage, and it's up to the newly hired secretary to deliver it.

Now, quick detour: The main protagonist, being the absolute dick he is, chewed out the new secretary earlier for not doing anything but complain. While being rightfully hurt, she realizes he's not entirely wrong so she makes him a lunchbox, because that's what she wants to do to help. The support crew is attacked by the bad guys, they can only get the magic crystal to the new secretary, who rides away on her bike, crystal and lunchbox with her.

She crashes in her hurry, both the crystal and the lunchbox fall to the ground, a hungry dog approaches and she tries to get the animal away in panic.

Meanwhile, our hero is getting ganged up by the bad guys and is about to lose. The new secretary arrives, here's your power-up!

...

It's the lunchbox, the dog ate the crystal. What the fuck

Our hero is confused and angry, but after new secretary tells him she made the lunchbox to help he's touched by her feelings. The bad guys are pissed about the holdup, one approaches and smacks the lunchbox away, spilling the inside all over the ground. Our hero becomes so mad because of this that he easily beats all the bad guys, no power-up needed.

Changerion is full of stuff like this, and most of the time it is much more insane than this. In fact, I was tempted to open a thread as I watched the series and only share one single screen cap for each episode, that one being the weirdest line of dialogue. My laziness got the better of me, as usual, and I ended up not doing it, but have a quick glimpse anyway:



It's fun. Simple but effective fun. I can only recommend this absolute mess of a show.

Might not be the right place to ask this question, but where did you find the subs?