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Time for Donbrothers Ep 2! Let's get this party started!

-We get to met our other two Donbrothers, albeit briefly! An intelligent and eccentric traveling poet, and a runaway fugitive.....Man, this cast is downright strange, isn't it? If I didn't know who Donbros's writer was, I feel like I wouldve immediately recongized it being Inoue after Shinichi's scene, he really feels like a character written by him, yknow?

-We get more on Tsuyoshi! His life......sucks, not really a better way to describe it. But not everything is awful for him, as he's recently married! It's sweet, yknow, the connections we create making even the seemingly dullest life shine. I remember alot of ppl wondering if there was going to be somekind of twist with his wife, like he's utterly devoted to a woman who hates him, so presently surprised that they are very much in love and are very cute!

-Haruka!!!!! God, working customer service sucks ass, but it must be a 100x worse being someone people recognize (for all the wrong reasons!). Do love her psyching herself up to fight by reminding herself she's an author of a hero manga lol. Her standing up to Sonoi, however brief it was, was also great, can't wait for the day she can properly beat his ass!


-Taro! He's involved with the MOTW,(which is themed after my beloved ToQgers) with his honesty sending his boss on a youth-seeking rampage. Once again, I'm wondering if his "cannot lie" trait just a fun personality quirk or a hint at something deeper. Either way, Taro's words at the end are very sweet.

-........Don Momotaro is really strong, isn't he. Like he was fighting both of the BrainPerson guys and the ToQger monster at once, no trouble at all?! Dude didn't even need Zenkaiser Black's help in summoning the mech! It makes you wonder why Jin's so sure he needs allies, dude seems pretty good at doing his job by himself?


-Another goregous mech fight, with the monster taking the form of a Kuraliner! (Man I miss ToQger's train fights so much. I should go rewatch some of it again) The Alter.......very strange, but like, in a fun way? DonMomo falling limp to the ground made laugh a good bit too.

- A sort of status quo has been established? Instead of focusing on the 5 as a whole, it seems we'll be jumping in and out the daily lives of our main 5, each with their own stories/side characters. These events will definitely mix and bleed into each other, but it'll be awhile before the 5 will learn of each others' identities as the other Donbrothers.

I honestly love that setup? I do love the "we're a team! we're having wacky slice of life adventures together when we're not fighting!" Sentai's got, but like...I've only seen a few Sentai, but a weakness I see with this format is that some characters definitely feel like exist to fill out the structure of the team, and can't stand on their own as individual characters? (Have a bunch of silly reckless idiots on your team? You'll definitely need a Team Mom to rein them in! Feel like things are too buddy-buddy around here? Throw an Aloof Loner in here for flavor!, etc etc etc) With this setup, Donbros can hopefully avoid this pitfall, since everyone's the protagonist of their own little side story!

Overall, good episode! Just gave more questions than answers, but it's all so fun and exciting that I don't really mind!