[Fish Sandwich]

Considering you were already calling out the charmingly cheap effects, Die, I have to mention what is maybe my absolute favorite gag in the entire thing, which is how they get around the inability to afford a proper CG robot kangaroo for the transformation... so instead they just have a flat cartoon picture of a kangaroo jumping around.

I feel like it's safe to say this is actually one of my favorite HBV's at this point? Like you say, it's not actually doing anything particularly notable, but I think it utterly nails the basics (Hopping Kangaroo is a downright perfect exclusive form for one of these, especially), and it's managed to stick in my memory better than a lot of the others as a result.

Although part of the reason I'll always remember it is because, being the comedy spinoff for Zero-One, Aruto is at peak mania for nearly the entire runtime, and it made me appreciate Fumiya Takahashi's performance that much more. It'd be grating if it were anybody else, but it's him, so it's great! There was an anecdote about him I came across doing the usual Wikipedia reading I try to for these threads, that apparently everyone agreed he was the guy for the job because he was the only one at the audition who was specifically concerned with getting across the character of a comedian, instead of simply trying to be funny, and I feel like him understanding the distinction there explains a ton about why I enjoy this awkward goofball so much.