[Sh Ranger]

Surprisingly not that awful! Still feels pretty weird that this is the third last episode and it's basically just wrapping up George's Daddy problems. I mean, we don't even know who the final villain is now. But for what it was, a story about grief and how people can take their loved ones for granted until it's too late, I think it succeeded.

This little Juuga arc mostly suffered from lack of context regarding George's motivation and too many scenes about Ikki's memory loss. However, this episode worked better for me, by using the Igarashis' situation as a parallel to George's. Ikki's not literally dying, but to his family, he may as well be. Juuga was George's way of pretending he doesn't care about his dead father and he needed the Ultimate Busybody to help him realize that.

I guess I'm glad this arc exists, concerning one of my favorite characters in the show, even though I would've preferred if it was a V-Cinema or special. I don't feel like the plot has progressed at all, I'm not even sure what is the plot at this point. They really are just stretching it to reach that 50 episode goal. But whatever, I enjoyed this episode, at least.

So, will George accept Hiromi's offer of dinner now?