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Episode 3: A Bunch of Brides

You know it's an Inoue show when there's a scene of people eating copious amounts of food together.

Anyway, I don't choose that thumbnail solely because I'm immature.

Rather, I feel as though it highlights why Changerion didn't exactly catch on with alot of people. That being that the show seems very confused as to exactly its target audience is.

Sure, there's many the toyetic element and childlike high energy found in many a children's' toku, but at the same time, the show is full of alot of surprisingly adult humor and content. As such, no way are parents gonna let their kids watch this and older audiences will just pass it off as a standard toku.

It's certainly a strange beast, and I can only think that maybe they were aiming for (pre-)teens? Even the writing seems pretty random. With the hyper simplicity of the children's' show but then there's adult content--look, I'm going in circles. Point is, Changerion sends alot of mixed messages and it makes it very hard for me to grasp just what its end goal is if there even is one.

Take this very episode as a prime example. It's what is on the surface an episode straight out of Power Rangers, wherein the monster of the week is kidnapping brides to be. But then you're bombarded with other things such as Akira and Hayami being creeps to women, many of the fake brides getting catty with eachother over their looks, and of course, the D-cups joke shown right there in the screencap above.

That all aside, maybe this is just a me thing, but I also didn't find this episode all that funny or engaging? It actually made me kinda worried that Changerion is gonna eventually overstay its welcome, and made me kinda wish that I was binging it instead of doing an episode daily. And if so, then I will very much be able to see why the show was cut short the way it was. Like, this episode was certainly one that I watched and that was about the extent of my impressions of it as far as a review goes.

It just is what it is. Not awful or anything, I just wasn't really into it and more spent the time I had thinking about what the show might end up being like as an overall experience by the end.