[DreamSword]

Episode 4: Ah, Friendship; Ah, Heartless!

Exploding toilet paper monster.

Do I even need to write a review at this point? That one sentence alone should tell you basically everything you need to know about this episode.

But I guess I can't get off that easy, can I? Alright, I'll do my best to get at the meat of things here, though I will say that this is the sort of episode that you really should see for yourself to understand just how crazy it is.

Actually, a better thought, here a question for you readers out there: Have you and a friend ever been accused of a crime you didn't commit, so you break yourselves out of jail to find the real culprit, but one really persistent cop(who for some reason doesn't just call for backup) keeps getting in the way, leading to you and your friend being handcuffed together?

Then, seeing no other option, you have your friend push you down the road on a wheelbarrel, leading to you both freeing yourselves via crashing into a pole. To celebrate, you decide to bro fist, leading to the handcuffs reattaching themselves, so you then decide to head back to your place, which in turn leads to you discovering the real culprit of the original crime, who just so happens to be a guy that likes to strangle people with toilet paper?

That's essentially the entire middle chunk of the episode, all directed and filmed in as zany of a way as possible. There's some other stuff here too, like Hayami inadvertently helping a boy grow closer with his mother, but that is such a footnote when put next to a freaking toilet paper monster.

I also gotta give it to Inoue, I think this is the first toku I've ever seen where a monster causing stuff to blow up is what in turn powers up the show's' equivalent to Zords. And also one of the few I've seen in which funding is a big factor in terms of building all of this super equipment. Letting Inoue loose leads to interesting results if nothing else.

So... yeah. Another fun one, if you couldn't tell. I have no idea how this episode is gonna be topped, if ever in the show's' run though. But man would it be impressive if things only got crazier.