[DreamSword]

Episode 13: Rose and Sunflower

Why would anyone do drugs when they could just watch tokusatsu?

I honestly feel as though this episode was Changerion at its peak, and I can't even begin to imagine anything later on in the show topping it.

It's an episode where the main threat is an insurance salesman who kidnaps people with mind controlled, exploding, stuffed rabbits that suck their victims' blood until they run dry so he can feast on their life energy.

Do I even need to say anything more after that? That alone makes up a ton of the absolute insanity that makes up this episode. Not just the very premise, but the action, comedy, and even dramatic tension that all comes out of it. Stuff like this is why I love toku as a medium.

But that's not all the episode has to offer either. Because surprisingly, there's actually character development! The focus of which being Akemi and Eri actually learning to put aside their differences to rescue the people they care about, even find some common ground in order to grow closer as friends. And all while never forgetting the two's' best bit of being catty with eachother.

Oh, and also the robots get a combined form but really, that's small potatoes when compared to all of the, well, literally everything else. This episode is a high energy roller coaster ride from beginning to end, and one that I did not wanna get off of. It was just a really fun time all around and don't think I could complain about a single second of it. Great stuff.