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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 4 - "OF RESOLVE AND THE MISSION"

The robot fight in this one is an eternal series highlight for me. All of it is fantastic with how it emphasizes that real-robot flavor of these big machines as machines, with Hiromu having to work around the damage Ace is taking and all that, but it's that whole cross-counter ending that truly makes it stick out as one of those definitive moments from Go-Busters for me.

I lack the words to really get at it properly, but that whole sequence with the saw blade stopping *this* close to chopping up our heroes, and the way the lighting in the cockpit changes from that dangerous red to an uneasy pitch black before the daylight finally pours through the gaping hole left when the saw falls out onto the ground... like, it's beautifully put together, for one thing, but also, just narratively, the mood of that moment after the fight, where it's more relief than celebration, it's a very *this show* thing in my mind.

Also love that beat with Hiromu trying to play it cool as usual before falling over and actually making that little effort to admit some vulnerability for once. It's hard to argue in too much detail about the episode's overall story not having seen it in a good while, but I remember it being a winner... you know, like basically every episode of this show.