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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 12 - ?DO YOU LIKE DISGUISES??

It?s nice that the story about Yoko not having a dream doesn?t have her suddenly revealing a hidden talent or passion, like Ryuji?s engineering career. She?s been a Go-Buster since she was three years old, and her entire social circle is the Go-Busters organization; I?m sure they did the best they could with making sure she was cared for and educated (Usada rolls his eyes), but there?s no sense that she was properly socialized. She doesn?t seem to have any hobbies, or friends outside the various soldiers and employees that fill up the background. We?ve never seen her care about anything that didn?t directly impact the mission.

What?s great about this story is it basically just goes Yeah, We Should Work On That. It?s weird that Yoko doesn?t have a life outside of Go-Bustering, but that?s what she needs to do right now for the safety of everyone she cares about. Still, it?s a job with a goal ? defeating the Vagras and rescuing the people trapped in hyperspace ? but it?s not a dream. There will come a point when Yoko is a young woman that needs to figure out what her future looks like. It?s not today, but now she realizes it?ll eventually happen.

The surprising part is that Yoko seems like a typical genki girl on the surface, the type that has many friends and hobbies. Nakamura, being the newest member, is the only one normal enough to even question life outside of Gobusters and I like how the show didn't forget that after the first episode. The mission is their whole life until they complete it, which is pretty sad to think about, especially for Yoko who signed up for this as young as 3 years old. For a show that's so grounded in a tragic event that occurred in the distant past, it's cool to see gradually how everybody starts to feel about the future beyond the mission, whether with ambivalence, anticipation or apprehension.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

IT?S TIME FOR a talk about how much privacy Yoko has in her life!

It?s a funny gag, that Yoko reads over this heartfelt letter from her doppelganger Angie Sue and then reveals that she can?t actually read it because it?s in English (despite Angie Sue being a Hong Kong actress that speaks fluent Japanese I?m not here to gripe), but afterwards I really got worried for Yoko.

Even though Angie is fluent in Japanese (like every HK girl in Japanese media for some reason), she may find it easier to type in English. Only Japanese keyboards have kana after all, while Greco-Roman characters are ubiquitous. Furthermore, it's pretty reasonable for Angie to assume that someone in the espionage business would have basic English reading comprehension. But poor Yoko didn't have much time for school, so she can only say "Let's Morphin'!"