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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 11 - “TARGETING THE WEAK POINT”

I love the Buddyroids to begin with, so this episode is a pretty easy sell for me as soon as you've got Gorisaki jumping into the fray for a big hero moment on top of the usual charming banter and solid character-building. It's also a pretty relevant thing for this show to have a plot where a character basically yearns to have a life that's seemingly less ideal than the way their own (also seemingly) appears, so I think Shimoyama did a proper job demonstrating his grasp on the show in his first outing as well. Plus, the ending scene where Ryuuji immediately regrets telling Gorisaki to be more open with him is pretty classic. Or at least, it's always been the thing I most remember from this one.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

*Kobayashi has admitted she remembers nothing about working on any of the shows she’s penned

I don't know much about Kobayashi's personality, but I get the feeling she would just say that to get out of doing interviews.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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

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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. First, Ryuji’s just reading her mail? How long has that been going on for? But then I continued to get even more worried about Yoko, with this entire episode sketching in a life as a child soldier: she lives at the base, presumably for her entire life; her support system – emotionally, physically, and mentally – are her teammates and superiors, with seemingly no one in her life outside of that; and there is no sense that this girl is prepared for a life outside of a very specific mission to defeat hostile otherworldly forces. This is all incredibly weird and sad! This is like Evangelion, but at least those kids got to go to a regular high school! I feel like Yoko needs the state to step in and put an end to this!

There's a lot to unpack in this paragraph, so, roughly in order:

- I like the sort of continuity of Yoko having trouble with foreign languages between this and Enter
- I don't think it's that inexplicable for that letter to have been in English for a number of reasons, some of which Sh Ranger just mentioned
- The mail itself was actually sent to the Go-Busters as a whole, so my snarky question is actually if there's like some official address to send them fan-mail or something?
- All the child soldier stuff, on the other hand, that's probably a pretty rational assessment of Yoko's life. Bummer!

The episode is still a fun one though, and typically character-building, despite the, uh, unflattering way you can look at it all.