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TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 22 - “THE BEAUTIFUL AVATAR, ESCAPE”



I guess my big -slash- only problem with this episode is that it feels slightly out of character for Hiromu to be the one giving Shouta the pep talk about not worrying what others think of you and just focus on your own strengths. Like, I’m not saying it’s out of character for Hiromu to be able to articulate that – he’s 100% the guy on the team that doesn’t care what people make of him – but he’s not the guy to give that speech to a stranger in a way that doesn’t result in said stranger feeling maligned and potentially litigious. If you asked me to rank the Go-Busters cast members who could effectively give a child a pep talk, it’d go:

-Ryuji
-Nakamura
-Nick
-Jin
-Morishita
-Yoko
-Gorisaki
-Commander
-Usada
-Enter
-J
-Several Metaroids
-Messiah, if you caught him on a good day
-Hiromu

Hiromu’s got a lot of strengths! Non-confrontational pep talks ain’t one of them!

Besides that, I liked this episode all right. I like getting a chance to see the Go-Busters interact with kids, because that’s a Kamen Rider staple that this show has largely avoided. (Once or twice, but in a real big deal way.) There’s a much different energy when the heroes are forced to embody a gentler heroism around kids, and I like that a lot. It feels more nuanced than the usual battle against evil.

And the battle against evil is joined this time out by Escape (not Exit?!?!), who plays to her strengths by attacking an escape room and keeping everyone from escaping. She is trying to make sure you don’t forget her name! Outside her branded scheming, I thought she was fun upgrade to Enter – guns instead of blades, a tablet instead of a laptop, Messiah is her dad instead of her king, etc. (The guns are named after Gog and Magog, to keep Escape’s debut an appropriately apocalyptic escalation of hostilities.) She gets a fantastic fight sequence against the Busters, which Enter hasn’t gotten in a good long while. She’s a lot more sinister than Enter, despite her lilting laugh and flirty demeanor; she’s a killer, instead of a mad scientist. Pretty fun debut for her!

So, yeah, I thought this was a fun episode. Would’ve liked it more, but that Hiromu speech… too upbeat! Too generous! He never even partially told this kid that everyone probably made fun of him before!



IT’S TIME FOR kids!

I liked the three kids in this one! They have a fun little story about doing an escape room. They just had good energy! I’m tired! Good night!