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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 28 – “WARNING: LIKELIHOOD OF CHICKENS!”

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IT’S TIME FOR a new opening sequence!

Continuing my trend of open hostility towards anything that threatened the status quo of my precious Go-Busters, I hated the new opening theme for a good while. Busters Ready Go! is real deep in my heart, and from the outset I thought it was an ideal song to represent the show. There's a bit more of a sense of a sort of solemn duty it gives to the heroes' standing against evil than usual for a Sentai theme, especially with the typically great Fujibayashi lyrics, while still being very grand and exciting, which was also very consistent with the show's likewise excellently tailored background music. (Between this and Go-Onger I've always wanted to see Megumi Oohashi tackle another Sentai someday.)

For me at the time, at least, Morphin'! Movin'! Bustersship! was maybe a little too energetic and fun for its own good? I've long since learned to understand the appeal of it as a song -- and even as an opening for Go-Busters -- but even now, I don't think it really digs down into the soul of the show on quite the same level.

To be more fair, it's probably important to acknowledge that the odds were also stacked against it, since when I was originally watching the show, I was playing catch up towards the end of its run, having already learned this new song was likely a harbinger of a dreaded "retool" of some kind or another. And like, if I could barely handle the completely normal thing of a shiny new protagonist with Jin, you can imagine how nervous that idea had me! Honestly, to this day, especially never having seen any primary source outright confirm anything, I'm still not sure what retooling exactly happened, versus how much of it is simply the usual twists and turns of development on these shows being perceived that way? It's not like a Hibiki situation where there were obvious major staff shakeups, at the very least.

But uh, I'm probably getting a bit ahead of Die at this point! I don't really have any epic argument off the top of my head about the hidden depths of this episode's narrative or anything though, so without going back to it, the most I can say is that I also enjoyed my time with it. I mean, it's got Red Buster in the spotlight, and Rika even shows up, so it'd be hard to disappoint me. I guess I could point out that since the Go-Busters' Weak Points are all based on common computer problems, it makes perfect sense the intense fight-or-flight response of a strong phobia would be overwhelming enough to cause Hiromu to freeze up, much like a program using up too much memory?