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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 30 - “MESSIAH: SHUTDOWN”

The beat in this episode that's always killed me the most, right back to the first time I watched it, is when Hiromu specifically turns to Yoko and apologizes for deciding to break that promise. I love that Hiromu, in the middle of thinking about all the heavy emotions of their parents, processing his own feelings, and making that whole speech, still doesn't forget for a second about how hard this has to be for her too, and I love that the show was written with the level of care to remember to get that in there.

I've always been extremely fond of this as the big conclusion to the first half-ish of the series. A lot of the reason I'm so attached to episode 20, that I can finally mention in here now, is specifically to do with how much it feels like that episode was laying out the broad strokes of what happens in this one? It seems like more than a coincidence to me that the debut of Great Go-Buster -- the combination specifically for going into hyperspace -- also had the episode's plot be about Hiromu having to reject an illusion of his parents to protect what he already has.

Again, a large part of this show thematically is about flaws and imperfections and all that, so it's difficult to imagine a more appropriate way for this plot to play out than having the Busters accept that they can't have the ideal victory they've been dreaming of for 13 years, and still find the worth in continuing to fight on anyway.