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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 31 - “SPACE SHERIFF GAVAN APPEARS!”

This one got me real scared back in the day. Completely irrationally, mind you, but still, it's hard to talk about my personal experience with this episode without bringing that part up. Like I said, when I got around to watching it, I had heard just enough vague talk of some controversial(???) "retooling" Go-Busters had underwent that, between the new opening and the Plot seemingly being over, for all I knew, this one's vibe just was the show now? I mean, I could be pretty sure Gavan wasn't here to stay or anything, but also, like... could I? It was like the wilderness period of this show for me, where I knew nothing about what was coming up, and that uncertainty made it difficult for me to just take this as its own thing and enjoy it on the level it wants to be enjoyed on.

Because, I mean, with the benefit of hindsight, it's a perfectly cute example of a crossover story like this, as long as you can get over that basic of hurdle of "why is this show shilling a Metal Hero movie?" Naturally, I have a lot more fun with it on a revisit than I originally did. Heck, who knows, maybe some day, I'll come back again having watched the original Gavan and realize this was actually some masterpiece homage the whole time or something.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I don't mind it as an insert, but even then, it has to compare with the excellent Perfect Mission.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I also think it compares unfavorably to Perfect Mission for pretty similar reasons.

Another issue I have with it as the new theme song is that the timing seems off by a few weeks, with the opening changing *before* the obvious turning point in the narrative of the series? Not that I wanna just sit here ragging on a song I like just fine nowadays but I mean, did anybody tune into Super Hero Time for Wizard's premiere and actually think "man, thanks to that spiffy new theme tune, suddenly I care about these Go-Busters guys!"? There's just a lot about the decision to make the change I still don't understand, even though I completely accept it at this point.