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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 32 - “TAG-TEAM WITH GAVAN!”

One thing I remember about this one is appreciating the attempt to give Morishita his day in the sun, while also being quite underwhelmed by how that day turned out.

The other thing I'll always remember about this one, that's extra fun for looking back on in retrospect, is that during the warmhearted goodbye between Hiromu and Geki at the end, they made sure to put up some ad-copy on the screen just to be as transparent as possible.



I assume this kind of thing is lost in an age where everyone can watch Go-Busters with Blu-ray rips and the like now, so I just want to take a second to appreciate this.

It's a pretty straightforward bit of text. I'm not much of a translator, but it basically goes:

"Space Sheriff Gavan The Movie in theaters October 20th!
You can see Gavan again on the big screen!"

So you know, just letting all the viewers at home know that if they're sad about seeing our fun new guest stars leave for their next adventure, they can go see them in their own story and everything. Pretty harmless I guess, but again, very transparent, as well.

I suspect something about that rubbed someone at Over-Time the wrong way, though, because their subs from back in the day decided to go ahead and translate the message, and they did so uh... a little more according to the spirit of the words than the words themselves.



The funny part is, as much as I didn't vibe with these episodes at all, I did go watch their movie once it got subbed, and actually liked it a fair bit. I gained a decent-sized soft spot for Geki, and pretty eagerly followed the films he was in after that, all of which I had a lot of fun with. So you know, some good things came out of these episodes for me, even if they'll probably never be my favorite episodes of Go-Busters.