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To clarify, Loupeloid isn’t a weird translation choice. The Metaloid is based off a loupe (those monocle/telescope hybrids jewellers use to test gems for value)

Anyway, we’re at the last “regular” episode, before the endgame kicks into full force. In Sentai, that’s normally the first or second episode of the 40s, and this isn’t an exception. And it goes for a seldom used plot, in the form of a “wannabe Ranger” (previous notables including Henshin Papa from Goggle Five, a middle-aged dad who stole a strength enhancing suit from the monster of the week, Magne Warrior from Bioman, a local eccentric who the bad guys empowered, AbarePink from Abaranger, the group’s teenage girl ally trying to convince her parents she was too busy to come with them to Thailand and more recently to this series, Shinken Brown from Shinkenger, a middle aged white man who stalked Blue to try and become a samurai). I don’t have much to discuss here though unfortunately, but I’ll have something interesting to note about Pink Cat when you get to the Returns V-CIN.

I can say that, given we’re in December, which is their last chance to sell toys before a new Sentai appears in the new year with their own toys, we get the unusual pairing of Buster Heracles with Tategami Lioh, with Loupezord somehow managing to be stealthy enough to steal the former’s cannons, in what is probably my personal funniest scene of the series.