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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS MISSION 49 - “RESOLVE AND DECISIONS”

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IT’S TIME FOR Enter Buster!

Fun fact -- this is actually the suit that got me to watch Go-Busters!

I think I might've mentioned some of this towards the start of the thread, but back in 2012, I had gotten way into Kamen Rider already and was always sort of vaguely looking to branch out to Super Sentai. Despite following Gokaiger more-or-less as it aired, I wasn't totally feeling it, and, despite loving everything about Go-Busters conceptually, and enjoying the first few episodes when they were the only few episodes, I ended up putting the show on the back burner. I believe part of this was that actually downloading stuff from Over-Time was a hassle for me back then or something? I don't totally remember, but the important point is that I always was interested in picking it back up... it's just that I became way too comfortable leaving it for later. None of the stuff I was seeing from a distance ever did quite enough to pull me back in... right up until I was going to Over-Time's site to grab the latest episode of Wizard, and saw that their picture for the release post of episode 49 of this show was just a no-context picture of Dark Buster.

That was seriously all it took, after most of a year.

I was instantly fascinated by whatever this cool looking evil Red Buster guy was supposed to be, and just like that, I *had* to find out what the deal was. No way I could keep ignoring a show with something this awesome somewhere in it. I'm a sucker for almost any cool evil version of a hero, but the specific genre of this one, where it's explicitly the monster version, rather than just being purple and black or something, *really* spoke to me. I almost certainly don't need to explain how effectively this design comes together to anyone, so I won't bother. Of course, it turned out the suit didn't exactly make a ton of appearances, but that didn't upset me too much when I got 48 prior episodes that were generally super enjoyable and even featured a different monster suit for Enter that's quite cool in its own right and fits his character perfectly. (Which is probably why it still gets to be in the show.)

There's part of me that still loves this suit so much I wish it *had* been a part of the series in a larger capacity, but A) Power Rangers has since sort of vicariously granted that wish, and B) Dark Buster's appearance definitely comes at the right time in the story we got, and thanks to it giving me that final push to get around to it, I ended up really liking that story.