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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS FINAL MISSION - “ETERNAL BONDS”

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It feels like a messier story

Well, being messy isn't as perfect as being cleanly, for sure, but for Go-Busters, maybe that just fits all the better.

I find it difficult to put into words how much this finale means to me.

I might try and elaborate on this in general when you do your usual series wrap-up or something, but Go-Busters... my connection to it is so personal and deeply felt that it becomes tricky to actually bring that stuff to the surface? I'm not sure I've ever actually talked about this show anywhere in a way that would truly give the impression it means more to me than so many other shows that also mean a lot to me, which is probably why even at the start of this thread, I'm still relying on the crutch of describing it as my "favorite", which probably isn't an adequate description at the end of the day.

With like, Kuuga, for example (the show I'm always looking for excuses to mention in this thread, apparently), if I want to tell someone how deeply affected I was by watching the final fight between Kuuga and Daguva at the end of the series, I think I can articulate that decently enough? I think I did articulate it decently enough, even. Enough to get at least a bit more specific than "it affected me deeply", if nothing else.

If I want to tell someone how much it meant to me seeing Ryuuji and Yoko put their hands on Hiromu's shoulders in one of the most simple and beautiful shots in the entire series, though...

I don't know. Maybe the day will come where I do get all this stuff committed to writing, and feel okay about what I said, but right now, it still feels beyond me. Suffice it to say for now, then, that this has always been a conclusion I've loved as raw entertainment (Jin absolutely nails his big Oscar scene, for one thing), and more than that, a conclusion that--

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Man, even for a sentence that simple, I just can't find the words. But uh... the episode did affect me deeply? Like, even just the title of this one is something I still think about all the time, as straightforward as it is. Between that, the couple of things I've already mentioned, the satisfying bookend nature of the final scene and the premiere... if I were trying to pick apart everything I liked in it just *as* a piece of entertainment, it'd already be quite the task; trying to unpack the emotional resonance all that stuff has for me on top of that would likely leave me freezing up like I'm Hiromu seeing a chicken.

The bottom line is that I love this final episode the same way I love the whole show. I'm real bad at telling people why, so you'll just have to take my word for it that praise from me doesn't come much higher than that.