[Kamen Rider Die]

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS - THREAD WRAP-UP



And that’s it for “Kamen Rider Die watches Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters”!

Thanks so much to everyone who popped in to chat about this one. I enjoyed trying out a Sentai series, even if I have to confess that it didn’t get its hooks into me as a franchise. I liked Go-Busters, but it wasn’t the same all-encompassing thrill I get out of any given Kamen Rider show. Enjoyable action-adventure plots and some very funny conceptual episodes, but I didn’t feel like it got weird enough or changed shape enough for me to feel like Sentai was the missing piece of my toku fandom.

All of that is another way of saying that while I’ll probably watch other Sentai shows in my life, I don’t know if I feel like it does them or me any favors to write about them. I never really felt like I dug into this show in a way that illuminated its depths or enunciated its strengths, and I don’t honestly know if that’s my failings as an amateur critic or merely a general disengagement with the vibe. Watching something like (name at random) King-Ohger is probably better off for me to relax with some month in the future, rather than make the focal point of a seasonal writing project. I don’t know. We’ll see.

In the meantime, I’m off for the next couple months, with a planned return in January for “Kamen Rider Die rewatches Kamen Rider OOO”, my second Kobayashi show in a twelve-month window. Looking forward to that one, even if my experience with W has me fearing that I’ll come away liking it less than the rose-colored compound eyes of my memory have kept it over the past few years. Again, we’ll see!

As always, this thread remains yours to add to if you feel like. You were my Buddies on this project for the last few months, and I couldn’t’ve done it without you. The Special Buster was always our friendship!