[DreadBringer]

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Episode 44: Vudo's Deadly Assault

Bima-X starts to have large texts as the episodes title or when there's a commercial break, just like Kamen Rider, but dunno why I usually find those kinda corny, like how I think this episode's title is just so uninspired, VUDO's Deadly Assault... like it's all Bima is about.

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This is so cool for so many reasons. The fact that the mooks get to be a legitimate threat for once is great to see. Their danger not being in their might like most monster of week, but rather their out of nowhere attack ontop of just how frikken many of them there are. By extension of that, we get a look into something that not many other toku talk about: That the heroes can't save everyone at once, and that off screen, people are suffering and possibly dying.

I'm someone who's normally bored off when watching mook fights, where for this series, even in human forms, the Satrias can beat them up no problem, so it'd be good indeed that the mooks are used on the public where the civilians aren't safe, even if the heroes can beat them up no problem, rather than using the mooks only to show off the heroes' abilities.

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It's also great to see Rena take the lead for once. The result was not a only a highlight in Rena's' own unique way of handling things, but some rather unexpected callbacks. There's a brief callback to the crush she had in the original BIMA, and as it turns out, Cinta is actually tied directly to episode 12 and 13 of BIMA too! You know, the two-parter that featured the Gills Monster as well as Bima pulling a Batman on the CEO of a gas company? Yeah, Cinta is the sister of the kid from those episodes.

Rena seems to be was also rather a lead in the Scarlet Bintang/Rafflesia 2-parter. As usual, I don't really agree on telling one to not cry (like Kouta at Gaim's first episode). There's a merchandise about Bima in-universe too, which I wonder who'd be the maker and publisher there. Cinta is the Indonesian word of "love".