[DreamSword]

Episode #19: Survival

Normally it's Heroman who saves Joey. Now, it's the reverse.

This episode is very much the "part 2" of the previous episode, with the very clear mission to killing whatever monster the government has created.

And I gotta say, for a monster made out of vines, I certainly did find it to be overall rather inventive. And the way that it gradually evolves over the course of the episode does make for a pretty cool boss fight.

The episode also played with my expectations a bit due to how other, similar stories have played out in the past. Dr. Ravi's' behavior can easily come across as suspicious; what with him somewhat easily coming around to helping the group after being so opposed initially.

But as it turns out, he really is just inspired by Joey and Heroman's' heroism, and does infact help everyone to save the day by giving them the key to the monster's' defeat. Things could've easily swung in the opposite direction to drag things out or to make the story more cynical, but no, everything is very straightforward and refreshingly so.

It just goes to show that sometimes the best twist is no twist at all.

This episode didn't introduce any new songs(or atleast none that I noticed), so I figured now would be a good time to highlight the Super Robot Wars remix of "Roulette," which is sadly the only other song from Heroman to appear in the franchise so far. Should this anime ever make a triumphant return to SRW, I hope we can get atleast one more song in there. Even if they go the easy route and just use "Missing."