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Avataro Sentai Donbrothers Episode 24- "Son, Good Luck To You!" Discussion
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I love how this episode pushes Tarou so far out of his element.
Just, right off the bat, this is a pretty killer concept for an episode. You've got this character defined by his inability to tell or even comprehend falsehood, winding up in a position where he has to walk in that world, partaking in some elaborate and comical charade for the sake of making someone happier. Lots of great possibilities there.
One of those possibilities comes from this being a show about a team, because the way Tarou's friends try to help him through the plan is as exactly as chaotic as I'd hope for. You get several sides of Shinichi in one episode, with his competence as the team's sorta sub-leader ultimately being undermined by his somewhat egotistical pride in his poetry. You get to see Tsuyoshi similarly mess things up by immediately forgetting he's supposed to be playing a role. And then you've got Haruka, whose attempt to salvage the mess literally kills Tarou. It's a Donbrothers plot if ever there was one!
So that's the comic angle to this one, and it's obviously loads of fun. Just watching Tarou squirm his way through the act, awkwardly lip-syncing along to whichever voice happens to be speaking at that particular moment, assuming he isn't doing his own speaking over that. It's like the worst job of this the team could've done, and also the best. There's just no way a guy like Tarou could pull off this sort of deception -- anybody would see through it immediately.
And that's kinda where the drama comes in, isn't it? Because the clear implication from the end is that Tomoko probably never
really
believed Tarou was her son, if not consciously, then at least deep down. Perhaps Tarou just seems like the kind of upstanding young man you'd *want* your son to be or something. I mean, I can't speak to exactly what Tomoko was feeling throughout the episode, either because I'm not smart enough or because I'm not crazy enough, but it's clear she felt a lot less lonely with Tarou around, and there's certainly something sweet in that. It's maybe a bit weird, but that's the case for everyone in this show, isn't it?
So yeah, it's hardly a shocking opinion, but this is yet another episode of Donbrothers I had a great time with.
Shirkarua's bit on the staff blog this week
talks about how, apparently, Super Sentai usually makes a conscious effort
not
to progress the story too much during the whole summer break period, since less people are watching then, but telling that to Inoue only seemed to fire him up to write a bunch of "gag" episodes he knows he won't have time for later.
And they're all really good.
And reading that definitely puts a lot of the recent stories in context.
We're definitely getting lots of episodes like this lately, where there's little capital "p" Plot happening in favor of some random funny concept forming the core of the narrative, but Inoue has proven to be very adept at having these silly standalone adventures still be grounded in the honest emotions of the characters, whether they're series regulars or one-off guest stars. It never
feels
like nothing is happening in this show, even when that's -- apparently -- what they're aiming for, and I can't think of any praise I could give that sounds more flattering than that. Donbrothers is so good, they can't make it less interesting even when they try to.
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