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DreamSword Watches Unfamiliar Toku: Part 2 - Y'all Rangers
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DreamSword
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Episode 2: Ohgaman Dies
People really underestimate how strong friendships can be.
Growing up, I've many times heard people talk about how nothing lasts forever, and that losing friends and replacing them with new ones is an inevitability.
Friendship is so often seen as something that's disposable; Something that doesn't even come close to qualifying as something akin to true love. It's all just kid games and drinking buddies, so why bother getting attached?
But friendships are incredibly important. They provide spaces where we can be ourselves, relationships that can have profound effects on us, and support that allows us to grow as people. Any relationship can be made to last and in the age we live in where the world is more connected than ever, it's not too difficult.
Jiro hasn't seen his dear friend Yuki in 17 years, yet he still did his best to keep in touch with her over the years, and is coming to Fukuoka just to see her. It's a quick thing, but it really hit home with me, as someone who makes an effort to travel a few times a year to visit friends who live far out from me, and of whom I still make an effort to talk despite us not living close by in about half a decade.
While he doesn't get to see her face to face in this episode, I am very interested in where this close friendship that was made long distance is going to go over the show's' run. It's clear that Jiro has had a hard time articulating his feelings to others ever since he was a kid, so it brings up the question on if Yuki was aware of just how important she is to him or not. Because lemme tell ya, it's not always so clear cut, as so many experiences have taught me.
Oh, right, there's also the main plot, wherein Jiro gets a fragment of Ohgaman's' power, and is entrusted to be the new guardian of Fukuoka. The rest of the episode, while definitely still having some of the zany energy of the first, does slow things down some to elaborate a bit more on plot and character. And it works pretty well overall. Outside of Jiro, the other big highlight being more insight into the dynamic of the Secret Society of Darkness and the dynamic between its members.
In my
Power Ranger
tabletop that I have going, one of the running gags we having going is that the villain organization is run like a business, so when I saw that
Dogengers
here did much the same, to the point that Yabai Kamen's' super mode is called Unpaid Overtime, it instantly had my approval. It also sort of gave me
Zero-One
vibes as well, given how Ohgaman is also apparently a CEO himself and easily sets Jiro up with a new apartment(and is apparently strong enough to level all of Fukuoka holy crap). Though obvious this is a much more lighthearted take than what
Kamen Rider
would do with it.
It's a great stepping stone episode, and I approve.
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