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Avataro Sentai DonBrothers Episode 2- "Big Peach, Small Peach!" Discussion
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It really speaks to how densely packed Inoue's scripts for this show are that recapping the premiere took 40 seconds.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm
way
into it. This episode makes it a point to familiarize us with all the heroes who
aren't
Haruka, and what really struck me is how the second the focus turned to a new character, I was instantly drawn into their whole world exactly as much as I was with Haruka last week. Every single time it happened. I'm not sure this episode even has the best rhythm, on paper. It's like this disconnected series of vignettes, broadly anchored by a recurring one relating to Tarou's workplace, while also further touching on Haruka's downward spiral, and none of it is all that connected, but like,
the script *refuses* to let me feel it.
It's just way too interesting!
Any one of these people feels like they could carry a show on their own, and with how this Sentai is making an effort to keep them apart, I suppose that's the whole point. Everyone has their own lives, and their own problems, and it'll be more interesting for them to come smashing together after establishing all that first. This show has a bright future ahead of it, and I can tell, because its present is already glowing. Inoue has a reputation for writing characters who act in very extreme ways, and that is proving to be a perfect match for the insanity of the world Donbrothers is portraying. You only need a brief couple scenes and a small handful of lines of dialogue to get a grasp on each character, because even the most minor actions are positively
dripping
with personality. Like, I can't even begin to tell you how much I loved Tarou abruptly pulling that closing door back open at the start. Mostly because if I start telling you about that, I might not get to how much I loved the way he plays rock paper scissors. Or all the other little touches that made all the other characters stand out so delightfully.
Plus, the writing has so much going on, that there's also a very solid monster of the week plot in here with a solid moral about not getting caught up in vanity and all that. Yes, one of the
other
things that was great about Tarou here was how he never hesitated to tell Sanae she looks like exactly the age she is. It's a plot that further cements the whole "can't tell a lie" character trait established last time, and it's good for that, but there's something I love about how this episode goes on to frame it. He's just kind of
above
flattery, and that's kind of cool? The sheer innocence with which he speaks the truth. Even when Sanae looks younger, it doesn't change his response, because he sees right through that for what she
is.
Sanae is a 68 year old woman, and Tarou doesn't see anything wrong with that.
It's a super nice story with an uplifting ending, and when the episode got to that ending, it was all the better because of how stylishly Donbrothers is put together. I absolutely adore how the ending theme this year is being used like a punctuation mark on the end of every episode. I thought for a second it might only be a thing for the premiere, so I'm glad to be wrong about that. Doing it this way is super slick, and also means the episodes get that extra minute to tie things up more thoroughly, which seems like a very, very good thing to have when Inoue is going this crazy with how much happens in a given episode.
I mean,
man
, I haven't even
touched
on the action or anything in this whole post yet. It's fun! Kiji Brother and Inu Brother look bad, I know, but I still swear that's part of the charm. This is a series where anything can happen. Don Momotaro even gets a stock footage version of his festival routine, just so they can have that be a thing whenever they want, which is
awesome
. If a cartoon dog fights evil in live-action, I just don't see why it matters how high quality the computer effects are at that point? Is believability really what we're looking for here? It's an idea that's new and crazy, regardless of how it turns out, and it's definitely feeling like that mentality is the raw essence of Donbrothers as a series.
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