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Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger Episode 38- "Your Ancestors! Great Spirit World!" Discussion
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Oh look! Stacey is suffering emotionally again! Must be a Sunday.
Although for someone who has it bad pretty much every week, this is certainly an especially rough episode on him. Realizing you might be inheriting the bad habits of your abusive father on the same day you nearly got stabbed to death by your mother's ghost is... I mean,
geez
, what do you even call that? It sucks, to say the least!
But it's also the kind of bad day that might lead to a brighter future for Stacey eventually? It's a pretty huge moment of self-awareness for him, at the end of this one, that I don't he's ever really had before. Honestly, I wouldn't have even drawn the connection between Barashitara's plan with the monster of the week and how keeping Hakaiser around means forcing Kaito to fight his own parent. But yeah, it kinda is the same deal, huh? So good on Stacey, for having the empathy to see the bigger picture that way. He's lived an awful life, and he's begun to realize he's letting it make him an awful person. It hurts to confront that kind of thing, but it's an important step in learning to move forward.
...Kinda deep for a Zenkaiger episode! (Not that I want to downplay the quality of the show's writing, mind you!) That's why we all love Stacey though, right? I
can
assume we all love Stacey? For how alone he constantly feels, I imagine I'm far from the only one still rooting for the poor guy as hard as ever.
Well, at least over on Zyuran's end of this story, you've got the much more goofy emotional resolution of the Kikainoids reflecting on how normalized the system of oppression they lived under had truly become after generations of it going unchallenged, and further renewing their resolve to put a stop to it in their own time. ...No wait, hang on, that's another poignant and surprisingly real bit of drama. Man, the show is going hard this week!
Except for the part where it doesn't actually
feel
that way? Not for nothing have I described this show's control of its tone as "masterful" before! Because despite working in all that very genuine substance, this episode isn't any less focused on wacky antics than usual. The choice of monster themes is deliberately messing with expectations under an extremely loose pretense, seemingly just for the sake of being more silly. The usual creatively messed up roll call in present and accounted for. The dinosaur robot is there, getting attacked by giant eggplants and cucumbers this time... it's all just as fun and upbeat as always. The oddly timed holiday premise is put to use for the comedy and the more serious beats equally well, a balance Zenkaiger has gotten very good at striking as it nears its last stretch.
There's also the stuff with Zox, which was every bit as entertaining, but I don't have much of an interpretation there as to any sort of theme or development it touches on. Maybe it's there and I just didn't notice. It's not exactly a problem if Twokaiser fighting a pirate ghost is "merely" a lot of flash though. Like, it's the closest thing I have to a complaint, and I'm not even complaining about it. Zenkaiger is just that good!
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