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What are you watching? Other Toku Series Edition
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07-10-2022, 06:47 AM
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So here I am, with the surprise that I?ve finished not one, but TWO Metal Heroes shows today. So, I?m here to give my two cents on both of them.
The first of the two is Uchuu Keiji Shaider, the finale of the trilogy that went through Gavan and Sharivan. This one will be short, the show is great, it doesn?t really make any real missteps, the plot is interesting, if sparse and it has a fairly great female lead in the form of Annie, who is essentially the real hero of the show (given that she gets the bulk of actions scenes and a surprising amount of focus episodes for a side character). And the plots have some delightfully quirky evil schemes that make the show a hoot to talk about.
If the picture isn?t enough of an indication, then the second show I?ve finished is Jukou B-Fighter, a show about insect themed heroes fighting evil, though any similarities you think you can draw with Kamen Rider stop there. The rest of the show is drastically different. Here, the heroes actually draw their power from the insects of planet Earth to fight against the evil Jamahl, who seek to capture the mythical St. Papillia, an immortal butterfly creature who appears when planets are on the verge of death to revive them. While this motive isn?t revealed until episode 40, and the actual final scheme isn?t initiated until episode 46, the show doesn?t really need to have relied on it earlier, given that it provides a few unique plots not just for Metal Heroes (the fact the heroes actually have a ?Morpher?, rather than putting on a suit) but for Toku in general (one episode has Jamahl recruiting humans to serve as mercenaries working for them). And now, we come to my personal highlight of the show.
Black Beet. An evil counterpart introduced halfway through when Gaohm (the show?s big bad) realises that ?In order to crush a bug, I need a bug?. Rather than go for the obvious route of making him a monster, they make it clear from the outset that he?s a guy in a suit, similar to the B-Fighters. The mystery around who is actually in the suit, while fairly obvious based on both contextual clues (one of the longhorn beetles that create him bites Takuya and any pain that his unmasked alias Shadow feels is felt by Takuya and vice versa), it ultimately does have a satisfying payoff, as it is he that finally brings St. Papillia to Earth, it is he that figures out Gaohm?s real intentions and true personality (while Jera also works it out, Gigaro never does and Schwartz goes crazy and stops caring). And notably, he sets up an emotional crisis for Takuya that isn?t simply resolved at the end of the episode, and instead takes up a fairly lengthy arc. And notably, in spite of his name, he ends up being the lighter shade of black to Gaohm, who isn?t made sympathetic despite the two having the same motives. It?s even Black Beet who serves as the final boss? of the main story. As for the actual show?
The last two episodes are essentially a two-parter that?s comparatively lower stakes (whereas Gaohm seeks to cause extinction of all life on Earth, this two-parter?s villain simply seeks to be a Goddess of Evil) and features a team up with the previous two seasons, Janperson and Blue SWAT. The show manages to make a stable dynamic between all three shows and gives the big bads from said previous shows (Bill Goldy and Queen) a fairly decent threat level. Though as said earlier, it?s not connected to the main plot, and Jun?ichi Miyashita (the head writer) had nothing to do with it, the plot instead being handled by a minor writer by the name of Yasuko Kobayashi (gee, I wonder what happened to her). While many familiar with her later body of work assume she was the head writer, the truth is she only wrote one filler episode near the start of the show (about a robot who threatens to explode if he isn?t given what he wants).
So overall, both shows are definitely worth your time and high on my list. I?d give Shaider a 7/10 and B-Fighter a 9/10.
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