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In “This is Fighter D!”, the rhythm doesn’t quite feel like we suddenly skipped the material for a whole week. Instead, the result is more like drawing stories from several episodes and stuffing them into one to sit down. This is, if you want real Expand the definition of words, “improve” what Go, go, loser ranger! It became throughout season 2. We have a story that I understand enough that at least I can identify and follow characters. Does this mean the show is better again? Oh my god, no. It’s just a bad situation.
Still, at least there is one episode this week, thanks to this kind of thing: it’s impossible to decide whether he should accept Guardians or Monster Protection Society, and the fighter ends up balancing the two when two councillors inherit the fallen boss monster power and put everyone in a crazy psychedelic barrier. On the surface, this sounds like a storyline that will follow the enormous and hasty revelations of the past few weeks.
In practice, neither the story beats of this episode land well, as neither the story nor the character elements get enough time to simply exist. Oh, of course, Ukyo and Jiji get a bunch of last-minute backstory, exploring might have two average people using a bunch of regenerated liquid and turning into a terrifying monster hybrid, but without any emotional weight. The same can be said for us as yellow goalkeepers, the sacred artifacts and all the developments of how Yumeco is associated with everything. You could have easily written the whole plot specifically, just showing us how the yellow gatekeeper seeks to acquire the infinite power of artifacts, which leads him to play God with a bunch of discretionary human clones that look as terrible as Himeko, which will explain why she died so much from destroying the organization. Instead, it all boils down to more wandering scenes, thrown into a huge, chaotic pile.
Then there is the question of the nominal anti-hero himself. I love Fighter D and I understand why the show might have tried to highlight how his inner conflict is rooted in refusing to choose one party and defining his identity in serving anyone else. Ultimately, what we have is a protagonist, and at this point, he feels like an extra show in his own performance. Giving him some of the best chances to work with him is his confrontation with Angel, who still doesn’t know who she is as her former comrade. Again, this is a concept that can be easily fleshed out and explored correctly using the entire plot, as it represents the roots of the entire character arc of FD. We don’t understand. We just rushed through the scene in one scene, furiously checking the box in the story rhythm list g! g! lr! I am legally obliged to adapt to record time.
The production value of the show also makes sloppy and heavy-duty storytelling worse. Like I said last week, I’m willing to tolerate mediocre animations when a good enough story becomes slack, but since we all know that scripts of these plots are thrown into wood chips and randomly rescheduled by unpaid interns, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that such anime is just ugly. The character animation has no personality, no vitality for the environment, and certainly no touch and lively spirit that makes Tokusatsu so interesting. I hope I’m right Go, go, loser ranger!lately, but I don’t think I’m alone feeling that it’s just to be a work of strength through this chaos so that we can end up.
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Go, go, loser ranger! Currently flowing Hu Lu and Disney+ On Sunday.
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