[合体最強銃と哀戦士] gattai saikyoujuu to ai senshi"The Ultimate Gun Combination and the Sorrowful Warrior"
This episode marks the introduction of the third new B-Fighter, Min. B-Fighter Min's human form is a Chinese guy named Lee who happens to be against fighting, so we don't actually see him in action as Min for a good chunk of the episode. A bit of an odd way to introduce a new character, but it sort of fits him. Lee is here to deliver the final Beet Arms piece to form the Input Rifle weapon . . . or at least that's what he's supposed to be doing.
Since Lee is essentially a pacifist at the start of the episode, he doesn't actually want to hand over the Semission Magazine weapon to Kengo. Lee's line of thinking is that a stronger weapon will just lead to more fighting and that's never going to solve anything.
Elsewhere we have a frustrated Dezzle trying to make his last stand in the eyes of Mother since the B-Crushers have essentially been out-performing him in just about every aspect of his mission since their arrival.
So this was a pretty decent episode, much like a lot of the series since episode 25. It seems like that team up with the first generation B-Fighters was just what the series needed to finally get going. I would say it was Toei's attempt at just adding new toys since we've gotten eight new armored characters and three new weapons in five episodes . . . but it's worked out quite nicely. As of this episode, the only new B-Fighter I haven't really felt is Genji, his episode sort of just glossed over him as this mysterious pretty boy.
I figured that Mac was the only one of the B-Fighters to have gotten a decent introduction because he had two episodes dedicated to him while the others have one. But, I think Toei just dropped the ball on Genji/Julio's introduction. We only got to know Lee for one episode so far and it did a great job of showing off his character. He's a nice guy who just wants to entertain children. Fighting is the very last thing on his to-do list, which leaves him and everyone else wondering how in the world he ended up as a chosen warrior.
The last three episodes have given us a character focus for Kouhei and Ran, each teaming up with one of the new characters. Kouhei saw a rival in Mack Windy and Ran gets a love interest in Julio. Kengo? He, erm, I'll get back to you on that one. The two don't really form much of a bond at all in this episode and it sort of throws off the pattern set up with the introduction of the third generation B-Fighters. Lee's entire reasoning for finally relenting and letting Kengo have the Semession Magazine was more or less self-discovery.
Kengo and Lee shared a few scenes together, but nothing really made them stand out as this pair that relates to each other somehow like the other two. I guess anyone who gets paired up with Kengo is going to get the short end of the stick since his character is pretty damn bland. He's supposed to be a hardened cool guy, but he often just feels like a set piece, just there to even out the number. Might be thanks to his actor, who isn't exactly the greatest at portraying Kengo in the way he probably should have been portrayed.
So anyway. Lee transforms, becoming B-Fighter Min and hands off the Semession Magazine to Kengo, who uses it on Dezzle and then combines it with the other weapons to form the Input Rifle, a pretty nifty-looking gun. Kengo did have more focus than Kouhei this episode, so I totally expected Kengo to be the one to use it and then he just . . . hands it off to Kouhei. That sort of bothered me because it feels like Kouhei gets to use it just because he's Kabuto and his name's in the title.
The episode in general seemed like a decent balance between the good guys and the Melzard tribe, especially Dezzle. Since the death of Raija and the introduction of the B-Crushers, he's been pretty useless and wants to prove himself. He enters his mother (...yeah) and combines with his grunts to change form and become Dezzle the Great, who does a decent job of smacking around just about anyone in the way. Seems like he could have stood a decent shot at keeping up with the B-Crushers had he not been killed.
The last few episodes have essentially felt like the show was trying to write off a lot of the first half characters on Melzard's side. Raija is dead, Dezzle is dead, Miora and Drude are by their sides morning their fallen leaders and the B-Crushers are taking center stage now. I would say this is pretty poor writing, but hope is not lost! Both Raija and Dezzle are regenerating and will eventually return once their bodies are healed and...they stop being stone.
So we've finally got the Input Rifle formed! Now it's time for, oh, what's this? We've actually got one more B-Fighter left to introduce next time and no new toy for her to introduce? This should be interesting.
Since Lee is essentially a pacifist at the start of the episode, he doesn't actually want to hand over the Semission Magazine weapon to Kengo. Lee's line of thinking is that a stronger weapon will just lead to more fighting and that's never going to solve anything.
Elsewhere we have a frustrated Dezzle trying to make his last stand in the eyes of Mother since the B-Crushers have essentially been out-performing him in just about every aspect of his mission since their arrival.
So this was a pretty decent episode, much like a lot of the series since episode 25. It seems like that team up with the first generation B-Fighters was just what the series needed to finally get going. I would say it was Toei's attempt at just adding new toys since we've gotten eight new armored characters and three new weapons in five episodes . . . but it's worked out quite nicely. As of this episode, the only new B-Fighter I haven't really felt is Genji, his episode sort of just glossed over him as this mysterious pretty boy.
I figured that Mac was the only one of the B-Fighters to have gotten a decent introduction because he had two episodes dedicated to him while the others have one. But, I think Toei just dropped the ball on Genji/Julio's introduction. We only got to know Lee for one episode so far and it did a great job of showing off his character. He's a nice guy who just wants to entertain children. Fighting is the very last thing on his to-do list, which leaves him and everyone else wondering how in the world he ended up as a chosen warrior.
The last three episodes have given us a character focus for Kouhei and Ran, each teaming up with one of the new characters. Kouhei saw a rival in Mack Windy and Ran gets a love interest in Julio. Kengo? He, erm, I'll get back to you on that one. The two don't really form much of a bond at all in this episode and it sort of throws off the pattern set up with the introduction of the third generation B-Fighters. Lee's entire reasoning for finally relenting and letting Kengo have the Semession Magazine was more or less self-discovery.
Kengo and Lee shared a few scenes together, but nothing really made them stand out as this pair that relates to each other somehow like the other two. I guess anyone who gets paired up with Kengo is going to get the short end of the stick since his character is pretty damn bland. He's supposed to be a hardened cool guy, but he often just feels like a set piece, just there to even out the number. Might be thanks to his actor, who isn't exactly the greatest at portraying Kengo in the way he probably should have been portrayed.
So anyway. Lee transforms, becoming B-Fighter Min and hands off the Semession Magazine to Kengo, who uses it on Dezzle and then combines it with the other weapons to form the Input Rifle, a pretty nifty-looking gun. Kengo did have more focus than Kouhei this episode, so I totally expected Kengo to be the one to use it and then he just . . . hands it off to Kouhei. That sort of bothered me because it feels like Kouhei gets to use it just because he's Kabuto and his name's in the title.
The episode in general seemed like a decent balance between the good guys and the Melzard tribe, especially Dezzle. Since the death of Raija and the introduction of the B-Crushers, he's been pretty useless and wants to prove himself. He enters his mother (...yeah) and combines with his grunts to change form and become Dezzle the Great, who does a decent job of smacking around just about anyone in the way. Seems like he could have stood a decent shot at keeping up with the B-Crushers had he not been killed.
The last few episodes have essentially felt like the show was trying to write off a lot of the first half characters on Melzard's side. Raija is dead, Dezzle is dead, Miora and Drude are by their sides morning their fallen leaders and the B-Crushers are taking center stage now. I would say this is pretty poor writing, but hope is not lost! Both Raija and Dezzle are regenerating and will eventually return once their bodies are healed and...they stop being stone.
So we've finally got the Input Rifle formed! Now it's time for, oh, what's this? We've actually got one more B-Fighter left to introduce next time and no new toy for her to introduce? This should be interesting.
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