In this episode, our heroes struggle to find themselves after it turns out that, surprise of surprises, the putative leader of fully one half of the series’ sentai teams does not, in fact, die and then Touma has an identity crisis of an entirely different flavor.
Meanwhile, your hosts continue to brace for a possible extra hero (we don’t look at magazine scans and do our best to avoid spoilers so we don’t know if one’s even coming) and while they do that, talk a bit about:
- Commander Hilltop: What a guy!
- But, sorry everyone romantically interested: he’s married.
- Probably to a super-badass, but that’s just us hoping.
- Sakuya, by contrast, still sucks even when he’s trying to be cool.
- That awful little kid (who’s not really that awful, just written like a kid).
- Dunking on Kamen Rider Drive. Sorry(?).
- The biology of a Gangler.
- Monster design.
- Touma as deadpan Looney Tune.
- Kairi being hardcore.
- Short musings on a villainous Sentai.
All this and more in this episode of Laser Knees!
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Police Sentai Patranger
Episode 15 – An Officer’s Duty
Episode Writer: Komura Junko
Episode Director: Katou Hiroyuki
Episode 16 – Because We’re Friends
Episode Writer: Arakawa Naruhisa
Episode Director: Watanabe Katsuya
Watanabe Katsuya isn’t a name we’ve heard in the couple of years we’ve done this show I think, but he’s a long time Sentai director that goes all the way back to Zyuranger and worked on nearly every modern Sentai from Gaoranger to Kyoryuger, as well as several movies, Vs. movies, and specials. He also directed the Kamen Rider Blade movie and some episodes of Fourze.
As Mentioned:
- “Halcyon Dreams”, a mini-doc about Dragon’s Lair and the idea that things come about because of one person as opposed to many people making it happen.
- “Trapped In His Body For 12 Years, A Man Breaks Free” – For more info (in an admittedly very short article) about the man who kept himself sane while unable to move in his body, partially by thinking about his antipathy for Barney the Dinosaur.
- “Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist” Because we mentioned Looney Tunes.
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