Zyuohger, Episode 27 - Recap

Episode 27: 本物はどっちだ? (Which is the Real One?)

Air Date: Sunday, August 28, 2016

Synopsis:

Bungrey creates copies of Sela and Tusk from their memories and attached bombs to both the real Sela and Tusk and their memory-made imposters. The team has 30 minutes to figure out which set is the real Sela and Tusk before the bombs explode!

Review:

First Impressions

  Looks like Bungrey is going to put his powers to more interesting uses. As much as I enjoy him and what he adds to the show…I am worried that they’re overusing him and he’ll be gone soon. I wish they’d put him on the back burner a bit.

Put-ups

 For a clip-show, it was at least an interesting clip show. The idea of having to find out the impostors is not particularly original but I enjoyed the effort. I also like how they figured the impostors – they were made from memories so it makes sense that their recollections would be too perfect. It’s natural to forget things and minute details.

 That scene at the beginning with Azald and Quval was rather intriguing. The writers are definitely building up to something, or else I don’t think they’d be making such an issue of Quval’s behavior since Bungrey showed up. I hope the pay-off is good.

 I did like the team getting irritated by Misao’s sulking and almost not wanting to get him involved because of it.

 They flashed back to some Zord footage but there was no shoe-horned Zord battle!!

 The cast looked adorable in their Quiz Show outfits. I really do adore this cast, there's not a single member that bothers me (which hasn't been the case will all the recent teams).

Put-downs

　Even though it was a fairly interesting clip show, it was still a clip-show.

Final thoughts

  I assume that this episode was made to save money and because I assume this upcoming Gokaiger cross-over episode needed extra time to film or they needed to save money to make this cross-over happen (which also explains why they’ve been re-using monster suits so much lately). I do hope that having a clip show now means we won’t get one for New Year’s like is usually the case.

  As I said in my put-down section – it was an interesting clip show but it was still a clip show. And while it was good for a clip-show, I don’t particularly enjoy clip shows.

Final Grade: C-