Badass teacher.
One of Gaku's students doesn't want to study in his new school and keeps on bothering his old teacher. Meanwhile, Zone will put to their advantage the fact that the Fivemen love their students so much with the help of Billion's partner, Toraru Gin.
This episode is basically a Gaku and Billion focused episode. It's a Gaku episode in a sense that we see him more as a teacher and how much he cares for his students. It's a Billion episode in a sense that we learned what makes this guy tick, what is running in his mind and most especially, how he thinks of himself. Let's go first with the Gaku parts in this episode. I already expected that he will not lay a finger on his student as seen in this episode; he just lets his student hit him until Toraru Gin leaves the student's body.
Before talking about what happened next, one thing that I would like to note is the amazing use of wires to give us an impression that he has skills beyond of those of a human being. The make-up that we saw occasionally on the kid also gives us an impression that he is possessed by a monster. Now that Gaku knows their plan and that the student is safe for now, it is time to fight Billion and his men. The fight scenes in this one is fantastic and that we saw some great bike action courtesy of the siblings who used some of its weapons. But at the end, Billion continues to use the Fivemen's love for the kids and kidnaps the boy.
This is when we saw Gaku's dedication as a teacher. Even though he is not anymore the kid's teacher, he still continues to care for him. He remembers the day he is being annoyed by him because that's what makes the kid special and will do everything to save him, even if it will cause his freedom. The flashback scene and Gaku's declaration made me say to myself that this show has some badass teachers. Hopefully, we will see more of these badass teacher moments in this series. We all admire teachers as kids and seeing them as a superhero is really something for a kid, and that's what Gaku will do in this episode.
After getting possessed by Toraru Gin when he is trying to save the kid from his possession, we saw Billion's true colors. He is a man who will do anything for the sake of his own ambition. That ambition is to conquer Earth with his own power even if he needs to sacrifice someone that considers him as a friend. To be honest, this trait of his is something I saw in a lot of villains; I don't see anything special in it. Hopefully, they can expand more on the villains since I still find them too generic right now.
Because his supposed friend betrayed him, Toraru Gin declares that he will fight on his own, causing him to possess Billion's body in one amazing motorcycle fight scene. No seriously, the motorcycle action in this episode is fantastic and that includes the fight on Billion's motorcycle. After some brief moment in Billion's body, the Fivemen were able to drive him out of it and finally, defeated it. For some reason, it felt like the episode should end in that part but nope, Billion decides to help his former comrade by enlarging him.
Arthur sends the Five Trailer; the first thing I observe in this thing is the parts of the Five Robo neatly aligned to form a truck. It's kinda cool the way they stored the mecha in this manner. The Five Trailer is kinda like a carrier mecha that is not a carrier mecha in that sense. After the amazing formation sequence, we see something quite neat, the machinery inside Five Robo's metallic skin. It's kinda neat to see that sort of thing in Super Sentai mecha.
Now for the giant fight, it's interesting but what made it really interesting is that they showed us the features of the Five Robo and that includes the cannons on its arm before doing the finisher. At the end, everything is back to normal and that we saw Gaku and his student bond a little more before closing the episode in a really fun note. To sum up my thoughts, we learned that teachers can be badasses if it has something to do with their student. What's interesting is that Gaku barely transformed in this episode, to put it simply, we saw Gaku more as the teacher and not as the superhero. I like this kind of thing and hopefully, they will do it in episodes focusing on kids in the near future.
