The MOTW for this week is sports themed and likes fierce and fiery competition and thus, the Kyoryugers accepted his challenge of a basketball match! Aside from training for this match, our heroes will also use this opportunity to learn more about teamwork after they can't "Brave In" the new Victory Beast Battery.
This is the most ridiculous episode of Kyoryuger I have seen. I know, the show has its own set of ridiculous moments, but this episode is basically them going extremely over the top especially to the sports scenes and I really, really like it. But before talking about what makes this episode so awesome, let's first talk about the currently running plot about Bragigas. First is that they have more extra batteries, including 4 Bragigas Batteries that are not charging since they haven't awaken Bragigas. Next is that the plot about the Lost Stones continues in this episode.
It is during their first encounter with the MOTW that we have an idea how the Lost Stones plot gets into play in this episode. The hint we have is that Futabain just reacted, like it is telling something to our heroes, which caused them to use the said battery to create Kyoryuger clones! The scene featuring the clones is really fun to watch and it didn't help that the Kyoryuger doubles have the heights right! Gone are the days that the clone of a Super Sentai hero is not identical to the original. After being told by the MOTW that they are not playing fairly, King accepted his challenge of a basketball game.
This is when the training montage comes in and for a training montage; our heroes looked really sloppy in this. Most training montages show us how our heroes evolve from zero to hero. In this case, it's zero to zero, we didn't see them evolve while as for the bad guy training montage, we see them work as hard as they could to become stronger foot soldiers. So how did King and friends discover teamwork in this episode? It is all thanks to Utchy and him blaming his mistake when it comes to cooking. It's because of him adding more salt instead of sugar in his tamagoyaki that King discovered that maybe, they haven't discovered their other potential outside to their specialty... and he is right. The training went smoothly after this.
The next day, it is time to face the Deboth Legion in a game of basketball or so they thought. They decided to change the game in favor to their side and so, our heroes must face them in a game of futsal! This is when things become a bit goofy, since our heroes still want to play basketball and the bad guys want to play futsal, we ended up seeing a game that is basically a mix of those two game. They went a bit over the top when it comes to the moves they do, which you can easily consider a foul if they are following basketball rules. But hey, the bad guys changed the game at the last minute, so what the heck, they decided to screw the rules and play some over the top basketball complete with a literal in your face dunk by King!
While this is all happening, Dogold is busy in obtaining a Lost Stone, which can be found inside a trophy. Futabain's sudden reaction now makes sense and I just love that Torin and Yayoi figured it out and prevented Dogold from obtaining the Lost Stone. Speaking of Yayoi, it feels like the writer remembered that she is more than just the team's tech support because we saw her kick some butt in this episode. Speaking of tech support and kicking butt, our heroes finally used the new Victory Beast Battery!
The way they activate it is quite cool and as for the finisher, aside from the fact that Minityra is quite small to be considered the team cannon, the finisher itself looks surprisingly awesome. It's awesome because it is basically a bunch of flying dinosaur heads piercing the monster's body until it dies! Now that he is defeated by our heroes, it's now time for the mecha fight! What's great about this aside from Yayoi now piloting Plezu-Oh with King is that it's one of those times that we saw all 9 Voltasaurs together in the battlefield. That alone makes this mecha fight really cool.
What makes this fight cooler is its goofiness, the sports-themed fight sequences are seriously over the top, which includes Kyoryuzin carrying a baseball bat to hit whatever the MOTW pitched and the foot soldiers huddling together to form a plan. At the end, they defeated the MOTW and his team, did a badass team call at the end, obtained the Lost Stone and now there are only two stones left. Guess it all ends well for the team, less Utchy because he hasn't played a game of basketball with his team!
