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I will be discussing: Love and obsession.
This is Super Sentai Sanctuary 017: “Love is Light”
CREDITS
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers 17 Tsubas’a Light – June 26, 2022
Writer: Toshiki Inoue
Director: Hiroyuki Kato
SOURCE – https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Don_17:_Light_and_Tsubasa
Writer Tracker – Toshiki Inoue (17; 1-17)
Director Tracker – Ryuta Tasaki (4; 1-2, 9-10); Shojiro Nakazawa (2; 3-4); Katsuya Watanabe (5; 5-6, 13-15); Hiroyuki Kato (4; 7-8, 16-17); Kyohei Yamaguchi (2; 11-12)
SYNOPSIS
Tsubasa Inuzuka, who has been on the run for keeping a secret, promised to his beloved Natsumi to meet her again after a year. But before said meeting, Tsubasa sees a man who is about to jump off a building. By transforming into Inu Brother and saving him, his true identity is revealed to Sononi. Wanting to know more about human love, Sononi offers Tsubasa a bet. She asks Tsubasa if he can turn the darkness into light of said heartbroken man because of love to prevent him from becoming a Hitotsuki.
NEGATIVE
-The effect of the ephemeral Beastial looked bad
-Weak monster design
POSITIVE
-Tsubasa carried this episode. Haruka started off the series as our POV character and took a fairly primary roll. That was great. Tsubasa got to take over this time and the rest of the cast was BARELY in this and it still worked!
-The Beastials seem to have a backdoor into the human world through possessing people. That’s interesting.
-Haruka and Saruhara carrying Tarou on their shoulders made for a good laugh “We are not a palanquin” LOL
DIRECTION
-Did Sam Raimi guest direct this episode?
-Seriously though, congratulations to Hiroyuki Kato for doing an amazing job making origami menacing and selling that portal effect. everyone did a great job, from the lighting to the acting to the paper puppeteers. That was beautiful.
WRITING
-I could watch Tsubasa the Love Doctor for a while. I wonder if Inoue’s restraint on Tsubasa enabled him to pull this off.
GENERAL NOTES
-It’s amazing to me that Tsubasa’s actor who just goes by Totaro can easily be the leading man in this series. I don’t know if it is the performance, the look or what, but I totally bought in to Tsubasa as a character.
-Didn’t Jin’s imprisonment have something to do with the Beastials/Juto being sealed away?
-Does that seal only effect them in their full bodily form? And yet they can possess people to come through the barrier somehow? If that is the case, is the origami integral to that process? Jin knew they made origami, but did he always know about them possessing people?
REFLECTIONS
-What is the balance between love and obsession?
NEXT EPISODE
– Don 18 A Shot to the Jaws
SOURCE – https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Don_18:_The_Jaws_One
SCORE
Episode 17: 8/10
Solid episode. Great chracter work with Tsubasa. His tragic horror story background was a delight to watch, his perspective on love and his good heart make him possibly my favorite Donbrother and I love the twist in and comedy served by nearly making the rest of the team his supporting cast.
CREATOR SPOTLIGHT
Designing a Lady Angel Superhero |HH01 Concept Art 1
https://luminousbeingssite.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/hh01-concept-art-1/
INFO
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers is a Japanese television series. It is the 46th in Toei’s Super Sentai series. Its Momotarō-themed Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The show succeeded Kamen Rider Revice line-up Super Hero Time to Avataro Sentai Donbrothers in premiered March 6, 2022, on TV Asahi.
SOURCE – https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avataro_Sentai_Donbrothers
The series theme is based on the legend of Momotarō and Virtual Reality. Because of this, many of the show’s graphics are styled to resemble traditional Japanese watercolor brush paintings, and the series makes more extensive uses of CGI than past productions.
SOURCE – https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Avataro_Sentai_Donbrothers
Official Site – https://www.toei.co.jp/tv/donbrothers/story/1228312_3246.html
Full Show Notes – WP
CREATOR SPOTLIGHT
Designing a Lady Angel Superhero |HH01 Concept Art 1
INFO
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers is a Japanese television series. It is the 46th in Toei’s Super Sentai series. Its Momotarō-themed Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The show succeeded Kamen Rider Revice line-up Super Hero Time to Avataro Sentai Donbrothers in premiered March 6, 2022, on TV Asahi.
SOURCE – https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avataro_Sentai_Donbrothers
The series theme is based on the legend of Momotarō and Virtual Reality. Because of this, many of the show’s graphics are styled to resemble traditional Japanese watercolor brush paintings, and the series makes more extensive uses of CGI than past productions.
SOURCE – https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Avataro_Sentai_Donbrothers
MJ Muñoz 