Badass debut.
In this episode, a Dethgalien player named Trumpus' victims play an electrified version of Old Maid, more love for Sela, and the debut of Dethgalien's newest player, a being simply known as The World.
Here's the thing about this episode, it is already good without The World stuff. I mean, seriously, we learned more stuff about Sela, showed us that Mario being relevant is not a onetime deal, and we got to see Sela being a badass in the episode. The World stuff just made this episode one of the best this series has to offer. But before we get into The World stuff, let's first talk about the Dethgalien stuff for this episode... and it all started with a lot of fighter planes attacking the city.
What makes the Dethgalien game interesting in this episode is that it played with our basic human instinct of searching for our love ones with a classic game of Old Maid. It gets more interesting when Trumpus "shuffles" those humans around in different directions, causing the victims to search for their friends or love ones with the same card on their heads. This is when it gets interesting, once they meet and it just happens that they have the same card pattern on their head, they'll get electrocuted, and the only way to stop it is to destroy Trumpus' deck that's attached to him. This is when the Sela stuff starts to kick in.
What makes the Dethgalien game interesting in this episode is that it played with our basic human instinct of searching for our love ones with a classic game of Old Maid. It gets more interesting when Trumpus "shuffles" those humans around in different directions, causing the victims to search for their friends or love ones with the same card on their heads. This is when it gets interesting, once they meet and it just happens that they have the same card pattern on their head, they'll get electrocuted, and the only way to stop it is to destroy Trumpus' deck that's attached to him. This is when the Sela stuff starts to kick in.
What I like about Sela in this episode is that we saw her care for the kid and his father that even though she wants them to reunite, she can't do it because of the consequence of them meeting. Juxtaposing it with flashbacks of Sela's life in Zyuland makes you feel bad for her. The kid only wants to meet his dad and this is the only time they can bond because his dad has work. She wants to help, but she doesn't want to put the kid in danger. Because Sela doesn't want the kid to get hurt and the kid is unaware of what will happen to him if they don't meet, the kid leaves thinking that Sela is just lying to him.
Thankfully, because of Yamato's uncle thinking the most obvious solution to the problem, namely just changing the symbol of the card into something else, and the test with Yamato and Sela was successful, Sela was able to reunite the kid with his dad. What I love about this solution is that this is most obvious solution to the problem and the one who thought about it is Yamato's uncle, the same uncle who likes to dress-up into different animals, the same guy who had a cool moment in the previous episode. Not Tusk (the smart one) or Sela (the one focused in this episode), but Mario, it's like the show wants us to care for him outside the previous episode and I got to admit, it worked.
Thankfully, because of Yamato's uncle thinking the most obvious solution to the problem, namely just changing the symbol of the card into something else, and the test with Yamato and Sela was successful, Sela was able to reunite the kid with his dad. What I love about this solution is that this is most obvious solution to the problem and the one who thought about it is Yamato's uncle, the same uncle who likes to dress-up into different animals, the same guy who had a cool moment in the previous episode. Not Tusk (the smart one) or Sela (the one focused in this episode), but Mario, it's like the show wants us to care for him outside the previous episode and I got to admit, it worked.
Now that the card problem is fixed, it is time for Sela to continue to shine more as she's the one who destroyed Trumpus' card case, ending their card problem once and for all. But before they even have the chance to defeat Trumpus, a new player arrives, and his name is The World. What's funny about it is that he was created by Genis and Genis' voice actor voiced Kars in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency anime and The World is DIO's Stand in the entire series.
JoJokes aside, I love that the first thing they point out is how this was impossible. I mean, Bird-Man has the other Champion's Symbol and this new guy looks like a Zyuohger. When the Zyuohgers learned that he was created by Genis, they just stopped asking and start to fight the guy, and boy, just like all Sixth Hero debuts in the franchise, he showed his power and beat the crap out of the team. For starters, I love The World's design, the black helmet and the suit highlighting his three zyuman powers looks really great. You can get this feeling that this guy is a badass and can easily beat you, then he delivered and starts kicking the team's asses without breaking the sweat, heck, it feels like that he's complaining that these guys are weaker than him!
JoJokes aside, I love that the first thing they point out is how this was impossible. I mean, Bird-Man has the other Champion's Symbol and this new guy looks like a Zyuohger. When the Zyuohgers learned that he was created by Genis, they just stopped asking and start to fight the guy, and boy, just like all Sixth Hero debuts in the franchise, he showed his power and beat the crap out of the team. For starters, I love The World's design, the black helmet and the suit highlighting his three zyuman powers looks really great. You can get this feeling that this guy is a badass and can easily beat you, then he delivered and starts kicking the team's asses without breaking the sweat, heck, it feels like that he's complaining that these guys are weaker than him!
Now comes the fun part about The World, just like Yamato, he has the ability to switch into any of the Zyuman powers that he has, namely, rhinoceros, wolf, and crocodile. What's more, after he beat the crap out of the Zyuohgers using his various Zyuman forms, he did something that Yamato can't do; unleash all his Zyuman power in one form. Now he has rhinoceros shoulder pads, a crocodile tail in one hand, and a wolf's claw on the other, making him more dangerous compared to the first time we saw him in this episode.
To make us care more about The World, in just one swoop, he beat all five Zyuohgers, and the episode ends at that point on. No epilogue scene wherein the kid thanked Sela for helping him reunite with his dad, no scene of them smiling and walking towards the sunset, what we got is The World victorious, Trumpus escaping as he plans to make Dethgalien great again, and that uncertainty that our heroes might not survive the next episode, especially after seeing the preview for the next episode. To put it simply, new toys means it's a guaranteed victory for The World.
To make us care more about The World, in just one swoop, he beat all five Zyuohgers, and the episode ends at that point on. No epilogue scene wherein the kid thanked Sela for helping him reunite with his dad, no scene of them smiling and walking towards the sunset, what we got is The World victorious, Trumpus escaping as he plans to make Dethgalien great again, and that uncertainty that our heroes might not survive the next episode, especially after seeing the preview for the next episode. To put it simply, new toys means it's a guaranteed victory for The World.
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