Joe = Not your average Blue Ranger
In this episode, Joe meets his match in terms of swordsmanship, the Action Commander Zodomas who evenly matched his skills. Before that, they tried using other keys in the GokaiOh, and failed to release an extra mecha! Moreover, I thought Toei would be influenced to sell more mecha! Anyways, more Ahim love in this episode!
Just like the previous focus episodes, there are two characters that are involved with the main character to be developed, namely, Joe is being partnered by the worried Ahim. And so far, this technique in fleshing out one character hasn’t failed yet. More on Joe in this episode, his character description that he is the “cool guy” really fits on this episode. Asides that after he lost against Zodomas, he tries to find ways and means to defeat his sword technique and not get frustrated over it like what most people do.
Asides from his personality, we saw how good he is as a swordsman. Seriously, how he trains out of suit was something and I salute Yamada Yuki on how he acts outside suit and trains with flying blades which some of them are CGI so that Yuki will not have much real life damage. Also, Joe’s five sword style is awesome, especially his finisher!
We saw more of Ahim’s caring side in this episode. She worries about with Joe’s welfare and she starts to act more motherly than being a princess, which her official character description describes her. What’s more is that she walks into the battlefield when Joe was in trouble because of Zodomas cheating in their supposed to be duel!
If there is one Action Commander that is worth talking about, probably it is Zodomas. He is someone who is on par with one of the Rangers, in this case, Joe that in my opinion, he should be a recurring character in this series. But because on how he acted in the last few minutes in the episode, I changed my mind because I thought he is one of those villains who has this “sense of swordsman pride” in him.
Overall, this is one of the best focus episodes in the series. Sure, Don’s episode was fun to watch but this is, this is beyond what Don did because of the following factors, Joe wasn’t outshined by any of the characters while as for Don, Marvelous outshined him in most scenes. Asides from that, a new ship has been established, Joe x Ahim… and I am one of the supporters! LOL.
In the next episode, Ban, Jasmine and Duugie, I mean, Doggie returns and now, Jasmine will arrest Marvelous because of his crimes of piracy! Along with it, Ban dons a new hair (EEEEEHHHH?!) and have gotten a bit serious and also, DekaGokaiOh makes its debut!