Mission 09: Usada Rescue Operation

Once again, life gets in the way of my producing more for you but, late as it is, here is episode 9 of Go busters, Mission 09: Usada Rescue Operation.i

We start the review with a shot of The Energy Management Center which manages the energy as the name says.

Usada and Yoko appear to be fighting for one reason or another so Usada goes on a mission by himself while Yoko is downing snacks and candy like water.

He arrives at a building and is captured by two people disguised as staff and put him on a luggage cart taking him to a parking garage and into the back of a van.

We return to the base after the van drives away where they get a call about a kidnapping. The kidnapped is RHUL-03, which makes Yoko stand up exclaiming "USADA's BEEN KIDNAPPED"  This brings us to the opening.

If you notice RHUL-03 would Probably stand for Rabbit Helicopter, Usada Lettuce, 03.

Returning from the opening, we hear the ransom call demanding 2,000 trons which is either the Currency of Go Buster world or 2,000 units of Enetron.

It includes Usada arguing with the kidnappers about how he is worth way more than 2,000 trons and a shot on each of the good guys faces in response to the recording of the ransom call.

The commander asks why he went alone to the Management plant and she starts to respond but Ryuuji interrupts her to say that he and Hiromu were helping her with her homework which got Usada steaming about them helping her because she is still 16 and that she needs to study more. His rants include him saying that the Go Busters can't afford to let Yoko get any stupider than she alreayd is. All through this Ryuuji and Hiromu are trying to direct Usada to Yoko who was behind him during some of this, particularly the part about he thinks she is stupid. This gets them into the arguement that brings us back to the problem at hand.

She apologises and says that she heard the Management plant want the Special Ops division to do it on their own.

After this we get to Enter speaking with Messiah about a new Megazord design which Messiah seems happy about. The new megazord is code named BC-04, And will need more enetron to complete it and Messiah says Enter would not be using more of his power.

He picks up the phone call from the kidnappers demanding the 2000 enetrons and we get a shot of the kidnappers hideout.

Back at the base the busters put on their glasses and go into the chutes which we haven't seen in a few episodes. They are taken off exactly 6 seconds later as Yoko summons her Ichigan Buster and gets ready to fire while Ryuuji and Hiromu get ready to open the hatch to the kidnappers base.

Next shot they all have the Ichigan Busters ready to fire. Hiromu uses his Analyze mode on the Morphin Brace to scan the area for the base to get a map of the area. How they get a whole map of a building in a single circle is beyond me but it works as the woman leads them right to Usada.  Yoko goes up to him and digs him for saying Life would be easier without her which he responds cheekily that he was just conserving energy.

Basic Grunts rush in and the kidnappers flee in terror. The Busters henshin and engage the enemy.

The kidnappers are still there and are freaking out until the grunts are defeated.

Enter comes in and the busters think he had something to do with the kidnapping in the first place.

He throws a bomb into the middle of the room and takes Usada away with him.  He hijacks into the TV signal and sends a message to the Busters giving a message about Usada Lettuce demanding 10 times as much Enetron as the kidnappers and that they have 1 hour to deliver the ransom or Usada will be blown to bits by another bomb.

They think about contacting the Energy management plant for it but they had already said they dont want to get involved so that plan was scrapped. The commander then says the next mission will be to get Usada back, faking a trade off if necessary.

This takes us to the commercial break. After which we return to the show to see a distance shot of Usada hanging by his ears over the side of a building.

He laments about how if he was to die no one would be there to take care of Yoko. A truck comes around the corner which triggers a flash back to Yoko explaining the trick which would be a trick within a trick.

As she explains her plan to the rest of the team, the camera returns to the scene and shows us what she is explaining. The plan involves an empty Enetron Tanker and a fake Hiromu.

Enter jumps down from the building and says that something doesn't seem right, and notices that the real Hiromu is around the corner with Cheetah Nick in bike mode.

On the opposite side of the building where Usada is hanging, is Yoko, a fake Yoko was at the scene as well as a fake Hiromu.  She flashes back to a time when Usada was scolding her for not remembering her snacks. She takes a bite of the same snacks that Usada was scolding her with and gets ready to climb to the top of the building.

As she climbs, Enter releases two new megazords from the holding bay he was standing next to when he stopped speaking with Messiah.  These megazords bear a striking resemblance to Fourze Magnet states.

They start shooting and Nick goes off to fight on the bike abandoning Plan A just as Yoko reaches the rooftop. Enter jumps on top of the tanker and opens the lid to find it is just water. The vehicles are launched and ready to fight the megazords which are equipped the same was an old Alpha megazord was.

Enter starts slamming on the enter key on his laptop speeding up the timer on Usadas bomb and they start talking about how they want eachother to survive and do a quick flash back to the time when Yoko was a child.

The timer reaches 0 and explodes and Yoko thinks that Usada died but in yet another flash back, it is revealed that it was all part of Plan B.   Nick and Gorisaki are controlling the mechas on their own and battling the Megazord while Yoko and Usada make up.

Pardon my swearing, but Enter gets pissed at his plan being utterly embarrassed by the counter plan.

He starts attacking with his wire whips and the Busters henshin to protect themselves before Enter leaves.

The Busters enter the mechas now with RH-03 on the scene and transform to fight on their own. They do a very good job fighting as individuals this time and decide not to combine into Buster-Oh.

The episode ends with Usada scolding the commander this time about doing Yoko's homework which he responds with that Yoko asked him to run her through some examples. Yoko enters the room with an "OH Crap" and tries to diffuse the situation but just makes Usada angrier and she is his new target.

As for this episode, i thought it was pretty good. New Megazords are introduced and explores the relationship between Usada Lettuce and Yoko a bit more. I give it a 7 out of 10, pretty good but would have been better if they had used a different reason other than Yoko getting others to do her homework for her.

This episode is also unique among sentai that i have seen in that most of the time after they have formed the Gattai, the combined mecha, they don't usually fight on their own. This episode also didn't have any monster of the week, it went straight to the megazords.

I look forward to next week for episode 10, and as promised, i will have up episode 6.