Tokumei Sentai Gobusters/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• Hiromu is 20 years old according to his bio. In Japan you are legally recognized as an adult when you turn 20. Him disobeying his sister's wishes and joining the Go-Busters is basically the same as a kid who leaves home and joins the military as soon as he turns 18.
• At first, naming the enemy mechs "Megazords" seems to be odd. Then the flashback in episode 2 shows that the Megazords originally belonged to the Transport Research Center, going so far as to show one sharing a hangar with Gobuster Ace. In other words, the Megazords are supposed to be the "good guys", it's just that they were captured and corrupted by the Vaglass.
  • This also explains why they create a Metaroid before sending a Megazord; since the Megazords didn't originally belong to the Vaglass they need to use a Metavirus to override the original programming and make it do what they want.
  • According to offical material, Go-Buster Ace is also refered to as a Megazord, which makes since with the above Fridge Brilliance. The Megazords could be seen as the mass production version while Go-Buster Ace is the final version.
• Episode 2 explains that the Go-Busters are apparently infused with a computer program. Each weakness--overheating after extended use, freezing/locking up, and running out of power without a constant power source--is a computer error.
  • So what happens with Ryuji in #5 could be likened to overclocking?
    • Precisely.
  • Masato's problem, on the other hand, seems to be with obtrusive pop-ups of the Beet J. Stag brand. Appropriately, the latter's ego is akin to the exaggerations this type of advertising relies on.
• Yoko is one of the most aggressive female Rangers with one of the most girly Animal Motifs to date - making her a literal Killer Rabbit.
• The Go-busters' abilities are similar to their Buddyroids. Hiromu has the speed of a cheetah, Ryuuji has the strength of a gorilla, and Yoko has the leaping power of a rabbit.
  • Doesn't it only count as brilliance if the so called Fridge Brilliance wasn't blatantly obvious since the prereleased information came out (which all that was)?
• The Megazords not having much of a fixed entry time makes an interesting amount of sense when one remembers Enter's discussion with Messiah at the beginning. Messiah's impatient nature and temper tantrums threaten to outright collapse every exit out of hyperspace - so it probably stands to reason that the stability of those routes (and thus the ability to get Megazords out) is dependent on Messiah's mood the very same day.
• Enter's Verbal Tic of repeating the same word three times (Bon-Bon-Bonjour Go-Busters) could be seen as a corrupted audio file being played.
• On the subject of Enter. Why is it that Enter always keeps his glasses when he assumes a disguise? It is because his glasses are connected to the program that allows Enter to assume his disguises!
• Alternately to the above, despite changing his clothes, Enter always keeps his goggles, and is implied to need them to see the flow of Enetron, the same way the Go-Busters use their binoculars. This implies that Enter is not quite as machine as he is assumed to be. Possibly even no more machine than the Go-Busters themselves.
• Why do the Buster Machines require a Buddyroid to be connected as the control system? It's stated that the Buddyroids have a program that renders them immune to the Metavirus, rendering them unable to be infected by it. Using them as the control system protects the mecha from the virus too!

Fridge Horror

• #5 is steeped in a lot of Values Dissonance - Ryuji's Super-Powered Evil Side stems entirely from a special power, and he's depicted sympathetically from having to hold it back though his own effort, even Gorisaki likens his behavior to a 'cartoon villain' as if inducing some Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and thus the incident is easily swept under the rug, which seems a lot like how Domestic Abuse would be treated in a typically rigid Japanese society.