Recap: Bakuage Soccer Sentai Champion Boonboomger, Episode 41 – A Supportive Back

Recap: Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger, Episode 41 – A Supportive Back

Spindo is speaking with the heads of Big World Complex Football Association who are trying to lobby hosting the next Big Bang Cup on Earth. Spindo says Big Bang Soccer is the best way to settle things. Grantu tells the chairmen that for Earth to be part of the league, they will need to pay one million shares of Gassholin. No problem, the chairmen say and it is a done deal.

Just then, the Boonbooms arrive after Shashiro’s intel had revealed the corruption between the BWCFA and Big Bang Soccer.

Spindo approves bringing about Soccer Ball Guruma to facilitate a match between the Hashiryan and the Boonbooms.

In the locker room, pre-game, the Boonbooms talk about how the Hashiryan can infiltrate deep into planets. Sakito and Genba say planets have been easily conquered because of sell-outs and traitors.

Turns out Sakito, Byundi and Genba all played for the legendary soccer club Pulse Ace, though never a chance together on the same team. Spindo ripped that soccer club away from them, making them very determined to win this match.

The teams head out onto the pitch to begin the match. Since they have a limited number of players, they will play with futsal rules.

The match starts off fast and goalkeeper Jou can’t do anything to stop an Armageddon Shot right though the net. Literally. Jou is forced to dehenshin and has to be substituted by Mira.

Though it is Boonboom ball, Sakito and Genba fight each other over it, wanting to take the ball for themselves. The Sanseaters take advantage of their fighting and are able to score on a trick shot, outsmarting Mira who initially things she had blocked the ball. Only, it was Yaruka she blocked, allowing Ittasha to literally walk in with the ball through the goal.

Sakito and Genba continue fighting each other for the ball. So Taiya goes 119 and sprays water on them two. Shashiro is able to then slide through and score a goal for the Boonbooms.

Taiya announces he will be subbing out Genba and Sakito with BunBun and Byundi.

Spindo warns the Kurumaju that he does not like to be overtaken. So Soccer Ball Guruma begins changing the field of play to random locations whenever the Boonbooms are about to score a goal.

They are first transported onto a basketball court. Then take a woman, Sato-Shiho-san, by surprise when she catches the ball herself. Then they find themselves at a tire and autoparts store.

Meanwhile in the locker room, Jou arrives to break up Sakito and Genba’s bickering.

Jou tells them that sports are great and he understands how the two of them feel against the Hashiryan for taking their soccer away. But they will need to have cooler heads. Just like you can’t overheat curry, so too must they cool down.

Genba and Sakito now understand why Taiya took them out of the game. They realize they must have more level heads in order to protect soccer and deliver it to the childrens of the future.

The soccer match has now been transported into the mountains. BunBun and Byundi try to block another Armageddon Shot and they get blown away. But Mira is able to find a way to block it herself.

Just then, Sakito and Genba arrive. They henshin. Taiya activates Champion. Jou tosses his jacket for Sakito to use. Together, they are Bakuage Soccer Sentai Champion Boonboomger.

Sakito and Genba are now able to have perfect teamwork. They credit Taiya with getting them to cool off and they now have full control of the wheel.

With Safari and Leo Rescue to power them as well as being motivated by liberating Bureki and Pulse Ace from the Hashiryan, Genba and Sakito deliver a Twin Cam Drive kick that scores them a goal.

It is now tied. Spindo scolds the Kurumaju. Yaruka embiggens Soccer Ball Guruma and Super Great Gym Guruma. BunBun and Byundi are alright so they join the Boonbooms in robo form to deliver a Golazo finisher to both Kurumaju.

The Ball shoots straight in to Spindo’s room as he applauds the nice game.

Genba and Sakito want to play another game to celebrate their win. Taiya approaches the chairmen and invites them to join in. They haven’t been on the field in a while. So they should join them to rekindle their love for the sport again and remember why they loved it in the first place.

Episode Thoughts

An interesting episode at this point of the season. lol Of course it was fun and enjoyable. But certainly not much more than fluffy filler, to be honest. At least, I wouldn’t have had this episode at this point of the season. Especially after some strong plot-moving episodes the last couple of weeks. Though when you think of it that way, having a breather might make sense.

I do know the Boonbooms had a collab with the pro team Shimizu S-Pulse a few months ago with Satoru Soma and Yu Miyazawa participating with a special event at a match. So perhaps that has something to do with the timing based on filming date and the like.

But I definitely enjoyed the baseball episode more.

Anyway, if I were to dig deep and find the consequential developments of this episode. One would be learning about Genba, Sakito and Byundi’s participation in Big Bang Soccer. Giving us a tiny peek into what goes on in other parts of the galaxy. They have lives just like we do on Earth. And Genba, Sakito and Byundi had lives of their own before coming here.

Another thing would be highlighting how much the Hashiryan can easily infiltrate planets. Whether it’s positioning their people amongst the civilians or collaborating with people in power to hasten their conquests, the Hashiryan are a powerful entity. Though of course we already knew that, this episode made clear that their influence and power is multi-faceted and a huge threat.

What was funny though was how this episode came after the week in which FIFA announced the next World Cup hosts. And of course, FIFA has had a controversial history of corruption, especially when it comes to hosting choices. So this episode highlighting such a scenario where was really hilarious.

Fun to see the actors for King-Ohger‘s Sebastian and Boshimar make a guest appearance as the corrupt soccer officials. I had to think a bit at the start why they looked so familiar. lol

And especially fun to see Rica Matsumoto make an appearance in person. She is the voice of BunBun and the Boonboom equipment. And a fun reference to her being the voice of Satoshi/Ace in Pokemon when they call her “Sato Shiho-san”.

Overall, while it was of course a fun and enjoyable episode (as Boonboomger offers up every week), it coming as Episode 41 feels awkward to me. Mainly just because I would prefer them to be bakuage full speed all the way to the end now. But with three months left to go, I guess an episode like this at this point is not too crazy.