History Recap / AvataroSentaiDonbrothersEp46ANatsumiNightsDream

With Taro now in the Forest of Slumber as its new guardian, another Penguin Jūto appears and takes his form, proving to be a formidable foe for the Donbrothers. On top of that, Tsuyoshi has been captured by Sonoshi's group; with Sonoi, Sononi and Sonoza in trouble with the Council, an uneasy alliance is born between them and the remaining members of the team.

* MythologyGag: Jiro introducing his girlfriend to Tsubasa, the Black Ranger of the group, at a park is a clear nod to [[Series/ChojinSentaiJetman a similar scene happening in a previous Sentai]], coincidentally written by Inoue.

** The Crane Jūto helping Taro in his plan to free all the humans trapped in the Forest of Slumber comes across as this, as if to make up for laughing off his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the previous episode.

* AssholeVictim: Zigzagged on Miho's case. On one hand, it's hard to feel bad for Miho [[LoveInterestTraitor given the amount of romantic chess]] she's been playing with Tsubasa and Tsuyoshi since the show's start. Getting ganged-up on and mauled by a horde of Juto is all the more satisfying. But on the other hand, the Juto seems to run on BlueAndOrangeMorality and she sees no wrong playing both sides until Taro calls her out on it an episode earlier.

* BaitAndSwitch: Miho is battered beyond belief by the end of the episode, having been subject to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by a Cat Juto horde and having finally lost her link to Natsumi. She symbolically sails down the river to her grave...only to sink into the watery forest gate instead of dying.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The Crane Juto spent most of the show playing both Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa like fiddles, even by impersonating the latter's girlfriend. When Natsumi is freed, Miho is instead mauled by a horde of rampaging Juto. The irony being that the two people who could have saved her the most were both preoccupied due to her manipulations, with Tsuyoshi being trapped in the Noto prison due to having a FreakOut trying to find her and Tsubasa being at Jiro's village trying to free the person she copied.

* RuleOfSymbolism: As Tsubasa and Natsumi finally reunite, one of Tsuyoshi's posters for Miho land near her body in the river before she sinks into a full moon's reflection, despite it only being a crescent in the sky.

* WhamEpisode: The Nōto Trio are sentenced to death and they all decide to join with the Donbrothers. Jiro learns how his loved ones are illusions from Terasaki and doesn't take it well. Taro frees himself from the Forest and activates [=GolDon=] Momotaro mode inside, destroying every origami and freeing their captives. Sonoi also frees the Noto prisoners after finding the Ring of Forgiveness. And to top it all off, Tsubasa and Natsumi are now together again as Miho seemingly dies, but the latter's body appears to be sent back to the Forest of Slumber.

* WhamEpisode: The Nōto Trio are sentenced to death and they all decide to join with the Donbrothers. Jiro learns how his loved ones are illusions from Terasaki and doesn't take it well. Taro frees himself from the Forest and activates [=GolDon=] Momotaro mode inside, destroying every origami and freeing their captives. Sonoi also frees the Noto prisoners after finding the Ring of Forgiveness. And to top it all off, Tsubasa and Natsumi are now together again as Miho seemingly dies, but the latter's body appears to be sent back to the Forest of Slumber.

* MustMakeAmends: In order to show the Donbrothers their sincerity, the Nōto trio debate on what to do to prove it. Sononi attempts to bond with Shinichi by asking him to teach her haiku, but he rejects it. This leads to Sonoi going on a quest to find the Ring of Forgiveness that allows him to free the humans he and his fellows imprisoned.

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel bad for Miho [[LoveInterestTraitor given the amount of romantic chess]] she's been playing with Tsubasa and Tsuyoshi since the show's start. Getting ganged-up on and mauled by a horde of Juto is all the more satisfying.

* MoneyDumb: After taking in Kaito's words about money representing sincerity, the Trio reveals that they've spent all of their money from the Council for their own personal interests: ''oden'' for Sonoi, beauty salons for Sononi, and full sets of rare manga for Sonoza.

* ItCanThink: Juto!Taro, due to Taro's personality performing a SplitPersonalityTakeover after an ArmorPiercingSlap from the Crane Jūto.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Taro was able to awaken within the Forest of Slumbers, and to Terasaki's shock, even override the personality of the Penguin Jūto that copied him from its intended purpose and undo his own cloning, causing his Jūto to flee in panic.

* BittersweetEnding: The Juto are defeated and Tsubasa has ''finally'' reunited with Natsumi, but Jiro loses literally everything and everyone in his life, leaving him emotionally broken. There's also the matter that now all that's left is to deal with the new Nōto Enforcers despite freeing those previously imprisoned.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Taro was able to awaken within the Forest of Slumbers, and to Terasaki's shock, even override the personality of the Penguin Jūto that copied him from its intended purpose and undo his own cloning.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Don Clan members like Taro can still awaken within the Forest of Slumbers, and they can override the personalities of Jūto that copy them unlike regular humans.

With Taro now in the Forest of Slumber as its new guardian, another Penguin Juto appears and takes his form, proving to be a formidable foe for the Donbrothers. On top of that, Tsuyoshi has been captured by Sonoshi's group; with Sonoi, Sononi and Sonoza in trouble with the Council, an uneasy alliance is born between them and the remaining members of the team.

* BittersweetEnding: The Juto are defeated and Tsubasa has ''finally'' reunited with Natsumi, but Jiro loses literally everything and everyone in his life, leaving him emotionally broken. There's also the matter that now all that's left is to deal with the new Noto Enforcers despite freeing those previously imprisoned.

* TheReveal: According to Future!Haruka's manga, there's another entrance to the Forest of Slumber: the reflection of a full moon.

* WhamEpisode: The Noto Trio are sentenced to death and they all decide to join with the Donbrothers. Jiro learns how his loved ones are illusions from Terasaki and doesn't take it well. Taro frees himself from the Forest and activates [=GolDon=] Momotaro mode inside, destroying every origami and freeing their captives. Sonoi also frees the Noto prisoners after finding the Ring of Forgiveness. And to top it all off, Tsubasa and Natsumi are now together again as Miho seemingly dies, but the latter's body appears to be sent back to the Forest of Slumber.

* WhamEpisode: The Noto Trio are fired and they all join with the Donbrothers. Jiro learns how his loved ones are illusions from Terasaki and doesn't take it well. Taro frees himself from the Forest and activates [=GolDon=] Momotaro mode inside, destroying every origami and freeing their captives. Sonoi also frees the Noto prisoners after finding the Ring of Forgiveness. And to top it all off, Tsubasa and Natsumi are now together again as Miho seemingly dies, but the latter's body appears to be sent back to the Forest of Slumber.

* CloningGambit: Taro's plan all along was to allow a Jūto to copy him so that not only can his clone bring Tsubasa into the Forest of Slumber to save Natsumi and all the other captured humans, once he ''[[WeDoTheImpossible undoes his own cloning]]'' he is able to use his Don Clan powers to burn away all the origami and order the surviving Jūto to never touch humanity ever again. It succeeds with the help of the Crane Jūto, as at one point the Penguin Jūto who copied him wasn't following his plan until her [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap]] and subsequent SplitPersonalityTakeover.

* BittersweetEnding: The Juto are defeated and Tsubasa has ''finally'' reunited with Natsumi, but Jiro loses literally everything and everyone in his life, leaving him emotionally broken.

* {{Irony}}: The Crane Juto spent most of the show playing both Tsuyoshi and Tsubasa like fiddles, even by impersonating the latter's girlfriend. When Natsumi is freed, Miho is instead mauled by a horde of rampaging Juto. The irony being that the two people who could have saved her the most were both preoccupied due to her manipulations, with Tsuyoshi being trapped in the Noto prison due to having a FreakOut trying to find her and Tsubasa being at Jiro's village trying to free the person she copied.

* TheReveal: According to Future!Haruka's manga, there's another entrance to the Forest of Slumber: the reflection of a full moon.