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Tear Jerker / Choushinsei Flashman

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  • This is not like the modern Super Sentai where there are upgrades as the series goes on. The Flashman pretty much fight with their guts in base form and their enemies were far superior and stronger, beating the crap out of them countless times. And yet, they never get a proper happy ending.
  • Just Flashman, just them. They were abducted by Sir Kauler while infants, somehow saved by aliens in Flash system. Then, they grew up in the Five planets of Flash System, training their body to prepare against Mess and for 20 years of Earth time. They do find a clue that one of them might be a child to a family that was searching for their lost child from 20 years before. Just so you know, only one of them among the five, and it was thought that it could be among the three men of Flashman.
    • They could know who the other missing families are with some clues they found but Kauler, their kidnapper, destroy them. It does not even help that he died in the end, with his knowledge of the other four families whose whereabouts and well-beings taken with him to death.
    • Near the end of the series, they learnt that the weakness of growing in Flash System is that they are rejected by their own home planet, Earth, when they stay too long (about a year). They initially could not get into contact with Earthlings, due to the electrocution, the plants spore poison to their body. Then, they could not even drink water as it becomes poison in their body as they could not process it.
    • Sara, Yellow Flash is the biological child to the Tokimura family, the family they encountered earlier. Even though that fact pleases her, she felt guilty that her other teammates have not found their families when they are at their limit to stay on Earth. They spend so long and yet only found a family for just one of them and she did not have the heart to enjoy this and that includes seeing her family when they were searching for her.
  • Flashman tried hard to get Sara see her family face to face one last time but they could not make it in time and had to leave since their conditions become critical. They were then placed in cold sleeping pod for recovery but nobody knew how long it takes as the series end with a bitter ending. By the time they recover, will Sara's family still alive? Who knew where the other families were and are they still alive and together?
  • During the final battle with Keflen and Nefel, Jin goes in to finish the Great Doctor with his Prism Seiken, only for Nefel to choose to take the hit for him. She falls into Keflen's arms and calls him father once last time before falling to the ground and exploding. The entire time, Keflen stares at where Jin stabbed Nefel in shock until the explosion is done. He looks at the floor where she died, says her name in a broken voice, and turns back to the Flashmen and attacks. Keflen's overall demeanor and body language during this specific attack is not that of a Mad Scientist or aspiring conquerer, but of a broken man who just watched his daughter die and is standing face to face with her killers.

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