Go-Busters Mission 45

Mission 45; New Year's. The Powerful Little Enemy Returns; 謹賀新年　小さな強敵、再び
	Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters episode
Writer	Shimoyama Kento
Director	Watanabe Katsuya
Action Director	Fukuzawa Hirofumi
Original air date	January 6, 2013
Viewership	2.7%
Forum Thread	Thread
Episode chronology
← Previous; Mission 44; Holy Night • Time to Fulfill the Mission	Next →; Mission 46; A New Fusion and Overheating!
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< Mission 44	New Year's. The Powerful Little Enemy Returns 謹賀新年　小さな強敵、再び	Mission 46 >
Aired with Kamen Rider Wizard 17

Important things that happened

Go-Buster Beet rides Lioh in its bike mode.

Lio Burst: Go-Buster Beet finishing off the Omochizord while riding Lioh.
Lio Blaster: Since they couldn't cut the Metaroid, Hiromu blew it away using the Lio Blaster.

オモチロイド

Omochi = Sticky sweet rice.

Metavirus: TSUKU (To stick) つく

Number Z-02

Body is repurposed from the Keshigomuroid costume. Omochiroid's left eye is turned up instead of down and has more scorch marks. The body is different too, but for the most part it's the same costume.
On his body it has Tsuku and Z-02 written.
Starts off as small mochi/eraser size. When heated up, he expands and becomes a normal sized Metaroid. When he exerts himself, he makes a "mochi" sound.

オモチゾード

Type Alpha

Defeated in Sunadokeiroid in episode 33. Collected intellectual data.
Defeated in Tiararoid in episode 37. Collected love.
Defeated in Karateroid in episode 39. Collected fighting data.
In Enter's right eye.
Defeated in Bulldozerroid in episode 36. Collected strength of man-made objects.
Combined with a Type Gamma to create Type Zeta. Is destroyed with Messiah Rebuilt in 44.
Was Parabolaroid 2, but Enter freed it and put it in his left eye.
Defeated in Puppetroid in episode 34. Collected human physical data.
Is a part of Megazord Zeta and is destroyed with Messiah Rebuilt in 44.
Defeated in Louperoid in episode 41. Collected greed/materialism.
Defeated in Domeroid in episode 38. Collected Megazord fighting data.
Is a part of Megazord Zeta and is destroyed with Messiah Rebuilt in 44.
Unknown.

The Buglar fight at the beginning is on the stairs that they walk down in the opening.
No Enter or Messiah Cards. Just a holiday show.
In a previous episode, it appeared as if the Lio Attache was in two places at the same time. In actuality, it could have been transported from the cockpit of Tategami Lioh to be used as its Lio Blaster mode later. Almost as if to address that, they show Jin calling Hiromu to let him know the Lio Blaster was available for use before transporting it.
It's mentioned that Ryuuji is already 29, but is just an example of a non-main writer making mistakes with the continuity. It has been established in the series that Ryuuji's birthday is on January 15, so he is still only 28 in this episode.
The district names are pretty lame in this episode. Higashi just means "east" and Minami means "south".
The episode reuses the eraser Metaroid (although slightly modified) from Mission 26. The writer even used the same jokes that he used in that episode.
When Ryuuji asks Hiromu how he lost his shoes, Hiromu says he lost them on the stairs. Probably a reference to Cinderella.
Go-Buster Beet is turned into kagami mochi, a traditional New Year's food.