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Androzani84 Watches Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger
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01-24-2021, 08:29 AM
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Androzani84
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Scroll 6: Scissors and Kunoichi
I’ll start with some etymology
And I’ll also get on my soapbox for a moment because this is an episode focused on a fight with the two humanoid villains. While most people love human villains, I am not one of them and these types of fights are primarily why. They can’t be a physical threat without making use of weapon or special effects, due to the fact the actors often can’t do their own stunts. Not to mention they often go down in one hit against the Rangers before withdrawing or calling in their monsters/henchmen (as one parody noted after Rita Repulsa fired one blast of lightning at the Rangers “Well, I’m spent. Go Aladdin Kruger.”). These problems don’t exist with suit villains, which is why I’m more partial to them. With that said, on with the write up.
This episode opens with Yosuke and Kouta doing reports (yes, even being a secret ninja requires paperwork), while Nanami is sent on an assignment to Mt. Kurosawa to retrieve a statue from a shrine at the summit. Meanwhile, as Sargain introduces his latest puppet Shiransu - the Severing Ninja (I have no idea what he’s supposed to be. The website says he’s a rabbit, the concept artist says he’s a crab and I think he looks like a stag beetle. You can see what he looks like below), our two Jakanja females argue over which of them is better (with Wendinu arguing that Tau Zant called her sexy while Furabijo argues that she’s the First Spear for a reason), eventually deciding to put it to a wager.
We get told from flashbacks that climbing the mountain was part of the curriculum for new members, but Nanami broke her leg during the test and was carried up by Yosuke and Kouta (that being the point the three met for the first time), thus Headmaster Mugensai (as he was known back then. Yosuke takes after me by calling him “Hamster Kancho”) failed her. Oboro notes that Nanami doesn’t need to do it now, this is purely for her self-esteem (and so she can graduate). As Nanami finds the statue she was sent to recover (a small turtle), Shiransu appears in the city and starts using his abilities to make couples and families hate each other. Oboro informs the boys and they tail Shiransu, who proceeds to attack a peace conference where the delegates are giving their reviews of the tuna at the hotel. It then leads to this funny exchange.
American delegate(overracting): Oh my god. I am getting upset for some reason.
Indian delegate(understated): Me too. I hate all of you.
As the delegates turn this peace conference into a free form wrestling tournament (so, a regular peace talk then), the Hurricanegers realise they need to stop this Jakanja before World War 3 starts. Nanami runs to try and help, but gets intercepted by the Jakanja girls, who have decided their contest will be beating up the one girl on the Hurricanegers (Why not the other two? Damned if I know). As Nanami barely evades Furabijo’s flying shuriken attack (see what I mean?), she decides to transform to continue the fight.
In the city, Yosuke and Kouta try confronting Shiransu, but he uses his abilities to make them fight each other. Then Nanami continues to lose to Furabijo’s Hachi Ninpo and Wendinu’s Hebi Ninpo.
(My grievances with fights concerning human villains aside, it’s still a lot more impressive than a scene from Kiramager 34 that some guy declared awesome because Yodonna’s actress did it herself - said stunt was a barrel roll, something a newborn baby could do).
Shiransu then decides to gloat over his advantage by knocking the feuding boys into a car, which breaks his spell (so that means his victims should all have been freed the minute their confrontations got physical). The two then work together to kill Shiransu with a Kage no Mai (I think he might be the weakest monster the show has introduced so far), before rushing to save Nanami who is now injured to the point of being kicked around (literally). Worse, she lost the damn turtle statue. In the middle of this, Sargain asks why Wendinu isn’t growing the monster while Chuzoobo wonders why Furabijo hasn’t failed the monster yet. (They know the formula) Then Yosuke downloads the new sword technique he got last week (yay for continuity) into Nanami’s Hayatemaru (Hurricaneger predicted iCloud. It’s official), allowing her to defeat the two vixens and take the statue back. Our villainesses call it a day and grow Shiransu with a Copy Giant (there’s no explanation this time). Oboro hesitates in calling the Shinobi Machines, because she wants Nanami to break the statue (that’ll hurt any resale value) and look at the scroll that a previous Hayate grandmaster hid in there. After seeing the contents of the scroll, Oboro sends the Shinobi Machines, with the Hurricanegers combining into Senpuujin and trying and failing to defeat Shiransu with the Sword Slasher. Luckily, the contents of that scroll allow Oboro to send Nanami the newest Karakuri Ball. 03: Tortoise Hammer.
With the new weapon in hand, Senpuujin overpowers Shiransu, defeating him. Furabijo then fails everyone who did anything this episode… and Sargain for some reason (Is it because he sent out Shiransu?). The peace conference goes well and Nanami successfully becomes a second year ninja… but the boys still have to do the paperwork. (I assume Nanami did it earlier, which is why her graduation requirement is the one thing she couldn’t do before).
Our next episode trailer shows that our mysterious watchers finally make their full, appearance, introducing themselves as dark ninjas. All in the next episode “Thunder and Ninja”
Final thoughts: While I liked the main plot of Nanami working to build confidence in herself as a warrior, and I got some comedy out of the conference, the action in this episode wasn’t that great. I’d give it a 4/5.
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