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Fish Sandwich
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Kakuranger 38-39:
38 is another Hirohisa Soda episode that
really
makes me feel bad for basically saying he was all washed-up earlier. I absolutely would've assumed this one was by Sugimura if I wasn't paying attention to the credits. It has the extra emphasis on characterization he usually does, and that's all the better here, because guess whose turn it is in the spotlight again? Aw yeah, that's right. Jiraiya's back at it again, doing what he does best as he tries to keep Ninjaman out of trouble. Quiet sensitive guy plus hot-blooded idiot is inherently a great pairing, and of course I just love how much Jiraiya goes out of his way to care about people. The rest of the Kakurangers run off to go find the Youkai that's brainwashing random civilians, and Jiraiya turns the other way so he can round up Ninjman (with an actual lasso, no less) and drag him to the hospital to personally apologize to one of said random civilian's kids for accidentally harming their mom. And then
immediately after
that, he's the one trying to cheer Ninjaman up when the civilian's kids inevitably still hate Ninjaman even after he says he's sorry. Jiraiya then sets Ninjaman up with a chance to redeem himself, telling the other Kakurangers Ninjaman's side of things with such passion you'd swear he was feeling these things firsthand. Which makes sense, because he kinda
is
, with the show drawing a clever little parallel with Jiraiya's difficulty speaking Japanese early on, and how he understands how much it hurts not being able to get across your feelings. All this,
and
he still finds time to get in two different epic cowboy quickdraw showdowns with the monster. I've said it before and I'll say it again. What a guy! My bias towards Jiraiya definitely colors my opinion here, but I loved this one.
39 gets extremely creative with its premise, when about a minute in, none other than the narrator himself makes his return, popping out of a trash can to... wait.
poppingoutofa-
Man, and I thought I was too hard on the poor guy! Sugimura apparently
actually threw him in the garbage
for over a dozen episodes. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment! Anyway, he's back, and the rest of the episode basically takes the format of a documentary about the Kakurangers. It doesn't
hugely
take advantage of that idea. It's largely just an excuse to let the narrator make up for lost time before he gets thrown off a bridge and ends up needing a neck brace and a sling (are we sure Arakawa didn't write this!?), but it's cute. It's also way overqualified to be the simple clip show it was probably intended as, with only a few major plot points quickly gone over in a way that legitimately might be of interest to anyone who missed some episodes here or there. It doesn't waste time with minutiae, and it isn't a glorified toy catalogue. Although the episode
does
cap things off with Sasuke doing his usual cloning shtick in God Saruder to get us a dream team of it plus Red Saruder
and
Battle Saruder, who make their own returns after being absent alongside the narrator. It's a cool little fight, and the unique gimmick complements the overall special feeling of the plot nicely. Definitely a pretty shallow episode, but still loads of fun.
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