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Androzani84 Watches Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger
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03-09-2021, 09:17 AM
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Scroll 25: Ghosts and Schoolgirl
Welcome to the beginning of “Tenkuu Gattai” week. We begin with another episode by Naruhisa Arakawa, who one guy on Twitter recently described as “Great at social commentary, not so great at writing villains”. And given that this is a “revived monsters” episode, let’s just see how well that holds up. And now, on to the review.
The episode opens with Kouta paying homage to his grandma Ayame, who died when he was 4 (given it’s been established that his parents died when he was at least 6, I’m surprised he even knew her name). His one memory of her is when she cheered him up by making her folded arm look like a pair of buttocks (apparently, the Bitou clan are renowned for their bizarre sense of humour). At the Centipede, Sargain and Furabijo chew Saturakura out because his “strongest commander ninja” hasn’t shown up (sure, single out the new guy for your complaints). But Manmarva sides with said new guy in saying that he IS here, they just have to listen. They hear a buzzing and Wendinu notices something on her… tools.
Tau Zant then speaks of Vamp-Iyan’s skills highly, before Satarakura sends him out to attack 5 schoolgirls (why schoolgirls?
Damn if I know
). Vamp-Iyan gets on with his task, attacking 6 schoolgirls. (No, you read that right).
The Hurricanegers arrive on the scene and see Satarakura, who states that there’ll be no riddles this time (good, because you were kind of dickish back then). Vamp-Iyan then fires his beams at several locations across Japan, (some of which will be familiar if you’ve watched the show so far) before leaving with his boss. As the Hurricanegers wonder what happened, someone puts heir hand on Kouta’s shoulder, suggesting they go on a date.
The girl states that she’s wanted to hold Kouta for so long (errmmm), leading Nanami to assume she’s his ex (if she is, then she’s remarkably happy to see him again), which Kouta denies. As the girl drags a reluctant Kouta away, Satarakura realises something.
Vamp-Iyan explains that he got hungry while on the job, but Satarakura doesn’t mind, as he thinks he can get another Commander Ninja out of the deal (wait for it). We then get treated to a montage of the girl dragging Kouta all over the place, set to a generic pop song that was presumably in the charts at the time (if I had to guess the name, it would be “Shiawase Beam”. Apparently, playing one public domain song was mandatory in Sentai at the time. It’s something I don’t miss). As they sit down and ask her who she is, all she says is that she used to hold Kouta in her arms, which (obviously) doesn’t narrow it down. She then picks up a softball and poses with it, as the Shuriken Ball standby plays… before throwing the ball away and clenching her folded arm to look like a pair of buttocks (funny gag, but it requires you to ignore every in and out of universe rule about how Shurikenger works to make sense). She introduces herself as Ayame Bitou, Kouta’s grandma. She insists on being called “Ayaya” and explains she was mysteriously revived by that monster’s beam (which opens up a lot of questions, like why did it revive her immediately, why did it revive her specifically and why it reverted her to the body of a teenage girl). She states that Kouta looks like his grandfather and she wanted to go on a date with him because she didn’t get to go on dates at this age the first time around due to the war (nice explanation, but the first part just seems creepy. This isn’t a sins video, but I’m adding 5 sins for the implications).
Elsewhere, Vamp-Iyan revives the targets of his other beams (which only brings up the same question as before: Why did Grandma Ayame get revived immediately?): Higenamezukin (see episode 13), Yumebakushi (see episode 11), Flora (see episode 5), Orlin (see episode 9) and Octonyudo (see episode 14). (Why did he only revive Chuzoobo’s monsters?). The 5 then proceed to attack the cities of Sapporo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata and Okinawa with their abilities.
The Kasumi Bros see the chaos and decide to help out in Sapporo and Okinawa. The Hurricanegers set off for the other locations… except Kouta, who is held back by Ayaya (Geez, lady. Does the fate of the Earth mean nothing to you?). She states that she doesn’t want Kouta to fight because his grandfather died in the war (so, was Kouta’s dad the result of an unmarried teen pregnancy? If so, she seems remarkably blasé about that for a child of the 30s and 40s) and Kouta is a crybaby (Lady, have you been watching his life at all since you passed on? He’s literally has the driest eyes of the cast so far. Besides maybe Ikkou). Kouta ignores her and flies off to face Flora. A fight breaks out with everyone facing an opponent in one of the 5 cities (with some glorious use of split screen), but none of them can be killed, since they already died once (so is Ayaya going to live forever? Imagine what that must be like for her), with only Vamp-Iyan’s defeat being able to send them back to the afterlife. So Ayaya uses her mosquito luring skills to bring him out (fortunately for her and a concerned Kouta, Vamp-Iyan chose that moment to get hungry). Kouta defeats Vamp-Iyan by poking her, much to his grandma’s surprise. Vamp-Iyan is then revived with a Dekkamen at giant size… relative to his original height.
Kouta this has to face him in a regular fight, destroying him single handedly again. Then Satarakura throws another Dekkamen, reviving him at regular giant size (making you wonder why they didn’t do that with all their monsters). The Hurricanegers reunite and form Senpuujin (with Ayaya riding shotgun in Hurricane Leon), but are overwhelmed by Vamp-Iyan sucking up their power enough that the Goat Crusher is insufficient. As Kouta gives a rousing speech about doing it for their ancestors (all of whom are dead and are not being threatened right now). Shurikenger then appears, apologising for being late (seriously, where was he this episode? It might’ve been better if he showed up earlier) and asks HurricaneBlue to detach so he can reward HurricaneYellow for his speech (how he heard it, I can’t tell you). So Hurricane Dolphin detaches and Tenkuujin replaces it via a Tenkuu Busou, forming TenkuuSenpuujin.
As Oboro wonders how Shurikenger can pull off these combos (he works for Bandai, obviously), TenkuuSenpuujin destroys Vamp-Iyan for good, causing his summoned monsters to fade away (apparently, Flora, Orlin and Yumebakushi were just dancing on the spot instead of causing destruction). Ayaya on the other hand, has a more slow and dramatic fade out, giving her time to tell Kouta how proud of him she is and that she’ll be watching over him (presumably from now on, since her previous intel seemed very lacking), in addition to having had the ultimate date (I’ll admit, it’s hard to top sitting in on a giant robot battle). The episode ends there (fairly downbeat for this show). Next time: Isshu falls in love with Nanami (he has taste, I’ll give him that). Also there’s a cow. All this and more on Scroll 26: Bow and Arrow and the Beach.
BUT FIRST: Jakanja calls in some help to defeat the Hurricanegers and Gouraigers. Who is it? Find out in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger vs Gaoranger.
Final thoughts: This… could’ve been a good episode. Unfortunately, the things that help the show shine like the Kasumi Bros and Shurikenger were absent from most of it, beside a few mandatory appearances. And in their place are elements that weren’t much on their own (besides the gag of the tiny Vamp-Iyan bursting into sparks instead of exploding). I’m not even sure how much I’m supposed to feel for the grandma, since she just comes off as incestuous and entitled.
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