Ikagen and Madako are great. I love villains that can defeat the heroes.
My only fear is that they'll be destroyed by a last second Kyutama, rather than the Kyurangers own abilities and skills.
And considering there's dozens of Kyutama, I'm pretty sure that's how they'll lose...

Episode was alright. Spada getting growth was nice. I enjoyed seeing all 9 Kyurangers active. Even though 3 weren't on the battlefield, they were deployed, so it was fair. I liked Stinger bringing Kotaro onto the ship without question.
Lucky: "I want to be a Kyuranger!"
Everyone: "No. Go home, guy."
Kotaro: "I want to be a Kyuranger!"
Stinger: "...K."
I guess it helps that Kotaro wanted to be a Kyuranger because he wants to help save his world. Lucky wanted to be one because it was exciting and fun.
...I wish Kotaro was our red...

I wish I could've been impressed with Xiao's transformation, but even Toei knew that everyone was aware he was a ranger.
The preview hints that he has a time limit on his transformation, too. I like and dislike this.
I dislike it because it doesn't put us in a similar situation to Doggie/Dekamaster, where he doesn't transform so that his team has to learn to fight and not be their crutch. It loses a lot of the complexity. However, considering they're on a universe wide liberation campaign, it does make some sense that if he could transform without impunity, he would be a more active member.

Aside: I thought the close up was on the toys, but I didn't want to say anything since I couldn't be 100% sure :lol

Ok, I need someone to explain to me the motif behind the vilain designs. Sentai Wiki says it's based on constalations and cryptids but not really. Also, why the hell Mardakko wears a thong? Is she supposed to be a bond girl crossed with an octopus? I really dig Ikargen's design and the Moraimarz design but it's sort of inconsostant.
I think it really anoyed me this episode mostly because we saw 4 villain suits and they clearly don't have a shared design asthetic.

Not much to talk about with this one but it was enjoyable. Kyuranger really feels like it's picking up steam lately, which is nice.

I was not expecting Ryu Commander to debut as a "normal" Kyuranger first. That's kind of a neat concept. Not sure why his belt is just a recycled ToQ Buckle though. I guess Captain Dumplings frequents the Rainbow Line?

This was a good set up for the next episode. Nice Spada centered episode with some Kotaro and Xiao thrown in.

Next episode is gonna be heavy with Xiao and I'm okay with that.

So what's with Ryu Violet. What happened to Ryu Commander? Is his some sort of incomplete form? Also who's the blue bear in the commander's clothes? My guess is he'll give Kotaro his kyutama.

Yeah, it's an incomplete form. He doesnt have his coat and his chest piece (the orb-thingy) is gray instead of purple. As was his Kyutama if you didn't notice.

The blue bear was the commander before the dragon
, he got killed and Sho Ronpo took over the Rebellion.

So now we have ten Kyurangers? Then the title was a lie. It's not Kyurangers, it's Juurangers! Oh wait, we already have Zyurangers so we can't have a similar sounding team... even though we had Kyurugers but that's not confusing enough either.

Actually, one of the translation for "ball" in Japanese, beside tama, is Kyu (球). So technically, they are space squadron ballranger, not space squadron nineranger.

I know it means "ball" as well, but the pun is lost now.