Actually its Lord Zedd asking for that back.

Has Kasumi/Pink been in any other tokusatsu before? She looks really familiar.

Well her actress, Kasumi Yamaya, played Rumi Komaki in Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum.

She also played Hilda Gordon/Horror Girl in Uchuu Keiji Sharivan NEXT GENERATION and Uchuu Keiji Shaider NEXT GENERATION.

No, that can't be it. I would have to watch that movie...

Ohhhhhhhhhh...now I'll never be able to get the image of Pink Ninger in a bird mask having a pillow fight with air out of my head.

Ah. That actually sounds familiar. Thanks.

Still looking forward for Starninger.

I heard that Starninger could make his debut in April according to magazine.

I loved this episode a lot. Well Yakumo is my favorite since the first episode and learning more about him this episode was great. I enjoyed that he was a bit more skilled than everyone in practice but in battle him and Takaharu are the same level. I love the rivalry between them it reminded me a lot of my brother and I at times. I also felt that Yakumo wants to be a wizard more than a Ninja with his wand and the magic he was doing but still I am glad he changed his mind and wants to be the Last Ninja too. Kasumi is interesting I like Yakumo's line about her sharp tongue, but I think that's intriguing that she's blunt and says how it is. Takaharu is so much fun and I love how he landed on the water and they gave him the score of 9.8. I am so happy they are keeping the elements from the last two series of the nice mixture of Sillyness and Seriousness but definitely this is a different brand of sillyness than ToQger was. I love how their personalities definitely shine throughout the fight scenes. Fuuka was hilarious when all of their practices shots with the 5 Element Shuriken messed up and she got hit with all of them except for Yakumo's. Can't say much about Nagi but his fighting style is pretty fun and can't wait to see more about him next week. I love their Grandfather is so silly and fun. This show is a lot of fun, and I love the villains I can't wait to see the new General.

Yay, Blue is a jerk! The tropes are real.

MagiRanger would like their schtick returned.

I also like that Kasumi is also really acerbic. About time we had a Pink without the cutesyness. She's a bit of a priss with a mouth.

I <3 Fuuka. Just...yeah....

And yep, Takaharu is definitely Daigo 2.0. Unfortunate. I'd rather have a Red that doesn't just rush ahead on hope and guts. But I guess they wanted someone who didn't scream Shinkenger backup team.

Everything about this series makes me think they took all the gimmicks of Gaim and dropped them into a Ninja setting. Not a bad thing, just so off the beaten path wacky.

That was a pretty funny episode, I liked it.

So we have a blue/red focused episode, next looks yellow-ish (with a new villain), then we can speculate ep4 (5?) will be white/pink.
If 1 or two more main villains are to come, the question is, after that what will be the quality of the serie with the status quo (until ep 16~17 with starninger arrival) ? ToqGer was weak in this domain, though some of them fillers were awesome.

On smaller details, I'm not a fan of the MOTW design so far (an animal crossed with a mundane object with edo-period stylistic elements). I hope we'll see our 'ninjas' sometimes acting like real ninjas: more like little sneaky evasive and treacherous bastards than, *cough*, blond-guy-not-a-ninja-dattebayo.

Star Ninger is showing up early this year. He debuts in april so more around episode 10-12.