I think the "he can transform from Ninja to Samurai forms" was part of an earlier rumor. The most recent rumor says that he can transform from Ohran form to Shinken form. In Shinken form he wears a red haori, while in Ohran form he wears a fundoshi with a symbol on it (loincloth senshi FTW!)... so I can see how someone might mistake this for transforming from a samurai into a ninja.

A quick google search doesn't really bring up any weapons for 'daringer', I'm curious what you're referring to?

I'm almost certain it's a reference to a derringer pistol.

Which is why I thought maybe a green ranger paying tribute to Shurikenger(and to an extent Dragon Ranger) who uses the Hurricanger gear to transform would make sense if it happens but this new rumor sounds fine too.

A double-barreled derringer perhaps?

That would kinda make sense: A five-barreled gun for the five members of the core team, and a two-barreled gun for the sixth having two forms

Actually I was thinking this in additon but what if we get two tsuikas, the rumored Gold Ranger who uses the Gokaiger gear and a Silver Ranger who is a kikainoid and uses the Go-Busters gear. And this kikainoid Silver Ranger is basically Beet J Stag 2.0 in essence. :lolol

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Oh my god he's a phantom thief

Oh, so 界賊 instead of 海賊. Nice wordplay. FYI the TwoKai of TwoKaizer is a wordplay on tsuukai(痛快) which mean thrilling or delightful depending on nuiance. But fundoshi for an Ohranger tribute form? That's kinda weird. I mean it would make sense if it was Maskman but for Ohranger? Odd.

Nope. Judging by Gokaiger being the main motif I would say TwoKaizer is most likely a reality-hopping pirate since most likely the Kai in Kaizoku this time is not the kanji for sea(海) but world(界). If TwoKaizer was a phantom thief the motif would be Lupinrangers and the wordplay would be kaito(界盗) as opposed to the commonly used 怪盗.

That said, kinda disappointed they are not going with the Hurricanger motif and the tsuika not being green with gold armor to pay tribute to Shurikenger and Dragon Ranger but hey, this sounds cool too. Sounds like a thrill-seeking badass type. But then again, they could make him/her an abundant resource for memes. Who knows, maybe TwoKaizer could be Onari 2.0 and those two chibi robots could be the Shibuya and Narita of the show. :lolol

I know most people don't really care about official romanizations but here they are for the rangers:

https://twitter.com/gtrvariedades/st...50437858144259

So if TV-Nihon start calling the red guy Juran, don't worry, they're not pulling another "Jyuohger" stunt.

Anyway, I have a theory for why Zenkaizer looks different to the others. The Kikainoid rangers have powers based on past Sentai, while Zenkaizer has powers based on the Zenkaigers. This means that Zenkaizer is an anomaly to the Zenkaigers as Zyuran (or Juran apparently) is to the Zyurangers.

Regarding Twokaizer, I think Rikki and Kattanar sound like possible Kikainoid names. Rikki based on Riki and Kattanar based on Tani Chiaki. Maybe 3 sixths?

P.S. 400th post, yay!