Let's Watch Wednesdays Week 9 Gekiranger 25-27!
 

This week we begin with Gou taking his rightful place beside the Gekirangers as Gekiviolet and he brings with him his own special brand of Jyuken Gattai!

Meanwhile Rio seeks more power, leading him down the path to the JyuGenKyo.

Bae is separated from Mele, and only his GekiJyu Fly-Ken can save.... Gou?!

Will Bae's power and Gou's Iron Will be enough?

Let's Watch Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger 25-27!

I liked these episodes. Gou is a great Gekiranger and his arc is one of the highlights of the show so far. Of course, my favorite Gekiranger still has a week before his debut. ;)

Also, Mele is still hot.

First time I actually didn't watch early :lol

I've really fallen behind in watching. You guys are actually pretty close to catching up with me.

GekiViolet.
His Changer? AWESOME.
His Theme Song? AWESOME.
His Mecha? AWESOME.
His Muay Thai Fighting Ring? AWESOME.

Gou is so badass, he stole and modified GekiToujah because he believes in recycling.

Hibike! Howl of the Beast! Beast On! *ding*

So we have GekiViolet's introduction and some spotlight focus on him. The justification for him to have a different changer was a nice touch, since his Shigeki renders him unable to use the Gekichanger. I rather enjoyed his debut fight was against Mele and some Rinshi, since the new members almost always jump in to take care of the threat prior to their introduction. Gou gets some major badass points by being able to make GekiTouja on his own(red+blue=purple, clever Toei). And more points for Gon Gon Ken being on par with the Geki Bazooka when he is on his own. Jan getting worked up on how to add him to the line up was rather amusing, but also rather impressive the he knew that Gou would have some concerns about being a 3rd wheel.

For people who are not Gou, it was rather anti-climatic for Rio to get Dorinki angsting about getting left behind on the power curb, but it was an eventuality to happen I guess. Natsume got some cool points for standing her ground against werewolf Gou, but she's probably used to strange things happenings by now. We see that there are a lot more Butoka and Wagataku that the two we previously saw. And we get backstory on Bae. I wonder if that was just random stunt actor with a voice over or actually Akira Ishida doing the stunt work for the flashback scene. Having him root on Gou as he fought against Long's Ki was great and touching. Also touching is that Mele cares about Bae, even if her tsundere ways won't allow her to really admit that.

"Knock out!"

I actually got really absorbed into Gekiranger again. I finished the whole thing already...xD
Gou's intro to the show was great. The first fight as GekiViolet was too cool.

Only got to watch 25 and 26 because of time constraints (If I had my earphones, I could probably watch 27 instead of type this out, but I misplaced them...)

Anyway, GekiViolet is badass. An awesome design for an awesome character. I enjoy that, despite Gou being the lone wolf character, his allies don't just let him sulk off alone like other shows (Both Sentai and non) are oft to do.
I particularly enjoyed Jan's anxiety over how they should be lined up. That was funny.
I also enjoyed that Gou was pulling the lone wolf shtick because he didn't want to ruin the Gekiranger's triangle. It's endearing and, while still a cliche story, gives him actual reason beyond "He's a loner because...Because!"

I'm not a fan of Rio getting DoRinki by just being pissy over everyone else getting power ups, but I guess it sets up the next story arc well enough.

Also, I really enjoy the snippets of action we see from the Kensei. Makes me curious how much they could turn the tide if they broke their non-combat vows.

Yosh!
Found the time to watch episode 27.
I liked the backstory on Bae, and I find it cute that Mele won't let him die. I also liked that they worked him into the plot and didn't let him sit as comedy relief.

Also, Mele was pretty hot in the past.

Oh. Boy. Ken. I can't wait. :I

We should watch the 7 Kensei Athletic thingy. That video is pure awesome.

Yeah, I pretty much had the same thoughts. It would have worked better if Mele got Dorinki first. Then I could really understand his angst causing Dorinki to awaken. Since then he would have been left behind by pretty much everyone.

That'd be fun :lol

That'd be an interesting way for things to go, but I don't think it would work. Mele dedicates herself to Rio. If Mele got Dorinki first, she'd pretty much spend the rest of the day trying to teach Rio.

Though, the thought of a training montage with Mele teaching Rio would be hilarious.

As kinda rushed as Rio getting the DoRinki was,they did explain that it is achieved by rage so I easily buy it.

GekiViolet's design is so cool,with the very tribal warrior design of it.I don't really understand the connection to the gong and fighting ring,but whatever.I do like his worrying about ruining the team's flow by adding himself on,it was a really good bit of character.I wasn't big on the whole werewolf thing though,it didn't feel as big as it could have been.It felt kinda tacked on since there was no sense of urgency to deal with it until Long provoked it.I was also hoping for a split second when we saw Gou summon GekiTiger and Jaguar,that he was gonna have an all violet GekiTouja.

I loved Bae's backstory,I was wondering what his deal was since he said he was involved in the GekiRin Rebellion a few eps back.It's kind of a bummer that he's the way he was because of a botched technique,I thought there would be a little more to it.I also like the reasoning for why he has to hang around Mele constantly.Also past Mele,WOW.Not to steal Switchblade's thing,but yeah HOT.Kinda want more of Mele with her hair down.

I was also digging on the design of the MOTW for 27.The ocean themed old west outlaw look worked so well for me.

And we're seeing GekiChopper already,I was kinda thinking we weren't gonna see him until at least 30 or at least develop him for a few eps first.But no,he's already got his changer and uses it in the next ep.Whatever though,I'm sure his introduction will be pretty cool.And his last name is essentially "finishing move",pretty bad ass last name.

Gou is awesome. Really dig him. I like that he puts up this tough guy front all the time but he's a big softy really (and possibly a little bit dumb...) I can't say I particularly understand how he can replicate tiger and Jaguar but eh, it's cool.

Bae's episode and backstory was totally awesome and completely out there. Didn't think he'd ever actually get explained let alone have a really neat role/episode.

Oh and Rio has Dorinki, so this is going to get interesting...