Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Episode 12: "Strongest Battle! The Miraculous Combination!"
 

Its all-out war between AkaNinger & Gaib Raizo! Who will emerge victorious, and what new powers will emerge in the process???

If this is the direction Ninninger is taking then sign me up. Loved everything about this episode - some story to it, some emotion with the characters, and Aka Ninger actually come across as believable in his emotions this time.

Also - that morph was spectacular. And that fight was incredible. Looks like the show is picking up steam!

dat morph tho...

Two great morphs (the whole team morph was AWESOME) in this episode and some pretty good ones the last couple of episodes.

While it started slow (very slow) and had some cringe-worthy moments, the show is picking up steam. Aka Ninger's fight was pretty spectacular and the Shurikenjin/Bison King/King Shurikenjin fight was amazing.

This was an easy 5/5. This episode EVERY WEEK Ninninger!

Great gattai, the robot is too big :D

I freaking loved this episode. I'm loving Kinji more with each episode and loved the final battle with Gabi Raizou.

I would be more shocked if he never did.
usually in toku, when an actor starts off wooden, they'll get better.
just look at Goto in OOO.

GoGoV proved you can never make a robot too big.

well, that proved to be better than expected. Last week, I was just about ready to drop the show because I didn't like the episode. This week gave me much more reason to watch it, though I didn't find it as good as KR Drive's weekly episode.

However, I felt like I missed something regarding Gabi's character. This series isn't giving a lot of time to its villains, something that I miss.

But do they both take each other out?

This episode was amazing and I am glad we got a sentai villian that actually didn't want to go big and just wanted to die piece for once. Also the akaninger vs kiba raizou fight was boss as was king shurikenjin.

I expected the fight with Gabi Raizo to be saved for the end and to be reserved for AkaNinger.

I just loved this episode. Good pacing, the whole thing wasn't a major focus on Aka Red. Even the combination was pretty well put together.

A good episode. I think the multi-swords finisher was more impressive than the combination, that robot trick is full part of the package after all (and it was spoiled in last week preview).
I wonder if the fact a new villain general will just replace the most recently killed will be repeated. It would me more interesting to see more than 2 at the same time for interactions and characters and stuff.

True enough, it can be saved for even the final episode. That finisher is too awesome. Hope that they can come up with new ones. Ninninger has a wide variation of attack and finisher, really.

Glad to see Gabi finally gone as he got boring real quick. I hope the next guy is better.

I don't know why, but this show still isn't clicking with me.

On paper it sounds like everything I want in a Sentai, but onscreen I have absolutely no reaction to it. I haven't found any episode especially great so far, but neither have I found one notably bad. It's all just....there :/

It's cool. I really want to like this show, but even I am fighting with myself each time we go to watch an episode. It just isn't that interesting of a show, it just has good concepts.