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Dairanger 26.

The episode where a super powered martial arts assassin (darkness Karate lol) at one point goes after Kamen Rider Kuuga. Oh Japan, letting a guy murder people very violently and bloodily on screen in a kids show. And then the Dairanger's went on to fight a pot. And not the good kind.

I love how Ryou seemed surprised at the idea of losing, considering every opponent Ryou faces, kicks his ass. He's spent more of the series laying on the floor covered in jam and mud than he has destroying monsters. Worst Red ever? He's certainly the worst sentai red I've come across so far, the Dairanger's are a bad bad bad team.

Also, didn't Ryou have a fighting style up until this point? The pipe dude named it in the first episode but I can't remember what he called it. Well apparently the show forgot... But then, I guess so did I. That is what happens when the show puts nearly entirely zero focus on any of the characters, minus localised and fleeting sequences that are largely meaningless.

Shouji is the bad boy, so he has no sleeves. Even though him, Daigo and Ryou have all basically become the same character across the show, just with varying degrees of usefulness.

The action is still good, though. This episode sure was gory though.