[Locke]

Dairanger 47.

This has to be one of my favourite episodes for the team as a whole. Through the whole series I have been completely unconvinced that the Dairanger's are the same people in and out of the suits and what little we learn about them across the series, only further stretches the divide between them. So to see them stand up and fight with no powers, to do their famous role call, poses and moves unmorphed, was both really thrilling and gave me a lot of respect for them, but it's also probably the only time in the whole series I really believed it was them in the suits all along (minus maybe Ryou and Daigo who were more consistent).

So wait, Kaku's plan relied on the Dairanger's killing Shiryuu so he could use the staff as a power conduit to defeat Shadam? I hope you had a plan B, bro, because you scored the one in a gagillion chance of this paying off.

Shadam's transformed form was pretty cool, but what happened to him turning into metal and shit?