[Sh Ranger]

Rumi was in this episode. Just saying, in case you didn't recognize her without the blue popsicle.

Obayashi Masaru joins the show as the suit actor for Onisister's male Avatar Changes! You might remember him for his previous roles as Patren 2 and Libra Gold.

Lots of niki-niki Gekiranger references here! Jyukenki's SCRTC sneakers. Inuzuka getting cursed to become a canine. Don Robogokuu being a golden dragon. Don Robobolt being a purple tiger. It was only missing the play-by-play commentary on Tora Dragon Jin's debut.

It's refreshing how Inuzuka's problem is caused by something totally unrelated to the MOTW. After Minako, this is only the second ghost in the show, a nameless dog whose choice of haunting is to curse Inubrother for inadvertently disturbing (getting yeeted in to by Jyukenki, the cat and dog rivalry continues) their shrine. The solution was simply to fix the shrine, but unfortunately Inubrother doesn't know this and spends the whole episode slowly losing his humanity until Miho breaks the curse. Miho actually saved him twice, using her Jyuto powers to protect him from Sayama, who was ironically the only person who realized he wasn't just an anthropomorphic dog. If only he had the Dragon Fires' publicity, he might've had an easier time explaining his strange situation. Inuzuka's luck is crazy!

Jirou's split personality seems to be magical, as Danger Jirou physically splits from Jirou to give us a Dragokuu and Torabolt team-up fight. I guess this is due to Jirou increasing his strength of will to not let his failures define him, forcing Danger Jirou out. It proves to the others that Jirou isn't actually to blame for attacking them and that he was being controlled, so hopefully they'll reward his heroism by treating him better from now on. I've really enjoyed Jirou's arc so far and how much he's grown already, I feel like he's been here since the start and I'm looking forward to where he goes from here.

I wish Murase a swift recovery and all, but like, I've barely even noticed Don Murasame's absence, considering how little presence that character has. This show already has so much happening!