[KRiderBlues]

I forgot we were supposed to watch Gekiranger vs Boukenger last week and I ended up watching 37-39.

Retsu and Gou's episode was pretty cool.So far we haven't really seen the fact they're brothers being addressed.Having two Rangers being siblings can make for some good plots and I'm glad they could develop their relationship a bit more for a filler episode.Seeing Retsu's actor's brother show up to play evil Retsu was hilarious to me.I couldn't stop thinking of his appearance in Akibaranger and the whole joke they made of that fact.

The Ran marriage interview ep was good for a couple of laughs.Seeing everyone trying to keep her around by acting like other suitors was pretty funny.I like that they brought up that Ran is "captain" again,but I wish it was more apparent in the series so it means a lot more.

Miki is really freaking bad ass.We got that small preview of what she could do in the first episode and it sucks we haven't seen much of that since.It bums me out that she has the potential to be a Gekiranger,but seeing there's only 5 of them I guess she doesn't get that chance.The fact that she fought toe to toe with Mele and piloted SaiDaiOh totally upped her awesomeness in my book.

Although I really love bird designs, I can't really get into Mele's GenJyuKen form.It's jarring to see her go from a chameleon to a phoenix.Also,even though Long says that the underlings obviously aren't gonna be as powerful as his group of 4 or as Rio soon will be, it kinda downplays the power of GenJyuKen when Miki(a non-Gekiranger with undoubted skills of her own) can beat one of them.

Also a bit of a tangent,but related.I've been watching Jungle Fury as part of my personal PR catch-up and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.As far as copy and paste adaptations go,it's pretty good.It adds enough of its own spins to the Gekiranger story to not feel like it's treading the same ground.Maybe it's just watching Gekiranger and it helping fill in some gaps to the story,but it's a neat little companion piece to its source material.