[Battlizer]

Gekiranger 22-24

And I thought these were gonna be entirely filler, but nope! Important stuff is happening all throughout them. Each of these episodes are these little focus episodes for each of the Gekirangers and their masters but it also furthers the story. Well for 22 and 23 at least. 24 was pretty much all plot building upon what happened in the previous two episodes.

Rio and Mele manage to revive the last Kenma, though I dunno what animal he is exactly. The other Kenma are even afraid of this guy as he takes Rio's position as head of Rin Jyuken and refuses to teach him anything. So Hawk taught hatred, Jellyfish taught jealousy, and the new guy WOULD teach anger if he thought Rio was worth teaching. And now Rio discovers there's a Rin Jyuden version of Kageki called Dorinki. I'd be disappointed if their wasn't. So as the last Kenma decides to take over, he's plotting to learn the secret to this and supposedly regain his title.

Also there's another new guy who can turn into a wisp of golden light who helps out Mele. Something about this guy seems entirely untrustworthy.

And now we're introduced to Gou, Retsu's older brother who doesn't believe him strong enough to practice Geki Jyuken. He was kind of a dick about it, but it was all to protect Retsu, who used to be wimpy as a child.

Even more interesting is Gou's backstory. He'd used a forbidden Geki Jyuken technique to stop Rio when he was defeating...and it ended up turning him into a were wolf?! and it somehow related to how the Kenshi wound up stuck in animal forms?! Interesting...Apparently being in this form halted his aging. I assume it's the same for all of the Kenma.

I also watched Gekiranger the movie. Eh. 33 minutes isn't very long for a movie, but I suppose it's a common length for a lot of Sentai movies. The movie could've benefited by being feature length I think. It was essentially an Enter the Dragon with rangers put on fast forward. Could've been fun if it was a full movie. Instead it was definitely the weakest of the series. But at least it's just a movie that most likely won't matter.

That said...the one reasons to see the movie GekiRinTouja was pretty fucking cool. Really liked seeing the two factions team up against a common enemy.