[Battlizer]

Gekiranger 28-30

And so the last member of the Gekiranger team arrives. And he's hilariously awful. Not in a bad way though, he's in the running for one of my favorite members of the team already simply for the sheer amount of times he's managed to fuck up only to somehow make up for it in the end. This is GekiChopper and these are fis few intorduction episodes to the team.

He was supposed to spend his time away from the team by training on sacred grounds and practicing his ability and what happens? He takes a vacation instead. He's entrusted to hold onto a sacred item that if fallen into evil hands can spell major disaster and what does he do? Sells it to an antique shop for cash which he apparently spends entirely, forcing him to bring Retsu along to pay for it back.

He's admittedly lazy and doesn't seem to train. His first action when reaching Japan again is to steal some of Jan's snacks and interrupt the other Gekirangers in the middle of a fight with a semi-truck just to get them back. This guy is awful. The only thing he has going for him are his fighting ability which has a technique even the Kensei can't use and the fact that he does seem to care for people deep down. Other than that, this guy is hilariously awful.

We do get some background on Bat Li and some of the stuff that happened to him during the Rinjyuken Rebellion. surprisingly in the flashback, he was still a batman. He has some sort of star crossed romance with this fortune teller chick, which turned out to be pretty nice in the end.

And on the RinJyuKen side, Mele's accessed DoRinki from her anger of having to resort to dirty tactics to gain the magic sword thing form Ken. Mostly 'cause of that piece of shit, Long. I had to question this for a minute and from what I remember that does check out. Some of the Rinshi under her command may have resorted to some dirty tactics, which Mele doesn't seem to ind...but she does have pride in herself as a fighter. So when she lost, she was ready to play fair and square...until Long played the well Rio will hate you now card.

So now Rio and Mele have the sacred sword and are about to go to the sacred grounds with the magic sword and train their DoRinki supposedly, which is all according to Long's plan. Ken may have lost the sacred sword, but he had to choose between it or trying to save his sister, so he made the right choice in the end. Of course as soon as Ran points out it was Mele's fault that he lost it and not his, Ken quickly absolves himself of any and all blame, despite selling the damn thing in the first place. What a shithead.