[Locke]

Gokaiger 33.

This episode was...kinda dumb, I dunno, Gai is easily the worst of the Gokaiger, and the Zangyack are some of the worst villains in the entire history of the franchise. I guess it's almost impressive how boring a show with so many great individual elements can be.

Yet, ironically, I really enjoyed the aspect of the episode that was...a tribute to Dairanger...? What..? I've made no attempt to hide that I really hate the tribute aspect of this show, and I really hate Dairanger as well. Still, Ryou was one of the better of the Dairanger. I mean sure he was as poorly written as anyone else, but he was also a BADASS. And now, here he is, getting one of the most BADASS cameos out of all of them so far which was wonderfully fitting for his character. The Dairanger tribute morph was better than the entirety of that show.

Sadly though I HAVE seen Dairanger and so I watched this entire episode with a question mark instead of a face. In the Dairanger universe, their battle with the Gourma was this literal never ending war so...why is Ryou now an old man making Gozu? Does he need to die of old age for the battle with the Gourma to begin again? Also, wasn't the White Tiger Sword technically more of a character than a weapon? So I wonder how that works in terms of summoning it with a key.