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Scroll 7: Thunder and Ninja

So here we are, at the point where I stopped watching the show on my first watch. Can I get further this time? Yes I can.

To start off with, our two mysterious watchers are no longer shadowed in the credits, you can see them in all their horny glory (wait, that didn’t come out right)



The episode proper opens with our three Hurricanegers using their elemental specialties in unison to… destroy a scarecrow. They then brag about how perfectly executed that was and that Jakanja won’t be able to stop them now (Pride goeth before a fall, I guess).

Speaking of whom, at the Centipede, Floaty Head Manmarva is having another vision of the two Spears, which everyone dismisses, as they’re dedicated to Chuzoobo’s latest plan: using the Dimension Ninja Futabutabou (who I am going to refer to as “Two-pig” so I don’t constantly misspell it).



Using his Uchu Ninpo: Jigen Buta, Two-pig sends several people, including Nanami’s jerk of a manager into the same city corner, where they almost kill a delivery guy. The Hurricanegers leap into the action with their Hurricane Wingers and find Two-pig on a skyscraper. He then lures them into his dimension, wherein they get attacked by kids on bikes in a street corner, gangsters in a movie at the cinema and a tank at the quarry (One guy compared this show to Metal Heroes and he wasn’t kidding). But, to Two-pig’s surprise, Yosuke, Nanami and Kouta all enjoyed the changing scenery and give him recommendations, causing him to return to the rooftop in anger. As the Hurricanegers take advantage of his getting distracted to shoot him, Manmarva searches around looking for the figures in his vision. And he ends up finding them (what a coincidence).

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Back at the Centipede, as Chuzoobo disciplines Two-pig for his running away, Floaty Head returns with his findings, who introduce themselves.



The Gouraigers then get down to business, stating they intended to be hired by Jakanja in order to find the secret ninja technique that Jakanja is looking for (Nice to see that plot’s going somewhere). Then Tau Zant reveals that the two are actually humans rather than the remaining two Spears, causing everyone to reject the Gouraigers as beneath them. To this, the red one tells them they have no idea who they’re messing with, before leaving with his blue partner.

As the Hurricanegers and Oboro toast their victory (I don’t see why people always celebrate minor successes. They’re just asking to fail). As Hamster Headmaster calls them out on being lax, Two-pig returns at the quarry. The Hurricanegers go to face him, but he’s upped his game since last time, managing to utilise his secret weapon: flying pig snouts (No, really).



From the side, the Gouraigers look on as the Hurricanegers struggle to fight back.



Our heroes eventually get the advantage when Yosuke has them use the manoeuvre they were practicing earlier to get onto his Jigen Buta and ram it into him, weakening him to be destroyed by the Dry Gadget. As our heroes celebrate, they get blasted backwards by the Gouraigers, who state that they intend to finish what the Jakanja failed to do (And I’ll take a moment to gush at their main leitmotif. Kazunori Miyabe man)

Yosuke tries to use that same manoeuvre again to counter the Gouraigers, but the blue one counters it by doing a Rider Kick (or should that be a Raiger Kick? Never mind, he does kind of look like a Kamen Rider so the joke works either way). They then introduce themselves as the Gouraigers, the Ikazuchi Style’s legendary champions.(remember them?) Hamster Headmaster is shocked by this, while Oboro wonders why Earth Ninjas are fighting each other (Did she forget about the ongoing feud between their two schools? Good god, is this gonna be like Ryuki again?)



Just as the Gouraigers have downed our heroes and won the hearts of the female Jakanja Spears, Two-pig returns as a giant to knock them out of the way, causing them to leave in outrage at the Jakanja for undermining them. The Hurricanegers summon the Shinobi Machines and hit Two-pig with everything in their basic Mecha arsenal (ie. No Goat Crusher or Tortoise Hammer) to kill him. Yosuke, Nanami and Kouta then return to the ground to confront the Gouraigers once more, who transform back into their human forms, giving us a pair of faces and a pair of names: Ikazuchi Style’s KabutoRaiger Ikkou Kasumi (R) and Ikazuchi Style’s KuwagaRaiger Isshu Kasumi (L)



The two Kasumi brothers then make what RangerWiki calls “contemptuous huffing noises”, before taking their leave. And thats where it ends. Next time, the Hurricanegers try to appeal to the Gouraigers’ better nature (Good god, is this just going to be another Ryuki? Because I really don’t want it to be another Ryuki).

Final thoughts: This wasn’t so much focused on any one character so much as it was on debuting the new guys at long last. I like how they’re basically full on jerks with hearts of jerk at this point, as opposed to the show trying to tell me they have a better nature to be appealed to (I really hate it when shows do that, mostly because it’s rarely done well). And I like that they basically gave our heroes a healthy reality check when they were developing a bit of an ego. Overall, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next.

EDIT: It seems that some of the pictures haven’t loaded on the post when I try viewing. Can someone help me by confirming whether or not they see the last three pictures?