[Sh Ranger]

Looks like the Blue and Black Rangers are being saved for later. Sound familiar? It's unusual though, since the tale of Momotarou has the pheasant come last in the group of animal friends, but here Kijibrother precedes the other two.

This premiere kind of reminds me of Faiz's, since both are focused on the female lead, with the main hero making his big entrance later. And for me, anything that compares to Faiz is virtually always good! I appreciate how this episode wastes no time on exposition and just throws all the crazy virtual world stuff at us. I always think exposition is best left for a second episode, so the weirdness of the first can be enjoyed for what it is. It also makes Kito more of a viewer perspective, as we get to share her confusion.

There seems to be problems occurring in the real world as well, with Kito being accused of plagiarizing manga and now all her classmates feel contempt for her. If this has something do with the Noto or the Oni, then I guess that's going to be her motivation for fighting them.

I enjoyed the joke at the end where every other random stranger Kito meets is named Tarou, cause it's just that common of a name!

Turns out I was closer to explaining Juran Tyranno's appearance here with my original theory. It's just a summon used by Zenkaizer Black and it seems that Don Momotarou was already expecting this to happen. Makes me curious what Tarou's and Kaito's relationship is going to be.

An awesome premiere that does what I expect a premiere to do, but I'm reserving the rest of my excitement for when the team are fully assembled. I'm definitely relieved to see that there is in fact an ending theme though, since I was worried by its absence from the press conference.