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This episode introduced two of my least favorite parts of Zi-O. The first of these is Hat Woz. Kind of. Hat Woz himself is fine, although his existence raises a whole lot of questions about Woz's nature that absolutely do not get answered to my satisfaction. No, what I absolutely despise is his book. Hat Woz's book is one of my least favorite things in fiction: a lazy plot device. It serves no purpose other than to make put characters and events into position without having to bother explaining it. It's bad, lazy writing and I hate it.

The other part that I dislike is Shinobi. Again, kind of. Shinobi is also fine on his own, and I know that he has a pretty decent amount of fans out there. I dislike him more as a concept than a character. By this point in the show I was watching Zi-O entirely for the legacy characters, not for anything that Sougo, Geiz, or Tsukuyomi were doing (not that Tsukuyomi was doing much of anything, at this point). The Oma Zi-O stuff did nothing for me, the Time Jackers did nothing for me, I was 100% here for the anniversary tributes. So it may not come as a huge surprise that I was not a fan of doing fake anniversary tributes for original characters that the show just made up (because we all know that whatever follows Revice is not going to be a Shinobi series). I was especially butthurt over this at the time, seeing as we'd already gotten Fourze and Faiz crammed together into one two-parter while Kuuga, W, and Den-O all got shunted off to a movie. I've mellowed on these episode over time, but in the moment it seemed like kind of an insult to spend entire two-part episodes on this when some real shows weren't given that much time.

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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

Definitely on my list of favorite toku opening songs.