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Here we are at another type of episode Sentai does more often than Rider. The New Years episode, which tends to have lower stakes, a much weirder monster and an overall more comedic tone. So it’s fitting that this is Shimoyama’s last contribution to the main series (he still does the two movies you’ve got upcoming), which also means I’ll be in less of a 100% good mood for the last few episodes.

As for the episode, I love how what seems like a goofy set-up (the henchmen create a monster) turns into a partial deconstruction of why they’re the henchmen. If Enter found out about these events, I imagine he’d wonder what the hell happened.

And back to the talk of upcoming movies, the ending has been replaced with a remix of the usual song that’s equally about the Gokaigers, complete with parts of the backing instrumentals borrowed from that show’s ED, Super Sentai Hero Getter (a rather simplistic song that PokeRaps the Super Sentai), wih the visuals changed to a trailer for Go-Busters vs Gokaiger, showing off a black version of Gokai Galleon, the fact that the “vs” isn’t just to sound cool, they are actually fighting, Enter interacting with the movie villains (which is one notable difference from Rider crossovers, where the regular villains are cameos at best, non-entities at worst) and the debut of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger’s KyoryuRed.

Video for Super Sentai Hero Getter.