archer9234 wrote:Well he did meet him when they where fighting, at the end. Akared could easily fake his death. We saw an explosion. With Marvy-chan escaping. He might be doing it to protect secrets. Or, is doing it, to make Marvelous a better person.
No, Akared faked his death so that Marvelous could become his own Sentai hero. If Akared stuck around, Marvelous would always look to him for guidance. Marvelous would not be able to grow into a great leader if his own leader was standing there in front of him. So, Akared had to die(at least as far as Marvelous knew) for Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger to properly come into being. He's probably watching from afar, I'll bet Navi is his eyes and ears aboard Gokai Galleon, and directing their search for the Grand Powers(I suspect that when Navi does his Treasure Navigate, he's not actually computing a clue in his bird brain, he's just reciting the latest clue that Akared uploaded to him, explaining the dire warning just before Basco showed up, and Navi refused to Treasure Navigate in this episode because he didn't have a clue to recite as Akared had sent Satoru to straighten Marvelous out. Remember at the start of the episode when Navi said "When I don't have a clue, I don't have a clue." He really didn't have a clue because he hadn't been sent one but he was under orders not to reveal the fact that the clues were coming from Akared so he had to hem and haw and withstand Marvelous's anger without revealing the truth)
As the spirit of the Sentai Red Ranger itself, Akared doesn't normally take center stage, that's for the real Sentai heroes. In the Boukenger vs. Super Sentai movie, he gave Eiji the Super Sentai address book then ran off, leaving Eiji to gather allies himself, only reappearing to help out in the big battle at the end of the movie. Gathering the Ranger Keys is one thing, it had to be done, no one else could do it, and he did it all in flashbacks(I suspect Akared is aware of the existence of the Fourth Wall) but he couldn't participate in assembling a new team, he had to leave recruiting Goukaiger members to Marvelous because a ranger from one team does not participate in the assembling of another team, it simply isn't done.