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Kind of a so-so episode. I like Nagi, but his episodes tend to fall into the "I have confidence issues. Kasumi's advice will help me save everyone."

The monster had a neat power, but aside from a few jokes, all it did was make Takaharu smart. That just makes me resentful and suspicious that Takaharu's actor is related to someone high up in Toei.

I like Kyuuemon's uber robot though. At last we know what he's been scheming.
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Kinji and his english always cracks me up :P

Also when the Japanese subtitles appear, the brackets with small words actually read (de gozai yasu).
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The Last Ninja competition feels irrelevant at this point. When are they going to realize that chasing after a title isn't so different from Kyuuemon trying to prove that the Izayoi-style is superior to the Igasaki-style? Their priorities feel misplaced considering the threat Kibaoni poses to the world.
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with 10+ episodes left, it's been underwhelming for me so far. :(
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Normally I would say "Woo! We're getting into some story here" after seeing the preview for the next episode, but every time that goes through my head the next episode is just filler. I seriously thought this episode was going to go the route of the Toqger episode and not give Takaharu a specialty (like how Right was unaffected by a zero on his test), but apparently his personality was his specialty. :roll:

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Kyuuemon's mecha has fox funnels in similar shape to ones used by Qubeley and Kshatriya from Gundam! After watching like twenty different Sentai series, this is probably like the first time I seen a mecha in Sentai that use this technology like that. I want see this be use more in the future with mechs in Sentai and some Kamen Riders. Also did the preview suggest
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Ninninger 31: The one where Kasumi gets drunk :lol:

On the whole this was a decent enough episode. As someone else pointed out, Nagi episodes tend to be a bit weak and this one suffered from that as well. On the other hand we got drunk Kasumi and competent Takaharu, and I have to say I enjoyed competent Takaharu for the whole 60 seconds we had him. It's probably just one giant tease by the writers, but boy was it glorious; it's a reminder of how good a series with a serious Red can be after we'd had to put up with Daigo, Right, and Takaharu. I'd rather have this Takaharu any day of the week.

Meanwhile there were a few nice cinematography elements to this episode. That shot of Kyuuemon's lit-up head right before the OP was fantastic; this show does plenty to make Kyuuemon a threat, but it does very little to make him scary. And there were some longer-than-usual action cuts in a couple of places in this episode, which is a welcome departure from the ADHD cuts that we sometimes get.

As for Kyuuemon overall plan, while the MOTW wasn't anything fantastic, the mecha fight at the end was enjoyable. Granted, the heroes lost, but there's something pleasant about watching the cluster mecha get blown to bits. However there was very little hand-to-hand action here, which is a mild disappointment. The Ninningers lost to CGI attacks and never came close to Kyuuemon's robo. Which I have to say I like the design, it's very Kyuuemon and not especially bulky, making it closer to Shinobimaru.

Finally, dumb westerner time. Kyuuemon's robo was referred as a "karakuri". Could someone please shed some light on what that means?
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Karakuri means mechanical/clockwork. Kind of like how steampunk is a thing in the west, in Japan they love the idea of all the gadgets being full of gears and stuff. Remember when Kasumi made a karakuri translator? Their transforming weapon is also called a Karakuri Hengen.
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ViRGE wrote:Ninninger 31: The one where Kasumi gets drunk :lol:

On the whole this was a decent enough episode. As someone else pointed out, Nagi episodes tend to be a bit weak and this one suffered from that as well. On the other hand we got drunk Kasumi and competent Takaharu, and I have to say I enjoyed competent Takaharu for the whole 60 seconds we had him. It's probably just one giant tease by the writers, but boy was it glorious; it's a reminder of how good a series with a serious Red can be after we'd had to put up with Daigo, Right, and Takaharu. I'd rather have this Takaharu any day of the week.
Daigo and Right were at least multi leveled. I honestly never wanted miss an episode. These ones had the cast at least mix it up, Daigo never liked being a lone wolf were Taka-chan seems to personify. Right while being goofy had moments of clarity and would rely on the others. Takaharu says he can rely on them then does the opposite every time.

Truly i do wish the next season has a serious Red, we are long over due. I think the last real one was Marvelous. I am not sure if Red was all that serious in Go-Buster I did not watch the series. Now that i think about it lets have back to back Serious Reds.
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i have to ask, are the 4 creatures used on kyuuemon's gears relevant in any way?
so mr badger had a megaman ability. meh. and kinji's ability is speaking japanese? but they said strange japanese? i guess im missing something?

and yes! kyuuemon used funnels, NINE funnels. for nine tails! eh? eh?! but if his mech is immune to attacks that killed the mad gear gang izaioi style nin, then should have the triple mech launch attack in which taka strikes the monster been effective? and i was watching carefully, taka got hit many times riding in lion ha-oh mouth! shouldnt he be dead? i should see the dai shuriken missing him maybe but kyuuemon's sword slashs hit the whole front of ha-oh.

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I didn't notice any pattern between the animals myself. Not to say there isn't one, but nothing stood out to me.
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Making Red serious makes me sad at what could have been if they didn't milk this idiot hero thing.
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Daigo and Right are better than idiot Takaharu who were taught many episodes to growth up, however it seems to be hopeless until now.

King is idiot too however he has well-know how team-work is rather than Takaharu.

Right is just a kid who 8,9 years old and he growth up since episode 31 when their real identifications were revealed.
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i mean, the falcon, lion, ant and badger. the first 2 i thought perhaps had something to do with ninja lore in some way, but then ant and badger? seem like odd choices.

perhaps kyuuemon is similar to long from geki ranger? pulling strings for something bigger? and the final foe still hasnt appeared yet despite us not being past episode 30.

someone said marvelous was a serious red, and while not disagreeing, i dont think so. he took his role as leader seriously, but as a ranger it was more part of the grand plan for the triforce greatest treasure. i think aloof is more accurate.

im still working on megaranger, but it seems megared wasnt/isnt very serious. granted not dumb. o if taka was a bit smarter would he not bother you guys?
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Taka's other problem is that he's not very charismatic either. Kenta was charming in his own way. While Takaharu is just never fun or interesting in his dumbness.
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