 This article is about an episode in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
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The Hooligan Ninja!! (暴れん坊忍者!! Abarenbō Ninja!!) is the thirty-sixth episode of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
Synopsis[]
When the disciple of the Three God Generals returns to Earth after a thousand years in exile, both the Kakuranger and the Yokai try to reach him first even as he's discovered by two curious children.
Plot[]
A meteor heads towards Earth, Daimaou confirming it is someone returning from exile to the planet and sends Hakumenrou to deal with it; this arrival is someone named "Ninjaman", whom the strategist uses an arrow to fire for an unknown purpose.
Elsewhere, the Kakuranger are driving along singing in Nekomaru when Hakumenrou's arrow hits the Yokai bus; forcing it to hit a guard rail. As Tsuruhime comforts the Yokai, Sasuke finds the arrow as the meteor flies past them to the ground as the meteor turns into a bottle that proclaims "he's finally back on Earth". Saizou claims he was scared by the meteor while Sasuke reads the letter, confirming Ninjaman has arrived and to get to him before Daimaou; the team doesn't know who Ninjaman is but realize someone really wanted the Kakuranger to find this new arrival. Back with Daimaou, he questions Hakumenrou who states he was doing nothing while the Yokai leader claims it's time to bring Ninjaman under his wing. Hakumenrou states that Ninjaman has a grudge against the Yokai leader, but Daimaou claims he has an idea: having the strategist open the bottle to claim him since only one from the Tsuruhime line can open the Jar of Seals Ninjaman is locked within, meaning only he or Tsuruhime can do it.
Meanwhile, Ninjaman yells out from his bottle in a river the jar fell into to save him as two kids find him; the ninja asks them to get him out being sick of living in a tiny place; the kids wonder how to get him out but Ninjaman tells them to use the mallet to smash the jar. When the boy, Junichi, asks who he is, Ninjaman reveals himself confusing them while yelling at them to let him out. Junichi tries to remove the hammer but can't, making Ninjaman upset as he states he had waited a thousand years and wonder if "his sin was forgiven". The girl, Mitsuko, offers to cheer him up with a cracker she throws into the bottle, which he thanks and considers kind; Mitsuko states that her mother says "you have to be kind to small, fragile creatures"; Ninjaman claims he isn't small or fragile but hears shaking as the kids run away with the bottle from Dorodoro. The Kakuranger soon catch up with them hitting them with caltrops and protecting them as they escape. The ground shakes again without warning as an illusionary train flies right past them, revealing as being released by the Yokai Bakuki, one who uses nightmares and illusions to kill people. Bakuki orders the kids to give up Ninjaman, as he asks who they are; when the team reveals themselves as Kakuranger, Ninjaman realizes there are still a ninja army out there fighting the Yokai. Bakuki steals Mitsuko and the bottle stating he will invite the Kakuranger to the World of Illusions, sending them into a street where they're pursued by gangsters who shoot at them before they find a door they go through sending them to the ocean. There, they encounter illusions of their human guises charging at them and attacking with swords before they run away and Bakuki returns with Mitsuko. The Yokai then blasts the team away while stealing the Jar of Seals despite Mitsuko yelling at him to return it. Ninjaman uses his "Fire Escape" technique to blast Bakuki and allowing Tsuruhime to catch the bottle, but the Yokai keeps Mitsuko and states if they want her back, bring the bottle to Hell Valley in an hour without releasing him. Junichi yells for Mitsuko as Ninjaman tells him as he leaves to get back.
Junichi holds the bottle thinking of his sister Mitsuko as Tsuruhime confirms they will get Mitsuko back while Ninjaman considers himself pathetic, stating that if he was out, he would have defeated Bakuki with one punch! Seikai wonders how he got in there; Ninjaman states a thousand years prior, he was fighting the Yokai as the apprentice of the Three God Generals when he discovered someone who claimed the Yokai were attacking humans; but it was a trick by Daimaou leading to him hurting a lot of people! As punishment, the God Generals sealed Ninjaman in the Jar of Seals and banished him from Earth for a thousand years. Junichi pleads Ninjaman to save Mitsuko while Sasuke wonders how to remove the hammer. However, the hammer and Tsuruhime glow, making them realize she was the key allowing her to remove the hammer as Seikai tells her to smash the jar. However, Ninjaman states that Bakuki told them they need the Jar of Seals intact to save Mitsuko; believing in how she protected him, he believes he has to do the same as Tsuruhime comprehends the request.
The team arrives in Hell Valley as Bakuki calls out to them; Sasuke yells at him to show himself and Tsuruhime claims they brought the jar as he reveals another door, which Bakuki opens to suck the Kakuranger inside another illusion realm. This time, the team enters into the "Bakuki Illusion Theater" where they see his image telling them to put the jar down to save Mitsuko; stating he knows they are concerned as Ninjaman tells them to do as told, which Tsuruhime does. Bakuki reaches from the screen and grabs the jar as the team transforms and jumps to destroy the screen, destroying the illusion and then fire the Kakulasers to save Mitsuko and remove the jar from his hands! As Junichi saves his sister, the Kakuranger fight off the Dorodoro while Tsuruhime grabs the bottle which Bakuki attacks NinjaWhite for. But without warning, Hakumenrou fires an arrow towards him in secret; Bakuki grows in anger for stopping him as Ninjaman tells her to let him out, which NinjaWhite does with the jar's mallet, making the ninja warrior grow instantly! Ninjaman decides to go on a rampage after a thousand years sealed away for Bakuki's torment of Mitsuko; the ninja toys with the Yokai with disappearing and flying by on a cloud as Junichi and Mitsuko cheer on and he slashes Bakuki with the ninja sword. However the Yokai soon opens another illusion, making Ninjaman attacked by a squad of giant ninjas before stating he isn't much and calling him a pathetic novice. Getting angered by the "novice" comment, Ninjaman activates his "Anger Explosion" transforming into another form, "Samuraiman", which he states is his true form! Samuraiman uses his naganita to slash at Bakuki pushing him out of the illusion world as the Kakuranger soon join with Kakure Daishogun, which Ninjaman calls his master. The duo soon team up, Samuraiman using the Samurai Rage Bomber and Super Kakure Daishogun's Iron Fist Flying Finish to finish the Yokai off. Daimaou soon appears in the sky stating Ninjaman will be his subordinate and defeat the Kakuranger and telling him to have fun with the team until the time comes before vanishing.
Sasuke wonders what Daimaou is thinking making Ninjaman a subordinate while the warrior rides by with Junichi and Mitsuko in hand. Ninjaman claims he'll fly the duo to the edge of the sky as thanks for saving him, delighting the duo.
Cast[]
- Sasuke (サスケ Sasuke): Teruaki Ogawa (小川 輝晃 Ogawa Teruaki)
- Tsuruhime (鶴姫 Tsuruhime): Satomi Hirose (広瀬 仁美 Hirose Satomi)
- Seikai (セイカイ Seikai): Shu Kawai (河合 秀 Kawai Shū)
- Saizou (サイゾウ Saizō): Hiroshi Tsuchida (土田 大 Tsuchida Hiroshi)
- Jiraiya (ジライヤ Jiraiya): Kane Kosugi (ケイン・コスギ Kein Kosugi)
- Ninjaman (ニンジャマン Ninjaman, Voice): Kazuki Yao (矢尾 一樹 Yao Kazuki)
- Daimaou (大魔王 Daimaō, Voice): Hidekatsu Shibata (柴田秀勝 Shibata Hidekatsu)
- Hakumenrou (白面郎 Hakumenrō): Takayuki Godai (五代 高之 Godai Takayuki)
Guest Cast[]
- Bakuki (バクキ Bakuki, Voice): Takuzou Kamiyama (神山 卓三 Kamiyama Takuzō)
- Junichi: Kai Aoki (青木海 Aoki Kai)
- Mitsuko: Kana Yashiro (八代華奈 Yashiro Kana)
- Old Woman: Toshie Shoko (小甲登枝恵 Shōkō Toshie)
Errors[]
- to be added
Notes[]
- Viewership: 5.1%
- Eyecatch
- Featured Kakuranger (Pre-Break): NinjaRed
- Featured Kakuranger (Post-Break): NinjaWhite
- There is a discrepancy regarding when the war between the Three God Generals and the Yokai occurs between this episode and a previous one; this episode states that the battle that led to Daimaou's sealing occurred 1000 years prior, while previously the battle was stated to be 2000 years prior.
- The title of this episode and episode 45, The Hasty Santa (慌てん坊サンタ Awatenbō Santa) would be echoed by the forty-fifth episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, The Confused Ninja (慌てん坊忍者 Awatenbō Ninja), which reintroduced Ninjaman.
DVD Releases[]
Kakuranger Volume 4, DVD cover
- Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Volume 4 features episodes 34-43.[1]
Kakuranger: The Complete Season DVD cover
- The complete Kakuranger series was released in North America by Shout! Factory in 2016.
See Also[]
- Ninja Quest - Power Rangers counterpart in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 3). See comparison page.
- Master Vile and the Metallic Armor - Power Rangers counterpart in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 3). See comparison page.
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