Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger/YMMV

"Singing loudly so you'll always remember"
 * Alternate Character Interpretation:
 * When Basco took the Final Wave for Sari in #39, was it because he needed her alive for his Pseudoroids, or did he actually show concern and care for Sari?
 * Did Akudos Gill truly
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced:
 * Let's face it, the entire series was this to begin with. They had us at nostalgia...and then they added the pirates.
 * Anytime a member of another Sentai makes an appearance, such as Kai or Ban, Jasmine, and Doggy Kruger.
 * Rio and Mele will appear in the Gokaiger movie. Enough said.
 * The return of old school Sentai actors are also met with rejoicing. Including the actors of first Ryuu Ranger, Deka Pink, Denzi Blue followed by Aka Ranger, Big One, Goggle Black, Dyna Pink, Red One, Red Turbo. Old school fans are getting some love!
 * Not to mention, as the recent trailer shows, we're finally getting something fans have been waiting for for years: a full on, multi-series mecha battle against an army of giant enemies.
 * Black Condor to be Back from the Dead for the Jetman episode, as confirmed by Toshihide Wakamatsu (Gai Yuuki's actor) himself!
 * And now, fans have received warmly the spoiler that revealed that the Jetman episode is a
 * Not only did ALL THREE PRIMARY MEMBERS of Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger return for their tribute but THEY TRANSFORMED!
 * A Metal Heroes crossover with Space Sheriff Gavan!
 * After being teased about it in #40, lots of fans rejoiced when it was officially previewed in #44 that Ninjaman, who had been rumored to have been left out of 199 Heroes due to the suit being unavailable, is finally making an appearance.
 * After the above crossover, it has now been announced that the crossover that fans had been waiting for will happen, a Kamen Rider and Super Sentai versus movie!
 * After much speculation, an All-Pink Gokai-Change has been confirmed!
 * And Captain Marvelous will be Ptera Ranger...a.k.a. the Pink Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger.
 * Sentai Legends from the five teams (Sun Vulcan, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman and Fiveman) that Basco stole the Grand Powers from are finally set to appear!
 * OOO´s keys announced
 * Awesome Music:
 * The opening theme.
 * The ending song.
 * The "Now & Forever" version.
 * GoJuuJin's theme.
 * GokaiOh's theme.
 * Don't forget the badass Kaizokuki Wo Agero (even more awesome in full).
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Unless you know Goranger's attack, the Goranger Hurricane with a garbage truck really comes out of nowhere, even with the Rangers calling it out during the attack.
 * Complete Monster: From threatening to kill a child or threatening to blow up a school, both in order to get a Great Power, to betraying and almost annihilating the entire Red Pirate Gang, Basco establishes himself as quite possibly the most sickeningly evil villain to ever exist in the entire Super Sentai franchise.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor: But thankfully, Kei Hosogai is nowhere as sickening as Basco, he even hangs out and take pictures with the other Gokaiger cast.
 * Continuity Lock Out: As cool as all these Call Backs to previous Sentai seasons are, it's probably going to leave a few newer fans who aren't familiar with the older seasons a little confused, like the Goranger Hurricane mentioned above (and, let's go ahead and mention the inevitable, it's going to be hell for whoever ends up adapting this into Power Rangers, since they're going to either have to explain away or completely disregard the 16 teams that were never seen stateside (everything from Goranger to Jetman, with Dairanger on top of it...unless Saban retreads the path of the Masked Rider episode "The Invasion of Leawood", which just plonked in every Showa era Kamen Rider without any prior context.)
 * The PR group won't have to worry, at least for the Legend War.Toei is making new footage just for Power Rangers -- that doesn't use anything from before Zyuranger.
 * Creator's Pet: A portion of the fanbase sees Gai's character as this. It's standard practice for the Sixth Ranger to be the spotlight-stealer for the first episodes after their introduction, but Gai has a number of things that work against him. He is an obvious fanboy stand-in made to appeal to the young kids who want to be a hero, whose abilities are literally given to him on a silver platter for very little reason.
 * Crosses the Line Twice: Several monsters turning into a Twinkle in The Sky? Seen it. Said monsters smashing through the Zangyack fleet that's always in Earth's orbit? Funny. One such monster smashing into the flagship and still capable of walking up to the bridge? HILARIOUS.
 * Ear Worm: LET'S GO LET'S GO-KAIGER
 * The ending is even more of an Ear Worm. Lampshaded in one line of the song itself, which, roughly translated goes like:

"Marvelous: "The one I want is you.""
 * Ensemble Darkhorse:
 * Much like another attractive and personable Yellow Ranger, Luka is quickly becoming the one of the most popular character on the show.
 * The Gormin have become some of the best Mooks ever in a Sentai series, especially after the poker game in episode 10. It helps that they're portrayed as not quite as mindless as many of the grunts before them.
 * After only two episodes, a vast majority of the fandom is already clamoring for the return of Basco. Though with recent events, he may be straying towards Draco in Leather Pants territory.
 * Family-Unfriendly Aesop:
 * #10: Cheating is okay if you need to defeat bad guys.
 * Didn't we have that back then in Jetman?
 * From #13, lying is okay if it's to beat the bad guys.
 * Concussions can make you psychic
 * Fan Dumb:
 * Several non-American fans get very annoying when saying that the shows that aired in their countries didn't get their tributes yet and that the series is ruined because of that. Brazilian fans surely are a pain in the nuts sobbing because Dengeki Sentai Changeman, Choushinsei Flashman and Hikari Sentai Maskman got completely trashed offscreen by the time #32 aired, for instance.
 * Power Ranger fans also dip into this because they're trying to find any references wherever they can. The only Power Ranger shout outs have been confirmed in episodes directed by Koichi Sakamoto.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment/Harsher in Hindsight:
 * All those mentions about piracy in the show (I.E. "We're the pirated versions") might be a little uneasy considering most English speaking viewers of the show are pirates in a whole different sense.
 * Not to mention the one bill everyone is focused on in 2011, the Stop Online Piracy Act. It's very ironic that it was the Pirate Sentai that was playing during the anti-piracy craze.
 * The whole Villain-falls-in-love-with-Red Racer plot might sound funny, until it's reported later in the year that Yuji "Kyosuke Jinnai" Kishi goes into divorce for yet-undisclosed reasons. Worse, his wife was another Sentai alumni - Deka Pink.
 * The way the villains are portrayed in the movies can be Played for Laughs. It can also be jarring when you compare them to what they've been doing in the series proper. For example, in Gokaiger vs. Gavan, how Basco "punishes" Sally for not helping him fight the Go-busters...
 * He's Just Hiding: After the end of episode 21,
 * Hilarious in Hindsight:
 * Female versions of male yellow rangers...kinda makes you look back, eh?
 * Also,
 * Pirates are in this year, indeed.
 * We can now remake "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" with a real picture of every single Power Ranger.
 * It's possible that the popularity of Manta Headder from Goseiger (which turns into a pirate-themed mecha head) inspired Gokaiger as a whole. This gets lampshaded in The Movie.
 * The Mobirates' announcement for Sentai names during any Gokai Change is exactly the way the Carrangers announce their team name, which itself was a Running Gag in its series.
 * Goseiger's card system brought Decade's card system to mind. Gokaiger brought everything else in Decade to mind.
 * As Ryouma and Hyuuga note, the Gingaman fought Space Pirates, and then we got a Space Pirate Sentai.
 * A Red Ranger's actor initially declined to appear in a tribute episode because he wanted to put that part of the career behind himself. Other members of the cast and crew convinced him to appear, though as a result, he has limited screentime. Now, am I talking about Kazuki Maehara, or Danny Slavin?
 * In Kamen Rider Decade, during his stay in Kabuto's world, Tsukasa talked about an explorer by the name of Vasco de Gama, who is similarly named to one Basco ta Jolokia. Bonus points for Vasco being interchangeable with Basco.
 * In #39, a space newspaper has an article about on a page that's headered as "Space Sports Extra". Wonder if that means the space sports had to be totally cancelled...
 * Bit of a stretch, but the Kuwaga Raiger suit gets the Gender Flip treatment over the more obvious choice, the reddish Kabuto Raiger one - Kuwaga Raiger became the Navy Ranger, Blake in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, and we know now that Blake can be a girl's name.
 * The entire "Don as a dragon slayer" arc, with a certain video game about dragon slayers being released at about the same time.
 * Compare Navi's excitement over finally getting a bounty to Chopper's reaction when he saw his first bounty poster (if money exchange isn't applicable, they both start out at a mere 50).
 * Still on One Piece, Sanji is noticeably missing from the Expies in the main cast...but his voice actor isn't, being the voice of Machalcon.
 * And another from One Piece, with Kazuki Yao a.k.a. Franky reprising his role as Ninjaman.
 * Ninjaman says that he was trapped in Negakure Temple for roughly ten years, because of the rampage of zoo animals. Wait, what was the Sentai team around that time? Bonus points for all the animals pictured having counterparts in the then active Power Animals.
 * While there's been no shortage of pirate Ranger fanfics before Gokaiger, at least one managed to predict the characteristics and assigned colors of the core 5 heroes.
 * We finally get some idea of what the riders were going through during the Final Form Rides in the form of Don being the Zuban sword in #51.
 * In the movie, the Gokaigers intend on hunting down the God's Eye, so that it will grant their wish to gain the greatest treasure in the universe. Of course, what the great treasure actually does is
 * Throughout Gokaiger there was a lot of Fan Dumb desperately trying to find references to Power Rangers when in reality there were very few. Well come the next series...
 * Holy Shit Quotient:
 * Clips from the 199 Heroes movie show ALL 33 Giant Robos, plus Sky Ace from JAKQ and VariBlune from Goranger. Cue massive gasps of HSQ.
 * And now the newest trailer from the Gokaiger movie show us Gokaioh vs Fake Gokaioh above the moving ghost ship and Gokaioh swingin from a rope(!).
 * Ho Yay:
 * Marvelous and Joe in episode 12.

""Someone invent a time machine so I can high five my 8-year-old self." - CollegeHumor"
 * The first time Luka and Ahim slept together on the couch, it was a cute moment that came after Luka tried comforting Ahim. The second time...well, here we are. There are other moments that can be be seen as shipping, especially episode 23, their focus episode (and Gogo V tribute).
 * With the villains, Marvelous and Basco have their Foe Yay going on, while Joe and Cid act very, very close in some of their flashbacks.
 * Don and the Soccer Kid in episode 32.
 * In a flashback, Basco asks a wounded Marvelous, "Want me to feed you ... like a couple?" He's teasing, yeah, but still.
 * Memetic Badass: Marvelous, oh, so very much.
 * Memetic Mutation:
 * Someone's got a bun in the oven...
 * GODDAMMIT GREEN, GET IT TOGETHER!
 * This beauty known as the Captain Marvelous Troll Face.
 * Captain Marvelous is increasingly becoming more and more of a Memetic Badass as the series goes on. And the bar was already set pretty high to begin with.
 * Just the Legend War scene is drawing a lot of attention from the internet, even with Power Rangers fans not familiar with all the Super Sentai involved.


 * Ever since Sousuke joked about it at the end of #36, Gokai Fire is slowly but surely reaching this status.
 * It's recently been a Running Gag in several otaku forums that the release of Superhero Taisen will be the cause of the end of the world predicted in the Maya Calendar.
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * Basco:
 * Him threatening to kill a little kid in order to try and get a Great Power from it's owner. His actions were previously only centered on the Gokaiger, but going far enough to try and kill a child for a Great Power is going too far.
 * Basco goes even farther in episode 39 by threatening to blow up an entire high school for a Great Power.
 * And if he didn't then, he most certainly did it by
 * Oiles Gil:
 * He crossed this by
 * Some say he crossed it earlier when he had strapped a bomb to an Action Commander so that he would take a large city with him.
 * Narm Charm:
 * Sally (Sari) the Monkey, Basco's sidekick. It's clearly someone crouching in a monkey costume. But the constant antics and the suit actor's surprising devotion to really acting like a monkey make you forget how silly she looks.
 * In episode 14, it's painfully obvious that the monsters are dragging around a dummy dressed as Red Racer, but since it's a Carranger episode, it just adds to the funny.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * What's worse is Oiles Gil has no problem about doing that to a great many other people.
 * Basco using . This of course was predated by.
 * Something can be said about Gokai Silver's Gold Mode. The chestplate has miniature faces of previous Sixth Rangers, making it look eerily like a Super Sentai pelt or a witch doctor's shrunken head collection.
 * Or Kamen Rider Decade's Complete Form.
 * Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Most people's first impression on Walz Gils is that he's a pathetic excuse of Big Bad thanks to his Spoiled Brat, General Failure attitude and temper tantrum. Lately, thanks to some level ups in competency, some Moral Event Horizon crossing and especially the events at Episode 37, people started acknowledging why he's the Big Bad.
 * Also, the Goseigers. Many fans found them to be either dull or annoying, but their more aggressive behavior during the 199 Heroes movie won a lot of viewers over.
 * Retroactive Recognition: GokaiPink first appeared as the last Victim of the Week in Kamen Rider Double.
 * Special Effect Failure:
 * There's a moment in #26 where the Hurricanegers and the GokaiOh are in the same shot, and the fact that they're all standing on a model city set is really obvious due to some bad perspective.
 * The staff made a "stunt spear" for scenes where Gokai Silver gets knocked around, since obviously the plastic prongs would break easily from all the rough-and-tumble of the fight scenes. The problem is that the stunt spear has large sheets of black plastic connecting the prongs, which solves the fragility problem but sticks out like a sore thumb every time it's used.
 * Some of the suits haven't aged well, and it's easier to spot in HD. This is more common with Extra heroes whose armors aren't as easy to restore as the fabric in Ranger suits.
 * The first major instance of this happens in episode 20 with the Black Knight suit, whose shoulder pads and chest armor are slightly peeled off in the edges and corners, a detail exposed within close-ups of the suit.
 * Another case happens in Episode 31, when Zubaan and Wolzard Fire grow to giant size. As Zubaan tries to stomp GokaiSilver flat, his lower leg looks very crinkly. This is especially noticeable because, being a giant, the stomping leg occupied half the screen.
 * Spoiled by the Format: In many ways, #38 feels like a final episode. . However, being a Super Sentai series, we know that there are some 12-15 episodes still remaining.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
 * Episode 27, when Luka and Don body swap, they don't modify Gokai Green's costume into a Mini-Dress of Power, thus missing the chance of having the first female Green Ranger in Super Sentai history. But then #49 happens...
 * They've done an all-red and all-silver team, and half the team has done all-black and all-white, but there seems to be no indication that they intend to do a full team of Blue, Green, Yellow, or Pink, or any other combinations that would be cool to see (such as an all Archers team of Spade Ace, Ptera Ranger, Pink Racer, Blue Dolphin, and Shinken Blue.)
 * Some decisions seems to be weird. Sure, Gokai Galleon Buster being introduced the way it was played nice, but it would have made much more sense if the introduction of a bazooka was made with Changeman's ultimate power, since this series introduced this concept to the sentai genre. Ohranger's ultimate power would go very nice if used to apply different hats to GokaiOh's head.
 * In Episode 14, they gained Carranger's Grand Power, which is traffic safety. That probably would have been useful to help contain Machalon in episode 36.
 * Episode 39, which is Megaranger's tribute, didn't have a Nejiranger like enemy. It would be really cool if they had it instead of Basco and Sally. Or if Basco had Nejiranger Ranger Keys and debuted them in that episode.
 * The lack of a Super Mode for the 5 initial rangers.
 * Now even Gokaiger vs. Gavan has this. Tetsu Inada confirmed in his twitter that Doggie Kruger/Dekamaster (who is close friends with Gavan in-universe) will not be appearing in this movie.
 * Show hands for those who thought that the rumor of the finale being a Second Legend War was true?
 * Villain Decay:
 * Viewer Gender Confusion:
 * Navi is technically without gender, being a machine, but fans and even some subbers can't decide on male or female pronouns. Since Navi seemed to enjoy getting fawned over by the schoolgirls in episode 8 and uses "oira", which is generally spoken by males (there are females that do so, but it's rare), evidence leans towards Navi being a "he".
 * A small handful of fans thought Basco was a woman upon seeing the episode 15 preview, although that was soon cleared up.
 * The Woobie: Ahim gets this treatment in #41, especially in the crying scene. You just want to give her a big hug!
 * Villain Decay:
 * Viewer Gender Confusion:
 * Navi is technically without gender, being a machine, but fans and even some subbers can't decide on male or female pronouns. Since Navi seemed to enjoy getting fawned over by the schoolgirls in episode 8 and uses "oira", which is generally spoken by males (there are females that do so, but it's rare), evidence leans towards Navi being a "he".
 * A small handful of fans thought Basco was a woman upon seeing the episode 15 preview, although that was soon cleared up.
 * The Woobie: Ahim gets this treatment in #41, especially in the crying scene. You just want to give her a big hug!