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The Monkey Mimic's Finishing Move (サルマネ必殺技 Saru Mane Hissatsu-waza) is the twenty-first episode of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
Synopsis[]
Saizou's attempt to help out a struggling ninja school leads to him giving away the Kakurangers' secrets to a monkey Yokai who turns them against the team. Saizou's and friends tricked them, they pretend to be flawed like being attacked because they already know their true identity.
Plot[]
A group of soccer-playing boys rush up to a temple to check out a duo practicing their ninja art, yet they state they're just like "little kids", discouraging the girl doing the practicing. One of the boys asks if the teacher Daigorou can do the "vanishing art", but he states ninjutsu isn't for entertainment; making the boys state that he's making an excuse because he can't do it and call him fake making the girl upset. Without warning, Saizou plunges down from the trees, telling them to not make fun of ninjas while shooting water from his finger at them making them run off before revealing he was hiding a squirt bottle in his fist.
At the dojo for the "Kasumi Style Ninja Art", Daigorou states he opened it three months ago but no one has joined, leading to his wife to fall sick from a bad heart. As Saizou watches, the daughter cares for her mother as the father states he's embarrassed they can't take his wife to a good hospital and believes his daughter hates him because of this. He states Hanako wants him to stop practicing ninjutsu but the father states he's dedicated his life to it and it's the only thing he can hold on to it. He then asks Saizou how he can expand Kasumi-style's interest as the mother convulses, blaming himself that if he can save the dojo, he can save his wife and get the respect of his daughter. Saizou is moved to tears and promises to help Daigorou, gaining his thanks.
A short while later, the Kakuranger set up advertisements trying to get people interested in the Kasumi Dojo, though Sasuke worries Tsuruhime's advertising is closer to a political campaign. Saizou takes over the advertising as they try to get the soccer players to join in as they rip up the ads. Daigorou wonders if Saizou's methods will work, but the ninja states he's ways are old fashion and they have to go full throttle with this. The Kakuranger try to use Jiraiya to prove you can even learn English through ninjutsu and promote beauty and health as they start performing "Ninjutsu Aerobics" through dance moves. However as they start attracting a crowd, Junior spies on them.
The Kakuranger continue to show off their ninja skills at the Kasumi Dojo, including shuriken attacks and their sword styles, impressing the crowds. However the soccer boys continue to be unimpressed, claiming soccer is much cooler than ninjutsu. When they state ninjas can't play soccer, Saizou makes them promise that if he can prove ninja soccer can be done, they'll join the dojo, leading to the team performing the Kakuranger Ball with the soccer ball and blowing up a statue! After showing it off, Daigorou claims it's impressive and the soccer players join the dojo to the approval to the ninja family.
Later, Saizou congratulates themselves on a job well done in making the Kasumi dojo a success thanks to them and allowing them to move on. However before they can, they are approached by a Yokai named Sarugami and a group of monkey-acting Dorodoro, who use their flips to hit the ninja team. The Kakuranger transform and charge, but the Dorodoro reveal they know the Kakuranger sword styles, attacking them against the originators with Sarugami using Saizou's Square Cut! The team soon tries the Kakuranger Ball, but it's stolen by a Dorodoro and they perform the "Sarugami Kakuranger Ball", which they use to knock the team down!
The Announcer explains Sarugami and states they run amuck in women's clothing while wondering how they mastered the Kakuranger Ball.
At the Kasumi Dojo, Junior mocks them as Daigorou states he may be a Monkey God but they merely put on a good performance. Junior applauds them as Daigorou is revealed to be Sarugami and the mother, daughter and soccer boys the Dorodoro! As Sarugami talks about the success of learning the Kakuranger ball, Jiraiya spies from above but the Yokai throws shuriken at it, making NinjaBlack hide himself as a mouse to hide suspicion.
Finding out that he was deceived by Junior and Sarugami, Saizou lashes out while Tsuruhime wonders how they're going to defeat ninjas who know their abilities. However, Jiraiya states there's a good point to all this; Sasuke adds that they just need to trick them. At the Kasumi Dojo, the Dorodoro disguised as the girl states the Kakuranger are approaching making Sarugami's group re-transform as the Kakuranger arrive at the dojo feigning injury as Junior watches in secret. Saizou claims they were attacked by a Yokai and that he knows the Kakuranger Ball, making them ask Daigorou to help them devise a more powerful Kakuranger Ball, one that potentially can be used by six people and that only Daigorou as the 25th leader of the Kasumi Style can devise it. Sarugami wonders what they're doing wanting to make their own enemy more powerful, but he states he'll do it regardless.
As the squadron arrives at a quarry, Sasuke states the power of the Kakuranger Ball, how it gets more powerful the more people that use it to power it up and how the new version will have the power of six instead of five and the six-man version will be ten-times more powerful, continuing to state Daigorou as the only one who can make this work. Jiraiya states that a special "Kazu Dance and Overhead Kick" to make it work, with Sasuke adding that more ki from the kicker is needed to make the more powerful Kakure Shoot at the end work as they show it off by their dancing and Saizou kicking it at "Daigorou". The fake ninja master claims it's easy at the delight of his minions making them all laugh themselves into idiocy. The Kakuranger prepare the new Kakuranger Ball before kicking it to Daigorou, who shoots it behind the minions making it explode! As the team claims they can use it to defeat Sarugami, "Daigorou" laughs with his minions as they state the Kakuranger are going to hell as they turn back into their true Yokai forms.
Sarugami claims they'll use the new Kakuranger Ball to defeat the ninja squad as the team transforms. Sarugami taunts them to attack as they use the Kakuranger Ball, but the Dorodoro use it again to use the new Kakuranger Ball and Sarugami begins the Kazu Dance! As they finish it and fire it towards the Kakuranger, Saizou kicks it right back to them, smashing into Sarugami and the Dorodoro! Sarugami wonders how they defeated him but the Kakuranger claimed the new Kakuranger Ball was a lie and that the one who tricks will get tricked while Sasuke claims that the Sarutobi Clan are the only ninjas that use monkey moves. Sarugami summons the Yoki Cloud to grow, leading to the team to summon the Jushou Fighters but have a hard time with Sarugami's acrobatics until the Saruder Claw and Logan Kicker are used and Battle Logan uses the Fighter Crush to defeat the Yokai, stating that Sarugami is "now retiring".
At a park, a group of children ask the Kakuranger to show them ninjutsu while wondering if they're really children or not. Sasuke states they have to physically train to become ninja, with the team playing with them in the meantime.
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)
- Young Noble Junior (貴公子ジュニア Kikoshi Junia): Kenichi Endō (遠藤 憲一 Endō Ken'ichi)
- The Announcer: Enjou Sanyuutei (三遊亭 圓丈 San'yūtei Enjō)
Guest Cast[]
- Sarugami (サルガミ Sarugami): Ren Osugi (大杉 漣 Ōsugi Ren)
- Hanako: Mami Okamoto (岡本麻美 Okamoto Mami)
- Hanako's mother: Ruiko Yamaguchi (山口るい子 Yamaguchi Ruiko)
- Child: Yasuhito Oochi (大地泰仁 Ōchi Yasuhito), Hikaru Tanaka (田中光 Tanaka Hikaru), Daisuke Kawazoe (川添大介 Kawazoe Daisuke)
Notes[]
- Viewership: 4.6%
- Eyecatch
- Featured Kakuranger (Pre-Break): NinjaBlue
- Featured Kakuranger (Post-Break): NinjaBlue
- This episode marks the overall 900th episode of Super Sentai, though at the time of the episode's airing, it was not viewed as such because Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai were not counted as Super Sentai seasons.
DVD Releases[]
- Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Volume 2 features episodes 12-22.[1]
- The complete Kakuranger series was released in North America by Shout! Factory in 2016.
See Also[]
- A Chimp in Charge - Power Rangers counterpart in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 3). See comparison page.
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