Gokaiger Episode 44 Review: Pirate Christmas

The episode begins with the emperor seeing that the Gokaigers are more of a threat as a new strategy must be used. Insarn tries to ask Dairando (finally I see his name) to take initiative, but Dairando wants to see the fights himself as he will team up with an old friend. With the gang we see that Don's bounty has gone up to 300,000 the same price as Gai and even Navi has a bounty now of 50. What concerns everyone though is that Basco and Sally have bounty on their heads as they are classified as pirates now. The gang is worried about Basco and what he could be thinking and with the emperor around things just get worse. Gai though comes in singing Jingle Bells (was he at the Christmas party from Fourze?) as he carries around a little tree and jumps in joy. Everyone is confused on what the tree is (not how he is acting because you know its Gai he has to act hyper) as Gai tells them its an Christmas tree and Christmas is coming tomorrow, but no one else knows what that is. After the opening we see Gai and Luka shopping as they see a Santa giving gifts with kids and for some reason has a panda around him. Luka gets some info wrong as she thinks that this guy is the real thing because of Gai's words and she is interested with the gifts. Luka tries to get a present, but the Santa says he will only give gifts to good boys and girls as Luka gets mad.

Why only 50 for Sally?

With Luka in a cranky mood now Gai tries to cheer her up as he shows her children putting up decorations. Gai saves a kid who falls off a ladder and then a girl comes up and says what an idiot he is and slaps him across his face. Gai helps out the brother and sister and puts the star on the tree as Luka talks with the sister. She is impressed by the hand made dolls as the kid brother jokes around saying how ugly it is. The sister taps him on the head and makes him get the snow for the tree. We then see Dairando with his ally who takes out a staff and turns people into dolls as he does that with a human male. The plan is to turn all humans into dolls and many people are being turned into them. While the two are going around they run into the Gai and Luka. The boy Seiji is turned into a doll as the commander aims for the girl next, but Gai puts himself in the crossfire and is turned into a doll. The rest of the gang appears and a fight starts and sadly all the decorations are getting in the way. Luka jumps in as the MOTW hates women and tries to turn them into dolls, but he accidentally gets the guards, but he turns them back to normal. The team uses Kakuranger to fight the foes off, but soon Dairando uses his Giant Hammer to attack and then flees.

The gang go to search for them, but Luka stays back and sees that the girl didn't leave yet. The girl is sad because she blames herself for her brother becoming a doll and sees it as a punishment since she was yelling at him even though its Christmas. Luka gets her hopes back up and asks her to make another doll. The four reach up the Dairando and his group, but he uses his Giant Hammer again as the team cannot reach the staff. Luka is about to go to the scene as the girl gives her a doll that looks like Luka, but she also wants to go. Luka reaches to the scene and pretends to get hit by the beam stars as she throws the fake doll out. The monster notices that the doll is a fake and dodges Luka as he turns her into a doll. The plan is still going though as the girl turns into Gokai Yellow! She attacks the monster and takes the staff and she uses the return spell to save everyone who was turned into dolls. The real fights begins as Gai breaks the staff and everyone transforms. The team go all yellow as they kill the guards with those powers. Luka then wants to use Battle Fever because she heard that Santa dances, but wait Battle Fever only has five keys. Gai finally realizes that he needs to get in as he asks for Marve's and Don's keys. He fuses them together and becomes Gokai Christmas! The team finish off the monster with Battle Fever's and Christmas power!

The fight is taken to giant size as the robots are summoned as Gai fights with all forms of his mech. Magi Dragon, Gaolion, Furimaru, and MachFalcon are summoned again like the last episode. They do something a little different as Mach Falcon and Furimaru team up to kill the guards and then Kazen form is used as the final attack from last episode is used again. Now the gang hang around the kids as the tree is completed and Marve and Joe approve it with a thumbs up. There is no snow though, but Luka fixes that as she uses Magimother to make it snow! Now the team go back to their ship for their party, but we see Shirou (Battle Kenya) was the Santa from before and for a gift he gives them Battle Fever's grand powers.

That's the Christmas episode and I am actually surprised by this episode. At first it was being a basic episode, but when the second part of the fight came around with the girl becoming Gokai Yellow I didn't even see that coming. The fights were also really good as I always love seeing Battle Fever being used. Battle Fever as a really unique style of fighting compared to other Sentai as dance is used. Gai was also great as he became Gokai Christmas, sure it was random, but it was also creative and fun to watch. The mecha fight was also much better than usual as we got some interesting camera angles this time. Sadly Shirou barely made an appearance, but again we already say Kenji Ohba in the movie and he is coming again as Gavan. Overall a fun Christmas episode that actually has a lot more than I thought, a B+

Coming Up: The return of Ninjaman!

Goakiger Guest Star Rumors

Well it seems that Gokaiger will be doing a lot more tributes in a row now, but they are rumors and there are other rumors that Gokaiger will have more than 50 episodes Also they are still rumors so they could be true or false. First is the Go-onger tribute which will be a two parter with Yasuhisa Furuhara returning as Go-on Red this will also debut the Gokai-oh and Gozyujin combination mecha. Go-onger was the first sentai I saw so I really cant wait to see this Sosuke is one of my fave red warriors. Also this will be a two parter so there leaves a lot of time to do many references to the series. Go-on Yellow did appear in both movies, but she wont appear in the series, darn.

Next is the Dairanger episode which will have Keiichi Wada play as Ryou (Ryuuranger) and another red favorite of mine. Sadly still no rumors about Yutaka returning, but he could easily do a voice role like a past villian for Liveman did in that tribute episode. If Jin is even mentioned I will be happy because so far there hasnt been any reference to Yutaka expect for Liveman talking about the friends who turned evil.

Right after Dairanger is the Kakuranger tribute having Teruaki Ogawa play another role of his as Ninja Red. I dont know much about Kakuranger, but I do have a feeling that they will make a comparison to KuroKishi for a joke since its the same actor. There could even be a chance for a Ninjaman ranger key to be introduced if possible.

I have a feeling that sword will be the power for the mecha

Next is Megaranger having Hayato Oshiba and Masaya Matsukaze to play as their roles of Megared and Megablue. I have seen over twenty episodes of this series and the team up with Carranger. It would be very cool if they use the Nejirangers for this episode because how awsome would that be. Seeing our new heroes fight an evil sentai. That would probably be very hard though to get all five voice actors though, but if it happens it would make fans happy.

Now another pre zyu sentai series tribute with Fiveman! Toshiya Fuji will return as Fivered and I saw about ten episodes of that series and I really like it. So I may not know a lot, but Fiveman is a series I want to see very badly. The fight scene will probably be awsome because the team will use the Five Tectors.

Next is a big pre zyu series Bioman with Ryosuke Sakamoto as Red One returning. I have seen a couple of episodes and I do know how big this series got with fans. It also got a lot of international fans so this will be a big episode for Gokaiger no doubt about that.

Now the 2nd sentai series will get their tribute JAKQ! With big toku star Hiroshi Miyauchi returing as Big One. I really cant wait for this episode because we will see the master of disguise at work again. Also he is a big star in the toku franchise playing as the Aoranger, Kamen Rider V3, and Zuubat. So seeing a big star like him is going to be a lot of fun.

Now this is the tribute I cannot wait for the Sun Vulcan tribute! Its another red returning, but its both of them! Yes both Ryusuke Oowashi and Takayuki Godai will return and how awsome is that both of the VulEagles will return it will be very interesting to see these two together. I do wonder though how will the fight go because Sun Vulcan only had three members. They should at least have Doc be VulPanther because seeing the three males fight it out as Sun Vulcan will be great.

Finally the last tribute that has been mentioned is Battle Fever J the thrid sentai series and the first one to have a robo. It will have Kenji Ohba who played as Battle Kenya and yes! Kenya is a favorite of mine and I so cant wait also he played as Denjiblue and Gavan the first metal hero so another big toku star will appear. for the mecha power because it will summon the Battle Fever Robo and it wont be a quick summon hopefully I want to see that robo in action because its the first robo in sentai!

So yea they took some cheap shots with using similar actors with Ninjared and Battle Kenya, but its very hard to get actors to play roles again because there could be money issues or something else with their lives. Just be happy there are even any past actors. Im also still wondering if there will be tribute for Changeman, Flashman, and Maskman because of episode 31 of Gokaiger if you saw it you know what I'm thinking about.