There are three things that were clearly established in this episode, namely the One Piece expys, two, Joe x Ahim as canon (and that Marvelous x Joe as a canon yaoi ship) and lastly, this is indeed a Shinkenger tribute episode even with the amount of Joe focus.
The episode pretty much went in-depth with the camaraderie of the pirates, which is similar to the loyalty of the samurai's retainers to their lords, which is one of the themes of Shinkenger. Finally the arc is starting to feel like a Shinkenger Tribute! Speaking of camaraderie, we learned how Marvelous met Joe... it turned out that he was just passing by when he met Joe. If there is one thing that reminded me a bit of the two is that Ryunosuke's loyalty towards Takeru.
As for the Joe focus in this episode, it is about Joe remembering that he still has a place to return to after the man he idolizes, Cid didn't "revert" back to normal like what he expected to happen once he shakes him off by using his own sword technique. One thing to note about Joe in this episode is that he is the oldest member of the crew as we saw a quick flashback of the order of the pirates that appeared after him.
Now what his crew doing, if there is one thing I liked about Marvelous after he woke up he didn't care about Joe, but he cared about his stomach. That shows how confident he is with his best mate. As for the rest of them, I loved how they just bluffed that they are just warming up when Joe appeared even if each of them transformed into three different Rangers while fighting the Gormins, which in my opinion is one of the best scenes in this episode.
For the last few minutes of the episode, asides that they finally recognized Kaoru as ShinkenRed, which is fine with me even if Takeru didn't appear at the end of the episode like I thought would happen. Also, Kaoru recognizes defeat due to how she saw the strong bond between Marvelous and his co., which is similar to the loyalty of the samurai's retainers to its lord.
Now for the Shinkenger part, it was great. If there is one thing I am disappointed is that how Marvelous used the Rekka Daizantou. I mean seriously, what's with that?! As for the ShinkenGokaiOh's formation, it was really cool and I can smell a possible future Power Rangers reference due to the fact that its base was the GaoLion.
As for the fights with the giant mecha, the use of the naginata as ShinkenGokaiOh's primary weapon is disappointing for me since the said weapon is the first thing that comes to my mind once I think of the ShinkenOh but the fact that its finisher involves one giant Rekka Daizantou being slashed on the opponent gave the proper Shinkenger-feel of the formation in terms of attacks. A little note, the sudden appearance of a horde of Sgormin kinda reminded me of the sudden appearance of Nanashi during giant battles.
Overall, it was a really good episode. Compared to the previous episode, it had the proper Shinkenger feel and didn't conflict much with Joe's back story which is one of my disappointments in the previous episode. As for comparison with the other tribute episode, it ranks as second to my faves, the first is the Dekaranger episode.
The episode pretty much went in-depth with the camaraderie of the pirates, which is similar to the loyalty of the samurai's retainers to their lords, which is one of the themes of Shinkenger. Finally the arc is starting to feel like a Shinkenger Tribute! Speaking of camaraderie, we learned how Marvelous met Joe... it turned out that he was just passing by when he met Joe. If there is one thing that reminded me a bit of the two is that Ryunosuke's loyalty towards Takeru.
As for the Joe focus in this episode, it is about Joe remembering that he still has a place to return to after the man he idolizes, Cid didn't "revert" back to normal like what he expected to happen once he shakes him off by using his own sword technique. One thing to note about Joe in this episode is that he is the oldest member of the crew as we saw a quick flashback of the order of the pirates that appeared after him.
Now what his crew doing, if there is one thing I liked about Marvelous after he woke up he didn't care about Joe, but he cared about his stomach. That shows how confident he is with his best mate. As for the rest of them, I loved how they just bluffed that they are just warming up when Joe appeared even if each of them transformed into three different Rangers while fighting the Gormins, which in my opinion is one of the best scenes in this episode.
For the last few minutes of the episode, asides that they finally recognized Kaoru as ShinkenRed, which is fine with me even if Takeru didn't appear at the end of the episode like I thought would happen. Also, Kaoru recognizes defeat due to how she saw the strong bond between Marvelous and his co., which is similar to the loyalty of the samurai's retainers to its lord.
Now for the Shinkenger part, it was great. If there is one thing I am disappointed is that how Marvelous used the Rekka Daizantou. I mean seriously, what's with that?! As for the ShinkenGokaiOh's formation, it was really cool and I can smell a possible future Power Rangers reference due to the fact that its base was the GaoLion.
As for the fights with the giant mecha, the use of the naginata as ShinkenGokaiOh's primary weapon is disappointing for me since the said weapon is the first thing that comes to my mind once I think of the ShinkenOh but the fact that its finisher involves one giant Rekka Daizantou being slashed on the opponent gave the proper Shinkenger-feel of the formation in terms of attacks. A little note, the sudden appearance of a horde of Sgormin kinda reminded me of the sudden appearance of Nanashi during giant battles.
Overall, it was a really good episode. Compared to the previous episode, it had the proper Shinkenger feel and didn't conflict much with Joe's back story which is one of my disappointments in the previous episode. As for comparison with the other tribute episode, it ranks as second to my faves, the first is the Dekaranger episode.