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Evil With a Learner's Permit In Love (悪まで仮免恋愛中 Aku Made Karimen Ren'ai Chū) is the fifteenth episode of Gekiso Sentai Carranger. It begins a peculiar sub-plot of the season involving the love relations between Beauty Zonnette and Kyosuke Jinnai/Red Racer.
Synopsis[]
Having strange feelings of love towards her enemy Red Racer, Zonnette and her cockroach servant cause chaos on Earth in order for her to reveal these feelings to a confused Kyosuke.
Plot[]
At what appears to be a church, Grotch is presiding over a wedding ceremony: the bride is Zonnette, but the groom is unknown until the inventor tells them to kiss revealing it to be...Red Racer!?
The Bowzock beauty suddenly wakes up in the noisy BB Saloon as she states this is the ninth time she's had this dream, wondering what it means. Goki-chan tries to get her attention but she shoves him away as she pines for Red Racer. On Earth the strange echo spooks Kyosuke to the point he spills coffee on Naoki's new design plans, wondering what it means.
Later at the BB Saloon on the Baribarian, Goki-chan is cleaning up the mess as the patrons march through leaving their muddy footprints. Zelmoda states they lost the previous battle despite being close to winning and that this time they have a new machine that Grotch calls the "Powerful Dancer Training", which has the purpose of defeating the Carranger with the ability of giving super-duper-ultra leg muscle strength! Zelmoda offers to experiment with it first but breaks the handle, the inventor worrying as the general asks for a volunteer to test it out instead! Goki-chan is forced into it as it rises up, forced into the machine as Grotch activates it. As he's being altered, Grotch states he can't turn it off as it explodes, transforming Goki-chan into a new form that Gynamo dubs "GG Goki-chan!", which he forces it and Zelmoda to Earth to crush the Carranger. However, Zonnette stops them and states she wants to go down instead, stating her gut feeling tells her she has to take this mission.
Later at Imocho, Zonnette buys some imo youkan that the salesman goes for, leaving on a program showing the Carranger fighting off some Wumpers; in particular Red Racer. Zonnette compliments Red Racer's cool eyes, hot jawline and gallant eyebrows, making her coo with longing for her dream. As a strange heart appears before her forming into a pillow revealing her "throbbing heart", the Imocho salesman reveals it as "love", confusing Zonnette as the salesman gives her an extra imo youkan on the house while stating that the female reminds him of his wife in his youth. Later heading to a bookstore, Ichitaro notices Zonnette reading a magazine, shocking him as he states he wants her outfit but his mother states that it's "too plain" confusing him. Zonnette sees the "throbbing heart" in a manga, making her wonder if this love, but makes her wonder what to do with it next. She continues to read the manga as a girl suggests she sends the male a love letter, making her realize she has to go on the attack for Red Racer; which makes Kyosuke sneeze without warning.
As Ichitaro spies Zonnette on the street again, she orders GG Goki-Chan to go forth with their plan; as it places a cassette in it's body playing loud music as it starts dancing causing a massive earthquake. Mrs. Tenma brings out bug spray shooting it at Goki-chan, but the Gorotsuki points out she dropped her groceries to attack it and thus is littering in a no-littering zone, making her worry about it to clean up after it. Ichitaro states she doesn't have time for this as Goki-chan starts dancing again shaking the ground! At Pegasus Garage, the Carranger and Dappu notice the Bowzock attack as they try to escape and avoid the shaking, while Zonnette anticipates and is delighted to see Red Racer attack the Gorotsuki with a Flying Driving Attack. Zonnette shows excitement at Red Racer's arrival and approaches the team, introducing her as a "love bud of the universe that will soon bloom". She orders Goki-chan to attack the other Carranger and tells it to go into "battle mode", leading to it to tackle the other Carranger and smash into them with speed and powerful kicks. Zonnette recalls the "attack with love" strategy as she chases after Red Racer telling him to catch her and she throws a love attack into his arms to give him a letter. Goki-Chan is thrown into Kyosuke as she becomes surprised by the move as Kyosuke untransforms and Goki-Chan is disabled; but Zonnette sees the "ordinary citizen" and attacks him with a beam attack with her hands telling him to return the letter to Red Racer or die, taking offense at Kyosuke having it! The other Carranger soon rush by and defend their teammate as Zonnette tells Goki-chan to withdraw with her car. Kyosuke is confused by the letter that he suddenly has from the villainess.
Back at Pegasus, Dappu reads the love letter, stating Red Racer has been in Zonnette's heart day and life; Minoru is jealous but Naoki wonders if this is a strategy to draw out and defeat Red Racer personally. Kyosuke believes it is a trap and that she is a villain and having a relationship with her is wrong. Yoko states that this means for turning Zonnette down is terrible and that he has a choice to refuse, while Natsumi believes the love letter is serious and Zonnette is serious about her intentions, which Kyosuke denies.
At the bookstore, Zonnette continues to read manga to decipher love believing in a "magic spell to make the two alone", stating that it works if both write their names as big as possible. Later, Kyosuke wonders what he can do while wondering whether it's a trap or if Zonnette is trying to get her innocence back, not knowing what to say or do. He soon gets a Bowzock alert as Goki-chan has grown as Zonnette tells it to not attack humans and "start the spell", which it does by painting a heart on a building. Sirender soon appears as Signalman announces Goki-chan as a menace disobeying the traffic rules of justice and activates his mecha's battle mode to make it surrender. Goki-chan attacks Sirender with a flying body press and earthquake attacks until RV Robo shows up; Red Racer tells Zonnette to stop but she states she won't until he comes out to see her; making Pink Racer state she has him. Kyosuke agrees and leaves RV Robo as Zonnette tells GG Goki-chan to stop the attack while Red Racer wonders if this was all for him which the villainess agrees. Zonnette reveals what she's done as a building shows the spell "bonding" her and Red Racer together, embarrassing him as she states it brought them together so it had to work while also presenting him a present for her feelings, revealing the "heartthrob pillow". Zonnette asks if he could be her boyfriend but he states he can't; she offers him anything including a tour of the Baribarian or some Wumpers for "spare members", but Red Racer has enough.
When she asks what Red Racer wants, he tells Zonnette to close her eyes, which she does as she wonders if this is a kiss; but is suddenly stranded as Kyosuke appears untransformed, making her wonder who he is. Kyosuke states he has a message from Red Racer who is shy, confusing her. Kyosuke states Red Racer can't be her boyfriend; Zonnette asks why, making him respond "because we live in two different worlds", saddening her as he rushes away. Before he leaves, the throbbing heart pillow vanishes as the sparkles surround Zonnette as she cries from heartbreak, wondering if she really is crying from this as Kyosuke rushes away.
With Zonnette managed, Kyosuke re-transforms to Red Racer stating they should just start as friends, but Zonnette is gone as she curses the Ranger as a fool as she drives away stating she doesn't care what he wants anymore, making her order GG Goki-chan to crush the Carranger, Red Racer in particular! The Gorotsuki causes a massive earthquake as Kyosuke returns to the mecha and both RV Robo and Sirender use shields to defend from Goki-chan's attack and punch it down. Zonnette tells it to fire it's blaster at full power as it activates the music to maximum loudness, dancing up a storm until it wears the cassette tape down to the point of it's destruction and changing it back to a normal cockroach, making Zonnette state it's useless before she drives off back to the Baribarian, cursing Red Racer as an idiot.
Later, Kyosuke stares out to a pier as Natsumi tells him that they need to use RV Robo to clean up Zonnette's spell, but they realize he isn't listening as he continues to ignore them looking at the water.
Cast[]
- Kyosuke Jinnai (陣内 恭介 Jinnai Kyōsuke): Yuji Kishi (岸 祐二 Kishi Yūji)
- Naoki Domon (土門 直樹 Domon Naoki): Yoshihiro Masujima (増島愛浩 Masujima Yoshihiro)
- Minoru Uesugi (上杉 実 Uesugi Minoru): Yoshihiro Fukuda (福田佳弘 Fukuda Yoshihiro)
- Natsumi Shinohara (志乃原 菜摘 Shinohara Natsumi): Yuka Motohashi (本橋 由香 Motohashi Yuka)
- Yoko Yagami (八神 洋子 Yagami Yōko): Atsuko Kurusu (来栖あつこ Kurusu Atsuko)
- Signalman (シグナルマン Shigunaruman, Voice): Hochu Otsuka (大塚 芳忠 Ōtsuka Hōchū)
- Hazardian Dapp (ハザード星人ダップ Hazādo Seijin Dappu, Voice): Mari Maruta (まるたまり Maruta Mari)
- Yoshie Tenma (天馬 良江 Tenma Yoshie): Yoshimi Iwasaki (岩崎良美 Iwasaki Yoshimi)
- Ichitarou Tenma (天馬 市太郎 Tenma Ichitarō): Ryuji Teraoka (寺岡龍治 Teraoka Ryūji)
- Imocho's Owner: Taro Nanshu (南州太郎 Nanshū Tarō)
- Beauty Zonnette (美女ゾンネット Bijo Zonnetto): Rika Nanase (七瀬理香 Nanase Rika)
- President Gynamo (総長ガイナモ Sōchō Gainamo, Voice): Hiroshi Ōtake (大竹 宏 Ōtake Hiroshi)
- Deputy Leader Zelmoda (副長ゼルモダ Fukuchō Zerumoda, Voice): Kyousei Tsukui (津久井 教生 Tsukui Kyōsei)
- Inventor Grotch (発明家グラッチ Hatsumeika Guracchi, Voice): Takashi Nagasako (長嶝 高士 Nagasako Takashi)
Guest Cast[]
- GG Goki-Chan (ゴーゴーゴキちゃん GōGō Goki-chan, Voice): Toshiharu Sakurai (桜井 敏治 Sakurai Toshiharu)
Notes[]
- Eyecatch
- Featured Mecha (Pre-Break): Red Vehicle
- Featured Mecha (Post-Break): Red Vehicle
- Viewership: 5.0%
- The magazine Zonnette gets her love advice from is Nakayoshi, a monthly shoujo manga magazine notable at that time as being the publisher of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.
DVD releases[]
- Gekiso Sentai Carranger DVD Volume 2 features episodes 13-24
- Gekiso Sentai Carranger DVD-Collection Volume 1 features episodes 1-24
- Gekiso Sentai Carranger: The Complete Series was released in North America by Shout! Factory on April 25, 2017.
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