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I'll Make You Laugh (笑って頂きます Waratte Itadakimasu) is the twenty-second episode of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
Synopsis[]
Seikai's attempt to help a girl developing a solar car becomes hindered by a Yokai who tries to stop the research due to needing vehicle exhaust to survive.
Plot[]
Seikai returns from shopping anticipating the crepes he's going to make when he spies a girl in a strange looking car; he wonders what it is but the girl Maiko tells him to not touch it and to stay away from her, making him leave. She keeps telling Seikai to stay away but his bike hits the car making it's paneling fall off and the Kakuranger fall into a lake! Several kids rush to Maiko asking if she's alright before Seikai rushes to her as well.
As they take her back to a lab, it turns out the vehicle was a solar car she was developing; the girl states the current solar panels don't provide enough power as the kids state they want to make a solar car that runs as well as a gasoline car; making Seikai compliment the group as a bunch of Edison's in the making. Maiko claims that the solar panel was destroyed but Seikai offers to help her out, making the Announcer even comment he's trying again to hit on a girl and it's bound to fail before he's suddenly hit by a strange exhaust. The strange exhaust hits the city, making everyone laugh uncontrollably without reason! Eventually the can causing the exhaust is found by the other Kakuranger, with Tsuruhime throwing it on a set of nearby railroad tracks making it burst into steam revealing the Yokai Enraenra who claims he loves gas and he'll decimate the human race with it. Sasuke throws his Red Slicer but he turns into gas to avoid it; Jiraiya tries to attack but the gassy Yokai remains invisible making him reveal he's a smoke Yokai and their attacks are useless against him before throwing out gas and fire making the team explode before he escapes and gives the lecture in place of the Announcer stating that modern Enraenra was created from vehicle exhaust making him more terrifying. In the city, Enraenra states he's raised the Nitrous Oxide level in the city to 0.07 parts per million, making him excited to eat it all, stating industrial gas is the tastiest.
Meanwhile, Seikai shows that he's installed solar panels on Nekomaru, with Maiko and the kids excited in making it a solar-powered car. The other Kakuranger return showing themselves upset at what Seikai has done to Nekomaru while complaining about Enraenra and Seikai hitting on another girl. Nekomaru suddenly starts rushing away with Maiko and her assistants inside, the team pursuing their Yokai transport right towards Enraenra side-swiping it while he complains it isn't making any exhaust for him to eat! At their lab, the kids compliment how fast Nekomaru is and that they've made a dream solar car, making Enraenra wonder what they're doing. Seikai arrives exhausted while Enraenra worries that a world without exhaust fumes would be terrible for him, bashing up the solar panels and making NinjaYellow try to get him off as he continues to attack the panels before being thrown off the van! Enraenra yells he hates solar panels but Seikai reveals that Nekomaru can run on it's own without them, making him apologize stating he feigned things with Nekomaru to make Maiko and the others happy and yelling at the Yokai to not ruin their dreams! Enraenra slams into Seikai, throwing them into nearby junk before emitting a "Numbing Gas" from his hand making him numb and not even able to transform with his Doron Changer. The Yokai is soon kicked away by Jiraiya as the other Kakuranger arrive and transform while Enraenra uses another fire attack to cause an explosion around the team and throwing Seikai down again.
In the lab, Seikai calls himself an idiot stating he ruined everything for Maiko and her assistants but states he'll make it up for them while she states there's nothing they can do with another Yokai attack forthcoming. In the city, everyone is being hit by more laughing and crying gas as the Kakuranger catch up to it again. Seikai angrily states he'll defeat Enraenra; Maiko tries to stop him but he states he's a ninja warrior and whatever happens, it's a warrior's fate to fight and as the female Edison with her partners to not forget "their hearts as inventors". Maiko cries towards him but Seikai tells her to not stop him as he leaves her, making her worry about his fate once again. Standing outside, Seikai wonders if he was too dramatic while the kids worry about him; Maiko claims he'll be alright but then realizes that Enraenra is made of smoke and gets an idea.
The Kakuranger continue to have problems with Enraenra until Seikai arrives kicking the Yokai and uses his Doron Changer to transform, but is hit once again by his intangible smoke. However without warning, Maiko and her partners arrive with a vacuum cleaner telling him to use it; the boys tell them to suck him up with it, making NinjaYellow realize it's a smart idea while she reveals it's a cordless model. Seikai soon turns on the vacuum and the smoke starts suctioning into the vacuum cleaner, sapping away his power until he's trapped inside but not without causing a fight. Angered by the move, Enraenra activates the Yoki Cloud, busting the vacuum and growing while Seikai states that "Failure is a motivation for success" to Maiko and the other inventors. The team summons Muteki Shogun and uses the Flaming Shogun Sword but fail to hit it with the intangibility before he uses Laughing Gas to force them to drop their sword in mad laughter and then burst to tears with crying gas! Enraenra claims Muteki Shogun isn't mighty as the team is thrown out of their mecha and the giant Enraenra starts destroying the city and attacking the Kakuranger. Maiko and her assistants soon rush out with a new device to freeze the Yokai, using a gas to freeze the Yokai with the device and then the team summoning the Jushou Fighters and destroying him with the "Giant Kakuranger Ball"'s Super Kakure Shoot. As Enraenra falls, he states "he's gasifying" as he departs.
Later Seikai and Maiko drive around in another solar car as the Kakuranger tries to hit on her again to the displeasure of the teammates and assistants.
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)
- The Announcer: Enjoh Sanyutei (三遊亭 圓丈 San'yūtei Enjō)
Guest Cast[]
- Enraenra (エンラエンラ Enraenra, Voice): Takuzou Kamiyama (神山 卓三 Kamiyama Takuzō)
- Maiko: Shinobu Torii (鳥居忍 Torii Shinobu)
- Doctor: Susumu Kakuma (角間 進 Kakuma Susumu)
- Child: Juri Fujii (藤井樹里 Fujii Jyuri): Mizuki Takada (高田瑞紀 Takada Mizuki): Kaito Kishimoto (岸本海人 Kishimoto Kaito)
Errors[]
- to be added
Notes[]
- Viewership: 4.4%
- Eyecatch
- Featured Kakuranger (Pre-Break): NinjaYellow
- Featured Kakuranger (Post-Break): NinjaYellow
- This episode was never adapted into Power Rangers.
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.
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