 This article is about an episode in Chouriki Sentai Ohranger.
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The School's Scary Nightmare (学校の怖い悪夢 Gakkō no Kowai Akumu) is the thirty-second episode of Chouriki Sentai Ohranger.
Synopsis[]
Momo becomes haunted by nightmares of a friend who disappeared eleven years prior, forcing her to discover what happened to her and the culprit behind this.
Plot[]
At a schoolyard, Momo kicks a soccer ball into a classroom where it startles another girl, OhPink stating she's come to walk the girl, Mayumi home; the girl throws the ball back to Momo who throws it behind her back into a basketball basket. Inside the school, Mayumi states the teacher is mad at her for studying at school; Momo states they'll talk to that teacher and then go home; but a strange voice speaks stating that "Mayumi can't go home". Momo asks who it is but the voice states Mayumi's studies aren't done yet. Without warning, a strange being chops the sign for the classroom startling the duo; as they investigate, they see a black-cloaked figure opening up an anatomy model with a butcher's knife, stating Mayumi still have to her science experiment before chopping the heart of the model with the knife! When Momo asks who that being is, Mayumi shakes in fear trying not to tell her; the figure throws the knife at the duo wondering what they're doing, shocking them...until Momo wakes up in her bed at Ohranger base, realizing it was a dream!
Later, Momo explains to Miura that Mayumi was a friend of hers from elementary school and that she's been dreaming about her every night suddenly. When the Ohranger commander asks what she's saying in these dreams, she merely states "Momo!" over and over; Yuji wonders if this is enough of an excuse to take time off from the team and visit Mayumi and Shouhei claims it's overreacting; but Momo states she's wondering if Mayumi is searching for help via dreams. Juri states that the girl looked how she did back when she knew her as a child, yet the two would be the same age now; Gorou wonders what she's doing, and Momo states she changed schools not long after and heard Mayumi died in an accident not long after she left, disappearing during a recess; they stated she fell into a nearby river, but Momo acknowledges something else that's strange: every year, in the exact same way, one or two girls have gone missing at the same school. Miura realizes there's a pattern and possibly more to this, granting Momo permission to investigate.
Heading to Mayumi's former residence, Momo visits her mother who states it's been eleven years since that day but how no one can accept she's dead and she'll come home one day, thus they've kept her room exactly how it was on that day. Momo notices a picture of her and Mayumi nearby while remembering memories of the two of them biking through the country wondering about their future. Momo asks Mayumi's mother to cheer up and she will resolve this; while the strange man in black sneaks around stating that OhPink is poking her head where it doesn't belong.
Reaching Sakurazaka Elementary School, Momo looks inside but is suddenly grabbed by the man in black, who attacks her as she realizes he's the being from the dream! The man in black places a sensor on Momo's neck, making her collapse, but the other Ohranger suddenly arrive making him vanish in a cloud of bubbles! The Ohranger check on the unconscious Momo but without her responding. As she's attached to a device at UAOH base, Miura discovers that Momo's brainwaves have become abnormal; she is in REM sleep, but with unusual waveforms, the form of a terrifying dream she's trapped in thanks to the masked man leading to an abnormal dream state. Yuji wonders why it did this to her, but Juri wonders if there is a way to reawaken Momo from the scary dream.
Within the dream world, Momo discovers Mayumi being dragged away by the "man in black" before vanishing. Returning to the science lab, she confronts the being who states that if she hadn't gotten curious about Mayumi, he wouldn't have resorted to these measures, revealing that she wasn't drowned in a river but abducted by him eleven years prior due to his love of cute little girls; he's been collecting girls like Mayumi over the lat eleven years; but has become frustrated due to Mayumi suddenly calling for help after 11 years; thus why Mayumi was appearing in Momo's dreams. Momo wonders where she is and the being states it's a dream world he created meaning she is now asleep and that he won't let anyone interrupt his fun and declares she will die as he starts chasing her through the halls. Momo escapes into a classroom and hides behind a desk as the man in black pursues with clanging boots before she removes it's mask, revealing a metal globe that reforms into a Machine Beast called Bara Nightmare that grabs her and pulls out a machete to attack her! In reality, the Ohranger witness Momo struggling as they watch helplessly. Bara Nightmare acknowledges her as one fighting Baranoia and that he too defied Bacchus Wrath and was exiled under threat of execution, slamming her forcing her to leap in the real world before falling further unconscious under possible threat of death! Gorou wonders if there is a way they could retrieve her from the dream world, which the chief agrees to, using a procedure to synch their brainwaves with Momo's while asking them to go in and save Momo.
Entering Momo's dream, the Ohranger begin their pursuit; while Momo is being tortured as she's dropped by Bara Nightmare into a lower level as she calls out for Mayumi. Momo tells the Machine Beast to stop stalling and give Mayumi back, calling him disgusting for pulling this before he erupts a nearby set of stairs into flames and drops Mayumi's backpack from them, making Momo comfort them! Momo is dragged away and locked into the elevator as it further ascends and becomes electrified, her screams alerting the Ohranger who are attacked by electrified sports balls. The team discover the desk Momo had been hidden and a flight of stairs beneath them as they pursue. Momo soon enters into a room with a hanging slab with a body hidden under the cover. Momo reveals the cover revealing a skeleton, Bara Nightmare declaring Mayumi is dead as Momo refuses to believe it! Bara Nightmare states these are all the children he's abducted and she'll end up like them. She soon enters a room where she sees multiple girls playing basketball in slow motion; Bara Nightmare enters with Mayumi telling her to play as well but she falls to the ground, Momo noticing trying to save her but the Machine Beast angered that she is spying on his "secret dream"!
But as Bara Nightmare attacks with his cleaver, he's suddenly shot by OhRed's King Blaster as he and the other Ohranger arrive to protect her and Momo and he slashes at the Machine Beast with his Chouriki Riser, shattering his dream! Momo wakes with the other Ohranger, but OhPink worries where Mayumi and the others are. Realizing the key is in the basement of Sakurazaka Elementary, the Ohranger return to the school and discover the entryway under the same desk in Momo's dream. Descending within, they discover several platforms with girls locked away and unconscious within; the team realizes that if they defeat Bara Nightmare, they'll all awaken, but Momo discovers Mayumi not there. Searching further, OhPink finds her on her own personal slab in another room; Momo uncovers her and cries for her to wake up, but Bara Nightmare attacks stating that Mayumi is his alone and he won't give her up. Momo curses him for keeping Mayumi for 11 years as she and the team attack before he sends them into another hallucination with a fire-breathing skeleton. As the Ohranger restore themselves from the attack, they use their own power to blind Bara Nightmare before OhPink hits him with the Flashing Miracle Chi Kung Shot and then the team's Chouriki Dynamite Attack which forces him outside and finally malfunctioning to his destruction.
As Bara Nightmare's torment ends, the girls captured by the Machine Beast emerge from within the school, including Mayumi, looking how she did eleven years prior and rushing towards Momo. The two laugh and embrace as Mayumi thanks Momo for saving her and OhPink shows gratitude for her survival. Miura soon arrives with Mayumi's mother, reuniting the two of them an stating they lost a lot of time together but they've been reunited and Mayumi can possibly be happy from now on while the team is thanked for their efforts.
Cast[]
- Goro Hoshino (星野 吾郎 Hoshino Gorō): Masaru Shishido (宍戸 勝 Shishido Masaru)
- Shouhei Yokkaichi (四日市 昌平 Yokkaichi Shōhei): Kunio Masaoka (正岡 邦夫 Masaoka Kunio)
- Yuji Mita (三田 祐司 Mita Yūji): Masashi Goda (合田 雅吏 Gōda Masashi)
- Juri Nijou (二条 樹里 Nijō Juri): Ayumi Hodaka (穂高 あゆみ Hodaka Ayumi)
- Momo Maruo (丸尾 桃 Maruo Momo): Tamao Sato (さとう 珠緒 Satō Tamao)
- Chief Counsellor Naoyuki Miura (三浦尚之参謀長 Miura Naoyuki-sanbōchō): Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋 Miyauchi Hiroshi)
Guest Cast[]
- Bara Nightmare (バラナイトメア Bara Naitomea): Yoshinori Okamoto (岡本美登 Okamoto Yoshinori)
- Mayumi: Yuki Mine (峰由樹 Mine Yuki)
- Mayumi's mother: Seiko Fujiki (藤生聖子 Fujiki Seiko)
- Momo Maruo (Child): Ami Hasegawa (長谷川亜美 Hasegawa Ami)
Notes[]
- Viewership: 3.4%
- This episode was never adapted into a Power Rangers Zeo episode.
DVD Releases[]
Ohranger Volume 3, DVD cover
- Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Volume 3 features episodes 25-36.[1]
Ohranger: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory)
- The complete Ohranger series was released in North America by Shout! Factory in 2016.
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