Time for a recap of the Space Squad movies. Now I know I said that I was going to cover both Girls in Trouble and Space Squad last time. While I will be doing that I won't be doing full on reviews just giving clip notes of the key players, the plots and anything else I think is necessary before I cover Gaven Vs Kyuuranger. Because 1, Space Squad and Girls in Trouble are actually really good and I don't want to spoil them for you. 2 because it's been out for a while so most likely people have seen it and lastly 3, because it's getting close to the holidays and I'll be really busy so this just saves us some time and stress.
First we'll talk about the titular Space Sheriff Gavan, in this case the second Gavan; Geki Jumonji who took over the role with the original Gavan; Retsu Ichijoji serving as his superior officer/ mentor. He first appeared in Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie the Metal Hero's 30 anniversary movie where Retsu passed on the title of Gavan to Geki, who as Gavan-Type G then pursued the remains of the Space Mafia Makuu who were attempting to resurrect their leader Don Horror. Afterwords Geki teamed up with the Go-Busters to eliminate another Makuu remnant. So aside from Super Hero Taisen Z (which is now non cannon BTW) there really hasn't been any trace of Geki until this new movie series. Also to note that the Metal Hero revival was no doubt inspired by the crossover between the original Gavan with the Gokaiger which is not only a good movie but also is cannon with Gokaiger since Gavan actually saved Marvelous when he was a little kid.
Next is the 28th super sentai Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (whose footage was used for Power Rangers S.P.D here in the states) who instead of fighting an organization protected earth from alien criminals categorized as Alienizers who all got the weapons for their various crimes from an arms dealer named Agent Abrera. We have Dekared Banban Akaza, a hot headed idiot who actually grew up and calmed down as the series went on, Dekablue Hoji Tomas, the blue oni to Ban's red oni, DekaGreen is Senichi Enari or Sen-chan for short, he's the brains of the outfit and does his best thinking upside down, Dekayellow is an ESPer called Jasmine, and the show and movies love to remind us of her ESPer powers every, single damn chance they get! The core five is rounded up by DekaPink aka Umeko, she's a good hearted ditz who loves bubble baths. The 6th ranger is Dekabreak Tekkan Aiwa, he's a crossdressing master of disguise who isn't just a stupid glowing orb of light from the future. Their boss and Extra Ranger is the guard dog of hell himself Doggie Kruger aka Dekamaster.
During these movies we learn that not only is Makuu still alive but have joined forces with the remnants of the other organizations defeated by the other Metal Heroes to become the Genmakuu society, a space cult that plans on universal conquest. During the events of Girls in Trouble; the prequel to this saga Umeko and Jasmine worked with Shelly and Tammy the partners of the new Gavan and Shaider respectively to defeat one of the 12 apostles of Genmakuu, the mercenary leader and Predator knock off Hellvira. The next day the Dekarangers and Gavan-Type G defeated another apostle; Mad Gallant while the executive overseeing both operations, the space Ninja Benikiba managed to escape. Afterwords Ban and the head of the Galactic Police; Sophie decide to combat the threat of the Genmakuu that Geki should work with not only the Dekarangers but also other Metal Heroes and space/ dimension based Sentai teams to combat these returning threats.
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| Sadly not them, but also VALIDATION!!!!! |
Though they brought in Nobuhiro Mouri to write Kyuuranger Vs Gavan so, ugh. I mean to be fair Mouri did have success with the Kamen Rider Yongou net-moives and he was the head writer for Kyuuranger (for better or worse) so on paper getting the head writer for the show headlining the crossover is not a bad idea. The problem was that Kyuuragner's 12 man team was overstuffed and Mouri was way too green to make this large team work and all attention was focused on how Dumbluck was an insufferable moron! Now I will be looking at this movie with a fresh look but I have an instant bias towards the Kyuranger so take it as you will. Besides I don't see a Produced by Shinichiro Shirakura credit anywhere so this has a better then average chance of actually being passable and according to an interview with Sakamoto for the Tokusatsu network he's basically saying that this movie is more like episode 1.5 then episode 2 so there's that to keep in mind.
But based on my previous track record with Kyuuranger (aka the only Sentai series I dropped after the first five episodes) I'm not exactly looking at this movie with sunshine and sprinkles you know what I mean? But it's my job to catch up on this stuff for you guys and by Stan Lee's mustache I'm gonna do it! So drop in next time as I see how the Kyuurangers manage to drive Geki bat-squeak loco. Hopefully we'll see Geki smack DumbLuck upside the head and tell him to get a clue, here's hoping.
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Super Sentai is owned by Ishinomori Productions, Toei Productions, and Bandai.
Metal Heroes is owned by Toei Company.
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