Awesome / Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

• Episode #9 has Jiraiya performing a plan that involves luring Dorotabo, the fame-hungry monster of the week, by showing up on a popular quiz show. It works. Then he challenges the yokai to a cage fight and wins in martial arts, swordfighting and boxing matches—completely unmorphed. Oh, and the quiz show was also to help a young boy and his father (whom he was filling in for) go on a vacation, and together the two of them got every answer right.
• Episodes 15 and 16 are a rollercoaster of awesomeness.
  • From #15, we see that Saizo actually DEFEATED the Shuten Douji brothers by himself, but didn't finish them off because they had Tsuruhime as a hostage.
  • Jiraiya stays behind to hold off the enemies to give Sasuke a chance of escaping. Pretty ballsy, considering the odds.
  • Sasuke survives falling from a bridge while exploding and manages to rescue his teammates with a great display of stealth and ninja skills.
  • For the enemies, also. The Hanarangers outsmarted the main characters and split them so that the Shuten Douji could fight them. Their teamwork was very cool.
• Episode 17. Saizo gets humiliated by a Youkai who lost her arm to his ancestor in a duel. She's carried a grudge so she slices up his just-bought car and shreds his clothing. With the help of a kid photographer he analyzes her weakness and defeats her on foot. Bonus points for doing this with a setting sun backdrop.
• Episode 20: Sasuke is alone, without his Doron Changer, and is about to be killed by the Flowery Kunoichi Gang. How does he get out of this? A somewhat literal Deus ex Machina, as Muteki Shogun shows up and says "Here, borrow my sword!" The idea of a Ranger borrowing their mecha's weapon is awesome enough, but it's even better in practice; the prop was obviously built to the scale of someone wearing a bulky robot costume in mind, so in the hands of a regular person, it's pretty much a BFS (a BFS that can engulf its blade in fire, at that). Certainly a step-up from two seasons ago, where Daizyujin was constantly a Jerkass to the Rangers...
• Episode 27: Nue turns Saizo and Seikai into Kappa, claiming if one kills the other the victor will return to human. They decide to stay Kappa forever and go to attack Nue as lowly Kappa. They put up such a fight despite the overwhelming odds that the Dorodoro mooks start rooting for them. Even going as far as getting water to revive the two when they are knocked out. Saizo and Seikai hit Nue hard enough to break their Kappa spell. In revenge, Nue destroys the Dorodoros that helped the duo, angering the two Kakurangers. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment for the enemy mooks to be moved by the underdog Kappa-Rangers.
• Episode 29: The Kakurangers take out Nue with their new robots...without combining them. In Super Sentai, being beaten by uncombined robots is something that usually only happens to the very first Monster of the Week, and here it's done to a Knight of Cerebus Arc Villain!
• Episode 35: Tsuruhime singlehandedly slays Kamaitachi. Not only is it a non-Red solo-kill in a time when this was still rare, it's one of only two times in the entire series (and one in The Movie) that a Yokai is destroyed at human size. Every single other monster survives whatever the kakurangers throw at them long enough to call down the growth lightning, but not this one. And it's done by a girl. Who's supposed to be based on Xuanzang, Distressed Dude extraordinary. You wonder why Tsuruhime tends to be the most popular female rangers ever? This is one of the reasons right here.
• Episode 44 has Sasuke charging the villains' hideout unmorphed as if Mooks and Hanarangers weren't there, striking Daimaō, which breaks Daradara's parasite power. The rest of the episode is a mecha fight, really cathartic after all the suffering Ninjaman and the Rangers endured during the 3-parts episode.
• Crossing over with Heartwarming Moment: If Jiraiya is what Japan thinks Americans are like, then it's obvious they have a pretty high opinion of us.