Recap / Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger Ep 09 The World Traveling Pirates Two Cool Tour Kai

The World-Traveling Pirates' Two-Cool Tour-kai!

Original Airdate: May 2, 2021
Written by: Junko Komura
Directed by: Shojiro Nakazawa

Summary

Let's get ready to rumble...Zenkaiger style!

(opens on a sliding door, which suddenly opens to reveal Setchan)
Setchan: Boo! Previously on… Zenkaiger!
A buncha stuff happened, and just as we were about to beat Stacaesar, some weirdo showed up and stole our victory!
Twokaizer, the pirate? Just who is this guy?!

The Goldtsuikers are on the Zenkaigers' world, though not in the way the team thinks. Suddenly stealing all of their candy, Kaito decides to challenge Zocks to a duel to get Colorful's candy back. However, things don't go to plan as Kashiwa Moshi Wald makes his appearance, making everyone who ate kashiwa mochi gain an intense craving for it!

Tropes

• Contrived Coincidence: Kashiwa Mochi Wald's ability is to mind control people that recently eaten kashiwa mochi to get mad over it. The next day rolls over, and there just so happens to be a massive amount of people craving the sweet. ^note This could be chalked up to the fact that May 5 is Children's Day in Japan, where a number of people would go out and get kashiwa mochi in celebration of the holiday.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Zocks subjects Kashiwa Mochi Wald to one after he gets news that Flint went mad over kashiwa mochi because of the Wald.
• Duels Decide Everything: Kaito challenges Zocks to a duel to get payment for Colorful's candy and promise to stop plundering other stores... via Rock–Paper–Scissors. Zocks instead opts for the old-fashioned Duel to the Death, but it eventually gets turned into a duel for the first to defeat Kashiwa Mochi Wald after Flint fell victim to it.
• Foreshadowing: The Tozitend seemed to have known the Goldtsuikers from the raid on their base before, relating the incident to a certain "previous failure" of Ijirude's, which piques Stacy's curiosity.
• Lampshade Hanging:
  • Flint comments that Zocks won't really get anything out of his duel with Kaito, not that he particularly cares.
  • Kashiwa Mochi Wald's is utterly baffled by Zocks's dancing when he's changing into his Ohran form.
    Kashiwa Mochi Wald: Why are you dancing...?
• Loophole Abuse: Zocks gives Kaito the win at the end of their duel, due to Zenkaizer having stripped Kashiwa Mochi Wald of his leaf. Kashiwa Mochi Wald had already ceased to exist at Zenkaizer's hands, leaving the Wald Twokaizer defeated as just purely a Mochi Wald. He pays Kaito the money in Ponggi, Kaizokutopia's currency... which is completely worthless on Earth.
• The Reveal:
  • Flint reveals she designed Twokaizer as a "pirated" copy of the Gokaigers, whom she and Zocks came across during their venture in the Kaizoku Sentai World.
  • During the duel, Zocks reveals that during the Tozitend's invasion of Kaizokutopia the Goldtsuikers managed to pull a raid on the Tozitend's base itself, stealing the Gear technology they created the Geardalinger based off. Kaito was even more surprised that they had managed to break into the Tozitend's base to begin with.

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