Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers - Episode 2 discussion

Gai awakens his Armor 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Poor Kaito. He was just having a pleasant conversation with his Rock N' Roll Granny (who thought she was too hip to be called "Granny") before the demons attacked and stole her from him. And yet it seemed like the Granny knew he was destined to become a Samurai Trooper.

So Ryu can summon his armor! And it's not even a fight, he's so fast Gai can't land a single hit on him and he takes Gai out with a single chop! Though I'm really concerned about how apparently wearing the armor takes a physical toll on him. Is it because he's too old?

Not only is Mirei a tech/engineering genius...she's also the perfect person to leave in charge of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on Gai so he doesn't keep resisting. For someone as hardcore as him, you need a hardcore way of taming him.

Gai wants to become a Samurai Trooper, not for the sake of protecting humanity, but to oppose his father Demon Emperor Ramaga. Said father basically having always intended to have Gai's body for himself...or maybe to avoid him becoming a Samurai Trooper to oppose him? Even though he deliberately had Saizou knock him out. Either way, Ramaga now wants his 10 Braves to bring Gai back dead or alive, starting with Nezu (Keninichi Suzumura!).

Well, it was nice of Gai to bring a tape with demon lore...and a demon concert. These guys really are old school for baddies.

Gai has no intention of working with anyone or being part of some team, but it's a fact that the only way they can get through this is by bringing together all five Samurai Troopers and working together as a team, just like the OG did. Yagyu knows this better than anyone. Now it's bringing this team together and making them ACT like a team that will probably be the real hurdle.

Oof. Bad enough that the demons have killed so many people, but they can turn them into Puppets to continue destroying humanity. I'm impressed Kaito was willing to stand up and protect civilians even when he JUST got his Under-Armor.

Nezu is Gai's former demon teacher and has dry-eye, but that's just as a result of his paralysis powers...and he has kunai he can throw into his enemies as well.

Poor Kaito. It's bad enough that he lost his Granny, but to see her get transformed into a monster...and kill people! At least he was finally able to work up the resolve to slay her, and free her soul, buy unlocking his weapon.

Gai doesn't feel much empathy for humans, or care about finishing someone else' fights even if it meant rescuing innocent people, but he seemed to recognize the weight of the demons' actions when he saw that someone with great taste in music like Kaito's granny was killed...and she didn't deserve to be transformed like that. I guess that's a start for him.

Gai finally transforms! With our first proper transformation sequence! Welcome the Emissary of Fire! Gai even uses teamwork to defeat Nezu! Is this possibly what Ramaga wanted for Gai as well?

What's up with Gai seemingly absorbing Nezu's demon core? Although, good news, the last member of the team has joined up! And it's Musashi's brother!

The ED is a hip, boy band, beat featuring the boys in their element and hanging out like bros! Along with a long-haired pretty boy.

Still shocked at how many civilians die in this lol..it's insanity..and the speed of the lore drops is wild...this show wasteds zero time.

I dunno how I felt about the music of the henshin scene but I loved the rest of it

The way this show is brutal with actually making the monsterfied Granny actually kill the guy who helped Kaito. I thought she'd be stopped before that happened.

So it seems like Ryuu is either going to die in battle, because of the side effect from being too old to use the armor or he will lose the ability to transform and become the new Samurai Troopers teacher. Or they can make it all above and make his death more tragic lol. I like how he said he would make up for the lack of power with experience.

Yama's got balls of steel for standing in front of a moving train like that.

Ngl This episode is really awesome

Gai Transformation and Special Attack are peakinema

I can't wait for more members of New Samurai Troopers.

seriously crunchy took their sweet time posting the episode....

Cool we see how Kaito ends up at the wrecked mall, I like how his granny is very rock and roll. So she knew he was a trooper interesting.

Ryu keeps tossing flags left, right, and center. Love we that got to see what the henshin looks like from outside, also like that there's more the armor can do besides toss out big moves.

Gai has a goal and I think during this journey to meet said goal he's gonna become more in tune with human emotions since he didn't even know why he was angry over granny's death. Henshin was amazing can't wait to see the others.

Pink Science girl is a mood lol

the 80s music and references are perfect, last week was pop this week we got rock wonder what genre we are gonna get next week?

Arago was brought up again he was Talpa in the NA dub. I thought they were adjusting somethings that was completely wrong, the Jewel is completely new and not what I thought it was. The OG guys were also 14 in the OG series and how Nasti was acting I wonder if something happened with figuring out that the age limit was 15. Which doesn't exactly bode well for Ryu since he is older and the armor in full causes strain.

The puppets are cool new enemy type really sells Ramaga as evil he needs bodies not souls for his invasion.

The armor is different but very close looking to the original style, I think that's tied to the new transformation item being used. I didn't quite catch what Ryu or Gai said during the Henshin but it wasn't Korin (Halo) or Rekka (Wildfire). This could also explain the new abilities in under armor and in full armor since it seems there is a major power up from what the armors were originally.

I finished my rewatch of the OG series and so will also join the OVAs are being ignored band wagon (thank god they are terrible) and they are most likely going for something else entirely happened after the series ended.

I wonder if [Og series] >!we are gonna get the inferno armor + white blaze by episode 12 after the whole we gotta work together thing!<

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJflo-z7e7A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJflo-z7e7A)
Analyzing the ending video cuz for some reason I forgot Ryusei isn't the new Samurai Trooper and it's because of how he's in all the opening and ending as the green trooper. Then I saw Shion (the new green) is sprinkled in the ending video and it made me realize, Ryusei is going to be swapped out eventually T\_T (please dont die...)

The videotape was recorded over. You kids have no idea how real that is.

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*****

There's *just enough* audacity in this show's balance of silly humor versus the twisted circumstances of having to off someone's reanimated granny and the rest of the extra violence both seen and implied, that it... works.

Looks like we're going to be chewing the scenery with character conflicts for a while.

I just want to know where Kayura and the other three are. They still have their armors.

the show leans heavily into the Saturday morning cartoon vibe and i love it

feel free to spoil me on the OG since i didn't finish it but since it's only been 35 years are we gonna see any of the OG troopers ?

I wonder if Ramaga is gonna be one of the old characters turned bad considering how Nasutei reacted (Jun?)

I like the double transformation, let's them fight normally in the under form and save the fancy suits for the big moments.

Pretty rude to turn awesome dead grandma into the monster of the week, but probably better that than the 100k other casualties they listed that might just be there to be the grunts you always need plenty of for the mass melee sequences. This seems unlikely but I hope she's actually haunting her grandson, she seems cool enough that it might just be a good time for everyone.

Good move by the engineer twintails to explain everything about how the armor works to Gai, if he hadn't known things might have gone a lot worse. I'm less certain about her electroshock therapy to tame the demon prince, but then again he is a demon prince.

Makes a lot of sense for Gai to be rebelling if his entire existence is to be a replacement body for his father, that's an interesting way to build a Red Ranger. They rather implied a couple times that something else may be going on, or maybe this is still part of the replacement body plan and the Demon Lord thinks a full-blown Ranger as a replacement body would be even better.

Really enjoying this series so far, they are actually fleshing out the troopers. I wonder if they'll explain the difference between this generations' armor and the old armor. After all the old seemed more magical/mystical in nature and tied to the boys' backgrounds as descendant of Sengoku heroes.

I am very disappointed in this show. Samurai Trooper was a quality show with good character development, pacing, and deeper plot lines. This sequel is just superficial cheap action show. I see a lot of shows today are this way, likely because that's what people today prefer. With instant and immediate gratification built into everything from social media to delivery services, things like patience and joy of anticipation and mystery have been pushed aside. So sad that it's harder to find quality shows nowadays. Shows back in the day were memorable, and we'd recall them. Shows today are just something we enjoy but won't even remember.

Damn.. I didn't know this anime got a sequel. Might have to rewatch the OG, I didn't remember anything, lmao.


Story and pacing seems all over the place, but the animation is quite peak ngl.

I'm thinking that "ramaga" is one of the old trooper probably Ryu, turned demon lord to keep the evil at bay and he wants his son to inherit the will of fire to defeat him and lead the new troopers to defeat the real emperor that's coming back.

it's look like Ramaga is "Sanada Ryo". The Protagonist of First series.

Can't really put my finger on why because I'm not normally into Sentai, but I'm really digging this so far!!

I wonder if the series will have Gai signing city pop music that gained notoriety recently thanks to the internet like Mayonaka no Door/Stay with Me or Plastic Love. That would be so cool.

I kind of figured out what is Demon Lord plan and it looks like pretty straight redo of original series.

I'm liking it!

I'm coming into this from watching Ronin Warriors as a teenager in the 90s (I got my mom watching it, even).

If this had been exactly the same as the original, I don't know if I would be sticking with it.

I like the twists, the time skip, the whole thing where they're looking for successors to the original group, the fact one of the guys is a total psycho, the brutality (granted, I haven't watched the original in Japanese, so it was probably just edited out for US TV), I think I may be with this for the long haul.

So I am enjoying seeing this , especially after not hearing about the series in 20 years since i watched the prequel on toonami. But its really hard for me to care about Gai's motivations when he is still so willing to just behead innocent people .

I imagine its gonna be some character development or something? Like some sort of Vegeta situation where we are just suppose to be ok with him purposely and enjoyingly just snuff out life in the past?

I am wondering if the show was less gory as the prequel if I would have cared less.