Gokaiger meets Shiba Kaoru!

It is finally confirmed that Shiba Kaoru, the 18th head of the Shiba clan and the first female Red member will appear in the Shinkenger tribute episode of Gokaigers. Well, good news for the female Shinken Red fanboys! So read on to find out more!

Episode 11 will be the episode that will tribute to one of the popular sentai series, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, entitled "A Serious Strife". The title itself is playing around with the pun from the kanji of "Shinken(真剣)" of Shinkenger, which also means "to be earnest "or "to be serious" beside being a direct kanji for "True(真) Sword(剣)". So, it was clearly hinted that episode was a tribute to the Shinkengers. As mentioned earlier, Shiba Kaoru will be appearing in this episode.

Here's a quick summary for episode 11. Navi tells Marvelous and the crew to be "cautious of Samurai's". The five starts to look for people who wields a swords. During their search, Joe was reminded of his senior who thought him everything he knows about sword.

Soon, they meet Shiba Kaoru, who later challenges them to a duel to reclaim the Shinkenger Ranger keys. Is this what Navi mean by being "Cautious of Samurai's" as to actually point out that Kaoru was foreseen to duel them. The challenge was accepted by Joe, the Gokaiger's most skilled swordplayer.
It is said that there will be 2 episodes for the Shinkenger tribute and will revolves around Joe's past. It will be later discover on how he came master such skillful swordplays from his senior, who was revealed to be Sid(played by Shindo Gaku) and was rumored to turned into a cyborg who now worked for the Zangacks with the name, Barizorg. It will also unveil the past where he first met Marvelous and was to be the first to be the crew of Gokaiger.
This episodes will marked the debut of ShinkenGokai-Oh, which involves the second formation of the Gokai machine, Gaolion. Some fan had speculated that when the Shinkenger key was activated, the summoning sound will echoed making Gaolion descending from the floating island and along with it, Mojikara symbols will appear which will make Gaolion to form into ShinkenGokai-Oh.

Aside from that, the upcoming tribute episode will involve Gekisou Sentai Carranger. Since the series itself was well known for its comical parody for other super sentai series, do expect these episode to be extremely funny! Yoshi Urasawa returns to direct this tribute episode and Yuji Kishi will return to reprise his role as Kyosuke Jinnai/Red Racer.

In addition, here's an scan for the updates on Gokaiger, Goseiger, Super Sentai: 199 great hero battle movie.

The above scan show the GorenGokai-Oh, which is the combination of the next Gokai machine, which would be Goranger's flying fortress, Varibloom. The combination will involve the Varibloom docking on Gokai-Oh's back forming GorenGokai-Oh. Aside from that, the reason behind the Gokaiger and Goseiger teaming up to fight the other sentai is later revealed to be the work of the Black Cross Army. Somehow, they were able to steal the treasure chest full of ranger keys and summoned them as evil ranger clones with a gun(DIEND?!! No, not Diend). It was seen in the scan, above the image of GorenGokai-On is the gun that summoned the evil clone rangers was held by none other than the movie's main antagonist, the Black Cross King.

Lastly, a part of the scans from the tribute of Shinkenger which was showing Marvelous and Joe standing side-by-side in a fight had the silhouette of GokaiSilver along with it. GokaiSilver's human name is Yoroi and Jun Ikeda being the one who will play as Yoroi/GokaiSilver might end up being real. So, do watch out for it.


Source: Orends:Range, Jefusion