‘Shuriken Sentai Ninninger’ Episode Previews Reveal Return of TWO Veteran Red Rangers!

I haven’t been watching Ninninger as much as I originally wanted to, but I loved the pilot and the rest of the episodes I have saved for a rainy day. No really, that’s when I like to binge-watch.

On a Tumblr fan blog this morning, it was revealed in a few episode previews that Teruaki Ogawa and Shun Shioya, who portrayed “Sasuke” in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger and “Yousuke” in Ninpu Sentai Hurricanger respectively will be reprising their roles in the current Super Sentai series!

From shurikensentai:

Here are Ninninger’s episode summaries for April. The scan states that all titles are tentative. What’s interesting is that we’ll be getting some special guests in the seventh episode!

 

(April 5th) Episode 6: “Ninjutsu Midterm Exam!”
Summary: During the re-test, it’s Takaharu versus the other four! But Fuuka gets captured!?

 

(April 12th) Episode 7: “Emissaries From the Past”
Summary: Tsumuji brings in Ninja Red and Hurricane Red to teach the Ninningers.

 

(April 19th) Episode 8: “Brother and Sister”
Summary: Nagi and Fuuka enroll in high school.

 

(April 26th) Episode 9: “Star Assassin”
Summary: “The end of shuriken”, Yakumo’s Mother…

This is somewhat unprecedented. Not counting Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger in which the very premise was the return of veterans, this will be the first time a team-up will occur within the main series. Team-ups between rookie and veteran teams have occurred almost every year, and in recent years with the Super Hero Taisen blockbusters it’s amazing all of Japan hasn’t run out of spandex. But they always happened in separate movies, because the novelty of seeing the teams interact is enough of an attraction on its own.

But to have a team-up, and so early in Ninninger‘s run? Exciting!

Let us know if you know literally ANYTHING I said above in the comments!