Super Hero Getter, Comparison and Review of Decade and Gokaigers

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...00000000000000000000000000000000000.00.000.0.Well, Super Hero Taisen will be coming out tomorrow in Japan which means our faithful friends of Fan subbing will be getting their hands on it and giving it a good subtitling.
In light of this, I think I did something i've been thinking about since over a year ago when Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger episode 1 came out.  When Gokaiger first came out, I paid no attention to the opening and just watched and waited. When they performed their second Gokai Change, the first being into the Gokaigers, I knew that this show was the Super Sentai equivalent of Kamen Rider Decade. No, no, come back, I know a lot of you don't like Decade for one reason or another but just keep reading.
Actually, I knew when the first few minutes of the Legend War after Akaranger told everyone to sacrifice their powers and they got turned into keys, that it was a Super Sentai version of Decade.  So, what am I doing here today? Well, I figure that with the movie coming out tomorrow, April 21st 2012, I may as well give you all a rundown of Decade and Gokaiger, and then compare them with a bit of personal opinion thrown in there somewhere.  Since Decade was my very first experience in Tokusatsu, we'll start there.
Now we begin episode 1 of Decade with some people complaining at the Hikari photo studio because their photographer messed up their photos, the camera pans over the photos that were ruined and they are taken by the obligatory female of the season and dropped into a box labeled "Tsukasa" and the customers are told that they will be reimbursed in full. Natsumi, the one who put the pictures into the box, leaves the photo studio to find Tsukasa because he seems to have screwed up a ton of photos. 
She finds him in the park next to his rider motorcycle, odd how he has that already when he doesn't become Decade until later.  The two talk and Tsukasa laments that he doesn't seem to belong in the world because he is good at anything he does except the one thing he wants to do, which is to capture everything on film. But every picture he takes ends up getting distorted.  We find out some backstory about Tsukasa which is that he wandered into the Hikari photo studio one day with no memories and they offered him a place to stay working as a photographer.
He looks over at a building in the distance to see a grey substance of something slowly lowering onto the building destroying it. He and Natsumi start running away and start passing through different worlds without a clue what is going on, eventually making it back to their world where the people who Tsukasa messed up their pictures are lying dead on the ground with their pictures in their hands. They turn to dust just as more monsters appear.
Somehow they get seperated and Natsumi continues running through worlds, sometimes by running through a grey substance wall, sometimes by one just moving over her.  She ends up taking a pipe and swinging it around at some Worms, from Kabuto, and gets knocked over into a pile of rubble which happens to contain a strange beat up belt buckle and a beat up device.  She picks them up and runs away with them, getting cornered by the worms.
Tsukasa who is also running through worlds, ends up on the other side of the grey wall of Natsumi, after meeting Kurenai Wataru, Kamen Rider Kiva, who calls him Decade and asks him where his buckle and cards are.  He doesn't know what Wataru is talking about but listens as he explains that he must get his buckle and travel from world to world destroying the riders and stopping the worlds from merging and destroying itself.  When he is released from these he finds Natsumi on the other side of the grey wall and starts frantically beating on the wall with his fists to get through to her.  She is unaware of his existance behind her at the moment so just keeps moving back finding herself unable to go any further.  When Tsuakasa sees she is holding a belt buckle he beats harder on the wall and tells her to pass them to him. 
She hears him now and turns around to pass them through the wall, which is the only thing between the two of them that can pass through.  When they pass through the wall, they look as if they are brand new and shiny again.  Tsukasa puts on the belt buckle which forms the belt straps around him. He opens up the other thing, the ride booker, pulls out the only card on the left side of it and holds it up for the camera to see.   "HENSHIN" he says and puts the card into the open driver. "Kamen Raido" when it closes, it says "DECADE" This forms a blank rider suit around him and causes the grey wall to implode towards Natsumi a little bit. Who by this time has been grabbed by the worms and had her back to a different wall.  9 shadowy grey forms of Decade appear around him with the emblems of the 9 previous Kamen Riders above them. They converge on him and create Decades magenta colored highlights which destroys the wall and impales itself on one of the worms about to attack Natsumi. 
The worms use their super speed clock up ability and Decade chases after them.  He opens his ride booker again and pulls out the Kamen Rider Kabuto card. He puts it into his Decadriver and turns into Rider Form Kamen Rider Kabuto.  He uses Kabuto's Clock up ability to match the Worms. He beats them easily and the decadriver forcively ejects the Kabuto card and it blanks out.  Some Makamou appear next and he uses the Hibiki card, followed by his REKKA DAIZANTOU card. The same process repeats itself and after beating the Makamou, the driver ejects the card.  Next up is an orphenoch, he turns into Faiz, uses the Auto Vajin card turning his Machine Decader, his customized motorcycle, into the Auto Vajin from Faiz and then into its robot mode.  It protects Natsumi and Tsukasa takes the sword out of its shoulder and defeats the Orphenoch. During each of these fights, Tsukasa wonders how he already knows how to fight.
He rides back to Natsumi on the bike and his transformation is canceled by itself. While they are heading back to the photo studio with Tsukasa looking through the blanked out cards, A building explodes and Tsukasa protects Natsumi from it but it freezes as well as the rest of time around them. Wataru comes in again and gives more exposition on the situation and the episode ends.
Through the rest of the season, which I believe is the second or third shortest being only 32 episodes.  During these episodes, Tsukasa meets up with all 9 previous riders from Kuuga to Kiva, picking up Kuuga along the way as a partner, who rarely fights.  He decides he is not going to defeat the riders but befriend them and earn their respect.  His superiority complex gets in the way during the first half of each rider arc but he makes up for it in the second half. Along with the other 9 riders, he also meets up with Amazon, and in a turn of fate, he meets Black, gets sent into the world of Black RX and manages to bring the two, who are actually the same rider, into the same world to fight together.  After these, he enters the negative world which is full of the dark rider versions of some of the riders he's already met. These include Ryuga, Orga, Dark Kabuto and Dark Kiva, who is played by the man who played Dark Kiva during Kamen Rider Kiva.
As well as meeting most of the other riders, Decade also meets the monsters from each rider, having to defeat rehashed monsters of the weeks with the rider he is meeting. 
Not all riders are friendly, they had all been warned by a man named Narutaki about a rider named Decade who would destroy their world.  So most of them try to kill Decade first before talking to him only for Decade to overpower them most of the time.
Next up is Diends world, which includes Glaive, Larc and Lance, and then the rest of the season is filled with starting the rider war. The last episode ends on a cliffhanger that is resolved with the movie Kamen Rider Decade, All Riders VS Dai Shocker.
So that's Kamen Rider Decade. Some people love it, me included, most people hate it.  The premise of Decade is that the hero, with a superiority complex and the ability to become any rider, good at just about everything he does, and has amnesia has to learn a lesson from each rider.  We will get more into Decade when I talk the comparisons between Decade and Gokaiger. Now on to Gokaiger.
We start Gokaiger with the war already going on and being fought by all the core members of each of the previous 34 super sentai teams. The extras are there too just in another area, except for VRV Master from Carranger and Go-On wings who are in with the core teams.  The 193 sentai take out all the Gormin, ground troops, and then the first invasion of the Zangyack empire shows up. Akaranger gathers all the other warriors around him and tells them they should give up their powers and defeat the first invading force.  This scatters Ranger keys all over the universe and effectively making all the warriors into regular civilians again. 
One year later, the second invading force appears to threaten earth right around the same time that Captain Marvelous and his Gokai Galleon comes to earth as they had gotten a clue that the greatest treasure in the universe was on earth. 
During the year between the first and second invasion forces the Gokaigers had managed to collect all of the core member ranger team keys.  They land on earth and Luka Milify, Gokai yellow, and a refugee from a planet destroyed by the Zangyack, sells one of her jewels, as she is also a master jewel thief, and gets millions of yen for it as it was a very rare and precious gem on earth.  They go to a restaurant and have lunch when an explosion rocks the place. Marvelous and the rest of the group run out and Gokai Change into Gokai Red, Gokai Blue, Gokai Yellow, Gokai Green and Gokai Pink. They fight off the Gormin grunts in front of a crowd of people who are apparantly hard core sentai fans as they are able to name each and every team that they change into.  They defeat the force by turning into Shinkengers and Gorangers, the 1st sentai and 33 sentai respectively.
So the premise of Gokaigers is that they are searching for the greatest treasure in the universe. To do this, they have to collect the greater powers of the previous 34 super sentai teams. For THIS they have to meet up with at least one member of each of the previous teams. The Goseigers and Gorangers are obtained during the VS movie, 199 hero battle. 
The Gokaigers use ranger keys which holds the power of each super sentai inside it. For example, the Hurricanger and Kakuranger keys give the Gokaigers ninja skills, and the Gekiranger keys give them the powers of Gekijyuken and Rinjyuken, as well as the Magiranger keys giving them magic. 
The team consists of Captain Marvelous, the leader of the Gokaigers who used to be a part of the Red Pirates under Aka Red, a warrior who is the embodiment of the red warriors, he was apparantly killed prior to the start of Gokaigers and left the Gokai Galleon, Navi, their parrot that gives them hints on where to find the greater powers, the ranger key treasure chest and the task of finding the greatest treasure in the universe.
Luka Milify, Gokai Yellow, a refugee from a planet invaded by the Zangyack who lost her sister to them and a master thief.  Her reasoning for joining the team was to take revenge on the Zangyack for this.
Joe Gibken, Gokai Blue, A master swordsman who used to be part of Zangyack but he betrayed them and was saved by Marvelous and offered the Gokai Blue key. His old friend in the army, who was killed during his betrayal, was actually turned into one of the emperors machine lackeys.
Don Dogoier, Gokai Green, Affectionately called Hakase, Doc, by the rest of the team, as he is the main tech guy on the team, he build the gokai gun and the gokai sabres, as well as he does maintanence on Gokai Galleon and Gokai Oh when it needs it. He is a bit of a wimp and has an odd way of fighting.
And Ahim de Famile, Gokai Pink, the ex princess of the planet de Famille, like Luka, her planet was destroyed by Zangyack and she joins the team as well for revenge. She is the gentlest of the team but she has a fiery rage inside that you do not want to wake up.
Eventually they meet up with Ikari Gai, an super sentai fan boy that knows every little detail of the team straight down to the kind of cigarettes Black Condor liked to smoke before he died.
He joins the team after he saves a little girl from being hit by a truck and ends up in the hospital. There, in his dreams, he is visited by the spirits of Abarekiller, Time Fire and Dragon Ranger, we here in America might know them as Dino Thunder White ranger, Quantum Ranger and Mighty Morphin Green Ranger.  They tell him that his love of super sentai, his knowledge of its history, and his drive to save the girl and goal of being a part of Super Sentai made them choose him and save his life. They gave him a Gokai Silver key with the Gokai Cellular which allows him to become Gokai Silver and  join the team.
These items are taken from him by Marvelous until next episode when he takes on a squad of Gormin all by himself in civilian form nearly dying again.
He becomes an indispensible member of the team as he can tell them the meaning behind the clues that Navi gives them.
Their main enemies are the son of the Emperor, Wals Gil, a spoiled brat of a boy who just wants the earth as a playground, and Basco, who was Marvelous' ex team mate from the red pirates, who has all the sixth and extra ranger keys and a trumpet that allows him to summon those rangers, leading people to believe that he would be the sixth gokaiger.
Basco's trumpet also allows him to forcibly take the greater powers from any one of the old teams with or without the teams consent.
Eventually they get the 35 powers, including their own greater power, which also powers up extras to Gokai Oh.
Dekaranger keys give them Pat Striker which can make gatling guns come out of each limb, Gaorangers keys summon Gaolion to turn them into Gao pegasus i think it is called, and adding in the Shinkeger keys turns gao lion into the pieces to Shinken-Gokai-Oh.
The greater powers of Abaranger, Timeranger adn Zyuranger went to create Gojyujin, Gokai Silvers personal mecha, which turns into a drill, a dinosaur and a robot form. 
The Go-Ongers greater power summons the son of Mach Eagle and Bear Rv from Go onger, Machalchon, which also becomes part of Ultimate Gokai-oh using the Gokaigers greater powers. 
The greater powers manifest themselves in a door with 35 locks on them created from Navi and, well, ill let you watch and see for yourselves.
I'd recommend Decade to those that have seen the other riders, but if you watch it first, don't go into the others expecting them to be the same as the way Decade portrayed them. They are Alternate Universe riders so their stories as Decade told them are not the same. 
As for Gokaigers, I would absolutely recommend Gokaiger to anyone, Super Sentai or Power Rangers fan.  This season was epic and you could learn a lot from it about the seasons that haven't been subbed yet.
Now on to Comparisons, Both Decade and Gokaigers have the ability to turn into other warriors, and both meet up with some of the others they will be turning into.  Both seasons were also Anniversary seasons. Kamen Rider Decade was the 10th season in a row of Kamen Riders. And Gokaigers was the 35th season of Super Sentai. But I am afraid the similarities stop there. 
When they turn into other warriors, Decade keeps his Decadriver instead of getting the old riders belt, I think this would be so that you could tell the difference between him and the authentic rider.  As in Decade, he is merely traveling to different worlds where as the previous Super Sentai gave up all their powers so the only warriors are the Gokaigers themselves except when an old warrior gets ahold of his or her ranger key because they get their powers back until they return their key.
There is another difference, Decade had to use a different Ganbaride card for each of the powers he wanted to use, this puts him at a disadvantage as if someone were to steal his cards he would be powerless, whereas the Ranger Keys have all the powers so as i said above if they change into Goseigers, they get the Tensouder so they can use their powers easily.
Gokaigers also get the full suits of the team they change into, so they can pull Dice-O cards out of the belts of the Goseigers.
When you compare Decade Ganbaride cards to Gokaigers Ranger keys, the ganbaride cards seem limited as each card only holds one power where Ranger Keys have all of them.
Also another difference is that all 35 Super Sentai exist in the same universe in Gokaiger so they all know eachother and can meet up at any time, and ALL Are canonical instead of Decade creating new worlds for each rider.
Personally I think that Gokaigers took the plot of Decade and made it better as well as did it right. They took the power hopping ability of Decade and threw all 199 Sentai warriors into the same universe so they didn't mess up the stories of the previous sentai. 
So that's about the comparisons between Gokaigers and Kamen Rider Decade.  Marvelous and Tsukasa will undoubtedly butt heads during Super Hero Taisen as they are both the leaders of their groups. Somehow Captain Marvelous has become the leader of Dai Zangyack and has the monsters of the week under his command from every season before his. And as was hinted at back in Decade, Tsukasa has become the leader of Dai Shocker which was his original role before he lost his memory.  They both for some reason want to destroy the opposing force for whatever reason which will be revealed in japanese theaters tomorrow some time.
I for one am very excited to see this war just as much as I wanted to see the rider war in Decade and the end of the Legend war in Gokaiger.
So for those wondering, i give both seasons an A+ Rank.  The Densetsejuu Taise in Gokaiger has resolved with the sentai winning of course only for a new war to start with the Kamen Riders.