Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

The Beast Generals' group attacks include the Ninja Art: Vacuum Hurricane (忍法真空ハリケーン, Shinkū Harikēn) and Kakure Style Secret Technique: Big Bang (隠流奥義ビッグバン, Kakure-ryū Ōgi Biggu Ban).

The Three God Generals (三神将, Sanshinshō), despite the Kakurangers' earlier notions, are sentient mecha who were originally three divine sages that developed a shinobi spell that defeated Daimaou and the Youkai two millennia ago.

Though the Kakurangers' ninpō allowed them to revive Muteki Shogun by combining their Beast Generals forms, they obtain the Shinobi Scrolls needed to freely summon him, Tsubasamaru, and Kakure Daishogun.

However, this time resulting from not holding back, Ninjaman is sealed again for a few decades before being freed by the Gokaigers and helping them receive the Greater power of his Kakuranger friends.

Whenever a Youkai calls him a "novice" (青二才, Aonisai), Ninjaman gets angry enough to change into his true form, Samuraiman (サムライマン), by the command "Anger Explosion!"

The Kōshakushi is portrayed by Sanyūtei Enjō (三遊亭 圓丈) in the series and Kanda Hakuzan (神田 伯山) in the web-exclusive anniversary special Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles.

But the Kakurangers refused to accept that and are quickly defeated before Sandayuu had Tsubasamaru bring them the Wind Illusion Castle to see the Three God Generals, revealing their origins and that obtaining the Shinobi Scrolls are needed to stop Daimaou.

Attacking the city in his enlarged form, Zashiki-warashi overpowers the Beast General Fighters until hearing the cries of the children he befriended manages to restore him to normal.

Reika (玲花, 25) was a butterfly given human form by Sasuke's Shinobi Scroll to find him as he arrives to Nasukogen, tending to his wounds after he was attacked by Junior.

But when mortally wounded by Ittanmomen while trying to get a bunny to safety, Reika directs Sasuke to the scroll's location before dying and reverting to her true form as she dissolves.

During the events of the web-exclusive anniversary special Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles, Bun works at a children's home run by Tsuruhime.

Gali (ガリ, Gari, 28 & 29) was a Japanese American karate teacher who is an old friend of Jiraiya's father, but also an indentured servant of Nue who is infused with Youkai energy and armed with a claw weapon.

Gali's servitude started in 1986 when his daughter is mortally wounded after a car crash, accepting Nue's offer to save his child in return to murder Jiraiya's father.

As penance, black mailed into continuing Nue's dirty work, Gali becomes Jiraiya's guardian and taught him martial arts with the hope that his student might kill him.

Though Jiraiya could not kill him at the last minute, a mortally wounded Gali reveals the truth behind the murder and, in his final words, asks his student to defeat those who use others from the shadows.

However, due to Daradara's creation as he attempts to find out the clone's weakness, Hakumenro learns that Daimaou knew of his true intentions yet allowed his presence until he served his purpose.

As a result, treating Tsuruhime as family, the three of them formed a Sukeban Deka-like group called the Punishment Sailor Sisters (おしおきセーラー三姉妹, Oshioki Sērā Shisutāzu) who put bullies in their place.

In present day, Daimaou has his son Gashadokuro set up preparations for his coming into the human world by gathering children's souls to begin a ritual to resurrect him within a month's time.

However, due to Hakumenro giving Ninja Red the means to ruin his scheme with Junior's manor destroyed in the process and managing to escape after being wounded by a combination of Super Muteki Shogun's Muteki Cannon Full Discharge and Super Kakure Daishogun's Iron Fist Flying Finish, Daimaou turns the human into stone before establishing himself in a new base of operations: The flying skull fortress Skull Castle (ガイコツ城, Gaikotsujō) with plans to build the Youkai Kingdom on Earth and destroy the Kakurangers.

But when the plan failed, crashing the Skull Castle on them, Daimaou provokes the Kakurangers into killing him so the evil comprising his body would consume humanity to renew the Youkai.

But when the Three God Generals instructs the Kakurangers to capture him without transforming, Daimaou ups the ante before the ninja realize the Seal Door is the collective heart of humanity.

Gashadokuro (ガシャドクロ, 14-31) is an infamous Youkai who is one of their race's leading figures, a brute who happily slaughters any human he comes across and loves to rock but plays the piano when he is in a bad mood.

He normally appears to the Kakurangers in the guise of Young Noble Junior (貴公子ジュニア, Kikōshi Junia), a bleached blonde leather punk, but can revert to his true militant skeleton form when pumped.

While Gashadokuro appears to be completely heartless to even his lackeys and more relentless in combat, he does have some respect for the Kakuranger, as seen when he allowed his Dorodoro to give water to the Kappa-ized Seikai and Saizou to fight Nue.

Once all the Kakurangers had obtained the Shinobi Scrolls, Junior assumes his true form to battle the Super Ninja Beasts and stop them from destroying the Sealed Door.

During the events of the web-exclusive anniversary special Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles, Junior is revealed to be resurrected with his secret reincarnation technique he used just before his death.

Nue (ヌエ, 27-29) is a legend among the Youkai who abandoned his "undignified" archaic appearance for a new form that combines elements of an eagle, a lion, and a snake with the power of tigers undiminished through the ages.

Seeing Gashadokuro unfit to lead the Youkai, Nue appears as an emissary of Daimaou to deal with Saizou and Seikai during their Shinobi Scroll search by turning them into the lowest hierarchy of Kappa.

Ayame, Sakura, Suiren, Yuri, and Ran are portrayed by Maho Suzuki (鈴木 真帆, Suzuki Maho, 15-20)/Miki Ikuma (生間 美紀, Ikuma Miki, 35-53), Megumi Sakita (咲田 めぐみ, Sakita Megumi), Junko Honda (本田 順子, Honda Junko), Ritsuko Noguchi (野口 律子, Noguchi Ritsuko), and Chie Tanabe (田辺 智恵, Tanabe Chie) respectively.

The movie version of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, directed by Shōhei Tōjō and written by Noboru Sugimura, premiered in Japan on April 16, 1994, at Toei Super Hero Fair '94.

The Kakurangers transformed: (from left to right) Saizou, Jiraiya, Sasuke, Tsuruhime, Ninjaman (in back), and Seikai