Characters who appeared in ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''.
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!The Kakurangers
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[[folder:In General]]
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Last like season, the Kakurangers are a team of descendants from the original team. But while the ''Dairangers'' were themed on Chinese mythology and martial arts, the Kakurangers are ninja themed. Also, unlike last season where the Red Ranger led the team, the White Ranger, and sole female Sentai Warrior, is the one leading the team this season.
* {{Ninja}}: The Kakurangers are a ninja-themed Sentai team.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sasuke/Ninja Red]]
!!Sasuke/[[red:Ninja Red]] | [-Actor: Teruaki Ogawa-]

* CapturedOnPurpose: He pulled this off in Episode 47 to find the Youkai Kasha's secret lair.
* CharacterDevelopment: One of the best examples in Sentai - compare the childish slacker at the start of the series to the determined warrior at the end.
** His appearance in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' further shows this, portraying him as OlderAndWiser and as the teacher of the new Ninja team alongside [[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Yousuke]]. However, [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Akaranger]] [[Funny/ShurikenSentaiNinninger reminds the two of how they used to act at the end of the episode.]]
* CharacterTics: Likes to give a thumbs down to his enemies and proclaim: "Judgement!" before he enters battle.
* DoppelgangerAttack: His Ninja Arts specialty.
* FamousAncestor: His ancestor is UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic (Middle-road).
* FriendToAllLivingThings: This is the specific duty of his Shinobi scroll--to protect all life on Earth, not just the humans.
* TheHero: He's the POV character even though Tsuruhime is the main character.
* HotBlooded: An Edokko through and through.
* ItsPersonal: In episode 33, he held a grudge against Amanojaku for tricking his cousin Kosuke into releasing him.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Sasuke is given a CoolSword by Tsubasamaru that can be used to summon him. He is also the first to get both his [=JuuShou=] and [=ChouNinJuu=]. His ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' counterpart is also the most badass character there, Sun Wukong. Also, unlike the other dudes, he's ''not'' getting any DistressedDude moments, instead when they do, he gets the AllUpToYou moments.
* LimitedWardrobe: Subverted - he changes his outfit more than the other characters, but it's subtle and more or less the same kind of clothes every time.
* MadeOfIron: Episode 20 really shows this off as he was forced to fend of the Flower Kunochi Gang untransformed to protect a child, including surviving machine gunfire!
* MonkeyKingLite: Because he's the 'counterpart' of Wukong, see LawOfChromaticSuperiority. Not to mention, his special jutsu is self-duplication, much like how Wukong can transform his hair into clones of himself.
* OneWingedAngel: Beast General Fighter Battle Saruder.
* OnlySaneMan: After his character development he develops a cooler head than even Tsuruhime, at one point declining to follow her and two of the others into an obvious trap. (This was fresh off Zashiki-Warashi's death and going into the trap offered them a potential crack at avenging his fate at Junior's hands--Sasuke didn't think it was worth the risk, correctly as it turns out).
* PlayingWithFire: His motif is fire, as seen in his ''Flaming Whirlwind Art'' attack and Red Saruder transformation.
* SignatureMove: ''Kakure Ryu Mangetsu Kiri''[[note]]Hidden Style Full Moon Slash[[/note]]
* TheSlacker: At the start of the series, he thought that as the red ranger, gave him the right to be a showoff and make light of the other Kakurangers. [[CharacterDevelopment Thankfully]], this didn't last.
* SupportingProtagonist: While he's the POV character for most of the series and gets all of the fancy weaponry first, it's clear that Tsuruhime is the actual protagonist as she has the most emotional weight and plot relevance.
%%** [[FuumaShuriken Fuuma]] [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Shielded]] [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Boomerang]]: Red Slicer. As Red Saruder, his weapon is the Saruder Slicer.
%%** CoolSword: Hikarimaru
%%** {{BFS}}: Muteki Shogun's Kaen-Shogunken in eps. 20, shrunk down to human size.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tsuruhime/Ninja White]]
!!Tsuruhime/[[gray:Ninja White]] | [-Actress: Satomi Hirose-]

* ActionHeroine: Oh yes, very much so. Let's just say she ''more'' than makes up for TheSmurfettePrinciple. However, there are times that she got caught (but most of the time, the others, aside of Ninja Red also get captured, so... it's kinda fair?) and during the search for the scrolls, she needed to be escorted by the automated versions of her teammates instead of fighting. FauxActionGirl? The amount of focus episodes where she actually kicks ass on her own says a hard "nope".
* BlueBlood: Not a ''princess'' per se, but she [[spoiler: comes from a ''very'' well-off family, enough so that you wonder why she's not CrimefightingWithCash.]]
** Considering her name literally means crane princess...
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to her rather frequently as she is captured many times; sometimes with the other rangers, sometimes with the kids-of-the-week, and sometimes as the sole captive, including two times with a gag. As the girl, she finds this herself in this predicament more than any one of the boys, despite being the leader and a capable fighter in her own right.
* BlowYouAway: Her ninja motif is air, being the only Kakuranger with a flight jutsu [[note]]Sasuke's cloud notwithstanding[[/note]], a flying ninja animal and whose transformation into White Kark includes the Aurora Borealis.
* DeadpanSnarker: Generally gets the best one-liners.
* DisappearedDad: Had one. Searching for him is one of her missions in life. [[spoiler:She succeeded in the end]].
* FamousAncestor: Shodai Tsuruhime (in real life known as Ohori Tsuruhime).
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric.
* TheHeart: It's played as part of her position as leader.
* HolierThanThou: Has shades of it in the beginning. While one can't blame her entirely for her exasperation at the boys' quirks and wanting to perform their mission efficiently, she sometimes forgets that she isn't immune to the same trappings and reminds us that she is the youngest teammate.
* TheLeader: The first female one in Franchise/SuperSentai, and is generally very level-headed.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Usually when she's solo-fighting.
* OneWingedAngel: Beast General Fighter Battle Kark.
* OnlySaneWoman: Especially in the early episodes.
* {{Protectorate}}: ''Technically'', it's the job of the other Kakurangers to look after and protect her. Naturally, she can handle herself just fine.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Descended from feudal lords who, four hundred years ago, pledged to lead Kakuranger against the yokai menace to humanity. Each generation since has done so, with one finally joining with their team to seal the majority of the yokai and their power behind the Door of Seals. After that, they kept their tradition.
* SignatureMove: ''Kakure Ryu Ku no Ji Kiri''[[note]]Hidden Style Ku Character Slash[[/note]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: She's simply a much-more skilled Ninja than Sasuke. Subverted in that she's actually the team leader. Also, she's single-handedly killed [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]] before they ever got the chance to grow.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Plays the idea of FlawlessToken straight - the others joined ''her'' to become Kakuranger - and generally ranks highly in Sentai Heroine polls.
* TokenWizard: At least at the outset, she's the only one of the group who can use ninpo in non-morph form, although the others catch up with training, and Jiraya got ninja training back in the States.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Her Ninja Arts specialty.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Is apparently old enough to get married (turning 16 in one episode), though her actress turned 14 during filming. (You'll probably think she's ''older'' from how she acts.)
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[[folder:Saizō/Ninja Blue]]
!!Saizō/[[teal:Ninja Blue]] | [-Actor: Creator/HiroshiTsuchida-]

* AnimalMotif: Wolves are the basis for his mecha.
* ButtMonkey: If a horrifically unlucky thing happens to any of the Kakurangers, chances are it happens to him.
* CampStraight: Is totally straight, but tends to use feminine speech at times.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: [[HumiliationConga After getting his new car sliced up. Then a kid takes a picture of him in his underpants. Then the kid reveals he made copies. Then Saizou accidentally lets all of them go when the Kakurangers just happen to be serving a lot of women at their restaurant.]] [[BornUnlucky Definitely]] [[ButtMonkey not]] [[YankTheDogsChain his day]].
* FaintInShock Does so in episode 32 after his self-proclaimed "prettyboy" face was stolen by Nuppefohofu.
* FamousAncestor: Kirigakure Saizo.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic.
* FriendToAllChildren: Is good with kids.
* GenerationXerox: Subverted; whereas his namesake, Kirigakure Saizō, was TheLancer and TheSmartGuy to UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke, he is a bumbling fool.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: ... on a typical day, that is. If he sees an imminent danger that threatens many people (ESPECIALLY KIDS), he'd shed his 'bumbling fool' role and be a competent ninja that makes his ancestor/namesake proud.
* KidAppealCharacter
* KillItWithWater: Blue Shot. He's the only one that doesn't get an upgraded version of his personal weapon as a [=JuuShou=]. Instead, he gets the Rougan Shaft.
* MakingASplash: His ninja motif is water, as seen in his Blue Rougan transformation and various water jutsus.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: At one point, he destroys a Youkai maze to prevent any more of the gambling games the two owners were playing on unlucky people like himself. While that's all well and good, it turns out that he lost his wallet and it was still in there when he destroyed it.
* OneWingedAngel: Beast General Fighter Battle Rougan.
* SignatureMove: ''Kakure Ryu Seiho no Jin''[[note]]Hidden Style Square Formation[[/note]]
* SinsOfOurFathers: Was targeted by Amikiri, who lost her arm to the original Saizō.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He's hardly a small name, but he's quick to play himself up.
* TrueBlueFemininity: A rare male example. Ninja Blue's suit is colored in a lighter shade of blue, which is usually used for female blue rangers (Like [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Blue Swallow]], [[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Hurricane Blue]], [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiblue]] and [[Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger Zyuoh Shark]]) or cyan-colored Rangers in teams that already have a blue ranger in them (Like [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Kyoryu Cyan]] and [[Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger Koguma Skyblue]]). This was probably done so the viewers won't confuse him with the darker-blue-colored Ninjaman.
* WalkOnWater: His Ninja Arts speciality.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seikai/Ninja Yellow]]
!!Seikai/[[gold:Ninja Yellow]] | [-Actor: Shu Kawai-]

* BearsAreBadNews: God helps you if he fights in his mecha.
* BigEater: And ''how''. It's a wonder that he didn't get fat yet.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where he becomes enormously fat, and grows to the size of a giant, after accidentally eating the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* TheBigGuy: His fighting style only - Seikai himself is average-sized.
* ButtMonkey: Of the main 5, he's the one to receive the most slapstick, not counting how he was effectively TheLoad at the beginning of the series as an useless fighter who got kidnapped a lot.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After seeing a cute girl advertising a local flea market he decides to steal all the others' clothing while they're asleep in an effort to impress her with his donation. Not their worn-out clothes, the ones they have drying on the line, including several things they'd just bought. He gets a beating.
* FamousAncestor: Miyoshi Seikai.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine.
* GogglesDoNothing: Tends to wear a pair of goggles around his neck, which is where they stay.
* GreenThumb: His ninja motif is wood, seen with his leaf-hiding jutsu and his Yellow Kumard transformation.
* TheHedonist: He likes food, he likes the ladies, he likes to have a good time, even if it means slacking off in training.
--> '''Tsuruhime:''' Your brain has only two settings: eating and flirting!
* LadykillerInLove: Although all the Kakurangers seem to have a crush on Tsuruhime, he actually falls in love with her, and admits it surprisingly early on in the series. Though after she turns him down for a date, he goes back to his flirtatious ways, though not without the occasional tease.
* TheLoad: He was an awful fighter in the beginning of the series, often getting kidnapped by the enemy. He obviously got better as time went on.
* OneWingedAngel: Beast General Fighter Battle Kumard.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Subversion. Seikai himself isn't exactly a real big/fat guy, but he tends to act and fight like he's bigger than his usual size, yelling the sumo BattleCry "Dosukoi!" (Even though he doesn't use sumo).
* SignatureMove: ''Kakure Ryu Sandan Kiri''[[note]]Hidden Style Triple Slash[[/note]]
* {{Sizeshifter}}: His Ninja Arts speciality.
* StabTheScorpion: In one episode, he and Saizou are forcefully undergoing a slow transformation into kappas, with the only way to stop it being to defeat their friend in a fight. After a humiliating experience with a pack of humans messing with them, Seikai draws a knife and lunges at Saizou--hoping that Saizou will be provoked into fighting and beating him.
* WolverineClaws: Yellow Claw. As Yellow Kumard, his weapon is the Kumard Claw.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jiraiya/Ninja Black]]
!!Jiraiya/Ninja Black | [-Actor: Creator/KaneKosugi-]

* AmericansAreCowboys: Shows up in a cowboy getup twice. The first seems to have at least partly been a ploy to get Oboro-guruma to trust him, the second because the MOTW was a ''cow''.
* ArchEnemy:
** Had something of an ancestral arch-enemy when it came to Azukiarai who stole the Kakurangers' makimono. He's clan had been searching for it for over four hundred years, and he personally tried to take Azukiarai down before joining the team.
** After Junior killed the Zashiki-Warashi he'd befriended, Jirayia had to be held back from breaking cover and attacking him, and even says wouldn't care about walking into a trap if he could kill him.
* BattleStrip: In Episode 9, he rips off the top half of his gi [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext in order to pull out his sword against the MOTW]].
* ButNotTooForeign: The most realistic example in ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. (They seem to have based some of the character's difficulties with the language on the actor's.)
* CatchPhrase: "FIGHT!" in English, whenever entering battle.
* CompressedVice: One episode has him becoming obsessed over Japanese television, going a little nuts and imitating things like wrestling or samurai movies. Given how the tokusatsu genre is a frequent target from censors and parents' groups, one wonders if this might be a bit of DontTryThisAtHome for the kids out there.
* DishingOutDirt: His ninja motif is Earth, as seen with his boulder attacks, earth tunneling technique and Black Gammer transformation.
* DudeNotFunny: At one point, when Saizou is beating himself up over a mistake he made, Jiraiya tries to cheer him up by referencing a then-popular commercial jingle. It doesn't work.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: At first he can barely speak Japanese, and most of the others can't understand when he speaks English. Over time he learns to speak more fluently, and it's reflected in his dialogue. Shout's subtitles don't reflect this very well, however.
* [[EverythingsSexierInFrench Everything's Sexier In English]]: He likes using his English skills to pick up chicks.
* FamousAncestor: Jiraiya the Gallant from Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (The Story of [Jiraya the Gallant]).
* FastTunnelling: His Ninja Arts specialty.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Supine.
* FrogNinja: His Kyodai Jūshō and Chōninjū are frogs.
* GratuitousEnglish: An aversion, as he starts out speaking very little Japanese and gradually picks it up.
* HotBlooded: Has a tendency to go YOLO on battle if he got pissed off.
* TheLancer: Aside from being the oddball American guy, he's also kind of emotional and would've rushed to battle solo when pissed off, if his friends didn't restrain him in time.
* McNinja: Though it's worth noting that only he and Tsuruhime had ninja training prior to getting their Doron Changers.
* MeaningfulName: Named for the ninja Jiraiya, who was known in stories to ride a giant toad, which is this Jiraiya's ninja animal too.
* OneWingedAngel: Beast General Fighter Battle Gammer.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Used these on at least two occasions, tricking a yokai into thinking he was an ally in one episode, and going on an incredibly popular quiz show in to attract a TV-hungry yokai in another.
* PairTheSpares: A non-canon, non-love example: Yulong has no counterpart in Kakuranger, and Jiraiya has no counterpart in Journey To The West, so they are often compared.
* TheMole: He pretended to side with the Yōkai in order to get the last four [=JuuShou=] Scrolls.
* SignatureMove: ''Kakure Ryu Nagareboshi''[[note]]Hidden Style Shooting Star[[/note]]
* TheStoic: Subverted. While he was presented as a serious, quiet loner, the series quickly reveals that it was only because he couldn't really express himself in Japanese early on. As the series went on, he was still serious when it counted, but he was also a major dork and quite HotBlooded.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: His accented Japanese gets much less attention that it realistically would've in 1994.
** Probably because most people are astounded by his flawlessly perfect English.
* YouKilledMyFather: His father was murdered by Gali, and he successfully fought his master to the death. [[spoiler: Once he learned the reasons for Gali's actions, he forgives him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ninjaman/Samuraiman]]
!![[blue:Ninjaman/Samuraiman]] | [-Voice: Creator/KazukiYao-]

* BerserkButton: Does not like to be called "Blue Squirt" (the Shout Factory subtitles translate it as "novice"), and messing with kids is a quick way to get on his bad side.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Ninjaman wears a large "N" on his chest in both his forms.
* FinishingMove: ''Samurai Rage Bomber''
* FriendToAllChildren: Much like Saizō.
* HeroicBSOD: Suffers one in Episode 38 after he inadvertently injures the mother of two children while pursuing a Youkai, leading the kids to declare that they hate him. Fortunately, he breaks out of it.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Even more so than the Kakurangers, as he has no human form... but can subvert it with his VoluntaryShapeshifting.
* HotBlooded: As with Sasuke, he's something of an Edokko.
* KamehameHadoken: His Anger Bomber ki fireball attack.
* OneWingedAngel: Foes who insult him by calling him "Blue Squirt" will face the wrath of Samuraiman, his true form.
* SamuraiShinobi: One of the most literal examples imaginable. He is a shinobi/ninja named 'Ninjaman', whose alternate form (Or possibly ''true'' form) is that of a samurai (Named 'Samuraiman').
* ShoutOut: Quotes Tora-san occasionally, after being called 'Aonisai' ("You said it, it's aaaaaall over now that you've said it!"). Maybe he's a fan?[[note]] Creator/KazukiYao is, and this was a ThrowItIn on his part. [[/note]]
* SixthRanger: The producers at Toei were unsure if they could continue the Sixth Ranger tradition, despite the popularity of [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Dragon Ranger]] and [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Kiba Ranger]], so they went for a more experimental approach with Ninjaman and made him into a human-sized robot who could enlarge himself and transform. Despite this, Ninjaman was still treated as if he was the sixth member of the team and his absence in the beginning of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' was the source of much confusion to fans of the character, which led to his guest role near the end of that series.
* SpannerInTheWorks: A handful of plans in the later episodes fall apart simply because the Youkai forgot to take him into account.
* UnstoppableRage: What Samuraiman essentially is.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can [[{{Sizeshifter}} change size, from tiny to mecha-sized]], and can also change shape. It's apparently rather easy for him, and he'll use it for really mundane things like startling a misbehaving kid.
** His change into Samuraiman is also this, but he only does it once (against Daidarabotchi).
%%** KatanasAreJustBetter: Ninja Sword, as Ninjaman.
%%** Samurai Javelin, as Samuraiman. (It's the sheath and the Ninja Sword combined.)
[[/folder]]

!Allies

[[folder:Sandayū Momochi]]
!!Sandayū Momochi | [-Actor: Akira Sakamoto-]

* CoolOldGuy: Specifically, one of Tsuruhime's supporters.
* TheDreaded: To some extent. The yokai recognize him as a significant threat.
* {{Flight}}: He can do this with or without a cloud.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By Gashadokuro in Episode 31.]]
* {{Mentors}}: Shows up to give the newly-minted Kakurangers advice and hints, and provided them with Nekomaru. It's implied that he has incredible magical power, but he rarely takes to the field. [[spoiler:He even gets killed]].
* MrExposition: Knows a lot more about what's going on than the others, even Tsuruhime, but waits to tell them until they need to know.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Usually a very calm and easygoing guy. When he sees that his (and Tsubasamaru's) intervention was too late and the Door of Seals has manifested in the middle of the city, he's genuinely horrified. And also not eating anything at all. Holy Moly!
* SecretKeeper: He kept the secret of Hakumenrou's betrayal from Tsuruhime because of how the truth would pain her. [[spoiler:Even when he tells her ''this'', though, he's not being entirely honest, as he knows Hakumenrou is a DoubleAgent]].
* SweetTooth: Almost always eating or drinking something sweet while dispensing advice.
* {{Teleportation}}: He can literally blow people from one place to another.
* UndyingLoyalty: Willing to die for the sake of the Tsuruhime family and Kakuranger. [[spoiler:Or to allow himself to be killed]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nekomaru]]
!!Nekomaru

* BigDamnHeroes: Occasionally saves the day, such as when it slammed into Bakeneko.
* {{Flight}}: Can do this.
* HomeBase: As well as the TeamPet. For the Kakuranger. Unusually, Nekomaru is their means of transportation and money, but they sleep outdoors in tents as it simply isn't big enough inside.
* LogicalWeakness: Can be controlled to by yokai with power over cats (like with Bakeneko), although it can also shake off that control when its friends need it (like with Bakeneko).
* MechanicalLifeform: Moreso than the Sanshinshō. Seikai can be seen repairing it at one point, and it is as affected by catnip as a normal cat (though the dose has to be larger).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Narrator]]
!!The Narrator | [-Actor: Enjou Sanyuutei-]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: ''Constantly''. As part of the post-modernistic nature of the show, he physically ''exists'' in the Kakuranger universe, to the point that the platform/stage he narrates from had to be moved out of direct action once.
* DirtyOldMan: Oh yes. He even eagerly admits to ogling women.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Seemingly crushed by rubble when Junior began the ceremony to revive Daimaoh, but appeared alive and well at the episode's end.
* MadeOfIron: Survives being crushed by rubble when Junior began to the ceremony to revive Daimaoh as well as being ''thrown off a bridge'' in the DocumentaryEpisode.
* {{Narrator}}: Presents the show like a Kyougen narrator (which the actor actually is).
* NoNameGiven: Doesn't seem to have a name, and is 'Narrator' in the credits. Frequently refers to himself as 'Ojisan'. (It might be [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him Narrator]], but no one ever actually addresses him.)
* PutOnABus: Disappeared after the Kakurangers set out on their quests to find the Shinobi Scrolls, at which point the monsters of the week took over explaining their origins in Japanese folklore.
** TheBusCameBack: Reappeared during the documentary episode.
* ShooOutTheClowns: He was PutOnABus when the series started to [[CerebusSyndrome get more serious]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: Invokes this at the end of episode 10 when he reminds the audience that even though the Yokai Konakijiji stole souls from humans to bring his dolls to life, he only did so because of his desire to have a family of his own
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reika]]

* ActionGirl: Summons a couple of knives and tears into Ittan-Momen's Dorodoros. Don't mess with butterflies.
* {{Flight}}: As you might expect from a butterfly in human form.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Encourages Sasuke to consider all the ''other'' lives riding on his battle against the yokai, not just the human ones, and tells him that protecting the fragile lives of those in nature is the specific responsibility of his Shinobi Scroll.
* GlassCannon: Although she's a powerful fighter, one blast from Ittan-Momen puts her on death's door. As she says, nature is full of lives who could be lost with even the slightest injury.
* HealingHands: Since Sasuke gets his leg injured so often, the Scroll probably gave her this power to help her guide him.
* HeroicSacrifice: Rushes to save a rabbit caught in the crossfire and gets blasted by Ittan-Momen.
* HumanityEnsues: Given human form by Sasuke's Shinobi Scroll in order to guide him to it. That said, she also decides to have a lot of fun doing things most butterflies don't get to do, as well.
* MindProbe: Reads Sasuke's doubts as to whether or not she can lead him to the Scroll and tells him he's mean for thinking it.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Demonstrates to Sasuke that animal life on Earth is intelligent, fragile, and equal to humanity. Think twice before you stomp that roach. It may be a cute girl.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gali]]

* {{Blackmail}}: After Gali killed Jiraya's father in exchange for his daughter's life, Nue kept him on the hook, ordering him to commit more assassinations if he didn't want his daughter and Jiraiya finding out the truth.
* DealWithTheDevil: After a terrible car crash, his daughter was slowly dying in the hospital when the yokai Nue appeared and offered to save his daughter's life if Gali killed Jiraiya's father, who had learned about an organization of assassins run by Nue. Jiraiya's father being his best friend, he let his guard down and Gali struck, only realizing the enormity of his crime when he saw young Jiraiya weeping over the corpse. [[{{Blackmail}} And of course, that wasn't the end of Nue's dealings with him]].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Already a strong fighter, being a teacher at a karate dojo, he was gifted a portion of Nue's power and a weapon in order to be a better assassin for the yokai. This raw power and skill are enough to overwhelm Jiraiya and then Sasuke when they fight him the first time.
* HonoraryUncle: Jiraiya's father (a policeman and inheritor of the family's Kakuranger legacy) was his best friend and one of his students, as was little Jiraiya, and he and his son are seen in a photo together with Gali's wife and daughter, so it would seem that they were all pretty close.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Jiraiya tries to appeal to the memories he and Gali had together, holding up the keepsake pendant his sensei had given him. Gali just snatches it out of his hands and stomps on it.
* JapaneseChristian: Implied by his memorial marker being a cross.
* KamehameHadoken: Fires an energy blast from his hands.
* LiesToChildren: By omission. Young Jiraiya, seeing the clawmarks on his father's body, believed that he'd been killed by a yokai. Gali decided to let to let the misperception stand.
* MindOverMatter: Uses an energy tendril to toss Jiraiya around.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His first mission was to kill Jiraiya's father, Horrified that he had killed his friend and orphaned Jirayia, Gali secretly raised and trained Jiraiya to one day kill him in return without telling the boy the truth about his father's death.
* ProfessionalKiller: Nue's personal assassin, as Jiraiya learns to his horror.
* SoProudOfYou: Once Jiraiya mortally wounds him, Gali notes how much stronger he'd gotten in such a short time.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Viciously taunts and thrashes Jirayia, telling him that their old bond means nothing. In fact, being killed by Jiraya was ''always'' his endgame since murdering Jiraiya's father, and Gali was trying to convince his student to hate him enough to kill him.
* SwordBeam: Launches a number from his sai.
* TragicKeepsake: Before Jiraiya departed for Japan, Gali showed him a pair of pendants and give him one, saying the two of them were linked. After his death, Sensei's own pendant becomes one for Jiraiya.
* WolverineClaws: The aforementioned weapon Nue gave to him, a wrist mounted set of extendable claws.

[[/folder]]

!The Sanshinshō[[note]]The Three Divine Generals[[/note]]

[[folder:In General]]
* BigGood: They were [[WasOnceAMan originally three human sages]] that ascended to divine status after defeating Daimaoh.
* TheMentor: [[spoiler:They take a more active role in guiding the Kakurangers after Sandayu's death.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: They explicitly say that, if Daimaō is powered by hatred and suffering, they run on this and courage and hope instead.
* PowerTrio: They are the Kakuranger's sentient mechs after all.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: [=ShoutFactory=]'s subtitles constantly refer to them as "The Three God Generals", even when they're being spoken to in the second-person ("What will we do, The Three God Generals?!"). Likely a case of BlindIdiotTranslation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Muteki Shogun]]
!!Muteki Shogun | [-Voice: Tomoyuki Horita-]

* CurbStompBattle: Deals out a ''lot'' of these; he doesn't really fight so much as just show up and do the finisher. Most likely due to the suit's bulkiness.
* DemotedToExtra: Was the Kakuranger's primary mecha until the premiere of Kakure Daishogun which reduced Muteki Shogun to providing backup support.
* MightyGlacier: He represents the body/physical aspect of Kakure Ninpo, which makes him big and powerful but not very fast or agile.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tsubasamaru]]
!!Tsubasamaru | [-Voice: Dai Matsumoto-]

* GiantFlyer: Is a huge falcon with a wingspan of at least 85 meters wide
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Represents the heart/spiritual aspect of Kakure Ninpo which allows it to boost the power of the other two.
* MechaExpansionPack: Basically its only task is to combine with the other two Generals. Combining with Muteki Shogun gave him a set of beam cannons sticking from its torso. Combining with Kakure Daishogun gave him a set of wings.
* MoreDakka: Its main form of offense is the beam cannons in its wingtips.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kakure Daishogun]]
!!Kakure Daishogun | [-Voice: Dai Matsumoto-]

* BareFistedMonk: Since the shape of his fists doesn't allow him to hold weapons, Kakure Daishogun slays Yokai by beating them into submission.
* LightningBruiser: Represents the technique/mental aspect of ninpo which allows him to combine great speed and agility with overwhelming power.
[[/folder]]

!Yōkai Army

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted. While most Yokai commit evil deeds, some are benign in nature.
* EarlyBirdCameo: There's a thriving yokai community that stays hidden from human eyes, as such, many of the troublemakers the Kakurangers have to deal with later are seen in earlier episodes.
* TheFairFolk: Powerful creatures who feed on human emotion, but don't have the same morality or logic as normal humans, and who seem bound to obey their own desires to an extent that's unsafe even for themselves.
* HumanDisguise: Many of them can do this. Taking human disguise and living among us is how those who weren't sealed away managed to survive to the modern day.
* ImAHumanitarian: Yokai eat humans, and sometimes their traditional favorite food, too, but mostly humans. The more benign yokai probably refrain from this, though.
* MagicMissileStorm: Most yokai appear to have a wide-range energy attack that can hit all the Kakurangers at once, though it doesn't usually do much damage.
* MasterOfIllusion: A lot of them (all?) have abilities in this vein.
* OmnicidalManiac: As a whole, the yokai seek to make a paradise by wiping out all the plants, animals and people of the Earth. Sounds a little boring, but to each their own.
* PokemonSpeak: It seems the more intelligent of the yokai don't bother saying their name over and over again. Alas, most of them aren't that sharp.
* ThePowerOfCreation: A lot of them (all?) are capable of manifesting actual physical objects.
* PowerOfHate: They harness it.
* RedRightHand: A number of them have traits in their monster form which are reflected by their human form.
* {{Teleportation}}: A fair number of them can do this, for themselves or others or both.
* {{Yokai}}: Duh.

[[folder:Dorodoros]]

* ButtMonkey: They're mooks in a sentai series, poor things.
* CommonalityConnection: In episode 27, after Saizou and Seikai are turned into wimpy caitiff dollar-store kappas by Nue, they challenge him to a fight. Seeing how they refuse to give up their struggle against him, even in the form of low-caste creatures just like themselves inspires the Dorodoros to [[FaceYourFears overcome their terror of Nue]] and provide vitality-restoring water to the pair. [[DoomedMoralVictor And then Nue kills them]].
* FantasticCasteSystem: Dorodoros are at the bottom rung of yokai society.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: They can make swords appear in their hands. If you look closely, the swords have holes in the blades reminiscent of their faces.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nurarihyon]]

* BigBad: Following the sealing of Daimaou, he was powerful enough to become the leader of the yokai, until the Kakurangers' ancestors sealed him away.
* ExtraEyes: His face has a face in front of it...or ''behind'' it?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's explicitly shown to be one of the yokai escaping the Door of Seals after it's opened, but is only referenced in flashbacks later in the series. The current crop of Kakurangers are never seen fighting him and whatever he got up to after escaping has never been mentioned.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kappa and Rokurokubi]]

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Traditionally, Rokurokubis are depicted as otherwise completely human women who can stretch their necks long distances. While this one does so in her human form, in her true form, she not only detaches her head, but said head looks like an octopus...with sunglasses. This is probably to match up with Kappa's aquatic theme.
* BackFromTheDead: Professor Yugami, brings Kappa back [[CameBackStrong with cyber-enhancements]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a kid's soul trapped inside]] as one of his yokai replicas, although it's unclear how much of his original self is in there.
* DetachmentCombat: In her yokai form Rokurokubi can separate her head from her body entirely and attack with it while her body fights separately. However her head can't (and doesn't) survive long after her body is killed.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Both of them genuinely love each other.
* GogglesDoNothing: Kappa wears a pair of swimming goggles in both his forms, but he never swims.
* GratuitousEnglish: Kappa drops a lot.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Kappa is sliced down the middle by the Simiaidar Slicer.
* TheKindnapper: Ziggzagged with Rokurokubi. She's obsessed with taking young males who remind her of her deceased son, deluding herself into believing he's come back. She does butter the kids up with fun games and food, but she has no intention of letting them go. Kappa has to regularly remind her that their kid died, and it never sticks. Oh, and what happens to the kids she takes? Considering yokai eat people, that's probably not hard to guess.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Kappa and Rokurokubi had a son who was sickly all his life due to the yokais' power being sealed away, and who ultimately died due to human poisons.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even though they both get killed by the second episode, it's Kappa who tricks Sasuke and Saizou into setting free the yokai's power, as well as many yokai, by opening the Door of Seals, thus kicking off the series.
* TogetherInDeath: The mortally-wounded Rokurokubi notes that at least she and Kappa perished together.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Kappas traditionally like cucumbers, and so does this one. Oh, and also people.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oboroguruma]]

* AffablyEvil: He's got a lot of buddies among the yokai, but most humans need not apply.
* BackFromTheDead: Professor Yugami, brings him back [[CameBackStrong with cyber-enhancements]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a kid's soul trapped inside]] as one of his yokai replicas, although it's unclear how much of his original self is in there.
* ButtMonkey: What we see of his day consists of: a little brat grabbing his ear while the boy's mother insults him, a drunk puking in his cab/on himself, and a jerk who thinks he's overcharging and attacks him. Trying to get by in the human world isn't very fun.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a nice guy to humans who he believes are on his side, but make no mistake, he still hates humanity as a whole and wants to see them subjugated.
* TearsOfJoy: He's actually moved to tears when he sees that there's at least one human left who respects yokai.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Lampshaded by the Narrator, who notes that Obie here used to be a chariot demon who drove souls through Hell and in the modern day he's little more than a wagon for moving bad news around.
* HumanDisguise: And Car Disguise, too.
* ItsPersonal: At first, he's grateful to Jiraiya for saving him from the Kakurangers, and regards him as one of the few humans who sympathizes with yokai. When it turns out that the human was only manipulating him in order to to get to Azukiarai and the scrolls, he's furious and tries to kill him personally. Fortunately for Jiraiya, the ninja's ancestor and his friends intervene.
* RageBreakingPoint: After an afternoon of abuse at the hands of his customers in his guise as a taxi driver and his cab, and ''years'' of same, one day he finally flips out and assumes yokai form after one of his fares accuses him of overcharging, manhandles his fare machine, refuses to pay and ''kicks'' his cab/body after getting out. Some people are just ''begging'' to be hit-and-run victims, but unfortunately, the guy ran into the Kakurangers while he was fleeing.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Azukiarai]]

* ArchEnemy: Four hundred years ago, he stole the Kakurangers' makimono and hid them. The Jiraiya clan has been traveling the world seeking them ever since, and Jiraiya tried to take him on by himself in his debut episode.
* BackFromTheDead: Professor Yugami, brings him back [[CameBackStrong with cyber-enhancements]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a kid's soul trapped inside]] as one of his yokai replicas, although it's unclear how much of his original self is in there.
* BondVillainStupidity: Throws Jiraya into a deathtrap without actually staying to see if he dies. Tsk.
* CurbStompBattle: Once the rangers combine into Mighty Shogun, it's all over for Azukiarai.
* DidntSeeThatComing: His last words are a shocked lament that he had no idea the Kakurangers could turn into ''that''!
* DirtyCop: He was apparently on the force for some time before replacing the police chief (the chief had suspected him of not being human), and he abuses that power to make things rough for the Kakurangers (Seikai in particular) in his spotlight episode. Not only that, but he's seeded the police force with disguised Dorodoros.
* IAmTheNoun: When Seikai points out how none of the things he's been arrested for are capital crimes, Azukiarai says that ''he'' is the law in this town. Since a large chunk of the force are his infiltrated soldiers, that's not exactly wrong.
* LizardFolk: His true form takes a cue from these.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Gets a few sword swipes in on Mighty Shogun to no effect and looks shocked for a second.
* {{Teleportation}}: He can do this, and he can also use a technique which shrinks people and teleports them into his garbage can. It's a pretty clean place, at least.
* VerbalTic: "Shoki shoki!"
* VillainRespect: Impressed by the guile Jiraiya showed in tricking Oboroguruma, Azukiarai agrees to show him where the makimono are...right before shoving the cage he's in down the mountainside and into the firepit surrounding them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nurikabe]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In mythology, there's no indication that he and Mokumokuren are brothers.
* BackFromTheDead: Professor Yugami, brings him back [[CameBackStrong with cyber-enhancements]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a kid's soul trapped inside]] as one of his yokai replicas, although it's unclear how much of his original self is in there.
* BarrierWarrior: He can create walls from thin air, or become a wall himself.
* DeathTrap: He and Mokumokuren play a game where they teleport a pair of humans into a maze of shifting walls and deadly traps to see who makes it out first/alive. No transformation or outside communication allowed, either.
* TheGamblingAddict: Even after losing to his brother three times straight, he insists on playing another game with him.
* RedRightHand: His human form has a mark in the shape of a wall on his right cheek.
* SoreLoser: Plans to inflict TheWallsAreClosingIn on at least one contestant in the game, thanks to losing him more gold.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: He and Mokumokuren can use a bucket of water to see distant things, such as subjects for their game.
* {{Teleportation}}: He uses this to teleport people into the maze he and Mokumokuren use for their game.
* WouldHurtAChild: Kids are valid contestants in the game, and if Nurikabe bets on a kid and he loses, [[TheWallsAreClosingIn well...]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mokumokuren]]

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In mythology, there's no indication that he and Nurikabe are brothers.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Although he'd previously been smug about winning his brother's gold coins, after Nurikabe is severely injured by Blue Lugan, Mokumokuren helps him get away, patches his wounds, and swears that they'll take vengeance together.
* BackFromTheDead: Professor Yugami, brings him back [[CameBackStrong with cyber-enhancements]] and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a kid's soul trapped inside]] as one of his yokai replicas, although it's unclear how much of his original self is in there.
* EyeBeams: Yup. And he can affect giant targets by projecting through a huge eye in the sky.
* HypnoticEyes: In his focus episode he projects a power through his eyes that enchants Tsuruhime, whammying her into sleepwalking her way into his car/carriage and even signing a marriage agreement. Fortunately, she ends up a widow before the episode is over.
* ImAHumanitarian: Eats fried eyeballs. [[DontExplainTheJoke "Eyeball eggs" are a term for sunny-side-up eggs in Japan, and this guy eats the real thing, you see]].
* InterspeciesRomance: Falls for Tsuruhime after seeing her picture. His dying words are a proclamation that he really ''did'' want to marry her.
* MasterOfIllusion: Makes great use of this when wooing Tsuruhime in his guise as a prince, pulling stunts like making his car look like a carriage, or creating the illusion of a ballroom full of dancing couples.
* PetTheDog: Rewards Saizou with one of the gold coins he wins off Nurikabe, as a token of appreciation for escaping the maze first, allowing him to win his bet with Nurikabe.
* RedRightHand: His human form has blue marks on the side of his face similar to the blue veins on his true form's skin.
* VillainousRescue: Blasts Blue Lugan when it's about to kill Nurikabe, buying his brother time to get away.
* WouldHurtAChild: As mentioned, kids are perfectly fine mazerunners as far as Mokumokuren is concerned.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gakitsuki]]

* BigEater: Literally a giant mouth on legs and in his introduction he sucks up all the food in a restaurant. Plus, he sneaks into Seikai's body and turns him into an even ''bigger'' one of these ([[{{Sizeshifter}} literally]]) who eats all the food in the city. Again, literally.
* EmotionBomb: While inside of Seikai he uses his power to stoke Seikai's hunger. It's unclear whether or not he could do this outside of a host.
* {{Flight}}: Can shapeshift into a tiny, fly-like form.
* TheHedonist: Loves food, loves a good fight.
* KnowsTheRopes: Uses the Ninpo: Cha Siu Roll technique to bind his foes in ropes.
* RedRightHand: In human form he has some thick make up, some braids...oh and also a ''GIANT'' ''FREAKING'' '''MOUTH''' for a belly.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Shrinks down to fly size and sneaks into Seikai's mouth and stomach by doing this. Then he makes Seikai huge so he can eat bigger portions.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bakeneko]]

* BreathWeapon: Breathes fire.
* CategoryTraitor: Accuses Nekomaru of this after it swoops in to save the Kakurangers. by slamming into her and thus striking another member of felinekind. "Cat"-egory traitor.
* CatsAreMean: Most real-life cats will wait 'til you die before eating you. This one kidnaps kids and sells them to eat ikizukuri-style.
* ForTheEvulz: After knocking the Kakurangers out, she has their unconscious bodies do a PeoplePuppets dance to her song, just for kicks. Although since Tsuruhime and Sasuke were just faking, [[MST3kMantra one wonders how they knew the moves]]...
* KindHeartedCatLover: Inverted. She loves cats, alright, but hates humans for the way they mistreat her feline kind.
* LookBehindYou: Pulls this trick to get away from Sasuke in their first fight.
* MasterOfIllusion: Made a bunch of bugs look and taste like a delicious feast which she served the Kakurangers.
* MindControl: Puts an enchantment on her child prisoners that allows her to take control from a distance, much to the chagrin of Tsuruhime when she tries to rescue them.
* NinjaLog: Does this trick to foil Sasuke's shuriken.
* SchmuckBanquet: After being mysteriously summoned to a spooky mansion, the Rangers find a mysteriously beautiful woman, who sets a tranquilizer-laden feast for them. At least Tsuruhime and Sasuke are sensible enough to only ''pretend'' to eat.
* WolverineClaws: As a giant humanoid cat, she naturally has these.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hitotsume-Kozou Brothers]]

* DeadlyDodging: Part of their bag of combat tricks is using teleportation to do this.
* {{Gaslighting}}: They manipulate the house to make Yumiko and Shigeru think the doll is cursing it, when it's actually protecting the place.
* LastStand: Elder Brother defiantly stands up to the Rangers in their Shark Machines, saying he'll take them all on himself. One Shark Driver later and he's toast.
* MasterOfIllusion: Part and parcel of the whole "trickster" package.
* MindOverMatter: They move various objects inside the house around in an effort to convince the kids their doll is cursed.
* PhonyPsychic: The Brothers pose as psychic fortune-teller-type people in an effort to convince Yumiko and Shigeru to throw out the guardian doll protecting their house so Onynudou can have it. Eventually, they just take a more direct route and hold Shigeru hostage.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the guardian doll starts protecting the house, AND the Kakurangers show up at the same time, the Brothers decide to beat feet.
* TheTrickster: Your typical Hitotsume-Kozou hides in someone's house and plays tricks on them. These guys are actually working for someone, though.
* YouKilledMyFather: younger Brother is understandably upset to see Older Brother die and swears revenge, only to be killed himself shortly thereafter.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Onyudou]]

* FreudianExcuse: According to him, whenever he goes out people are always laughing about how fat and stupid he is behind his back. As a result he wants a city where he can control everything.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mighty Shogun reflects his ShrinkRay back at him and he dies astonished and calling for Daddy.
* MadArtist: Accuses the Rangers of not understanding his artistic sensitivity.
* MasterOfIllusion: His tuba can make illusions.
* MindOverMatter: His cane has telekinesis strong enough to move multiple skyscrapers around.
* ModelPlanning: He's got a scale-model city, and prides himself on using real shrunken buildings for it. He wants to add Yumiko and Shigeru's house. but their guardian doll keeps his magical cane from working on it.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Everything he's shrunk returns to its original size (and location, somehow) after he and his cane are destroyed.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: While designing his ideal city, he'll magically smash up parts of the ''real'' city he doesn't find aesthetically pleasing.
* ShrinkRay: He uses his cane to shrink things he wants to add to his mini-city, such as Tokyo Tower or neat cars and trains. As for the people inside, well, let's hope he feeds 'em.
* SpoiledBrat: Introduced throwing a tantrum after the Hitotsume-Kozou brothers fail to secure the house he wants. It's turns out he's the son of the president of the largest yokai bank, too.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dorotabo]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After spending the entire episode trying to get on TV, Dorotabo finally gets a televised cage match with Jiraiya, who kicks his ass easily in all three of their fights, and handily beats him in/as Black Gammer. And then Dorotabo gets killed. All on camera.
* DishingOutDirt: Attacks and causes havoc using mudballs, at one point getting on top of a tall building and flinging them with impunity around the city--causing at least one nasty car wreck while badly injuring others.
* EyeBeams: Destroys several buildings all over the city with these.
* FatSlob: In human guise, he's an overweight TV-addicted loser in a messy apartment, who envies the people he sees on TV.
* GlorySeeker: Wants to get famous on TV, and is willing to cause death and destruction all over the city when his less-violent efforts fail to get him filmed.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After using his mudballs to cause trouble all over the city, he gets a face full of boulders when Jirayia uses his Sandstorm technique against him.
* PublicityStunt: In his human form he starts photobombing live news broadcasts dressed as a samurai. Unfortunately for him, the nearby Jiraya and Saizou don't just foil him, but also steal the spotlight to his rage. Therefore, he decides to cause trouble as a yokai in the hopes of getting the attention he craves.
* RedRightHand: His human form has a silver mask-like mark around his eyes.
* ScaryScarecrow: He is depicted as a Japanese scarecrow, a stark contrast to the youkai he was based on.
* SoreLoser: After getting trounced by Jiraiya three times in their cage match, the enraged Dorotabo grows huge and attacks.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: The Narrator describes how Dorotabos, the once-respected and feared yokai of untended fields and paddies, aren't doing too well in the modern age.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Konaki-jiji]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He wants a family. Does he start a family with another yokai or adopt some kids? No, he steals souls and puts them into his dolls. Naturally.
* ChildrenAsPawns: Much like his mythological self, he disguises himself as a crying baby to lure people into a trap.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smokes a pipe in human form.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: He surrounded by his pretty dolls, and all he wants is a family of his own. The fact that he frequently sells dolls to loving families as a living doesn't help.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Pulls this move, leaping up to grab Sasuke and make himself supernaturally heavy.
* MindControl: The nice thing about being a yokai is that you can use your magic to make people in your family do what you want without bribing or blackmailing them.
* MindOverMatter: Zooms around in a magically-created baby carriage, often putting himself in seemingly perilous situations to lure people. Looks pretty fun.
* NoOntologicalInertia: The souls he stole pop right back into their bodies after he's defeated.
* RedRightHand: In human form, he has a red mark in the shape of a teardrop coming from his left eye.
* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end the Narrator sadly picks up the "family photo" Konaki-jiji made and reflects on how even humans and yokai need families.
* YourSoulIsMine: Takes peoples' souls and sticks 'em in dolls and masks.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shirouneri]]

* AnimateInanimateObject: According to tradition, many objects become sentient yokai, Tsukumogami, after existing for 100 years. Shirouneri here is meant to represent discarded clothing/rags.
* ClothingDamage: He's got the power to turn clothes into rags.
* EvilIsPetty: His motivation is that he really likes rags, worn-out clothing that people have thrown out due to outliving their usefulness, and seeing people buying and selling clothes secondhand instead of wearing their clothes 'til they're rags disgusts him.
* EvilSmellsBad: Traditionally, Shirouneri are supposed to stink. No one really brings it up in his case, though.
* {{Jerkass}}: Runs around ruining peoples' nice clothes for shiggles, including kids at a birthday party.
* MagicMirror: His doesn't just talk, it ''talks back'', mocking him for loving rags when humanity as a whole is well-dressed. Then it briefly shrieks in terror/agony when he punches it. Yikes, dude.
* MasterOfThreads: He can manipulate cloth in other ways besides making it into rags.
* RedRightHand: A mark which looks like a patch of cloth on his right cheek.
* RichesToRags: Since clothes technically count as a financial asset, when he ruins them with his powers, he's both literally and to some extent metaphorically doing this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tengu]]

* BerserkButton: Furious that he was only #3 on ''Weekly Yokai'''s list of the greatest, he decides enlist the aid of Professor Yugami to destroy the enemies of all yokai, the Kakurangers!
* CharacterTics: When a Tengu brags, their nose grows.
* InsultBackfire: Sasuke is disgusted by his trapping children and says so. Tengu takes it as a compliment.
* MindControl: With Yugami's help he puts an ''entire town'' under his control, knowing that the Kakurangers won't harm innocent people.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Upon Tengu's defeat, the replica yokai vanish and the kids are returned.
* WouldHurtAChild: He and Yugami trapped children in their yokai replicas knowing that Kakuranger would back down rather than risk harming them.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kanedama]]

* BerserkButton: Not being paid as much as he thinks he ought to really sets him off, causing him to flip out and start ''stealing'' stuff from his clients right in front of them.
* CatchPhrase: "Misfortune makes the world go round!"
* ConMan: Visits families affected by his misfortune coins in human form claiming to be a "yokai exorcist", and makes a his coins disappear (reversing their bad luck effect) as "proof" of his abilities.
* FaceHeelTurn: Used to be a benevolent bringer of good luck before being overcome by greed or cruelty.
* MagnetismManipulation: He uses the big ol' magnet on his hand to attract the Kakulasers, then shoots the Rangers with their own sidearms.
* MeaningfulName: His human form uses the name "Fukuo Daikichi", which the G.U.I.S. notes translate roughly as "Fortunelord Goodluck." Subtle.
* MechanicalLifeform: Based around a slot machine, but also gets a nasty bump on his head when the Kakurangers attack him, which later helps identify his human form.
* MoneyMauling: He can fling coins. Injuries ''are'', after all, just a little more direct form of misfortune.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Apparently, he is a yokai who appears as a robot.
* RedRightHand: His human form wears a gold cloak, has gold sewn into his robes, and a little golden hat on top of his head. It's a wonder he doesn't get mugged. [[FashionVictimVillain Or just beaten up on principle, really]].
* VerbalTic: "Coin! Coin coin!" "Coin coin coin coin!" "Coin!"
* VillainTeamUp: Doctor Yugami both helped him make his unluck coins, and backs him up with a rocket launcher.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: A luck-manipulator who uses unlucky (and rather sticky) coins.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keukegen]]

* ArmCannon: After his first defeat against the Juushou, Doctor Yugami equips him with one powerful enough to severely damage one, which he does to Battle Simiadar and Battle Kark.
* BattleaxeNurse: Has a bunch of very scary nurses with very large medical tools in his clinic. Probably Dorodoros.
* GlamourFailure: After Seikai manages to escape from his clinic, the deadly doctor chases after Nekomaru whooping and laughing madly, ''outpaces'' it and then jumps on top of a building. That's kind of a tell.
* HeroicSecondWind: Well, villainous. Although he couldn't stand up to the Juushou in his first battle with them, he was able to take them all on after Yugami's enhancements...at least until the Rangers merged with the Juushou playing this trope straight.
* {{Plaguemaster}}: Spews hairballs which travel into people's bodies through their mouth and give them various diseases.
* PlayingWithFire: After his enhancement by Yugami, he can summon flames.
* QuackDoctor: In his human form.
* VillainousRescue: Junior steps in to save him when he's on the ropes, blasting the Juusho fighters and warping him to his mansion. Though it's not out of the kindness of his heart, as Keukegen discovers when Junior starts wailing on him and mocking him for his failure against the Kaurangers. Then he gets Doctor Yugami to soup Keukegen up.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Shuten-Doji Brothers]]

* TheAlcoholic: Shuten-Doji like sake with human livers for snacks.
* AttackReflector: Younger Brother can turn people's attack ninpo back onto themselves.
* BreathWeapon: Older Brother takes a swig of sake and blasts a gout of fire at Saizou.
* TheDreaded: After getting drunk and killing 100 yokai in a single night, they were chained to the wall in a prison for those yokai found too dangerous to be running free, until Junior recruited them.
* HumanResources: Judging by their statement about how Kakuranger sake is said to taste better than pit viper sake (aka "habushu" aka "snake wine" aka "go on ahead and look that up I dare you"), it seems likely they're planning to prepare our heroes the same way after capturing them.
* InstantArmor: Professor Yugami teleports pieces of PoweredArmor onto them when they grow, which give them body armor on their chests and legs, saw blades on their shoulders, and gives Older Brother a drill arm and Younger Brother a buzzsaw arm. This, combined with their already impressive power, leads to them giving the Juushou quite a tough fight, until Sasuke pull off an act of DeadlyDodging that leads to Older Brother accidentally harming Younger Brother, briefly stunning him. The shocked elder sibling immediately breaks off fighting long enough for the Rangers to summon their ''other'' set of mecha, and then combine into Mighty Shogun. Bye bye, Brothers.
* LogicalWeakness: Their incredibly powerful "United Blade" technique requires them to leapfrog off of each other--it doesn't work so well when multiple opponents surround them and force them to fight back-to-back.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Twofold. Their teamwork inspires Sasuke both to awaken his teammates before fighting again ''and'' to use his Doppleganger technique against them.
* VillainousRescue: Saizou turns the tables on them and has a blade to each of their throats, but the Flowery Kunoichi Team threaten to kill the captive Tsuruhime, so he has to back down.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amikiri]]

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Her traditional counterpart used to cut up nets and hanging laundry with her scissor-claws. Her new cyber-arm ''slices up cars''.
* AnArmAndALeg: Saizou's ancestor cut her arm off centuries ago.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: The Rangers get the idea to study Amakiri's sword technique via young Tooru's photography in order to find a weakness. Though Amakiri and Junior had harshly mocked the young boy's skills, with Saizou's encouragement Tooru manages to get a shot that reveals her weak spot, allowing the Kakurangers to win the day. That's what you get for being a jerk.
* CherryTapping: Decides to make Saizou miserable before killing him by slicing his brand-new car to pieces around him, and then harmlessly slicing up his nice suit around his body.
* FlyingWeapon: She can launch flying blades from her cyber-arm and control their flight to some extent.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Narrator implies that she went from a relatively harmless prankster yokai to becoming much more dangerous due to ThePowerOfHate after losing her arm.
* MisplacedRetribution: Saizou's ''ancestor'' cut her arm off ''centuries ago''.
* MorphicResonance: An interesting case. When she's in human form, her cyber-arm manifests as a normal arm with a glove on her hand, and her armblade manifests as a sword.
* WouldHarmAChild: Would Cruelly Laugh At A Child's Photography To His Face And Then Take Him Hostage To Draw Her Nemesis Into A Duel.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zashiki-Warashi]]


* CategoryTraitor: Junior regards him as a traitor to his kind for liking humans and wanting to give kids wonder-filled memories.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Horrified at the death and destruction Junior forced him to cause, Zashiki-Warashi furiously rushes at the more-powerful yokai, only to be struck down immediately.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Mortally-wounded by Junior, Zashiki-Warashi dies in Jiraya's embrace, as the children he'd befriended hold onto his arm. His last words are to thank everyone for the fun he'd had.
* EyeBeams: In his monster form, which prove powerful enough to destroy several buildings.
* FightingFromTheInside: After seeing that his rampage has harmed the children he's been playing with before, the shocked Zashiki-Warashi takes on his own form for a few moments, and starts fighting off Junior's brainwashing.
* TheGreys: Looks like a gentle one of these in his natural form.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Jiraiya and the kids try to get the monsterized Zashiki-Warashi to use his own power to shake off Junior's brainwashing, ultimately succeeding.
* InASingleBound: Befriends a group of human kids by leaping a high distance on a bicycle and catching their baseball.
* LightningBruiser: At first he seemed to be one of these, hitting a baseball all the way to the street and running the bases in the blink of an eye. Of course, it turns out he's not human to begin with.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The only youkai we see that is kind and friendly to humans.
* RayOfHopeEnding: After dying he transforms into a mushroom, giving hope that someday he may return.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: After he turns himself in to save Jiraiya, Junior performs a ritual that turns him into a twisted giant monster.
* SuperEmpowering: Used dust from one of his mushrooms to give some kids the ability to fly for a few minutes.
* TakeMeInstead: Rather than see Junior kill Jiraiya, he turns himself in.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Previously, even those yokai who had sympathetic moments or understandable motivations had fundamentally alien patterns of thinking, using methods that harmed or endangered humans, and thus needed to be taken out for the sake of humanity. Zashiki-Warashi is just a kid who wants to make friends and have fun without hurting anyone, and even says his goal is for children to have wonderful, magical memories.
* TheTrickster: Traditional Zashiki-Warashi hide in peoples' house, play with kids and perform harmless little pranks. The association with mushrooms seems to be a Kakuranger invention.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tsuchigumo]]

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The traditional Tsuchigumo was kind of a ogre-tiger-spider thing, and this one seems to lean heavily on "spider", but also has hornet-sting arms and a scorpion tail.
* AffablyEvil: Friendly to his co-workers at the garage, cheerfully greets Seikai upon seeing him hanging around the place at night, just seems like a friendly dude...if you can overlook that whole webbing people up and eating them business.
* NoOntologicalInertia: His webs vanish as soon as he's defeated.
* PerpetualSmiler: His human form is perpetually upbeat, smiling and laughing all the time, even while driving. It does drop into a bit of a grimace when he reports to Junior, though.
* ProjectileWebbing: Yup. From his mouth. He manages to [[AllWebbedUp catch Seikai this way]].
* SuperSpeed: He zips around so quickly he's only visible as an orangish blur.
* SuperStrength: Is he strong? Here's the deal, he jumps through corrugated steel! Couldn't resist. Also, he can lift a car.
* SpidersAreScary: This one ''is'' actively hunting humans, though.
* WouldHurtAChild: A kid sees him webbing up a couple in their car and abducting them. The the kid squeals on him to Kakuranger, so he captures him as an appetizer with Seikai as the entrée.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sarugami]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: By studying the Kakurangers, he learns how to perform their finishing techniques perfectly, including the Kakure Ball.
* BatmanGambit: Everything--the helpless ninja master too poor to support his family, the ill mother, the sad little girl tied up in it all, even the disbelieving little kids who need to be won over--''everything'' was tailormade for a selfless team of do-good suckers to walk right into. And did they ever.
* CreepyCrossdresser: His traditional counterpart, who kidnapped women and danced around in their clothing, according to the Narrator.
* FakingAnotherPersonsIllness: As the "Ninja Master Daigorou" he falsely claims to have an ill wife in order to win Saizou's sympathy. The "ill wife" is a Dorodoro in disguise.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Rangers trick him right back, claiming they need "Daigorou"'s help developing a new finisher ten times stronger that they were working on. Instead they tricking him into doing a silly dance to "build up power" and performing the old move, which Saizou kicks right back into him.
* PowerCopying: As mentioned above, he learns the Rangers' individual finishing moves as well as their group one, and teaches them to his Dorodoro minions. It turns out these moves are just as devastating when it's the bad guys using them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Enra-Enra]]

* BizarreTasteInFood: At least by our standards, car exhaust is pretty up there. Naturally, when he hears about a perfect solar car, he wants to make sure they don't spread.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Since the Narrator's incapacitated by laughing gas, Enra-Enra himself has to explain that rather from hearth smoke like most of his kind, he was made from car exhaust and so much more dangerous.
* EmotionBomb: He has a setting for "Crying Gas". Not "Tear" Gas, ''Crying'' Gas. He gets his yuks by exposing crowds of people to his Crying and Laughing Gases and swapping between them.
* {{Intangibility}}: After all, he ''is'' a smoke yokai. A smoke-ai.
* HurricaneOfPuns: He makes a lot of remarks based around smoke and gas.
* LaughingGas: Emits it, and the effects last for so long that it risks the subject's life. He plans to gas humanity out of existence.
* LogicalWeakness: As a smoke-ai, he gets sucked up into a vacuum cleaner...thought he ''does'' just grow huge to get out of it. Then he gets frozen into a solid and they take him out with the Giant Kakuranger Ball.
* NoSell: For the first time ever, Mighty Shogun's sword passes right through him!
* TheParalyzer: Has a gas which makes peoples' bodies go numb.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Umi-Bouzu]]

* BossInMookClothing: He doesn't ''look'' any stronger than the usual yokai, but the Narrator says he's incredibly powerful. He shrugs off most of the Rangers' attacks, but hey, strong yokai have done that before. Then after Sasuke finally manages some ScratchDamage, the impressed Bouzu turns big and ''[[BareHandedBladeBlock catches Mighty Shogun's sword in the middle of its deadly finishing move's swing]]'' then '''mocks''' them for thinking it would harm him.
* BreathWeapon: Fires energy blasts from his mouth.
* {{Flight}}: In the form of an animated water splash.
* NighInvulnerable: Shrugs off the Rangers' attacks, until Sasuke uses a ninpo attack that barely scratches him, and when enlarged, he stops a finishing move with his bare hands. It takes the intervention of Tsubasamaru to hurt him and its combination with Mighty Shogun to finally take him down.
* RockMeAsmodeus: Turns kids into pillars for Junior's rock n' roll Daimaou-summoning ceremony.
* TakenForGranite: Turns kids into stone. Stone that can plead for help.
* WouldHurtAChild: Kidnaps kids, sticks 'em on rooftops, [[TakenForGranite teaches 'em to rock]], [[RockMeAsmodeus and that's no joke]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ittan-Momen]]

* AnimateInanimateObject: Another Tsukumogami, this time representing old cloth in general.
* ClothingCombat: Uses pieces of cloth both as projectile weapons and to wrap his foes.
* ProfessionalKiller: Describes himself as the number-one hit man in the yokai world.
* SmallNameBigEgo: About the only bit of characterization he gets.
* VerbalTic: He's got one, baby. It's "baby", baby!

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karakasa]]

* AnimateInanimateObject: Tsukumogami, twice in a row, this time of umbrellas. Remember to check your attics and basements in case something comes to life.
* {{Cyclops}}: Has only one giant eye, just like umbrellas in real life.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Though, admittedly, umbrellas are less improbable than most. Throwing them like spears is at least a little weird.
* ShockAndAwe: The umbrellas he gives his minions can do this.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nue]]

* ArcVillain: Sort of. During the "Shinobi Scroll" saga, Sasuke and Tsuruhime each individually fight and defeat a yokai. For the others, Nue rocks up and makes life rough for ''all'' of them, albeit in different ways.
* BadBoss: Incinerates a Dorodoro for holding up an image of his old appearance while Junior is explaining who he is, saying it was an antiquated image that shamed him. He also kills the Dorodoros who help out Saizou and Seikai after their kappa forms become dehydrated.
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** He didn't expect that Seikai and Saizou's struggle against him in the form of wimpy "krappas" would inspire the spectating Dorodoros to sympathize with their efforts and provide the pair with revitalizing water, and he ''really'' didn't expect the now-energized pair to hit him hard enough to break the curse he'd put on them.
** He also boasted that God Gammer couldn't harm him, only to get exploded and fire-breathed on, and then he takes on all the Kakurangers in their new mecha. They didn't even have to combine to kill him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Beast God Kumard stomps a rift into the earth beneath Nue and closes the sides over when he falls in. Stick a fork in him, he's...actually what does a Nue taste like? Anyway, with this final attack Nue is absolutely threatening Jiraiya. Wait, ''threatening Jiraiya!?'' That's right, this didn't kill him. After chilling underground for a bit, he decides [[SuperStrength to let]] [[InASingleBound himself out]].
* TheDreaded: Nue is considered a "yokai among yokai", and the Dorodoros are terrified of him. Even Junior, prince of all yokai, speaks of him with respect and awe.
* FeatherFlechettes: His means of attacking and cursing his foes.
* ForcedTransformation: He doesn't just start a slow transformation of Seikai and Saizou into kappas, oh no, he chooses to transform them into the lowest rung of kappakind in yokai society, both in power and rank ("'''krap'''pa" as he calls them in the GUIS subs, and a different kind from the first kappa we saw), and says that the winner of a fight between them would be allowed to return to humanity.
* HumansAreBastards: Believes that for all the high ideals humanity espouses, in they end they're all out for themselves, and turns Seikai and Saizou into lowly krappa.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sure, one could put the word "jerkass" as the main--well, ''only'' characterization of the other yokai in this arc (due to the heavy focus on the Rangers), but at least they wanted to ''kill'' the Kakurangers instead of twisting them into some of the most disrespected yokai in their society and forcing them to hurt each other in order to get turned back to normal. And then he forces Jiraiya into mortal combat against his sensei/secondary father figure. What a '''dick'''.
* MindOverMatter: Tosses Seikai and Saizou around.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Creates a giant exploding snake which takes ''Mighty Shogun'' out of the fight.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nuppefuhofu]]

* TheBlank: Steals peoples' faces, making them this. He manages to get Saizou.
* BreathWeapon: Uses a nasty belch as one.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He doesn't actually ''eat'' the faces, but he does taste them. What he actually does with them is put them in frames in his personal gallery to enjoy and speak to as he pleases. Oh, and ''kiss''.
* EvilSmellsBad: Traditionally Nuppefuhofu are supposed to stink, and this one boasts of being made of corpse flesh, so it's not too far a stretch.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: He's got human faces for eyes, which means he's also got ExtraEyes.
* FacelessGoons: One of the side-effects of his plague of wiping peoples' faces off is a rise in crime--nobody can recognize each other, after all.
* HorrorHunger: Does eating someone's face count if it doesn't actually harm them otherwise? Well, the victims aren't exactly happy about it, so one supposes so.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Per usual, all the faces pop back into place when Nuppefuhofu is erased.
* NoSell: Saizou's shuriken just bounce off his rubbery flesh. Not so with Sasuke's Red Slicer.
* OverlyLongTongue: Licks peoples' faces off with it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amanojaku]]
--->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KiyoyukiYanada

* BreathWeapon: Fire breath--it's a classic!
* KickTheDog: ''Cat'' actually. He puts a little kitty in a paper bag and kicks it so hard it goes flying all the way to where the rangers are riding in Nekomaru. Thankfully the smoogy-oogy iddle furbaby is unhurt.
* KillAndReplace: Subverted. He does this to the kindly old priest at the mountain temple so he can distribute his mushrooms. [[spoiler:Not! Amanojakus are even contrary in their boasts]].
* PoisonMushroom: Creates a variety of mushroom which "turns people into Amanojaku". What this boils down to is that their personalities are turned to the polar opposite--the normally kind and friendly townspeople become vicious tricksters, and the even normally gentle and genial Jiraiya becomes a violent berserker.
* SealedEvilInACan: Traditionally, Amanojaku is often portrayed as being crushed under Bishamonten's club. At some point in the past, the practitioners at the mountain temple managed to trap a ''real'' Amanojaku in their Bishamonten-and Amanojaku statue. At least until he convinced Sasuke's young cousin to set him free.
* ISurrenderSuckers: After taking Kosuke hostage, Amanojaku suddenly seems contrite and humbly offers to return to his statue, even throwing his staff to the ground and allowing the boy to run into Sasuke's arms...so he can breathe fire on the two of them while Sasuke's wide open.
* TheTrickster: The cruel kind.
* WouldHarmAChild: According to him, he was willing to spare Kosuke as gratitude for letting him out until the kid learned about his murder of the priest and attacked him. After that, he was fair game. Assuming you believe someone whose name has literally become an idiom for contrariness.

[[/folder]]

!The Leaders of the Yokai Army


[[folder:Yōkai Daimaō]]
!!Yōkai Daimaō | [-Voice: Creator/HidekatsuShibata-]

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler:When defeated and sealed away he says this, as being human hatred incarnate, so long as it exists he and the Yokai can be reborn.]]
* BigBad
* BadBoss: Like Gashadokuro, he even treats his own subordinates like dirt. Best exemplified in Episode 37, after he got pounded by Muteki Shogun combined with Tsubasamaru, he simply left Karakasa alone to be destroyed by the rangers.
* HatePlague: [[spoiler:As the AnthropomorphicPersonification of human hate, if he were to be killed, he'd turn into one of these.]]
* MadeOfEvil: [[spoiler:He's literally humanity's hatred personified.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Killing him will spread hatred and suffering into everyone, like grenade shrapnel. The trick is to ''seal him away'', behind those gates that Sasuke and Saizou accidentally opened in the first episode.]]
* PapaWolf: While he did say his son Junior was a fool to think he would make him king of the Youkai one day, [[spoiler:he was enraged that the Kakuranger killed him and vowed to make them pay]].
* ThePowerOfHate: He is the physical realization of hatred and suffering. Can't actually be seen by normal humans due to this, if he so wishes.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Is confirmed to be 1200 years old.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Yup. Big glowy red eyes.
* RelativeButton: Mashes Tsuruhime's ''hard'' with Hakumenrou. (This is why his StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred nearly works - the others are collectively outraged by this.)
* MaouTheDemonKing: His name is literally 'Daimou' (Great Demon Lord), though in a slightly unusual take for this trope, his subjects are not demons, but youkai (Though in this series, youkai are treated like demons, anyway). Being the literal physical embodiment of evil and the BigBad of the series, the title suits him.
* SealedEvilInACan: Was originally imprisoned within the Gate of Seals by the Sanshinshou, and imprisoned once again at series end. [[spoiler:This is fully justified, as he's ''more dangerous'' dead than he was alive.]]
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Attempts this in the final episode [[spoiler:as if killed, he'll turn into a sapient HatePlague]]. The Sanshinshō manage to stop the Kakurangers the first time he tries it, and thereafter they're able to control themselves.
* StrongerWithAge: After reaching the age of 1200, he gains the ability to [[BizarreAlienReproduction spawn Daradara from his being]].
* TrueFinalBoss: Tends towards OrcusOnHisThrone compared to Junior, but it's clear he's this.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He mustn't be attacked directly, but [[spoiler: due to being ThePowerOfHate incarnate, he can be physically ''pushed'' into the sealing gates by those with particularly strong will]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Young Nobleman Junior/Gasha Dokuro]]
!!Young Nobleman Junior/Gasha Dokuro | [-Actor: Kenichi Endou-]

* ArmCannon / {{Jetpack}}:: Equips a arm-mounted flamethrower during his final battle with the Kakurangers courtesy of Dr. Yugami.
* TheAntichrist: His role in the story is bringing Daimaoh into the physical world, uniting the human hating members of the Yokai race under him.
* BadBoss: Largely averted. He's hardly a ''good'' boss and his subordinates are justifiably fearful of his wrath, but he's quick to reward competence and is generally devoted to the well-being of the Youkai.
* CoolSword: He wields a sword with a skeletal motif to it.
* DemBones: His true form is that of a {{Gashadokuro}} with elements of a modern soldier.
* DestroyTheVillainsWeapon: Gasha Dokuro's flamethrower gets trashed by Kakure Daishogun's [[PowerFist punch]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: It takes getting a whole 'nother giant mecha to actually beat him, and even then...
** MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: [[spoiler:After being killed by the Kakurangers, the last of his life force opens Daimaō's seal.]]
* TheDragon: The son and right-hand of Daimaou.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He believes that Hakumenrou and Sandayuu are secretly plotting against his father so that the revial of Daimaou will be stopped and...Hakumenrou can make himself the next king of the yokai and rule the world. [[spoiler:And not, say, because he wants to protect humanity from the yokai or anything noble like that]].
* ExtradimensionalPowerSource: Once he completes the summoning ritual, his father (behind the Door of Seals) is able to send him power, making him an even bigger threat than before.
* KnightOfCerebus: Prior to his appearance, the Youkai mostly operated independently of each other and unlike previous sentai enemies, operated on a BlueAndOrangeMorality rather than outright malevolence.
* NobleDemon: He's a monster, but he does appear to have a sense of honor, and respects worthy warriors.
* OmnicidalManiac: He wants to destroy ''every living thing'' on Earth that isn't a yokai, claiming that this will make a "yokai paradise".
* OverlordJr: As Daimaoh's son.
* RockMeAsmodeus: Puts on a rock concert ceremony to summon his demonic father.
* RottenRockAndRoll
* {{Sadist}}
* ShoutOut: Being a undead rocker, he is similar to [[Videogame/DarkStalkers Lord Raptor]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: The first quarter of the show is a cakewalk, until he shows up.
* TheWorfEffect: He overpowered the Kakurangers, but quickly gets worfed himself by Kakure Daishogun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hana no Kunoichi Gumi (Flower Kunoichi Gang)]]
!!Hana no Kunoichi Gumi (Flower Kunoichi Gang)
* AmazonBrigade: They are a group of powerful kunoichi (female ninjas).
* CatsAreMean: Were originally cats transformed by youkai power, and their cruelty is at the heart of their personalities (along with a strong dislike of dogs, like Bun's German Shepards).
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Are transformed back into regular non-sapient cats by the end of the series rather than destroyed, effectively killing the people they once were.]]
* TheDividual: Apart from deferring to Ayame most of the time, they all have the same cruel personality.
* HumanityEnsues: Originally cats. They've apparently taken to their human forms, and can be seen ''swimming in a pool'' during their time off.
* PsychoRangers: They are a counter-Kakuranger ninja team in general, and aren't counterparts of the individuals. (It's worth noting that the Youkai generally aren't ''ninjas'', so a specialized team of them makes more sense in practice.)
** EliteMook: Are eventually downgraded to this, as while they're consistently better than rank-and-file Dorodoros, the Kakurangers begin outpacing them after overcoming their trials.
* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: All of them have their own quirks.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: for our heroes, they usually are not a danger in fair fight, basically being a threat only if all of them corner ''one'' Ranger. However in episode 42 (first in 3-parts), aided by a bunch of Dorodoros, they have the upper hand in a fight with Kakurangers, ''unmorphed while Kakurangers are morphed'', and only four of them fighting Rangers while the fifth set up a bait for Ninjaman. In episode 44 they are back to their regular level and Sasuke swipes through the five of them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hakumenro]]
!!Hakumenro | [-Actor: Takayuki Godai-]

* AttackReflector: Capable of reflecting his foes' attack ninpo back onto themselves.
* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Pretending to be a servant of the yokai, he's actually been gathering information for the last ten years]].
* DramaticUnmask: That fancy menpo doesn't last five minutes before a shuriken from Sasuke breaks it, revealing his face to his daughter.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:"Joined" the yokai in order to find out Daimaou's weakness and to [[TakeMeInstead save his compatriots Taro and Jiro]]]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Junior doesn't believe that Hakumenro is truly serving the yokai, and resents that his own father trusts the human over himself, so the prince tells him to defeat the Kakuranger as proof of his fealty. [[spoiler: He and Sandayuu manage to stage a battle that makes it seem as though he's genuinely attempted to kill them all, albeit at the cost of Sandayuu's life, thus protecting both the Kakurangers and his cover]].
* LukeIAmYourFather: He is Tsuruhime's [[DisappearedDad long lost father.]]
* MindOverMatter: During their fight, he grabs and whips Tsuruhime around with a beam from his sword.
* RedBaron: As a servant of the yokai, he's known as Hakumenrou The Tactician.
* SwordBeam: When Junior/Gashadokuro is on the ropes against the God Beasts, Hakumenrou introduces himself by calling upon Daimaou to give him power, then using that power to launch a sword beam strong enough to force the Kakurangers into non-morphed form. He can also do smaller ones on his own.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:After giving the Kakurangers the skinny on how to beat Daradara, his treachery was discovered by Daimaou, who turned him to stone]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Yugami]]

!!Dr. Yugami | [-Actor: Noboru Akima-]

* {{Cyborg}}: Not apparently one himself, but he appears to specialize in cybernetics and PoweredArmor.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Crushed by rubble after Super Kakure Daishogun destroyed the Gate that would allow Daimaoh to enter the human world.
* EvilGenius: of the {{Yokai}} Army.
* MadScientist: He's Junior's resident Mad Scientist, and that's really all the characterization he gets.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: He's got PointyEars and several tufts of OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair indicating his yokai nature.
* ShooOutTheClowns: His death coincided with the arrival of Daimou, signaling the disappearance of most of the comedic elements in the show as things got more serious.
* WouldHurtAChild: Outright says he loves the sound of crying children.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Daidarabotchi]]
!!Daidarabotchi

* BigLittleBrother: Daimaou's little brother who is ''far'' taller than him.
* TheBrute: Daimaou's muscles
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Can take a human form be human size, but is a giant under his true form.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lasts one episode in spite of being a general.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yama-Uba]]

* ArcVillainess: From episode 50 to episode 52.
* LadyInRed: ''Witch'' in red.
* PreFinalBoss: She dies in the penultimate episode and is the last foe before Daimaou and the Flower Kunochi Gang.
* OneWingedAngel: Has a super form.
* RedIsViolent: Her outfits are and she's a villainess.
* WickedWitch: of the japanese folklore.
[[/folder]]
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