The Sixth King
- Original Airdate: May 21, 2023
Written by: Minato Takano
Directed by: Kazuya Kamihoriuchi
Summary
Jeramie: The kings had concocted a plan to reveal Gira's miraculous revival.
However, that plan was foiled by a mysterious man in a spider mask.
Dethnaarok obtains the three Greater Shugod spirits to perform a ritual, but instead of bringing ruin and chaos to the world, the seal on the spider mask is broken.
The man's name... is Jeramie Brasieri.
But just who is he?
What is he after?
And is he friend or foe?
...Would you like to know?
However, that plan was foiled by a mysterious man in a spider mask.
Dethnaarok obtains the three Greater Shugod spirits to perform a ritual, but instead of bringing ruin and chaos to the world, the seal on the spider mask is broken.
The man's name... is Jeramie Brasieri.
But just who is he?
What is he after?
And is he friend or foe?
...Would you like to know?
Having foiled both Dethnaarok and — inadvertently — the monarchs' plans, the masked man reveals his name to be Jeramie Brasieri, an "old-fashioned storyteller" who claims to be the "King of All". His cryptic words leave the team confused at his true intentions as he successfully dodges their attempts to find out who he is. Just what exactly is this storyteller hiding?
Tropes
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Rita charges Jeramie with armed robbery, treason and a falsifying an identity. She threatens to add slander to the charges when Jeramie questions the monarchs' competence.
- Badass Boast: Jeramie delivers one before throwing down with Dethnaarok:"I am Jeramie Brasieri, ruling over man, Bognaarok, and everything else. The fate of the world is my story to dictate. The king of the in-between, and what he is here to do... all shall speak of it forevermore!"
- Bait-and-Switch: When Jeramie asks the team what is preventing them reading between the lines, Gira has an entire sequence going through Jeramie's monologues, seemingly connecting the dots... only for him to valiantly declare that he has no idea what he's talking about.
- Beneath the Mask:
- When Jeramie's storyteller persona falls, he reveals himself to be incredibly broken up about his parents' fates, trying to create his own story to bring them some sort of justice.
- Also, in a literal sense: His Bognaarok genes were sealed beneath a cursed mask to prevent people from discovering he was a Half-Human Hybrid.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The team points out that Jeramie should have been less cryptic with his side of the story at the start and avoided making them unnecessarily paranoid about his true intentions.
- Cryptic Conversation: Jeramie spends the episode being vague, dropping clues and only giving small hints to his backstory and motivation when talking to the monarchs, till eventually he just frustratingly gives up when no one figures it out he the son of the sixth warrior who was erased from history for falling in love with a Bognaarok woman who wants to bring peace to both sides. The rulers are sympathetic to his cause and welcome him... but not before getting furious that he was so unnecessarily mysterious about the entire affair and didn't simply just come out and just say that.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Parodied. After Jeramie tries in vain to explain his motives, we then get a scene of Gira thinking back to all the cryptic lines he says... only for him to draw a blank and admit he had no idea what Jeramie was talking about.
- Fantastic Racism: Jeramie's motivation is to stamp this out by putting an end to hostilities between humanity and the Bognaarok.
- Foreshadowing: While Jeramie pores through the tome detailing the prophecy, there is a conspicuous blank page right after the chronicles of the five heroes and before the chapter detailing the Shugods.
- History Repeats: Subverted. The Sixth Ranger of old was ostracized for daring to fall in love with a Bognaarok agent and the two eloped, conceiving Half-Human Hybrid Jeramie. Jeramie's left in silent shock when the modern rulers declare him an enemy due to his constant teasing making them wary of him. Jeramie eventually stops showboating and just tells them his backstory and what he wants. They simply respond with "You could've just said that" and display sympathy rather than shun him, which takes him aback.
- Loves Secrecy: Jeramie insists on teasing the rulers with his knowledge of the prophecy and various tidbits about ancient times...which only obfuscates the truth further and gets him marked as an enemy. When Jeramie finally decides to just tell them his Tragic Backstory, complete with intent to unite the races, everyone's more receptive.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jeramie reveals that he left hints about reviving King-Ohger to humanity and the locations of the Shugod souls to the Bognaarok, making some of the show's recent tragedies indirectly his fault.
- Poor Communication Kills: Jeramie's incredibly cryptic messages about his true origins, along with his prior allegiance to the Bognaarok, leaves the team rather paranoid about what he's going to do next.
- Really 700 Years Old: The Sentai find it difficult to believe Jeramie is 2,000 years old as he claims. A combination of the lie-detecting device not shocking him, him knowing the name of the old man who mentored Yanma and records of a spider man who is seen every few centuries confirm he is telling the truth.
- Red Herring: During Jeramie's speech in Ishabana, a brief zoom-in from Hymeno's point-of-view reveals that Jeramie has the Bognnarok symbol etched on the back of his outfit, which precedes Gira and Kaburagi accusing him of being an enemy agent. Hymeno keeps this detail to herself and Jeramie eventually proves their suspicions wrong.
- Red Right Hand: Jeramie looks human except for his arm of chitin, a symbol of his Bognaarok heritage.
- The Reveal:
- Kaguragi has a younger sister named Suzume who is residing elsewhere for unknown reasons. So far, only Racules knows how she is currently doing and it is heavily implied that he is holding her hostage in exchange for Kaguragi's services.
- Jeramie is the one behind the prophecy.
- Yanma was taught computers by a man named Gin, who was taught by Jeramie.
- As it turns out, there was a sixth hero of legend, but he was erased from history when he fell in love with a member of the Bognaarok Empire. They would eventually have a son, Jeramie, whose powers were then sealed by a spider mask.
- Shame If Something Happened: Racules is revealed to have Kaguragi's younger sister Suzume in his care, the latter's allegiance towards him being what's keeping her safe.
- Smoke Out: Jeramie escapes the other King-Ohgers by releasing a burst of gas from his Venomix Shooter.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Jeramie tells the monarchs that he was the one that wrote the prophecy, but spends the entire episode teasing them about it instead of just telling them who he is and why he's doing all this. After he eventually gets the hint and explains to everyone what's going on, the rulers collectively chew him out for it.
- Un-person: This is what became of both of Jeramie's parents. Jeramie's father was actually the sixth member of the heroes who defeated the Bognnarok 2,000 years ago and fell in love with a Bognnarok agent. Jeramie's father was viewed as a traitor and all records of him and his lover were erased from history.
- You Were Trying Too Hard: The entire episode's plot is Jeramie trying way too hard to get the monarchs to notice the Subtext of the prophecy that he wrote. It's only after he gives up and spells out what he's wants them all to notice (that there was a sixth ancient hero left out of the history books for falling in love with a Bognnarok agent and Jeramie is their Half-Human Hybrid son who seeks co-existence between humans and Bognnarok) that they get the point...and promptly call him out for being too cryptic.
- Jeramie: Thus, both man and Bognaarok, and even rulers themselves, in the presence of the king of the in-between... all swore their fealty.
...Or so the story goes.
