Recap / Ohsama Sentai King Ohger Ep 31 Love Lasting 2000 Years

Love Lasting 2,000 Years

Original Airdate: October 1, 2023
Written by: Minato Takano
Directed by: Shojiro Nakazawa

Summary

"Time flows constantly, it doesn't care about the people who are struggling."

Jeramie: The man responsible for the unprecedented disaster known as the "Fury of the Gods"... revealed himself to be one of the Five Galactinsect Jesters, Grodie Leucodium.
Freed from a seal placed upon him by the previous king of Gokkan, Karras, Grodie attacked the Ohsama Sentai.
And Jeramie was reunited with someone dear to him.
...Or so the story goes.

Jeramie's mother, Nephila, has been revived to be used as the latest weapon against the kingdoms, and the royals are left conflicted on what to do with her given the connection to one of their own. Instead of focusing on the task at hand, most of the monarchs decide to engage in matters that are completely unrelated.

As Dadged's promise of unleashing havoc on Tikyū via Nephila draw closer, Gira is left trying to pick up the pieces alone, with neither team nor plan in sight...

Tropes

• Accidental Public Confession: Dagded returns to Shugoddam after the Ohsama Sentai appear to disband for some Evil Gloating...only to realize he's on live television and has just exposed himself.
• Badass Boast: Nephila gives one before throwing down with Daigorg:
  "The unsevered thread: Nephila Idmonaarok Ne! Draw your blade, but know that your inevitable fate... is to be devoured!"
• Batman Gambit: As it turns out, the rest of the King-Ohgers have been faking their division in order to get Dagdged to confess to his plans for Tikyū, thereby clearing Jeramie's name.
• Borrowed Catchphrase:
  • "Character Tic" to be precise. Dagded mocks Gira's threats toward him by challenging him to pull of his signature laugh. He then parrots Gira's Tyrant schtick while introducing himself instead. Cue the televisions.
    Dagded: (Imitating Gira): I am the Galactinsect King, Dugded Dujardin! He who will annihilate you, as a mere game! Ahahahaha!
  • The rulers poke fun at Gira's inability to figure out what was happening, quoting Jeramie's "Subtext" in complete unison.
• Break the Cutie: Subverted. Gira is clearly reeling from the stress when the other monarchs prove too mad to be reliable, even dismissing them as fools when Douga suggests getting them together to defend Shugoddam. Dagded then appears and points out Gira's lack of confidence, mocking him for it right after. Gira was kept Locked Out of the Loop to further sell the illusion of defeat and trick Dagded into an Accidental Public Confession. Once it's spelled out what happened, Gira gets better.
• Breaking Speech: Dagded starts the episode with one, waxing on about how creatures are selfish at the end of the day and that the Ohsama Sentai will perish one-by-one on their own, divided. He's ultimately proven wrong.
• Breather Episode: Downplayed. While the plot itself is fairly serious, the monarchs sans Gira decide to throw themselves into some truly off-kilter antics that veer on OOC territory in order to trick Dadged.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Nephila makes her grand return here, albeit reanimated by Grodie's abilities.
  • After hiding since the start of the second arc, the Shugods finally decide to return to action.
• Call-Back:
  • Jeramie references the Venomix Shoot being a "memento" of his late mother once more, which he thought made clear she was dead.
  • Gira has another "I don't get it" moment like episode 11, complete with a similar thought-montage. When he still doesn't get it, the other rulers use Jeramie's favorite word to describe it: "Subtext."
  • Also from episode 11, Jeramie used "I love you" as an example of a simple phrase lacking in subtext that he would never say. Jump 2 years ahead, and it's the last thing he says to his mother before they defeat her.
  • Dadged outs himself as the true villain during a live broadcast, just like Racules did.
• Cliffhanger: The episode ends with an infuriated Dagded tossing the team straight to modern-day Japan.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Nephila manages to deliver one of these to Daigorg of all people in a flashback. Her corpse is on the receiving end from God King-Ohger later.
• Cutting the Knot: Invoked. Since Dagded's attempts to split the team up only make it stronger, he decides to just shunt them out of reality altogether.
  Dagded: No more Kings, then!
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: The monarchs pretend to go insane in an elaborate Indy Ploy to ensure that Dagded outs himself to the world via his Evil Gloating. When he finds out, the rulers rub it in his face to no end; pulling out party streamers and painting mocking signs. It takes a Villainous Breakdown to process that this even happened, at which point he sends the King-Ohgers to another world for having gotten one over on him.
• Divided We Fall: Gira and Dadged believes this is what happened to the team as they both think they've gone mad from their constant defeats. Luckily, it turns out that this was the team's plan the entire time.
• Failure Gambit: The entire episode. The monarchs' bizarre defeatist behavior was an elaborate ploy to trick Dagded into thinking he'd won so that he'd start gloating to Gira with all of Tikyu listening in. Gira was unintentionally kept ignorant of the plan, but this only further helped it along.
• Foreshadowing:
  • A minor detail: Jeramie and Yanma have uncharacteristically-goofy smiles on their faces when they go to punch each other during their "brawl", hinting that it's all pretend.
  • Jeramie lampshades the reveal of his mother's death by pointing out that he used the word "memento" to describe the gun she left him.
  • Dagded tells Gira that most creatures are simply out for themselves at the end of the day and won't come together at a crucial moment. The entire episode than appears to prove him right...until the rulers expose him to the public.
• Genghis Gambit: Subverted. Nephila's defeat of Daigorg in an attempt to stop the Bognaarok Civil War simply ended up with the other Bognaarok ganging up on her instead.
• Handwriting as Characterization: The placards the monarchs hold to inform Dagded that he's been fooled show characters they wrote that complemented their respective personalities. For example, the delinquent-like Yanma wrote his in a jagged hand, the elegant Hymeno wrote hers in neat cursive, and Kaguragi, the leader of the Japan-like land of Toufu wrote his in a calligraphy-like manner.
• Hero on Hiatus: Subverted. When Douga tells Gira to get the Ohsama Sentai together, Gira responds by tell him "those fools" aren't coming. They do in fact show up, right after he and Dagded are fully convinced, just to expose the latter to the world.
• Heroic BSoD: Played for Laughs, mostly. The entire episode makes it seem like the entire cast has cracked under the pressure of Dagded's predictions and gone off the deep end. Turns out they were luring him into a full confession.
• Indy Ploy: Rita reveals that the monarchs' plan to hoodwink Dagded wasn't planned in advance at all and they were just winging it, which partially explains why Gira wasn't in on the plan.
• Internal Reveal: The monarchs reveal Dagded and the Galactinsects to be the actual enemy, clearing Jeramie and the Bognaarok's name for good.
• It's Personal: Although it Played for Laughs in this episode, the reason Hymeno agrees to join Kaguragi's madness on her own, is to get her revenge on Grodie for killing her parents.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Gira was the only one unaware of the team's plan because he failed to catch on to Jeramie's subtext about "acting like a clown". This only ends up helping the others' Indy Ploy as Dagded gets to gloat and inadvertently expose himself.
• Mood Whiplash: Jeramie ponders the final death of his mother, with Gira there to comfort him. Dagded then promptly appears with no warning and comedically tosses the King-Ohgers through various portals.
• Never Trust a Title: Downplayed. The title of the episode makes it seem like it will focus on the re-emergence of Jeramie's mother. While the bond between mother and son is a Recurring Element (particularly during the mech battle), the episode itself is mostly focused on the comedic skits the monarchs all put on and the Indy Ploy they're connected to.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Downplayed. Nephila tries to convince the Boggnarok to stand down, calling their Klingon Promotion-fueled warring "idiotic fighting." This actually riles them up instead, and they promptly turn on her. Jeramie compares it to "pouring oil on fire." Then again, given how far they'd fallen by this point, she wouldn't have gotten through to them anyway.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Dagded insists on rubbing the monarchs' (seeming) defeat in Gira's face. This ends up exposing the Galactinsects to the entire world, jeopardizing their Let's You and Him Fight operation. Dagded does not take it well.
• Obfuscating Insanity: The monarchs sans Gira all seem to lose their marbles, with Yanma challenging Jeramie to a duel, Rita apprehending Hymeno and getting jailed in return, while Kaguragi attempts to contact the Galactinsects through an appropriately hammy ceremony. It's all an act to reveal Dagded as the true mastermind of the previous episodes' events.
• Only Sane Man: Gira firmly establishes himself to be this as he tries to deter the others from engaging in their quirks, though at the expense of making him look foolish when The Plan is revealed.
• Out-of-Character Moment: The Episode. Dagded threatens to destroy Shugoddam using Jeramie's mother, but the monarchs are too focused on petty squabbles to unite; Gira being the Only Sane Man. Even he nearly cracks from the stress of seeing everyone screw around and dismisses them as "fools" when Douga suggests summoning them. This is exactly what all of them wanted, so Dagded could gloat and inadvertently out himself to the public as the mastermind.
• The Plan: Per their Indy Ploy, the other monarchs pretend to go off the deep end to convince Dagded they're finished. Then record him on live television as he gloats, outing himself to the world as the real enemy.
• Painting the Medium: The monarchs fire off party-poppers in celebration of their prank on Dagded. The streamers fly through the screen and land on the villain's face.
• Place Worse Than Death: Given that he sends the Ohsama Sentai there, Dagded considers Earth to be this.
• Poor Communication Kills: Exploited. The monarchs' Indy Ploy relied on Gira being unaware they were pretending to sell the act, that way when Dagded came to gloat, it'd be to him...and the numerous televisions they'd set up to record him. Rita states deceiving Gira wasn't exactly the intent so much as a side-effect, given the whole thing kicked off on-the-fly.
• Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title in Japanese is one to the drama miniseries Nisennen no koi/二千年の恋 (known in the West as Love 2000).
• Properly Paranoid: After Dagded's Breaking Speech leads to a split on how to handle Nephila, Jeramie posits that the Galactinsects might be watching them and laughing. This inspires the monarchs to enact a spontaneous Indy Ploy to catch them unawares. Not only were they watching, but their leader actively comes down to Tikyu to brag about it, unwittingly blabbing about everything on live television.
• Red Herring: The camera zooms in on Nephila's embrace with Jeramie, with the camera-focus in-tune with a Silent Whisper. She didn't say anything whatsoever and Jeramie already knew she was one of Grodie's corpses.
• The Reveal: Turns out Nephila was the one to kill Daigorg 2,000 years ago. She was then ganged-up on by the other Bognaarok following that battle and mortally wounded, dying shortly after.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Played With. Jeramie won't fight his mother with the others and dismisses the Galactinsects' monitoring of them, saying that if everyone wants to laugh at him for it, "he'll simply be a clown." The entire episode then sees everyone other than Gira doing exactly that per a spontaneous Indy Ploy to get the Galactinsects' guards down. The entire thing was a big act and Jeramie does battle his mother in God King-Ohger as intended, given she's been long-dead and this is merely her raised corpse.
• Shout-Out: The few frames we see of the Moffun episode Hymeno baits Rita with are rather close to the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure art style.
• Skewed Priorities: The monarchs sans Gira decide to engage in some silly antics rather than focus on Dadged's threat in order to throw both Dadged and Gira off their trail.
  • Hymeno tries to go off and kill Grodie, only to get arrested by Rita. She later gets herself freed by bribing Rita the name of Moffun's voice actor, manages to distracts them with a chibi-Moffun, and then traps them Looney Tunes' style with an episode of Together with Moffun. Gira tries to convince Rita to get out of the cage only to be met with their fist to his forehead.
  • Yanma suddenly decides to challenge Jeramie to a duel, asking Rita to oversee it. The duel doesn't actually happen, so they resolve to just beat each other up instead. Gira stops them... with his face.
  • Kaguragi surrenders to the Galactinsects in a very cheap-looking get-up. Hymeno joins him with her own get-up.
• Status Quo Is God: The monarchs' Indy Ploy finally nets them an unambiguous win (albeit a small one) against Dagded. This win also redeems Boggnarok in the eyes of the public, un-doing the social sacrifice Jeramie had to make two episodes ago to keep everyone else in power and, in the process, undoing the chaos that Dagded's empire had caused. However, this is defied by Dagded who decides to throw them all to Earth.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Exaggerated. Each of the monarchs sans Gira spontaneously decide to pretend to have gone insane and fight amongst themselves. None of this was discussed beforehand, meaning all of them improvised the exact same idea at once.
• Trapped in Another World: After getting over being played for a fool by the monarchs, Dagded decides to punish them by sending them to another planet, which happens to be Earth, or at least its version from Kyoryuger.
• Trial by Combat: Yanma and Jeramie's part of The Plan. Yanma challenges Jeramie to a duel with Rita as witness, hoping to make him an underling and order him to help form God King-Ohger against Nephila. Rita choose not to intervene and impede Hymeno's pursuit of Grodie. Yanma and Jeramie wait outside of Caucasus Kabuto Castle and decide to just brawl it out when Rita doesn't show. The entire affair was just for show and Jeramie had no issues with fighting Nephila; she died years ago and this is just her reanimated corpse.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Exaggerated. Jeramie and the other monarchs decide to trick Dagded by seemingly losing their marbles, with the plan only revealed after they reveal they've been playing Dagded for a fool. Rita points out that there was no plan discussed to begin with, leaving each of them to wing it instead.
• Unwitting Pawn: Gira's inability to catch on to his fellow monarchs' Obfuscating Insanity ultimately helps in helping the plan work, as his genuine bewilderment means Dagded is unable to realize he's being played for a fool until it's too late.
• Villainous Breakdown: After he is tricked into exonerating the Bognaarok on live television and mocked by the Ohsama Sentai, Dagded goes eerily calm and teleports away to his base, where he proceeds to throw a temper tantrum.
• Wham Shot: The team gets teleported to modern-day Japan, with Gira and Yanma looking around confusedly in the process.