Characters / Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

Characters who appeared in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.

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The Kakurangers

In General

• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: 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.

Sasuke/Ninja Red

Sasuke/Ninja Red | Actor: Teruaki Ogawa

• Captured on Purpose: He pulled this off in Episode 47 to find the Youkai Kasha's secret lair.
• Character Development: 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 Shuriken Sentai Ninninger further shows this, portraying him as Older and Wiser and as the teacher of the new Ninja team alongside Yousuke. However, Akaranger reminds the two of how they used to act at the end of the episode.
• Character Tics: Likes to give a thumbs down to his enemies and proclaim: "Judgement!" before he enters battle.
• Doppelgänger Attack: His Ninja Arts specialty.
• Famous Ancestor: His ancestor is Sarutobi Sasuke
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic (Middle-road).
• Friend to All Living Things: This is the specific duty of his Shinobi scroll—to protect all life on Earth, not just the humans.
• The Hero: He's the POV character even though Tsuruhime is the main character.
• Hot-Blooded: An Edokko through and through.
• It's Personal: In episode 33, he held a grudge against Amanojaku for tricking his cousin Kosuke into releasing him.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Sasuke is given a Cool Sword by Tsubasamaru that can be used to summon him. He is also the first to get both his JuuShou and ChouNinJuu. His Journey to the West counterpart is also the most badass character there, Sun Wukong. Also, unlike the other dudes, he's not getting any Distressed Dude moments, instead when they do, he gets the All Up to You moments.
• Limited Wardrobe: 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.
• Made of Iron: 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!
• Monkey King Lite: Because he's the 'counterpart' of Wukong, see Law of Chromatic Superiority. Not to mention, his special jutsu is self-duplication, much like how Wukong can transform his hair into clones of himself.
• One-Winged Angel: Beast General Fighter Battle Saruder.
• Only Sane Man: 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).
• Playing with Fire: His motif is fire, as seen in his Flaming Whirlwind Art attack and Red Saruder transformation.
• Signature Move: Kakure Ryu Mangetsu Kiri^note Hidden Style Full Moon Slash
• The Slacker: 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. Thankfully, this didn't last.
• Supporting Protagonist: 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.

Tsuruhime/Ninja White

Tsuruhime/Ninja White | Actress: Satomi Hirose

• Action Heroine: Oh yes, very much so. Let's just say she more than makes up for The Smurfette Principle. 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. Faux Action Girl? The amount of focus episodes where she actually kicks ass on her own says a hard "nope".
• Blue Blood: Not a princess per se, but she comes from a very well-off family, enough so that you wonder why she's not Crimefighting with Cash.
  • Considering her name literally means crane princess...
• Bound and Gagged: 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.
• Blow You Away: Her ninja motif is air, being the only Kakuranger with a flight jutsu ^note Sasuke's cloud notwithstanding, a flying ninja animal and whose transformation into White Kark includes the Aurora Borealis.
• Deadpan Snarker: Generally gets the best one-liners.
• Disappeared Dad: Had one. Searching for him is one of her missions in life. She succeeded in the end.
• Famous Ancestor: Shodai Tsuruhime (in real life known as Ohori Tsuruhime).
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric.
• The Heart: It's played as part of her position as leader.
• Holier Than Thou: 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.
• The Leader: The first female one in Super Sentai, and is generally very level-headed.
• Leitmotif: Usually when she's solo-fighting.
• One-Winged Angel: Beast General Fighter Battle Kark.
• Only Sane Woman: 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.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: 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.
• Signature Move: Kakure Ryu Ku no Ji Kiri^note Hidden Style Ku Character Slash
• 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 Monsters Of The Week before they ever got the chance to grow.
• The Smurfette Principle: Plays the idea of Flawless Token straight - the others joined her to become Kakuranger - and generally ranks highly in Sentai Heroine polls.
• Token Wizard: 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.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her Ninja Arts specialty.
• Younger Than They Look: 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.)

Saizō/Ninja Blue

Saizō/Ninja Blue | Actor: Hiroshi Tsuchida

• Animal Motif: Wolves are the basis for his mecha.
• Butt-Monkey: If a horrifically unlucky thing happens to any of the Kakurangers, chances are it happens to him.
• Camp Straight: Is totally straight, but tends to use feminine speech at times.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: 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. Definitely not his day.
• Faint in Shock Does so in episode 32 after his self-proclaimed "prettyboy" face was stolen by Nuppefohofu.
• Famous Ancestor: Kirigakure Saizo.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Melancholic.
• Friend to All Children: Is good with kids.
• Generation Xerox: Subverted; whereas his namesake, Kirigakure Saizō, was The Lancer and The Smart Guy to Sarutobi Sasuke, he is a bumbling fool.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: ... 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.
• Kid-Appeal Character
• Kill It with Water: 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.
• Making a Splash: His ninja motif is water, as seen in his Blue Rougan transformation and various water jutsus.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: 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.
• One-Winged Angel: Beast General Fighter Battle Rougan.
• Signature Move: Kakure Ryu Seiho no Jin^note Hidden Style Square Formation
• Sins of Our Fathers: Was targeted by Amikiri, who lost her arm to the original Saizō.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He's hardly a small name, but he's quick to play himself up.
• True Blue Femininity: 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 Blue Swallow, Hurricane Blue, Magiblue and Zyuoh Shark) or cyan-colored Rangers in teams that already have a blue ranger in them (Like Kyoryu Cyan and Koguma Skyblue). This was probably done so the viewers won't confuse him with the darker-blue-colored Ninjaman.
• Walk on Water: His Ninja Arts speciality.

Seikai/Ninja Yellow

Seikai/Ninja Yellow | Actor: Shu Kawai

• Bears Are Bad News: God helps you if he fights in his mecha.
• Big Eater: And how. It's a wonder that he didn't get fat yet.
  • Lampshaded in one episode where he becomes enormously fat, and grows to the size of a giant, after accidentally eating the Monster of the Week.
• The Big Guy: His fighting style only - Seikai himself is average-sized.
• Butt-Monkey: Of the main 5, he's the one to receive the most slapstick, not counting how he was effectively The Load at the beginning of the series as an useless fighter who got kidnapped a lot.
• Did Not Think This Through: 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.
• Famous Ancestor: Miyoshi Seikai.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Tends to wear a pair of goggles around his neck, which is where they stay.
• Green Thumb: His ninja motif is wood, seen with his leaf-hiding jutsu and his Yellow Kumard transformation.
• The Hedonist: 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!
• Ladykiller in Love: 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.
• The Load: 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.
• One-Winged Angel: Beast General Fighter Battle Kumard.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: 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 Battle Cry "Dosukoi!" (Even though he doesn't use sumo).
• Signature Move: Kakure Ryu Sandan Kiri^note Hidden Style Triple Slash
• Sizeshifter: His Ninja Arts speciality.
• Stab the Scorpion: 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.
• Wolverine Claws: Yellow Claw. As Yellow Kumard, his weapon is the Kumard Claw.

Jiraiya/Ninja Black

Jiraiya/Ninja Black | Actor: Kane Kosugi

• Americans Are Cowboys: 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.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • 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.
• Battle Strip: In Episode 9, he rips off the top half of his gi in order to pull out his sword against the MOTW.
• But Not Too Foreign: The most realistic example in Super Sentai. (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.
• Compressed Vice: 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 Don't Try This at Home for the kids out there.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His ninja motif is Earth, as seen with his boulder attacks, earth tunneling technique and Black Gammer transformation.
• Dude, Not Funny!: 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.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: 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.
• Everything's Sexier In English: He likes using his English skills to pick up chicks.
• Famous Ancestor: Jiraiya the Gallant from Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari (The Story of [Jiraya the Gallant]).
• Fast Tunnelling: His Ninja Arts specialty.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Supine.
• Frog Ninja: His Kyodai Jūshō and Chōninjū are frogs.
• Gratuitous English: An aversion, as he starts out speaking very little Japanese and gradually picks it up.
• Hot-Blooded: Has a tendency to go YOLO on battle if he got pissed off.
• The Lancer: 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.
• Meaningful Name: Named for the ninja Jiraiya, who was known in stories to ride a giant toad, which is this Jiraiya's ninja animal too.
• One-Winged Angel: Beast General Fighter Battle Gammer.
• Outside-the-Box Tactic: 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.
• Pair the Spares: 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.
• The Mole: He pretended to side with the Yōkai in order to get the last four JuuShou Scrolls.
• Signature Move: Kakure Ryu Nagareboshi^note Hidden Style Shooting Star
• The Stoic: 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 Hot-Blooded.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: 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.
• You Killed My Father: His father was murdered by Gali, and he successfully fought his master to the death. Once he learned the reasons for Gali's actions, he forgives him.

Ninjaman/Samuraiman

Ninjaman/Samuraiman | Voice: Kazuki Yao

• Berserk Button: 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.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Ninjaman wears a large "N" on his chest in both his forms.
• Finishing Move: Samurai Rage Bomber
• Friend to All Children: Much like Saizō.
• Heroic BSoD: 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.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Even more so than the Kakurangers, as he has no human form... but can subvert it with his Voluntary Shapeshifting.
• Hot-Blooded: As with Sasuke, he's something of an Edokko.
• Kamehame Hadoken: His Anger Bomber ki fireball attack.
• One-Winged Angel: Foes who insult him by calling him "Blue Squirt" will face the wrath of Samuraiman, his true form.
• Samurai Shinobi: 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').
• Shout-Out: 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  Kazuki Yao is, and this was a Throw It In! on his part.
• Sixth Ranger: The producers at Toei were unsure if they could continue the Sixth Ranger tradition, despite the popularity of Dragon Ranger and 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 Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger was the source of much confusion to fans of the character, which led to his guest role near the end of that series.
• Spanner in the Works: A handful of plans in the later episodes fall apart simply because the Youkai forgot to take him into account.
• Unstoppable Rage: What Samuraiman essentially is.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can 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).

Allies

Sandayū Momochi

Sandayū Momochi | Actor: Akira Sakamoto

• Cool Old Guy: Specifically, one of Tsuruhime's supporters.
• The Dreaded: To some extent. The yokai recognize him as a significant threat.
• Flight: He can do this with or without a cloud.
• Killed Off for Real: 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. He even gets killed.
• Mr. Exposition: Knows a lot more about what's going on than the others, even Tsuruhime, but waits to tell them until they need to know.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: 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!
• Secret-Keeper: He kept the secret of Hakumenrou's betrayal from Tsuruhime because of how the truth would pain her. Even when he tells her this, though, he's not being entirely honest, as he knows Hakumenrou is a Double Agent.
• Sweet Tooth: Almost always eating or drinking something sweet while dispensing advice.
• Teleportation: He can literally blow people from one place to another.
• Undying Loyalty: Willing to die for the sake of the Tsuruhime family and Kakuranger. Or to allow himself to be killed.

Nekomaru

Nekomaru

• Big Damn Heroes: Occasionally saves the day, such as when it slammed into Bakeneko.
• Flight: Can do this.
• Home Base: As well as the Team Pet. 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.
• Logical Weakness: 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).
• Mechanical Lifeform: 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).

The Narrator

The Narrator | Actor: Enjou Sanyuutei

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: 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.
• Dirty Old Man: Oh yes. He even eagerly admits to ogling women.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Seemingly crushed by rubble when Junior began the ceremony to revive Daimaoh, but appeared alive and well at the episode's end.
• Made of Iron: Survives being crushed by rubble when Junior began to the ceremony to revive Daimaoh as well as being thrown off a bridge in the Documentary Episode.
• Narrator: Presents the show like a Kyougen narrator (which the actor actually is).
• No Name Given: Doesn't seem to have a name, and is 'Narrator' in the credits. Frequently refers to himself as 'Ojisan'. (It might be Everyone Calls Him Narrator, but no one ever actually addresses him.)
• Put on a Bus: 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.
  • The Bus Came Back: Reappeared during the documentary episode.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: He was Put on a Bus when the series started to get more serious.
• Sympathy for the Devil: 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

Reika

• Action Girl: 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.
• Friend to All Living Things: 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.
• Glass Cannon: 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.
• Healing Hands: Since Sasuke gets his leg injured so often, the Scroll probably gave her this power to help her guide him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Rushes to save a rabbit caught in the crossfire and gets blasted by Ittan-Momen.
• Humanity Ensues: 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.
• Mind Probe: 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.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: 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.

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.
• Deal with the Devil: 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. And of course, that wasn't the end of Nue's dealings with him.
• Empowered Badass Normal: 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.
• Honorary Uncle: 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.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: 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.
• Japanese Christian: Implied by his memorial marker being a cross.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Fires an energy blast from his hands.
• Lies to Children: 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.
• Mind over Matter: Uses an energy tendril to toss Jiraiya around.
• My God, What Have I Done?: 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.
• Professional Killer: Nue's personal assassin, as Jiraiya learns to his horror.
• So Proud of You: Once Jiraiya mortally wounds him, Gali notes how much stronger he'd gotten in such a short time.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: 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.
• Sword Beam: Launches a number from his sai.
• Tragic Keepsake: 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.
• Wolverine Claws: The aforementioned weapon Nue gave to him, a wrist mounted set of extendable claws.

The Sanshinshō^note The Three Divine Generals

In General

• Big Good: They were originally three human sages that ascended to divine status after defeating Daimaoh.
• The Mentor: They take a more active role in guiding the Kakurangers after Sandayu's death.
• The Power of Love: They explicitly say that, if Daimaō is powered by hatred and suffering, they run on this and courage and hope instead.
• Power Trio: They are the Kakuranger's sentient mechs after all.
• Spell My Name with a "The": 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 "Blind Idiot" Translation.

Muteki Shogun

Muteki Shogun | Voice: Tomoyuki Horita

• Curb-Stomp Battle: 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.
• Demoted to Extra: Was the Kakuranger's primary mecha until the premiere of Kakure Daishogun which reduced Muteki Shogun to providing backup support.
• Mighty Glacier: He represents the body/physical aspect of Kakure Ninpo, which makes him big and powerful but not very fast or agile.

Tsubasamaru

Tsubasamaru | Voice: Dai Matsumoto

• Giant Flyer: Is a huge falcon with a wingspan of at least 85 meters wide
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Represents the heart/spiritual aspect of Kakure Ninpo which allows it to boost the power of the other two.
• Mecha Expansion Pack: 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.
• More Dakka: Its main form of offense is the beam cannons in its wingtips.

Kakure Daishogun

Kakure Daishogun | Voice: Dai Matsumoto

• Bare-Fisted Monk: Since the shape of his fists doesn't allow him to hold weapons, Kakure Daishogun slays Yokai by beating them into submission.
• Lightning Bruiser: Represents the technique/mental aspect of ninpo which allows him to combine great speed and agility with overwhelming power.

Yōkai Army

• Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted. While most Yokai commit evil deeds, some are benign in nature.
• Early-Bird Cameo: 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.
• The Fair Folk: 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.
• Human Disguise: 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.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Yokai eat humans, and sometimes their traditional favorite food, too, but mostly humans. The more benign yokai probably refrain from this, though.
• Magic Missile Storm: 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.
• Master of Illusion: A lot of them (all?) have abilities in this vein.
• Omnicidal Maniac: 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.
• Pokémon Speak: 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.
• The Power of Creation: A lot of them (all?) are capable of manifesting actual physical objects.
• Power Of Hate: They harness it.
• Red Right Hand: 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.
• Yōkai: Duh.

Dorodoros

• Butt-Monkey: They're mooks in a sentai series, poor things.
• Commonality Connection: 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 overcome their terror of Nue and provide vitality-restoring water to the pair. And then Nue kills them.
• Fantastic Caste System: Dorodoros are at the bottom rung of yokai society.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: They can make swords appear in their hands. If you look closely, the swords have holes in the blades reminiscent of their faces.

Nurarihyon

• Big Bad: Following the sealing of Daimaou, he was powerful enough to become the leader of the yokai, until the Kakurangers' ancestors sealed him away.
• Extra Eyes: His face has a face in front of it...or behind it?
• What Happened to the Mouse?: 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.

Kappa and Rokurokubi

• Adaptational Species Change: 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.
• Back from the Dead: Professor Yugami, brings Kappa back with cyber-enhancements and 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.
• Detachment Combat: 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.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Both of them genuinely love each other.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Kappa wears a pair of swimming goggles in both his forms, but he never swims.
• Gratuitous English: Kappa drops a lot.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Kappa is sliced down the middle by the Simiaidar Slicer.
• The Kindnapper: 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.
• Outliving One's Offspring: 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.
• Small Role, Big Impact: 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.
• Together in Death: The mortally-wounded Rokurokubi notes that at least she and Kappa perished together.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Kappas traditionally like cucumbers, and so does this one. Oh, and also people.

Oboroguruma

• Affably Evil: He's got a lot of buddies among the yokai, but most humans need not apply.
• Back from the Dead: Professor Yugami, brings him back with cyber-enhancements and 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.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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.
• Tears of Joy: He's actually moved to tears when he sees that there's at least one human left who respects yokai.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: 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.
• Human Disguise: And Car Disguise, too.
• It's Personal: 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.
• Rage Breaking Point: 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.

Azukiarai

• Arch-Enemy: 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.
• Back from the Dead: Professor Yugami, brings him back with cyber-enhancements and 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.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Throws Jiraya into a deathtrap without actually staying to see if he dies. Tsk.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once the rangers combine into Mighty Shogun, it's all over for Azukiarai.
• Didn't See That Coming: His last words are a shocked lament that he had no idea the Kakurangers could turn into that!
• Dirty Cop: 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.
• I Am the Noun: 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.
• Lizard Folk: His true form takes a cue from these.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: 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.
• Verbal Tic: "Shoki shoki!"
• Villain Respect: 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.

Nurikabe

• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In mythology, there's no indication that he and Mokumokuren are brothers.
• Back from the Dead: Professor Yugami, brings him back with cyber-enhancements and 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.
• Barrier Warrior: He can create walls from thin air, or become a wall himself.
• Death Trap: 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.
• The Gambling Addict: Even after losing to his brother three times straight, he insists on playing another game with him.
• Red Right Hand: His human form has a mark in the shape of a wall on his right cheek.
• Sore Loser: Plans to inflict The Walls Are Closing In on at least one contestant in the game, thanks to losing him more gold.
• Surveillance as the Plot Demands: 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.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kids are valid contestants in the game, and if Nurikabe bets on a kid and he loses, well...

Mokumokuren

• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In mythology, there's no indication that he and Nurikabe are brothers.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: 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.
• Back from the Dead: Professor Yugami, brings him back with cyber-enhancements and 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.
• Eye Beams: Yup. And he can affect giant targets by projecting through a huge eye in the sky.
• Hypnotic Eyes: 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.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Eats fried eyeballs. "Eyeball eggs" are a term for sunny-side-up eggs in Japan, and this guy eats the real thing, you see.
• Interspecies Romance: Falls for Tsuruhime after seeing her picture. His dying words are a proclamation that he really did want to marry her.
• Master of Illusion: 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.
• Pet the Dog: 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.
• Red Right Hand: His human form has blue marks on the side of his face similar to the blue veins on his true form's skin.
• Villainous Rescue: Blasts Blue Lugan when it's about to kill Nurikabe, buying his brother time to get away.
• Would Hurt a Child: As mentioned, kids are perfectly fine mazerunners as far as Mokumokuren is concerned.

Gakitsuki

• Big Eater: 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 (literally) who eats all the food in the city. Again, literally.
• Emotion Bomb: 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.
• The Hedonist: Loves food, loves a good fight.
• Knows the Ropes: Uses the Ninpo: Cha Siu Roll technique to bind his foes in ropes.
• Red Right Hand: 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.

Bakeneko

• Breath Weapon: Breathes fire.
• Category Traitor: 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.
• Cats Are Mean: Most real-life cats will wait 'til you die before eating you. This one kidnaps kids and sells them to eat ikizukuri-style.
• For the Evulz: After knocking the Kakurangers out, she has their unconscious bodies do a People Puppets dance to her song, just for kicks. Although since Tsuruhime and Sasuke were just faking, one wonders how they knew the moves...
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Inverted. She loves cats, alright, but hates humans for the way they mistreat her feline kind.
• Look Behind You: Pulls this trick to get away from Sasuke in their first fight.
• Master of Illusion: Made a bunch of bugs look and taste like a delicious feast which she served the Kakurangers.
• Mind Control: 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.
• Ninja Log: Does this trick to foil Sasuke's shuriken.
• Schmuck Banquet: 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.
• Wolverine Claws: As a giant humanoid cat, she naturally has these.

Hitotsume-Kozou Brothers

• Deadly Dodging: 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.
• Last Stand: 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.
• Master of Illusion: Part and parcel of the whole "trickster" package.
• Mind over Matter: They move various objects inside the house around in an effort to convince the kids their doll is cursed.
• Phony Psychic: 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.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the guardian doll starts protecting the house, AND the Kakurangers show up at the same time, the Brothers decide to beat feet.
• The Trickster: Your typical Hitotsume-Kozou hides in someone's house and plays tricks on them. These guys are actually working for someone, though.
• You Killed My Father: younger Brother is understandably upset to see Older Brother die and swears revenge, only to be killed himself shortly thereafter.

Onyudou

• Freudian Excuse: 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.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Mighty Shogun reflects his Shrink Ray back at him and he dies astonished and calling for Daddy.
• Mad Artist: Accuses the Rangers of not understanding his artistic sensitivity.
• Master of Illusion: His tuba can make illusions.
• Mind over Matter: His cane has telekinesis strong enough to move multiple skyscrapers around.
• Model Planning: 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.
• No Ontological Inertia: Everything he's shrunk returns to its original size (and location, somehow) after he and his cane are destroyed.
• Person of Mass Destruction: While designing his ideal city, he'll magically smash up parts of the real city he doesn't find aesthetically pleasing.
• Shrink Ray: 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.
• Spoiled Brat: 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.

Dorotabo

• Be Careful What You Wish For: 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.
• Dishing Out Dirt: 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.
• Eye Beams: Destroys several buildings all over the city with these.
• Fat Slob: In human guise, he's an overweight TV-addicted loser in a messy apartment, who envies the people he sees on TV.
• Glory Seeker: 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.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: 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.
• Publicity Stunt: 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.
• Red Right Hand: His human form has a silver mask-like mark around his eyes.
• Scary Scarecrow: He is depicted as a Japanese scarecrow, a stark contrast to the youkai he was based on.
• Sore Loser: After getting trounced by Jiraiya three times in their cage match, the enraged Dorotabo grows huge and attacks.
• White-Dwarf Starlet: 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.

Konaki-jiji

• Blue-and-Orange Morality: 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.
• Children as Pawns: Much like his mythological self, he disguises himself as a crying baby to lure people into a trap.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Smokes a pipe in human form.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: 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.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Pulls this move, leaping up to grab Sasuke and make himself supernaturally heavy.
• Mind Control: 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.
• Mind over Matter: Zooms around in a magically-created baby carriage, often putting himself in seemingly perilous situations to lure people. Looks pretty fun.
• No Ontological Inertia: The souls he stole pop right back into their bodies after he's defeated.
• Red Right Hand: In human form, he has a red mark in the shape of a teardrop coming from his left eye.
• Sympathy for the Devil: At the end the Narrator sadly picks up the "family photo" Konaki-jiji made and reflects on how even humans and yokai need families.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Takes peoples' souls and sticks 'em in dolls and masks.

Shirouneri

• Animate Inanimate Object: According to tradition, many objects become sentient yokai, Tsukumogami, after existing for 100 years. Shirouneri here is meant to represent discarded clothing/rags.
• Clothing Damage: He's got the power to turn clothes into rags.
• Evil Is Petty: 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.
• Evil Smells Bad: 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.
• Magic Mirror: 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.
• Master of Threads: He can manipulate cloth in other ways besides making it into rags.
• Red Right Hand: A mark which looks like a patch of cloth on his right cheek.
• Riches to Rags: 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.

Tengu

• Berserk Button: 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!
• Character Tics: When a Tengu brags, their nose grows.
• Insult Backfire: Sasuke is disgusted by his trapping children and says so. Tengu takes it as a compliment.
• Mind Control: With Yugami's help he puts an entire town under his control, knowing that the Kakurangers won't harm innocent people.
• No Ontological Inertia: Upon Tengu's defeat, the replica yokai vanish and the kids are returned.
• Would Hurt a Child: He and Yugami trapped children in their yokai replicas knowing that Kakuranger would back down rather than risk harming them.

Kanedama

• Berserk Button: 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!"
• Con Man: 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.
• Face–Heel Turn: Used to be a benevolent bringer of good luck before being overcome by greed or cruelty.
• Magnetism Manipulation: He uses the big ol' magnet on his hand to attract the Kakulasers, then shoots the Rangers with their own sidearms.
• Meaningful Name: His human form uses the name "Fukuo Daikichi", which the G.U.I.S. notes translate roughly as "Fortunelord Goodluck." Subtle.
• Mechanical Lifeform: 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.
• Money Mauling: He can fling coins. Injuries are, after all, just a little more direct form of misfortune.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Apparently, he is a yokai who appears as a robot.
• Red Right Hand: 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. Or just beaten up on principle, really.
• Verbal Tic: "Coin! Coin coin!" "Coin coin coin coin!" "Coin!"
• Villain Team-Up: Doctor Yugami both helped him make his unluck coins, and backs him up with a rocket launcher.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: A luck-manipulator who uses unlucky (and rather sticky) coins.

Keukegen

• Arm Cannon: 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.
• Battleaxe Nurse: Has a bunch of very scary nurses with very large medical tools in his clinic. Probably Dorodoros.
• Glamour Failure: 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.
• Heroic Second Wind: 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.
• Playing with Fire: After his enhancement by Yugami, he can summon flames.
• Quack Doctor: In his human form.
• Villainous Rescue: 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.

The Shuten-Doji Brothers

• The Alcoholic: Shuten-Doji like sake with human livers for snacks.
• Attack Reflector: Younger Brother can turn people's attack ninpo back onto themselves.
• Breath Weapon: Older Brother takes a swig of sake and blasts a gout of fire at Saizou.
• The Dreaded: 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.
• Human Resources: 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.
• Instant Armor: Professor Yugami teleports pieces of Powered Armor 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 Deadly Dodging 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.
• Logical Weakness: 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.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Twofold. Their teamwork inspires Sasuke both to awaken his teammates before fighting again and to use his Doppleganger technique against them.
• Villainous Rescue: 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.

Amikiri

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her traditional counterpart used to cut up nets and hanging laundry with her scissor-claws. Her new cyber-arm slices up cars.
• An Arm and a Leg: Saizou's ancestor cut her arm off centuries ago.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: 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.
• Cherry Tapping: 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.
• Flying Weapon: She can launch flying blades from her cyber-arm and control their flight to some extent.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The Narrator implies that she went from a relatively harmless prankster yokai to becoming much more dangerous due to The Power of Hate after losing her arm.
• Misplaced Retribution: Saizou's ancestor cut her arm off centuries ago.
• Morphic Resonance: 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.
• Would Harm a Child: Would Cruelly Laugh At A Child's Photography To His Face And Then Take Him Hostage To Draw Her Nemesis Into A Duel.

Zashiki-Warashi

• Category Traitor: Junior regards him as a traitor to his kind for liking humans and wanting to give kids wonder-filled memories.
• Defiant to the End: 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.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: 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.
• Eye Beams: In his monster form, which prove powerful enough to destroy several buildings.
• Fighting from the Inside: 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.
• The Greys: Looks like a gentle one of these in his natural form.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Jiraiya and the kids try to get the monsterized Zashiki-Warashi to use his own power to shake off Junior's brainwashing, ultimately succeeding.
• In a Single Bound: Befriends a group of human kids by leaping a high distance on a bicycle and catching their baseball.
• Lightning Bruiser: 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.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The only youkai we see that is kind and friendly to humans.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: After dying he transforms into a mushroom, giving hope that someday he may return.
• Reforged into a Minion: After he turns himself in to save Jiraiya, Junior performs a ritual that turns him into a twisted giant monster.
• Super-Empowering: Used dust from one of his mushrooms to give some kids the ability to fly for a few minutes.
• Take Me Instead: Rather than see Junior kill Jiraiya, he turns himself in.
• Token Heroic Orc: 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.
• The Trickster: 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.

Tsuchigumo

• Adaptational Species Change: 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.
• Affably Evil: 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.
• No Ontological Inertia: His webs vanish as soon as he's defeated.
• Perpetual Smiler: 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.
• Projectile Webbing: Yup. From his mouth. He manages to catch Seikai this way.
• Super-Speed: He zips around so quickly he's only visible as an orangish blur.
• Super-Strength: Is he strong? Here's the deal, he jumps through corrugated steel! Couldn't resist. Also, he can lift a car.
• Spiders Are Scary: This one is actively hunting humans, though.
• Would Hurt a Child: 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.

Sarugami

• Awesomeness by Analysis: By studying the Kakurangers, he learns how to perform their finishing techniques perfectly, including the Kakure Ball.
• Batman Gambit: 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.
• Creepy Crossdresser: His traditional counterpart, who kidnapped women and danced around in their clothing, according to the Narrator.
• Faking Another Person's Illness: 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.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: 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.
• Power Copying: 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.

Enra-Enra

• Bizarre Taste in Food: 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.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: 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.
• Emotion Bomb: 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.
• Hurricane of Puns: He makes a lot of remarks based around smoke and gas.
• Laughing Gas: Emits it, and the effects last for so long that it risks the subject's life. He plans to gas humanity out of existence.
• Logical Weakness: 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.
• No-Sell: For the first time ever, Mighty Shogun's sword passes right through him!
• The Paralyzer: Has a gas which makes peoples' bodies go numb.

Umi-Bouzu

• Boss in Mook Clothing: 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 Scratch Damage, the impressed Bouzu turns big and catches Mighty Shogun's sword in the middle of its deadly finishing move's swing then mocks them for thinking it would harm him.
• Breath Weapon: Fires energy blasts from his mouth.
• Flight: In the form of an animated water splash.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: 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.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Turns kids into pillars for Junior's rock n' roll Daimaou-summoning ceremony.
• Taken for Granite: Turns kids into stone. Stone that can plead for help.
• Would Hurt a Child: Kidnaps kids, sticks 'em on rooftops, teaches 'em to rock, and that's no joke.

Ittan-Momen

• Animate Inanimate Object: Another Tsukumogami, this time representing old cloth in general.
• Clothing Combat: Uses pieces of cloth both as projectile weapons and to wrap his foes.
• Professional Killer: Describes himself as the number-one hit man in the yokai world.
• Small Name, Big Ego: About the only bit of characterization he gets.
• Verbal Tic: He's got one, baby. It's "baby", baby!

Karakasa

• Animate Inanimate Object: 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.
• Improbable Weapon User: Though, admittedly, umbrellas are less improbable than most. Throwing them like spears is at least a little weird.
• Shock and Awe: The umbrellas he gives his minions can do this.

Nue

• Arc Villain: 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.
• Bad Boss: 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.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • 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.
• Disney Villain Death: 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 to let himself out.
• The Dreaded: 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.
• Feather Flechettes: His means of attacking and cursing his foes.
• Forced Transformation: 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 ("krappa" 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.
• Humans Are Bastards: 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.
• Mind over Matter: Tosses Seikai and Saizou around.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Creates a giant exploding snake which takes Mighty Shogun out of the fight.

Nuppefuhofu

• The Blank: Steals peoples' faces, making them this. He manages to get Saizou.
• Breath Weapon: Uses a nasty belch as one.
• Collector of the Strange: 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.
• Evil Smells Bad: Traditionally Nuppefuhofu are supposed to stink, and this one boasts of being made of corpse flesh, so it's not too far a stretch.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: He's got human faces for eyes, which means he's also got Extra Eyes.
• Faceless Goons: 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.
• Horror Hunger: 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.
• No Ontological Inertia: Per usual, all the faces pop back into place when Nuppefuhofu is erased.
• No-Sell: Saizou's shuriken just bounce off his rubbery flesh. Not so with Sasuke's Red Slicer.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Licks peoples' faces off with it.

Amanojaku

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada

• Breath Weapon: Fire breath—it's a classic!
• Kick the Dog: 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.
• Kill and Replace: Subverted. He does this to the kindly old priest at the mountain temple so he can distribute his mushrooms. Not! Amanojakus are even contrary in their boasts.
• Poison Mushroom: 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.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: 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.
• I Surrender, Suckers: 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.
• The Trickster: The cruel kind.
• Would Harm a Child: 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.

The Leaders of the Yokai Army

Yōkai Daimaō

Yōkai Daimaō | Voice: Hidekatsu Shibata

• As Long as There Is Evil: 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.
• Big Bad
• Bad Boss: 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.
• Hate Plague: As the Anthropomorphic Personification of human hate, if he were to be killed, he'd turn into one of these.
• Made of Evil: He's literally humanity's hatred personified.
• The Man Behind the Man
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: 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.
• Papa Wolf: While he did say his son Junior was a fool to think he would make him king of the Youkai one day, he was enraged that the Kakuranger killed him and vowed to make them pay.
• The Power of Hate: He is the physical realization of hatred and suffering. Can't actually be seen by normal humans due to this, if he so wishes.
• Really 700 Years Old: Is confirmed to be 1200 years old.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Yup. Big glowy red eyes.
• Relative Button: Mashes Tsuruhime's hard with Hakumenrou. (This is why his Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred! nearly works - the others are collectively outraged by this.)
• Maou the Demon King: 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 Big Bad of the series, the title suits him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Was originally imprisoned within the Gate of Seals by the Sanshinshou, and imprisoned once again at series end. This is fully justified, as he's more dangerous dead than he was alive.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Attempts this in the final episode as if killed, he'll turn into a sapient Hate Plague. The Sanshinshō manage to stop the Kakurangers the first time he tries it, and thereafter they're able to control themselves.
• Stronger with Age: After reaching the age of 1200, he gains the ability to spawn Daradara from his being.
• True Final Boss: Tends towards Orcus on His Throne compared to Junior, but it's clear he's this.
• Weaksauce Weakness: He mustn't be attacked directly, but due to being The Power of Hate incarnate, he can be physically pushed into the sealing gates by those with particularly strong will.

Young Nobleman Junior/Gasha Dokuro

Young Nobleman Junior/Gasha Dokuro | Actor: Kenichi Endou

• Arm Cannon / Jetpack:: Equips a arm-mounted flamethrower during his final battle with the Kakurangers courtesy of Dr. Yugami.
• The Antichrist: His role in the story is bringing Daimaoh into the physical world, uniting the human hating members of the Yokai race under him.
• Bad Boss: 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.
• Cool Sword: He wields a sword with a skeletal motif to it.
• Dem Bones: His true form is that of a Gashadokuro with elements of a modern soldier.
• Destroy the Villain's Weapon: Gasha Dokuro's flamethrower gets trashed by Kakure Daishogun's punch.
• Disc-One Final Boss: It takes getting a whole 'nother giant mecha to actually beat him, and even then...
  • My Death Is Only The Beginning: After being killed by the Kakurangers, the last of his life force opens Daimaō's seal.
• The Dragon: The son and right-hand of Daimaou.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: 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. And not, say, because he wants to protect humanity from the yokai or anything noble like that.
• Extradimensional Power Source: 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.
• Knight of Cerebus: Prior to his appearance, the Youkai mostly operated independently of each other and unlike previous sentai enemies, operated on a Blue-and-Orange Morality rather than outright malevolence.
• Noble Demon: He's a monster, but he does appear to have a sense of honor, and respects worthy warriors.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to destroy every living thing on Earth that isn't a yokai, claiming that this will make a "yokai paradise".
• Overlord Jr.: As Daimaoh's son.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Puts on a rock concert ceremony to summon his demonic father.
• Rotten Rock & Roll
• Sadist
• Shout-Out: Being a undead rocker, he is similar to Lord Raptor.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The first quarter of the show is a cakewalk, until he shows up.
• The Worf Effect: He overpowered the Kakurangers, but quickly gets worfed himself by Kakure Daishogun.

Hana no Kunoichi Gumi (Flower Kunoichi Gang)

Hana no Kunoichi Gumi (Flower Kunoichi Gang)

• Amazon Brigade: They are a group of powerful kunoichi (female ninjas).
• Cats Are Mean: 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).
• Death of Personality: Are transformed back into regular non-sapient cats by the end of the series rather than destroyed, effectively killing the people they once were.
• The Dividual: Apart from deferring to Ayame most of the time, they all have the same cruel personality.
• Humanity Ensues: Originally cats. They've apparently taken to their human forms, and can be seen swimming in a pool during their time off.
• Psycho Rangers: 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.)
  • Elite Mook: 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.
• Quirky Mini Boss Squad: All of them have their own quirks.
• Strong as They Need to Be: 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.

Hakumenro

Hakumenro | Actor: Takayuki Godai

• Attack Reflector: Capable of reflecting his foes' attack ninpo back onto themselves.
• Double Agent: Pretending to be a servant of the yokai, he's actually been gathering information for the last ten years.
• Dramatic Unmask: That fancy menpo doesn't last five minutes before a shuriken from Sasuke breaks it, revealing his face to his daughter.
• Fake Defector: "Joined" the yokai in order to find out Daimaou's weakness and to save his compatriots Taro and Jiro.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: 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. 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.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He is Tsuruhime's long lost father.
• Mind over Matter: During their fight, he grabs and whips Tsuruhime around with a beam from his sword.
• Red Baron: As a servant of the yokai, he's known as Hakumenrou The Tactician.
• Sword Beam: 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.
• Taken for Granite: After giving the Kakurangers the skinny on how to beat Daradara, his treachery was discovered by Daimaou, who turned him to stone.

Dr. Yugami

Dr. Yugami | Actor: Noboru Akima

• Cyborg: Not apparently one himself, but he appears to specialize in cybernetics and Powered Armor.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Crushed by rubble after Super Kakure Daishogun destroyed the Gate that would allow Daimaoh to enter the human world.
• Evil Genius: of the Yōkai Army.
• Mad Scientist: He's Junior's resident Mad Scientist, and that's really all the characterization he gets.
• Mark of the Supernatural: He's got Pointy Ears and several tufts of Otherworldly Technicolour Hair indicating his yokai nature.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: 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.
• Would Hurt a Child: Outright says he loves the sound of crying children.

Daidarabotchi

Daidarabotchi

• Big Little Brother: Daimaou's little brother who is far taller than him.
• The Brute: Daimaou's muscles
• Sizeshifter: Can take a human form be human size, but is a giant under his true form.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Lasts one episode in spite of being a general.

Yama-Uba

• Arc Villainess: From episode 50 to episode 52.
• Lady in Red: Witch in red.
• Pre-Final Boss: She dies in the penultimate episode and is the last foe before Daimaou and the Flower Kunochi Gang.
• One-Winged Angel: Has a super form.
• Red Is Violent: Her outfits are and she's a villainess.
• Wicked Witch: of the japanese folklore.

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