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"S.P.D.: Special Police Dekaranger. Five police officers who fight crime in cool style with burning hearts. Their duty is to battle interplanetary criminals hiding on Earth, and to protect and serve the people! But now, they are no longer together. The passage of ten years has given them new destinies, and they followed separate paths."
A Reunion Show for Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger released in 2015, ten years after the show aired its final episode.A decade has passed since Agent Abrella has been destroyed, and the Dekaranger team stationed on Earth has gone their separate ways, with Tetsu now the acting head of the SPD's Earth branch and Ban working in the organization's Fire Squad. However, the police organization is now more violent in its approach to Alienizers under the leadership of the organization's new commissioner, Kight Reidlich. To make matters worse, the Dekarangers' boss, Doggie Kruger, has been accused of multiple murders and criminal collusion, forcing the team to reunite to find the true culprit and clear their boss's name. Unfortunately, time has seemingly soured their personalities, and with an eyewitness getting involved and Doggie's life at stake, solving this mystery may be easier said than done...
Tropes
- Babies Ever After: When Umeko visits Jasmine who's on her maternity leave, she discovers she has a baby, having married the ESPer boy she had saved back in the main series.
- Big Bad: It turns out that Kight Reidlich is the one who committed the murders and framed Doggie Kruger for them to cover up his crime of colluding with the space mafia, setting up the conflict of the movie.
- Body Surf: Carrie is a Clementian alien (who looks exactly like a regular human girl) who can jump into other peoples' bodies to hide regardless of who they are, though nothing about her hosts changes and she doesn't possess anyone. This ability lets her hide in her dad's body when Kight finds the latter, allowing her live to bear witness to Kight's crimes.
- Call-Back:
- Ban makes a wild crash landing in his Pat Striker, just like in the first episode of the show.
- Ban is in his SPD Fire Squad uniform, having joined them in the last episode of the series proper.
- Jasmine is shown to have a baby, having married a man who is none other than the ESPer boy she saved back in the show's eighth episode. And just like he told her, the boy went to the SPD's training academy and is now a graduate.
- Ban calls Hoji his "aibou" and waits for him to yell at him to not call him that, akin to the many times he did that gag. Hoji doesn't respond the way he expected to... until the end of the movie.
- The narrator once again tells the audience about Jasmine and her abilities as an ESPer. Jasmine also explains her newfound teleportation after they reassemble and find who's the mole, which the narrator doesn't take very well.Narrator: [after Jasmine explains her teleportation powers] That's good and all, but I think you stole my line.
- The Caper: Heroic example, but the style and elements are present. To sum up, everyone already knew Doggie was innocent, but they all fake being cold and sour to one another to go under Kight's radar. Ban covered for Hoji who spent two years in the computer room investigating Doggie's accusations, Jasmine was told of the plan through her infant son and used her new teleportation powers which she got from her baby to help Swan revive Doggie and help out her team in ensuring Carrie's safety, Ban, "following" Kight's orders to leave Doggie's case, does so... by disguising as Carrie to lure out Kight and his accomplices, Hoji ended up being the one to carry the real Carrie to safety, and Umeko and Sen were never informed to "convince" Kight. All this led to the reveal of the actual culprit getting revealed by Doggie while Carrie is safe with the police.
- Clear Their Name: The plot of the show has the Dekaranger team trying to prove Doggie Kruger's innocence of the murders by a mole who actually did the murders.
- Decoy Getaway: The final stage of Ban's plan to find out who's the murderer had Ban posing as Carrie, whom Kight Reidlich wanted to kill for seeing everything. The real Carrie, who went into Hoji, was safely brought over to the SPD headquarters to talk to the prosecutors, allowing them to learn everything she saw.
- Distant Sequel: Released 10 years following the conclusion of Dekaranger.
- Feeling Their Age: Averted despite some of the enemies mocking them as "Old Soldiers that should fade away" and "Old ladies out of breath" they're only in their early 30s instead of early 20s and aren't nearly old enough to have lost their edge yet and easily turn the tables on them.
- Foreshadowing:
- Assam and Mugi are shown to be the two new recruits of the Earth team, but despite being basically rookie cops, they already have SWAT mode and are using violent ways to battle criminals in them. Also, when Ban muses that Carrie will only talk to the prosecutors because they don't know if her enemies are close or hiding, they're present during this conversation... but they're silent throughout. It turns out that they're in league with the mole, who's hiding amidst the ranks of the SPD.
- While discussing about Umeko, Ban notes Hoji playing games in the computer room was out of character for him, to which Hoji asks if he saw through that, hinting that Ban already knew what Hoji was really doing there. It turns out Ban was covering Hoji while he was investigating the murders Doggie supposedly committed to prove his innocence.
- When Umeko tells Carrie to get inside of her, she claims that she can only enter a person's body once a week, despite her easily entering Umeko's body seconds after she got out of an alien's body earlier. Also, she exclaims in shock upon hearing Umeko describe herself as the Dekarangers' leader, knowing she isn't, and she's shocked when she meets the mole face to face when earlier appearances has her traumatized. It turns out, this "Carrie" is actually Ban disguised as her while the real Carrie hid in Hoji's body and was safely escorted to the police prosecutors.
- Frame-Up: The whole story begins with Doggie Kruger accused of a series of murders by the actual culprit, leaving his team to find evidence to find the actual killer.
- He Knows Too Much: The Mole seems to have a knack for leaving no witnesses to his criminal activity, and he does it twice...
- Why is Carrie in danger? She had witnessed her father die, along with the murders of the other mafia members, and knows who actually did it, causing the culprit to send criminals after her to prevent her from revealing the truth.
- Doggie Kruger fared no better either. He was downed just when he confronted the culprit who sabotaged his intravenous drip such that he doesn't wake up. If that's not enough, an Igaroid under the mole's orders sneaks into his ward and attempts to finish him off before Jasmine intervened.
- Legacy Character: Assam Asimov and Mugi Grafton are the Neo Deka Red and Deka Yellow respectively.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Ban's plan to flush out the murderer had Sen and Umeko given the role of being uninformed about it to ensure their reactions were more realistic to the murderer. After witnessing Hoji run off, Sen catches on to the plan through inference and goes along with it, though he manages to still keep up the masquerade. Umeko doesn't learn anything about it until after they all find Kight.
- The Mole: Kight Reidlich is revealed to have sold SPD's information to the space Mafia and rendered Doggie comatose to prevent him from revealing everything, all while serving as the SPD Earth branch's commissioner.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Hoji apparently got so depressed over Doggie getting accused of collusion and multiple murders that he locks himself up in the computer room to play video games for two years. Except that it's a cover for him trying to investigate Doggie's case.
- Once More, with Clarity: Assam and Mugi reveal some security camera footage which shows Doggie supposedly carrying out the murders before getting shot by a mafia member. Once Kight is revealed to be the actual culprit, a flashback shows that Doggie had found him there, with one of the mafia guys promptly downing him, after which, Kight took Doggie's appearance as a disguise, and murdered his partners in crime and Carrie's father.
- Reunion Show: Unites the complete Dekaranger cast for the first time since Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger nine years prior.
- Relationship Upgrade: Swan and Doggie finally confess their love for each other.
- Spanner in the Works: Carrie bearing witness to Kight's crimes by hiding in her dad before he gets spotted and following Doggie Kruger's advice to go to Ban and his comrades for help set up Kight's exposure and downfall.
"S.P.D.: Special Police Dekaranger. Burning hearts, fighting cool. They are forever. Please remember them when you feel down. Even if they're not here now, the Dekarangers will always be in your hearts. So keep fighting with them! When you overcome one of life's emergencies, surely a wonderful and expansive galaxy awaits you. Forever Dekaranger!"
