Recap / Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger Ep 02

Hyakujuu Gattai! ^note Hundred Beasts Combination! GaoKing!

First Aired: February 25, 2001

Directed by: Satoshi Morota

Writing by: Junki Takegami

With the full resurgence of Orgs including the Duke Orgs, a new one arises: Wire Org, who uses his powers to cause aimless destruction and mayhem. Meanwhile GaoRed tries to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. All of this while a new dark power rises in the foreground to oppose the growing power of the Gaoranger...

Episode Summary

Red is starting to feel uncomfortable with the idea of killing Orgs after his first outing and begins to think of a way to end the fight between humans and Orgs by using his capacity to talk to animals and their hearts as means of reasoning with Orgs to sway them away from their destructive nature. Afterwards an Org spirit emerges and possesses the barbed wire of a fence, attacking a policeman and leaving to cause further mayhem. Next, Red starts moving his stuff from his old life into Gao's Rock, which is where he'll reside in during his time as a GaoWarrior; then the Gaoranger see news of Wire Org's attack and mobilize to stop the demon. Meanwhile Tsuetsue and Yabaiba feel that a Highness Duke Org is about to be awakened by Org Master just as they set out to find Wire Org and recruit him.

When the Gao Warriors go out to find Wire Org, Yellow dismisses Red's belief that he can reason with the Orgs, the warriors split to find the Org; White accompanies Red and the two find the aftermath of Wire Org's rampage, who himself is found by the Dukes who provide him with the means to intensify his rampage, a cup filled with a strange liquid which he uses to summon Orgettes, the Mook Orgs. As Red and White finally find the Org, Red takes his chance to talk things out with the Org using his ability to speak to the heart of living beings, only to be coldly rebuked by Wire Org who reveals that Orgs have no hearts before sending the Orgettes to fight Red and White as he tries to cover the city in his wires. The five warriors reunite to fight the threat and after a struggle use the Haja Hyakujuuken to strike down Wire Org.

Unwilling to back down just yet, Tsuetsue uses her staff to resurrect Wire Org as a giant; the Gaoranger call on the Power Animals who fuse into GaoKing, who uses its powerful attacks and finisher of Wild Animal Heart to destroy Wire Org once and for all. As Yabaiba and Tsuetsue retreat into the Matrix, they bear witness to the awakening of the first Highness Duke- Shuten.

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Tropes

• For the Evulz: Wire Org relishes in the mindless destruction and suffering he causes and has no real reason besides that for his actions, rubbing it in Red's face when the Gao Warrior tries reasoning with him.
• Humongous Mecha: This episode features the debut of GaoKing, the combined form of the five Power Animals.
• The Reveal:
  • Org Master is a stone statue demon residing in the Matrix, from within it creates the Orgs that menace the heroes and is capable of creating particularly powerful ones known as the Highness Dukes, with the first named Shuten and appearing at the end of this episode.
  • Orgs lack a heart and thus any capacity for good.
  • Unsurprisingly, the five Power Animals can fuse into a single giant mech known as GaoKing.
• Space Whale Aesop: Orgs are not your friends, nor they can be reasoned with; not even the ability to talk to the hearts of animals will help your case. All you can do is destroy them, or they'll destroy everything.
• To Be Continued: After Highness Duke Org Shuten emerges, the narrator ponders what kind of misery he'll bring upon humanity before concluding with a note to watch next episode.