YMMV / Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger

• Angst? What Angst?: The Hurricanegers get over their classmates being wiped out remarkably quick. Mugensai also doesn't seem that bummed out about it either.
• Arc Fatigue: Every villain's machinations are for the sake of causing the arrival of "that." But you're not getting any description or even the slightest hint of who or what "that" is or much real progress being made until the last two or three episodes. One would think it really doesn't matter what the Excuse Plot that enables the chop-socky and robot battles is, and many sentai series don't go the Myth Arc route at all, but... the set-up for the whole show is that everything is about whoever or whatever "that" is, with the villains trying to cause it and the heroes trying to prevent it. Every new storyline is about a new way for the villains to bring about "that," and every new piece of information is being sought because it might tell how to bring/stop "that," every MacGuffin is something that everyone is chasing because in the right/wrong hands it's the key to stopping/causing "that," and when Tau Zant goes One-Winged Angel, the Rangers are worried because... he's stronger and might win now? No, it's because this form is more like what's needed to bring about... "that!" It makes it very hard to keep caring when it's episode 48 and the term is still utterly meaningless.
• Awesome Music: Both the entrance themes of Hurricanegers and Gouraigers.
• Base-Breaking Character: Yosuke Shiina. Either a great Sentai Red who's very well-developed or the very first to start the whole "Screaming/Loudmouthed Red" phenomenon.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • Episode 12 has a monster that can’t possibly have any use in corrupting the planet (it seems specifically made to defeat the Hurricanegers, which is also unusual) and Mugensai being Out of Character as a Nice Guy who everybody irrationally hates, rather than the abrasive Jerkass he usually is.
  • Episode 34 has Wendinu turn giant when she gets angry, a fact never brought up before or after this.
• Complete Monster:
  • Boss/Leader Tau Zant, master of Jakanja, is a monstrous being who destroys worlds throughout the cosmos to become the supreme being. Coming to earth, Tau Zant begins targeting civilians and cities while destroying the Hurricenger ninja school, leaving only a few survivors. Betraying his own men and having them eliminated once their purposes are served, Tau Zant gleefully attempts to harness the Evil Will trapped beneath Earth to destroy the very universe and recreate it as a god.
  • Seventh Spear, Sandaaru, is Tau Zant's most powerful and wicked soldier. Leader of the Seven Darkness Lances, Sandaaru is a vicious shark-like alien known for destroying entire worlds. Coming to earth to assume leadership of Jakanja's military, he immediately shows himself as a more brutal and cunning foe than the Hurricengers have yet faced, even killing the ninja Lady Gozen to steal a magic gem from her. Betraying his own side and eliminating fellow Lances when they have fulfilled their purpose, Sandaaru even turns on and kills Tau Zant before attempting to hijack his plan to use the Evil Will to wipe out all life and become a god in his stead.
  • The Evil Will, also known as "It" or "That", is a hateful entity as old as time itself. Seeking to destroy the universe, the Evil Will spreads prophecies, communicating with Tau Zant to draw him closer to it. When finally summoned, the Evil Will cackles how all will die before it remakes a reality where it controls everything and begins rending the Earth apart with its power.
• Cult Classic: It was initially overshadowed by Gaoranger's success, but its gone on to be one of the most popular Sentai seasons for its unique premise involving multiple Sentai teams, fun style of humor and creative plot. To the point that not only was it the first Sentai to get a 10 Years After film, it got a 20 Years After film too.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The series itself is an underdog with a cult following compared to the other more notable Super Sentai series with bigger fanbases, getting a "Ten Years Later" postscript reunion movie.
• Evil Is Cool: Sandaaru is easily the coolest of the Seven Darkness Spears. You can't say he isn't awesome when he's taking on all the heroes at once and fighting them off, or when he's outplaying and besting his fellow villains.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Not only would Kamen Rider Kabuto have two lead Riders with similar colors and beetle motifs as the Gouraiger, but their personal weapons are also similar (except that KuwagaRaiger's scissor claw can't be seperated).
  • Also Nanami's career aside of her ninja-ness. Starting out as an enka singer and eventually exploding as a famous Idol Singer and multi-talent star? Well, why does it reminds us to a certain someone in real life named Nana Mizuki? In hindsight, because during the airing of Hurricaneger, Nana Mizuki hadn't really exploded as a true star... until years later! To add to the hilarity, Nana went on to voice a Henshin Hero in Sentai's sister series Pretty Cure as Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom, and then in the very toku-esque Symphogear as Tsubasa Kazanari.
• Ho Yay: Some fans take Yousuke and Ikkou this way, particularly when Yousuke is deliberately poisoned to save Ikkou's life.
• Memetic Badass: Shurikenger, for being a dandy, English-spewing Master of Disguise.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The series opens with the entire body of students from the Hayate School being turned into cards by Chuuzubo and Furabijo and then getting pulverized by the Jakanja's spaceship along with their school's building, none of them come back and can be heard helplessly screaming while still trapped in their card forms seconds before they're pulverized. Even worse is that Oboro confirms this event happened worldwide, with only the Hurricaneger trio, the Gouraigers and Shurikenger being confirmed to have survived the massacre.
  • Manmaruba’s mutation into a giant monster. And before that, the extent of the sadism he displays against several associates of the Gouraigers.
  • Satarakura’s Sanity Slippage once his mask is broken by Sandaaru. The once funny clown and Laughably Evil goofball is reduced to a hateful raging demon and an implied Omnicidal Maniac while at it, sporting a pair of reptilian sinister eyes to boot.
  I hate you! Hurricanegers, Gouraigers, Shurikenger, even Jakanja! I hate you all!
• One-Scene Wonder: Seizō Katō voices the Evil Will in the final episode.
• Smurfette Breakout: Nanami is easily the most popular character in this series and has frequently appeared, on her own, in future Super Sentai seasons and specials. Some fans were even surprised when Yosuke reappeared in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger and she didn't. Furabiijo and Wendinu are also easily the most popular villains in the show, and have gone on to make quite a few appearances of their own.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Episode #34 shows that Wendinu gets much stronger the more enraged and stressed she gets, to the point where she's able to grow giant and handily defeat both Senpuujin and Gouraijin at once. Despite how much of a game-breaker this makes her, Jakanja never come up with any more plans that make use of it beyond that one episode.

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