With the final episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger just aired today, Toei's production website posted the final behind the scene shots of the production crew and the interesting production notes about the guests Super Sentai heroes that appeared n this episode.


Ei Hamura and Keisuke Tsuchiya, who portrayed Tenma Ranger Shouji and Kirin Ranger Kazu, respectively, from Gosei Sentai Dairanger made appearances in the finale. Truth-be-told there is some inside information as to these two's appearance. Both dropped in unanounced during the filming of Episode 33 "It's a Herooo!" in which Keichi Wada, playing TenKaSei Ryo, was performing.

Director Tarou Sakamoto and Action Director Ishigaki filmed a brief scene of the three of them together on-the-spot, but in the interest of time and story continuity it was cut from the final product. Their appearing now is "revenge" for that incident, gladly accepting the chance to appear on-screen and performing with much gusto. Similar to Mr. Wada, the fact that the two of them still know their roll call poses and motions from Dairanger shows their continuing love for the program, and big Dairanger fan Junya Ikeda (playing Gai) was quite excited to see them again.


In Episode 23 "Peoples' Lives are the Earth's Future" Matsuri/Go Pink entrusted GoGoV's ultimate power to the Gokaigers. Here we have her sibling, Shou Tatsumi/Go Green appear through the acting of Atsushi Harada. Following Shibata Kayoko's return performance as Matsuri, Mr. Harada had also felt motivated to make an appearance, soon agreeing to the proposition. Feeling the nostalgic atmosphere of the film studio, he got back into the swing of things very naturally.


In Episode 3 "Turn Courage Into Magic ~Maagi Magi Go Gokai~" the Magirangers' ultimate power was given to the Gokaigers by Kai Ozu, played by Atsushi Hashimoto. Thinking back, it was his line, "If you obtain the ultimate powers of the 34 Super Sentai, you can get the Greatest Treasure in the Universe," that served as the starting point of the Pirate Sentai's adventure.

Here in the final episode we have another Ozu Sibling, Houka/MagiPink as played by Ayumi Beppu, taking the stage. The fact that she remained even after her shooting had ended to make conversation with both the suit actors and other staff was greatly appreciated. Of course, she also had a lot of fun during shooting, as well, and was presented with flowers as a former warrior.


During the course of "Gokaiger - Goseiger - Super Sentai 199 Heroes Great Battle" the Go-Ongers' ultimate power was given to the Gokaigers by Royama Saki/Go-On Yellow. That ultimate power was given form as Machalcon in Episode 36 "Partner Pirates" through the assistance of Sosuke Esumi/Go-On Red.

Here in the finale we have Go-On Silver/Miu Sutou, played by Yumi Sugimoto, making an appearance. In this past summer's movie feature she had also taken the stage as a member of G3 Princess. Over the course of filming for both the television program and films, all of the G3 Princess members have appeared twice, and for that we are very grateful!

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