is a Japanese Tokusatsu television show and Toei's twenty-sixth production of the Super Sentai metaseries. After Toei filed the trademark for the series on November 22, 2001, it aired from February 17, 2002, to February 9, 2003, replacing Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, and was replaced by Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger. Its footage was used in the American series Power Rangers Ninja Storm (the end credits listed the show as titled Hurricane Rangers).

On April 1, 2013, Shun Shioya, Nao Nagasawa, Kohei Yamamoto, Yujiro Shirakawa, and Nobuo Kyo, who played Hurricane Red, Hurricane Blue, Hurricane Yellow, Kabuto Raijer, and Kuwaga Raijer, respectively, announced that a tenth-anniversary V-Cinema release called Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: 10 Years After would be produced. This is the first time a movie has been made commemorating the anniversary of a single Sentai series. The movie is a direct to DVD and Blu-ray release. Shout! Factory released Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: The Complete Series in North America on March 26, 2019. This is the twelfth Super Sentai series to be released in North America. It aired alongside Kamen Rider Ryuki.

Hurricaneger is the first Super Sentai series to officially celebrate its own 20th anniversary, with a V-cinext release for this occasion which debuted in 2022.

Plot

Three misfit pupils of the Hayate-Style Ninja School, who are given a rigorous training regiment by their sensei Mugensai Hinata, are the only survivors when most of their peers are slaughtered during the graduation ceremony by a group of evil space ninjas known as the Jakanja that serve a mysterious power hidden on Earth. Mugensai, who has turned himself into a hamster to evade his pursuers, and his daughter Oboro Hinata recruit the trio to become the legendary Hurricanegers to fight Jakanja. The Hurricanegers are joined by the Gouraigers of the Ikazuchi-Style Ninja School, who were initially their enemies, and later the mysterious Shurikenger who unites the two ninja groups to stop Jakanja from acquiring the mysterious power.

Characters

thumb|right|300px|The cast of Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: 10 Years After. From left to right: Fourth Spear Wendinu, First Spear Furabiijo, Isshu and Ikkou Kasumi, Yosuke Shiina, Nanami Nono, Kota Bito, and Tenkai.

Hurricanegers

The eponymous Hurricanegers are three ninja students in the 507th class who are the survivors of the ninja school, , where they master their school's ninjutsu. They represent the Hayate Heart embodying the "Presistence of the Future". Their special team attack is the .

With arsenal revolving around the discs, the Hurricanegers utilize the bracelet to transform and possess the hang gliders for transportation. They also each carry a sidearm, which can switch between its ninjatō-like and its rifle-like . The Hurricanegers combine their personal weapons to form the , which has three modes that can perform a different finisher depending on which weapon is used as the front piece: the shoots a ball of flaming energy, the fires a bubble of sound waves, and the materializes a 100-ton spherical weight.

When facing enlarged Jakanja members, the Hurricanegers summon and combine their to form a known as via . Alternatively, it can assume a more agile form known as for a duration of one minute.

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Cast

  • Yosuke Shiina, Yonosuke (Shushutto 20th Anniversary):
  • Nanami Nono, :
  • Kota Bito, :
  • Ikkou Kasumi, :
  • Isshu Kasumi, :
  • Furabiijo:
  • Wendinu:
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  • Kagura, Inquirer (10 Years After):
  • Mugensai Hinata:
  • Oboro Hinata:

Voice actors

  • Shurikenger:
  • Tau Zanto:
  • Chuuzubo:
  • Manmaruba:
  • Sargain:
  • Satarakura:
  • Sandaaru:
  • Narrator, Fuuraimaru, Bat Zhe Rumba (10 Years After):

Guest cast

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Film and direct-to-video guest cast

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  • Chubouzu (Voice, Hurricaneger vs. Gaoranger): Yūji Kishi
  • Tenkai (10 Years After):
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  • Oiranda (Shushutto 20th Anniversary):
  • Aunja (Voice, Shushutto 20th Anniversary):

Songs

;Opening theme

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  • The second part of this song is used as ending theme of episode 51

;Ending theme

  • (1-50)
  • Lyrics & Composition: Hideaki Takatori
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Notes

References

  • at Super-Sentai.net
  • for Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger de Gozaru! Shushutto 20th Anniversary

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