Ninninger Shinobi no 19

Shinobi no 19; Find the Celestial Otomo Nin!; 探せ！天空のオトモ忍
	Shuriken Sentai Ninninger episode
Writer	Shimoyama Kento
Director	Kato Hiroyuki
Original air date	July 5, 2015
Viewership	4.4%
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Aired with Kamen Rider Drive 36

Air date: July 5, 2015 (2015-07-05)

Important things that happened

上級妖怪ヌエ

Has a monkey theme. Ends a lot of his lines with "gozaru", which is a pun on the word "ape/saru".

Tetsu in Tetsunosuke means "iron". A fitting name for a modern day blacksmith/engineer.
In the book, Saika Tetsunosuke says he's the 21st to carry that name. In the photo, his face is obscured.
- It's revealed that the Saika Tetsunosuke that the Ninningers meet is the 22nd. The actor who plays him is currently 14 years old.
Saika resides at Shishi Shrine (Shishi Tera 獅子寺) which means "lion shrine"
Shishioh means "lion king".
Nagi giving Shishioh the onigiri is very similar to Momotarou giving the millet dumpling to the animals in return for their help.
- Shishioh complains that he's being treated like the monkey from the The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab folklore story. In the story, the monkey trades a persimmon seed for a crab's onigiri.
Yakumo's spell "Reena ni Shankaubo" (レーナニシャン・カウボ) means "turn into an onlooker".

During the ending theme, there's a guess the number of colored fireworks there are. The colors match the colors on the remote for TV's in Japan.
- Blue 2 Red 3 Green 6 Yellow 5

Yamagata Yukio is the theme song singer for GaoRanger. So when there's animal themed songs in Sentai, he's often called upon to sing them. And it's fitting that he's Shishioh here and lion-themed since Gao's main Power Animal is a lion.