Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

  Watching Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger and enjoying it because it's so shiny and new was something. I said, "That's the innovation I wanted from Toei!" Sure, I had those crazy comments like, "Well, it'd feel more authentic if we had white people playing the other roles!" Something that would be difficult or even impossible due to language barriers. King-Ohger was a very awkward yet interesting season. The only thing that I felt "authentic" was Erica Murakami playing Himeno since she's half-white.  Other than that, I enjoy bonking the rest of the cast because of Japanese people playing roles "better suited" for white people. Everyone did a good job and I was amazed with a lot of atypical stuff. The show had a more TV drama feel than the Kamen Rider franchise did during its reboot. The newer Kamen Rider series (which old schoolers prefer to call Masked Rider) feels more like a TV drama series. Those enormous changes in King-Ohger cause

Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger may be that heavily-celebrated season. Heck, it even has a 20th-anniversary movie! Some Power Rangers fans might get defensive if I told them there are older seasons better than Dekaranger . I might hear, "Are you kidding me? Dekaranger was that popular in Japan!" with evidence thrown at my face with full velocity. Dekaranger premiered in 2004 and it was also the first Super Sentai to get a complete fansub. Why would anyone want to watch a show where they can't understand the language? The subtitles built that bridge and There was probably much rejoicing when Dekaranger finally got an official DVD release.  I can't deny I like Dekaranger . However, I began seeing it as an overrated classic after watching other shows. The now-defunct but still remembered Metal Hero series gave hard-to-replicate classics. The 1990s gave us Tokkei Winspector , Tokyu Shirei Solbrain , Tokosou Exceedraft , and my favorite Tokosou Robo Janperson . Watching Kyukyu S

I wrote what I'd dub an even lower-than-amateurish review of  Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger's first episode . Writing episode reviews can be enjoyable but also exhausting. I enjoyed doing my whacked-out Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger reviews that can create a drinking game. That whole season was so unique on its own that it's hard for me to drop it. Right now, I feel I'll drop doing episode reviews while I can choose to react to updates. Recently, digital platforms have given me a lot of stuff to "move on to". I'm watching the J-Drama series Vivant . I was overhyped with Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger and I feel the need to slow things down. Talk about slowing things down while Boonboomger is trying to LITERALIZE Lightspeed and Bakuage means "Explosive Increase" or "Blast Off".  I think I'll just do reactions on Boonboomger the same way I did with Avatar Sentai Donbrothers . I think watching Boonboomger on a flexible schedule can help me regain my

Another childhood icon goes away, right? This time, any 1980s to 1990s child would remember the late  Akira Toriyama  (who died at 68 of a brain blood clot) for many things they enjoyed. Toei Ltd. didn't just bring the world Super Sentai , Power Rangers , Kamen Rider , the now-canceled but never-forgotten  Metal Hero franchise (and references pop out even after it was ended), the now-canceled Super Robot Anime (and the last one was Dairugger XV which was adapted to the even less popular Vehicle Voltron ). Toei was also responsible for Dr. Slump , the Dragon Ball franchise, and Dragon Quest (which was localized as Dragon Warrior for the American audience, without otherwise changing the story). Toei was hitting across the American market. A lot of its shows had to be localized. Before Power Rangers - there was the Voltron franchise based on Hyajakuu Golion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV . World Events Productions (WEP) was given permission to create a show based on the original source

  My flexibility is still there. I've already made plans to let this blog have the same fate as Power Rangers Now  last 2013 (because I really found Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger a messy prospect). What I never expected was that I'd actually enjoy Uchu Sentai Kyuranger. Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger has a huge following - ranking third with Buzzwords .  King-Ohger became a huge budget festival with some major changes in writing. Yosuke Ito who acted as Sen Enari in Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger is said to be leading a campaign for the final three episodes to have a cinematic release. With all that, Toei may have to deal with the Tough Act to Follow and it's not the first time that happened.  Several times, Toei creates something so good that it overshadows what it offers next. Some Super Sentai seasons suffer that fate during its initial run. It could also affect toy sales. I heard that Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters was overshadowed by Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger . Super Sentai probably had a reb

It's the first episode of Baukage Sentai Boomboonger . After a year of spending time outside Modern Japan (and Chikyu turns out to be a planet inhabited by humans from EARTH) - it's time to return to MODERN JAPAN.  Taiya Hando lightspeed rescues Mira Shifuto from a forced marriage. Why would a freeter suddenly be forced into that marriage? Either way, I do think that  Super Sentai  tends to focus more on threats that can't be handled by the everyday military. We never saw any  Super Sentai  team rescue a person from a forced marriage if it's just ordinary people involved.  How are these car scenes filmed? Today's Super Sentai has been purposely made tame due to newer censorship laws. Dekotarade, Itasha, and Yaiyai Yalcar (who also serves as Make My Monster Grow) begin their rampage. Their aim is to gather as many human screams as possible. I enjoyed the crazy car race one way or another. It's nearly an upgrade from Kamen Rider Drive last 2015.  A glimpse of Ishi

  You may notice that I've been using "entry" and "season" interchangeably. However, with Super Sentai usually self-contained - I prefer the word "entry" over the word "season" now. Before Bakuage Sentai Boomboonger enters as the fifth entry of the Reiwa era - I'd like to wrap up my thoughts. I've written my reviews where one can have a drinking game. I confess that it's a guilty pleasure to do so. The whole season felt so ambitious, it's almost like anniversary levels of budget (and it looks like budget cuts caused the second half to be written that way) and the whole show feels rather different. Heck, in fact, it feels more diverse than the way that Avatar Sentai Donbrothers carries its plot. After the grand rewatch, I wonder if I'd bother rewatching it because the show is what I'd call an ambitious, awkward, enjoyable, not-so-typical Super Sentai entry. After Toshiki Inoue's return, a much younger writer named M