Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

  Super Sentai is a long-running series. I had a couple of predictions that FAILED. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger was the 35th season. I even felt Super Sentai wouldn't make it past 40 but I was wrong. I wrote about the significant difference between Super Sentai and Power Rangers with creative thinking from 2011-2017 . I decided to look at how Super Sentai tried to stay afloat AFTER Gokaiger . I decided to do a rundown from 2012 up to 2024. This would cover some of the Heisei era and the Reiwa era.  Let's get started, shall we? Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters right after a grand anniversary season Gokaiger ended with a bang. It's possible not so many people were ready for it to end just yet. There were probably tears from the audience during the finale. For one, I believe Gokaiger is overly hyped. Sure, it's one of the greatest Super Sentai series made but NOT necessarily the GREATEST. That's why I addressed the problem of the Gokaiger hype -- that is if you think watching

Last year,  King-Ohger's timeline was   linked with Kyoryuger . This year has ToQGer linked with Boonboomger . I'm getting ready for some people who still believe in the existence of the Super Sentai timeline.  One episode featured the Go-Onger guest episode, explaining that  Go-Onger was from another world . However, this episode links or proves that Boonboomger is in the same continuity as ToQGer . Watching ToQGer when I had taste fatigue from Super Sentai was why I didn't initially enjoy it .  This week's episode didn't have any open portals or anything. Instead, it really had it that Akira and Right Suzuki. Jun Shishon only showed up at the end of the episode. Shin Nagahama took the cake as the guest star. No mention of Shadow Line was made. The plot had some crazy train-themed monster called Senro Grumer. The people get forced to play choo-choo train against their will. Getting all the ToQGer cast together may be impossible -- given that some are involved in J-

  This is an idea that came to mind but I was hesitant to write it. I'm still stuck with Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger and not too excited about Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger -- even NOW! It's probably because King-Ohger felt so different it's more than just something new. I felt King-Ohger's innovation was highly ambitious! It felt more like a serialized Anime series than a Super Sentai . Toshiki Inoue made a comeback in Avatar Sentai Donbrothers -- something I enjoyed more than Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger . With Inoue's return -- I was excited and worried at the same time. Inoue is among the writers who got overused. I even remember a rumor that Kamen Rider Zi-O's head writer would be Yasuko Kobayashi.  As I did more research on Kobayashi -- she also wrote for Attack of Titan -- something I only discovered by researching about her! What I never realized was that some Super Sentai fans have compared it to Attack on Titan . I wonder if Toei actually planned Kobayashi to be t

I wrote a LENGTHY entry at JEFusion (and I stopped guest-writing there) discussing the cultural differences between Super Sentai and Power Rangers . I wrote this and that but never thought of another angle until I read this OPINION piece discussing 10 areas where Power Rangers is better than its parent show . I read through it and found out the author's views included Power Rangers' inclusion of the Morphin' Grid (something that's NON-EXISTENT in Super Sentai ) and the top reason was the long-running story arcs: Entries in the Super Sentai franchise tend to be mostly self-contained, outside of team-up specials and anniversary movies. Power Rangers, however, really pushed the idea of a shared continuity, which was very satisfying for long-time fans. The first six seasons of Power Rangers essentially followed the same team throughout the years, with Rangers leaving and new Rangers joining the team as the series went on. Even when the series began introducing entirely new

This week's Boonboomger gives an explosive revelation. Yes, it's that Genba is actually a cat-like alien from the planet Bureki. Was this a sudden twist or not? Given how superhero shows tend to operate -- it may or it may not. Super Sentai copies tropes here and there so I'm not too surprised. Was this an attempt to add layers or what? Genba has a grudge against Disrace who harmed the planet Bureki -- before the show even began. I realized that some rangers are uniquely non-human in a team of humans. Sure, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger had four members who were aliens and only two were humans. Here, I'm talking about non-human rangers in a team of humans. That means half-humans like Eiji Takaoka in Gougou Sentai Boukenger aren't included.  Aside from Genba -- here are the rest you may or may not remember...  Sion from Mirai Sentai Timeranger Timeranger was the very first Super Sentai series to introduce a non-human character. Okay, in Star Wars terminology -- Sion would

  I haven't been writing episode reviews. They can be enjoying and they can be tiresome. Blogging is just a sideline. As I caught up with Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger -- I'm still hyped up with last year's Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger . Yes, I'm not going to hide that fact! It might just be a matter of taste fatigue . I won't deny that I've shifted my preference to South Korean entertainment over Japanese entertainment. However, that hasn't prevented me from at least checking out Boonboomger .  After a huge adventure in some fantasy world -- it's time to go back to Modern Japan. Maybe, it's like going back to your own country or planet after a long trip. I was already obsessed with moving Super Sentai away from Modern Japan -- in favor of other fictional settings. King-Ohger gave me that. Ucchu Sentai Kyuranger also gave me that feeling. What I tend to ignore is that Super Sentai will always have certain limits . Super Sentai operates within a certain budg

Here's a video of Brennan Mejia of Power Rangers Dino Charge reviewing the American toys vs. Japanese toys . Does Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger have some huge hype going on last 2013 or past it? Maybe I missed it last 2013 because I had Super Sentai taste fatigue. The  Kyoryuger hype and bandwagon might be just there. A Kyoryuger official English sub may be next! I'm no fan of Kyoryuger but I can understand the hype with the cool action scenes by Koichi Sakamoto. Knowing the cultural differences between America and Japan is one. The Power Rangers episode in The Toys That Made Us helped me understand why Toei allows Power Rangers to exist. I don't like Power Rangers but I understood why it had to exist. The American market and the Japanese market are two different settings. The 1990s were a different era. It's already the 2020s and the digital age is here. This video feels more like a subject for international marketing on cultural differences. In a sense, Power Rangers is st