Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

It's been some time since I did a Gozyuger react on the update. I'm watching Gozyuger while  Super Sentai hasn't been high on my leisure list. Right now, the plot involving Rei Gushima slowly reveals more layers in Gozyuger's unorthodox innovative world-building. The layers of tragedy get darker. Super Sentai may have been toned down since 2001. However, that hasn't stopped Super Sentai from adding plots NOT ALLOWABLE in Power Rangers. This is one flashback that gets too disturbing. Rikuo Byakuya was revealed to have been friends with Rei in an earlier episode. The flashback where Rikuo was nearly stabbed by a fake fangirl (who was jealous of Rikuo, actually). It's revealed that Rei has some degree of goodness (back then) and maybe, that's what Rikuo is trying to reach. Apparently, Rei saving Rikuo from a stab attack was a genuine act! This kind ofs cene wouldn't be allowed in Power Rangers ! Super Sentai for all its toning down -- still allowed a stabbi...

  I wanted to put a huge Mirai Sentai Timeranger tribute. It's already known that I've got blatant favoritism for the whole series . Timeranger is one series that's often considered as "overly serious" that Power Rangers fans tend to defend Power Rangers Time Force,  and pick anything but Timeranger for Yasuko Kobayashi's masterpiece Super Sentai . Choices like Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (because of the fansubs, though it might get a Shout! Factory DVD soon) and Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters are often their top picks! I'd like to think about how Timeranger may have provided warnings about a future that's highly innovative but becomes a dull place to live in!  Timeranger's first episode already highlights the dark, gloomy future. It's a future that's technologically advanced. However, one look at the place and it's easy to seethat the the Year 3,000 A.D. has become nothing more than a COLD ENVIRONMENT. Individualism is almost extinguished. T...

  As I'm currently enjoying No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger (but again, don't expect me to make episode reviews any longer) -- I thought about the Megazord Graveyard at the beginning. The first Super Sentai series that gathered all the previous Super Sentai together was Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger . Gokaiger probably started the whole debate about whether or not the  Super Sentai entries belong to a timeline or not. In my case, it's more of a GUILTY PLEASURE even when I realize that, unlike Power Rangers -- there's NO SUPER SENTAI TIMELINE !  Events in Super Sentai would dictate that most Super Sentai series are self-contained. Kikou Sentai Zenkaiger was the one that specified that MOST SUPER SENTAI SERIES WERE SELF-CONTAINED! It might be because I used to like Power Rangers -- until I realized that it's not my cup of tea. One thing I realized was that I'm such a nitpicker. I had the bad habit of nitpicking Dragon Ball Z films . What I never thought of before was that Supe...

  Super Sentai has its legacy and it's on its 50th birthday for Himitsu Sentai Goranger . So far, there may be no plans yet for the 50th entry of the series. I like ot nitpick a lot of stuff. I may not like Power Rangers,  but I've had a nasty habit of criticizing the Super Sentai VS. Movies for their lack of canonicity. I nitpicked the Super Hero Taisen games to the point I could no longer enjoy it. I had a huge shock when I realized that a lot of the Dragon Ball movies couldn't fit in. I also nitpicked the Dragon Ball movie called  Mystical Adventure -- which had Chiaotzu as a young emperor and Tien KILLING Master Shen with a Kikoho. The Dragon Ball Z movies followed, and I realized that most of them couldn't be canon. That's why I wrote an entry comparing the Dragon Ball Z movies to the Super Sentai crossover movies . However, the same couldn't be said for Power Rangers . Power Rangers chose to deliberately have that "solid continuity" -- except for...

Today is Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' 32nd anniversary. This year is also when Himitsu Sentai Goranger turned 50 years old last April 2025. Feeling old? I had a rollercoaster of emotions after Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger ended. Gokaiger felt like a yearlong finale. This year's Gozyuger feels like a yearlong finale. Gokaiger, more so ,  since it managed to get as many alumni to guest star as possible. It was almost a farewell party. However, Super Sentai tends to have that "reboot treatment" , such as when Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters came after Gokaiger . I was too afraid to admit that I was a Go-Busters fan . I ended up rewatching Go-Busters after I finished Power Rangers Beast Morphers . It was also hard for me to watch more Super Sentai after Go-Busters . It doesn't help I was riding on fan opinions. For instance, I remember Shougo B'Stard actually hitting Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger . I felt like, "Okay, maybe I need to spare myself from the disappointmen...

  Super Sentai and Power Rangers differ in a lot of things. There's always the cultural difference. It doesn't matter how much I dislike Power Rangers -- I understand that the show had to exist due to CULTURAL DIFFERENCE. Calling Power Rangers an "act of cultural erasure" or "ruined the precious material" is ABSURD. Choriki Sentai Ohranger started another almost yearly tradition -- the Super Sentai VS. Movies  tradition. However, one might notice the difference between how Super Sentai and Power Rangers handle crossovers . Super Sentai writes crossover films WITHOUT canon in mind. Power Rangers tries to put most of its entries into a singular timeline. However, some Power Rangers shows are self-contained, such as Power Rangers RPM and Power Rangers Dino Charge .  Choriki Sentai Ohranger had a crossover movie with Ninja Sentai Kakuranger on March 5, 1996, directly on home video. The short film featured a team-up between the Ohrangers and the Kakurangers. It w...

Bomber the Great was nothing more than a PLOT DEVICE. Bomber the Great only had seven episodes -- only to be a set-up device for Prince Buldont to become Kaiser Buldont. What amuses me more often is how the Baranoia Royfal Family showed detest for human emotions. However, Emperor Bacchushund showed that he was CAPABLE OF LOVE for both his wife and son. Bacchushund has a PERMANENT SHUTDOWN compared to King Mondo in Power Rangers Zeo . Buldont becomes Kaiser Buldont -- he's forced grown and he marries his cousin Maruchiwa. It gets even funnier to think these robots are operating LIKE HUMANS! Added is the royal incest -- something that screwed up many royal families into their own demise! Bomber the Great was nowhere near as great as Bio Hunter Silver from Chodenshi Bioman . Silver proved to be a REALLY CREDIBLE THREAT that worked his way to the finale. Rewatching some Bioman episodes made me say Bomber the Great was a plot device. Bio Hunter Silver was a robot programmed to destroy ...