Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

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 ...

It's no secret that I find Choriki Sentai Ohranger to be a messy toy commercial. Come on, no one can deny that throwing one Megazord after the other can derail the plot ! It's pretty much overworking the marketing department (and writing too), like what happened with the Buu Saga in Dragon Ball Z . Now, as messy as Ohranger was, I still find it more watchable than Power Rangers Zeo . Zeo tried to continue where Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers  Season 3 left off! I'm still SOURED UP until now over the Dear John letter that was presented in Zeo ! Now, I'd like to write a bit of a rant on Louie Kaboom (the Zeo  counterpart) and Bomber the Great! One of the reasons why I don't like Power Rangers is how often people have to watch previous entries just to understand another entry. Power Rangers Turbo ended with a cliffhanger, while Gekisou Sentai Carranger gave a proper conclusion. I have to watch Turbo to understand Power Rangers in Space ? Not even Tokyu Shirei Solbra...

It's been some time since I reacted to Gozyuger . The reason why I stopped writing episode reviews is that I want to watch shows ON MY OWN PACE. This week's Gozyuger episode has me LMAO. Toei Company Ltd. makes a fictionalized version of ITSELF in Gozyuger . This almost reminds me of when what might be a fictionalized version of Saban HQ -- was put into X-Men: The Animated Series . That wasn't all to funny compared to this! The site may actually be one of Toei's actual locations -- except with a new modifications to differentiate the show's version vs. the real deal.  Hoeru Tonu is about to get a full job at TOEI? What has Toei gotten itself into? Toei manages to put itself into this episode. This would be funny since Super Sentai is one of Toei's many properties. I could accept having Kamen Rider Revice as a Fiction Within a Fiction in Donbrothers . This one is just PLAIN FUNNY if you ask me. Tomokazi Seki plays the fictional character Toei Producer, Sekimoto K...

As an adult, a lot of stuff either start to make me either cherish them or berate them. Ohranger became that massive toy commercial . The same goes as the Buu Saga went from 1994-1995 . It could be explained that the Sarin Gas incident caused the ratings to lower down. However, it turns out that Ohranger wasn't the show that NEARLY killed Super Sentai -- it was Fiveman . Fiveman still got Vindicated by History even when GoGoFive is miles better. Ohranger was really trying to stay afloat. The show had to go on and it's safe to assume everyone was in panic mode. The show starts off as normal. However, one could see that the show slowly gave tribute to the various Megazord combinations when the late Noboru Sugimura was the head writer. I couldn't help but point them out all the more when I discovered more of Super Sentai at 16 years old! I was fascinated by the Power Rangers Zeo toys for some time. Today, I'm going to think about how the toy overload affected Ohranger'...

Some Super Sentai bases were facades. This doesn't count for Super Sentai teams that actually lived in somebody else's house such as the Gingamen living in a ranch or the Goseigers living in the Amachi residence -- in exchange for saving the world. These ones are used as an excellent camoflage -- except it also invites MOTWs. So yeah, talk about not even the best security is THAT SECURE!  The Gorangers operated at the bottom of Snack Gon. Nobody knew it except a few. Pretty much, secrecy was really key. Some Black Cross MOTWs have even entered this place without realizing its true value.  The Goggle V team operated under an amusement park. This was later discovered by Deathdark when Mazurka did her (unwitting) suicide attack. Mazurka may have been a bad bitch BUT it was a cowardly betrayal.  The Dynamen's headquarters was just below the Yumeno Invention Center. It was destroyed midway by General Zenobia. The Dynamen were forced to relocate somewhere. Talk about giving a ...

Choriki Sentai Ohranger is no questions asked -- a series that was hit by a series of UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. The Sarin Gas Incident in 1995 was no joke. It felt appropriate to water things down BECAUSE people need to recover. Power Rangers Time Force also followed suit because of the September 11 terrorist attack. Before that, I could talk about the gimmicky characters that showed up duriong Ohranger . It's no secret that I watched Power Rangers ZEO before on Studio 23. TV was a form of escapism. I wasn't too surprised to learn of Ohranger either. There were some occasional joke characters. One that was introduced was the mad scientist Kotaro Henna (played by Shoichiro Akaboshi) -- the bald guy used as the top picture. The guy might be typical in some older cartoons with an eccentric scientist -- but given a Japanese twist. Kotaro showed up only in three episoses -- episodes 25, 29, and 30. All these episodes had some of that blatant silliness. Episode 25 was where Ohranger intro...

Himitsu Sentai Goranger is in its 50th year. However, I'll say that there have been some Super Sentai series that gave me the "hype hangover". These are times my actions seem like I'm "against innovation" when I'm NOT. What I'm against is when any production tries theme repetition (which is akin to reliance on past successes). I'd like to talk about Super Sentai series that would give me the "hangover hype". Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger may be the best dinosaur-themed Super Sentai IMHO It was in the 2010s when I saw Abaranger . Yes, all the way before this was given the official Shout! Factory DVD release. Kishinryu Sentai Ryusoulger has wonky execution and should've been dragons -- BASED ON THE TITLE! Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger has a lot of cool unmorphed fights. However, Daigo Kiryu gets too much focus. Abaranger  has a better balance of characters! This is also the first Super Sentai written by Naruhisa Arakawa . Arakawa's first hea...