Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

Banban Akaza is one who makes a drastic makeover in the Super Sentai series concerning his hair. In Dekaranger he had "Super Saiyan" hair. In Dekaranger, he had a rather more presentable hairstyle. I wonder why the directors had this hairstyle for the Dekaranger vs. Magiranger film?

Super Sentai in the later parts ended up taking an alternative to motorbikes and jeeps for some reason. I think it was to be more creative with the vehicles to avoid boring the audiences. These were: Maskman first introduced the concept of a buggy instead of a bike or a jeep but the rest had bikes. Turboranger's Red Turbo had a bike but also a buggy. This came to inspire Carranger later. The Jet Striker could become a cannon called the Fire Bazooka to defeat the enemy. They also had a jeep with them too. Carranger took a more automobile themed sentai than Turboranger did. While only Red Turbo used a go-kart, in Carranger, everybody else did although I still like Turboranger better. Still, Carranger is still worth mentioning. The first five Megarangers only used these skiing boards called Cyber Sliders that fly in the air. The Gingamen owned horses that could outrun modern vehicles. Truly a magnificent scientific breakthrough. The Timerangers used the Time Glider...

To Terra Pink this is the best I can offer... an older Kenta Satou picture. I wonder if he's married and to whom? Honestly it's too bad it's hard to find info on him lately. I was kind of wondering if his martial arts skills are still sharp enough?

Shaddam, one of the most interesting villains in sentai history. What was his purpose really? The fact is he is the head of the Gorma Triumvirate who had long planned to overthrow his master the Gorma Emperor from the Chamber of Command. He was in fact a scheming and manipulative villain who would do anything to conquer the world and shape it as he saw it.  He was also pretty much sadistic that nothing meant to him except power to the point he would harm anyone including his own family to achieve his goals. His battle with the Dairangers was certainly falling out of favor especially when the Gorma Emperor returned in episode 20 displeased by their performance. However cunning as he was, he was able to appease his emperor's wrath and the Emperor chose him to carry out the task to make sure that the Won Tiger would never be conceived over the latter's right hand man, Tenpou.  It was also discovered that he by a Daos woman (acted by yours truly Mikoko Miki who acted as J...

Honestly I think Dairanger as great as a series it was the one that introduced a child member of the team namely Kou who became the Kibaranger. It's really a shocker for those who watched Power Rangers' second season that Kibaranger is actually a child! Okay let's move on. He was the son of Shaddam and a Daos woman thus giving him a curse on the other half. He was born with an evil twin brother named Akomaru. While he was growing up, he realized he had a talking sword, the ability to henshin and he frequently abused his powers. He hid his identity but was later exposed. He first appeared at the same time the Gorma Emperor resurfaced to reclaim the glory of the fallen Gorma Empire. His supposed baptism purified him from the Gorma powers he had. What's his deal? So here it is- soon enough he ended up living with Rin/Houo Ranger and even fell in love with her. He had perverse tendencies which never get unpunished. He also had to struggle with his evil twin Akoma...

Actually in some super sentai series, some of their mecha were really destroyed either in the middle of the series or towards the final battle. This is where destruction goes too far that if a crossover happens, I believe a second mecha was built to replace the destroyed one. Again, Power Rangers didn't start the trend of destroyed mecha, Super Sentai did although Saban's era of Power Rangers took it TOO FAR in MMPR. The Flashmen lost Flashking before the final battle. Eventually they lost Flash Titan too before finishing off the final foe Dr. Lee Keflen after the main villain was defeated. The Fivemen lost the Magmabase during the final battle against Vulgyre. Only Super Five Robo remained as Earth's last hope. The Jetmen's mecha were damaged badly after the final battle with Radiguet- apparently Jet Garuda can't be repaired assuming the parts needed are Dimensian. Tetraboy was severely dismantled by Radiguet. The Carrangers lost their mecha in the final battle...

Eventually some people do fade away. Here's a rather older picture of Ryosuke Sakomoto. Whatever he's doing lately that I don't know.