Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

At first, I thought that both Lupin-X and Patren-X are two different persons but as Ukiyaseed and JEFusion have mentioned it -- they are two different modes of just one freaking character. It's just like how Kamen Rider Black RX and most of his successors all have multiple modes for combat. We're having a mysterious character in here and I just got so encouraged to write this speculation BECAUSE of a recent discussion video at JEFusion  has someone who uses the screen name Nikko Amano has a pretty insightful speculation. This also caused me to break out from my decision to just focus mostly on episode reviews and to make speculations yet again. Sidenote, I also did something similar  when I saw scans of Don Armage's other forms for the finale arc last year . I remembered a lot of wrong guesses that I made when Lupinranger vs. Patranger didn't air yet. I thought that Lupin Red would be a descendant of Arsene Lupin -- instead Kairi was merely employed by a descendant ...

I decided I won't respond to Them's Fightin' Words for every Turboranger post but after Shogo B'Stard decided to write on episodes 14 , 15 and 16  -- I decided to write on my thoughts on the three episodes collectively. This would be the introduction of neutrally-aligned villains which was quite common fodder for Hirohisa Soda -- we had Silver in Bioman and Kiros in Maskman. Turboranger would have Yamimaru himself as a neutrally aligned villain -- who would later temporarily join forces with Ragorn for his own benefit. Before that, I'd like to focus on the possible impact he made in this episodes. He's half-human and half-Bouma -- he's an outcast of both races and he's leaving himself pretty much bitter with the world. He arrives in the disguise of Hikaru Nagareboshi. He was recognized by Rehda and Ragorn to be half-Bouma. If that's the case then Zimba always a Bouma or was he human? Granted, Zimba was also sealed because he was a Bouma while ...

After writing my wacky post where I called Lucky and Garu as Lone Starr and Barf in spandex  -- I decided to make another wacky post for where I'd like to imagine what if these two doofus villains Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz were actually employed by Don Armage as his henchmen. What if these guys were either in Kyuranger or at least had characters based on them. After all, if Lucky is Lone Starr in spandex then why don't we have Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz? Jark Matter actually took over the Universe 300 years before Kyuranger started. I could imagine if over the course of time Don Armage got overly complacent in some way and decided to hire two henchmen who would be similar to Dark Helmet and Col. Sandurz. I could remember some of the moments where Dark Helmet makes a fool out of himself or where Col. Sandurz is less bratty but still has a severe lack of common sense. So how would these guys fit into the Kyuranger universe or least have counterparts? What I cou...

Here's Goggle V's last ten episodes as I promised. We have episodes 41 to 45 which are still regular episodes. Episodes 46 up to 50 will deal with the five part finale arc which shows the beginnings of Hirohisa Soda. Sometimes, I just forget how Goggle V is a very old series and that it's pretty much an experimentation to how the legendary Hirohisa Soda would carry out his later science fiction heavy works with Bioman, Changeman, Flashman and Liveman. 41 -- With great power comes great responsibility, right? Deathdark is creating a new super suit with the help of Silkworm Mozoo. This super suit looks super GOOFY but it grants such power. They intend to create a super army. Unfortunately, the operation goes goofy when a civilian gets his hands on the suit and becomes an instant superhero. This one has me remembering the lines that Wolverine once said in X-Men Evolution when he said, "Greatness isn't supposed to come that easy." Boy, does this episode remi...

Well as I said and I said it, le flow of my Goggle V rants will get interrupted by my focus this year namely le Lupinranger vs. Patranger episode reviews (and no, please DON'T ask for scans from me as my friendly rivals such as Ukiyaseed and Nihon Hero are covering them up). This week's episode well, leaves me crying for a short while due to the J-Drama element in it. I can't help but feel sad in some way with how the events unfolded.  A young aspiring pianist named Mana keeps giving Keiichiro some flowers. It's obvious that they have feelings for each other but neither can blurt it out. It just reminds me of those awkward moments in Boukenger where neither Satoru nor Sakura could blurt out that they truly felt. In this case, it feels a little more "grown-up" than it is played for laughs. Is it me or is Keiichiro THAT bullheaded even towards romance? Maybe Sakuya has more common sense especially when he notices that one thing -- Mana obviously like...

Whew! I didn't expect myself to be writing this entry right now. After doing a rundown on episodes 21-30 -- here's my next episode batches which one of them will include a midseason upgrade. Hmmm speaking of which, I'm just close to doing a rundown on episodes 41-50 which will include the finale. But I may not always do posts like this. Speaking of which, I wish Millionfold will just resume subbing Kagaku Sentai Dynaman before director Michael Bay pretty much gets Toei's permission to sub and release it. =P  31 -- Rattlesnakes are poisonous but seriously, where's the literal poisoning? This is Deathdark's latest agenda -- they seek to find children and find out if they are all fit for their future Deathtopia or not. Unfortunately, Rattlesnake Mozoo is THAT STUPID not to get qualified children for the poison the minds of the youth program. It's up to Saboru as he discovers this plan to create a Darwinian empire. It was also fun to see how Saboru tea...

I've done some rundowns for episodes 11-20  -- now it's time for episodes 21-30 which would be the third batch. I admit, there hasn't been much of a change for most of the time with the half-brained plans or how Ambassador Hell errr Deathmark just ended up getting forgettable as Fuehrer Taboo's adviser in some episodes. 21 -- Fish everywhere is turning into fossil. Deathdark uses Coelacanth Mozoo (who's got super hard scales) to carry out this rather devastating project to turn the fish into fossils. I guess they did enough research to know how Japanese love fish a lot -- though it also has us to cherish the fish on our tables too. I just felt sorry for the family whose patriarch gets kidnapped. He's a fish farmer and Deathdark wants to use him to fossilize all the fish in the world. What I find weird though is how in the world doesn't Coelacanth Mozoo not react to that plan considering that he's a fish himself? Also, Coelacanth Mozoo's one we...